As part of our current research study we would like to know a bit more about you and your involvement on Wikipedia and your use of SuggestBot. Your participation is voluntary, meaning you are free to not answer any questions or withdraw at any time. You can find more information about the study and contact information in the consent information sheet. To respond you can edit this page and write the answers below the questions like it was a talk page. If you wish to submit your answers in private you can email us directly.
If you have questions about any part of this, feel free to let us know. I (User:Nettrom) am the researcher responsible for the project and I’ve got this page on my watchlist so I can respond fairly quickly. I might also stop by to ask some follow-up questions, e.g. to clarify if there was something I could not understand. Regards, Nettrom (talk) 16:56, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Articles you are interested in.
- How do you decide which articles to work on?
- A. I generally work from recent changes/anti-vandalism and often in researching or sourcing a change I will find the article subject of interest and begin adding or editing.
- Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
- A. Recent changes (primarily the IRC feed).
- What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
- A. Finding interesting new subjects to research, general project improvements.
- How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
- A. Approx 12 hours per week on average.
- When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
- A. I review the suggestions when looking for the next thing to work on.
- What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
- A. Because a large number of my edits are vandalism patrol, the suggestions tend to be fairly random.
- We have recently run an experiment where we added information about the suggested articles, in your case icons similar to these ones:
- How did you interpret the information?
- A. It was clear in meaning (readership level vs. article quality)
- How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?
- A. I started with the highest ratio of readers to rating and worked my way down.
- What other types of information would be helpful?
- A. Unknown
- Do you have suggestions for how to improve SuggestBot? It could be specific types of articles or work you would like to see added, things that need to be improved, or anything else for that matter. Let us know what we should work on!
- A. It appears that SuggestBot includes in it's logic all articles that my account has edited. If that is the case, it would be VERY useful if it would (or had the option of) excluding edits made using automated tools (looking for AWB, HG, TW, etc in the edit summary?).
Note: I did not see an immediately obvious way to avoid having the survey numbering get reset. If there is a way, please let me know here and I will reformat. Thanks!