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share publicly or internally? (orange = only internal to WMF)Yes within a contained environment -- not publicly available/searchable on youtube or the like. Would love to help b/c I truly value what wiki provides and offeres.yesno answer so only in WMFyesyesyesyesyesyesyesDid not answer - so only inside WMF
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Phone or tablet? phonephablet (settings for mweb are for tablet)phonephonephone - Androidphonetablettablettablettabletipadtablet
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App or mobile web?mwebmwebmwebmobile webmwebmwebmwebmoblie web I think
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Do you use a phone? If so, please tell us what kind of phone (or phones). Also, what do you generally use your phone for?have iphone 6+, use more for internet than for talking/calling. read articles, news, books, listen to videos and talks/podcasts/books. browse internet, shop. i use secondarily as actual phone, use facetime/skype probably more than actual phone.samsung note 2, have used galaxy s3 before.

phone calls, texting, research, business-related, social media, camera, everything		Android Galaxy 3. phone calls, texting, IE/chrome browse, shopping, wiki, dictionary.com, look up things that come up in conversationsyes use it to look up info, calling emailing, keeping up with business and generally staying synced with friends family and the world. HTC1 Android I use it for everything, searching, calling, checking calendar,weather, calculator, facebook, everything, different apps.. she shows I havetwo phones - an iphone 5 and a nokia 8 (which i don't use much) because I don't really like it and I can't go online with it. I use iphone for browsing, reading news when out, browsing web for things I need to know. Do online shopping with it, order meals, that sort of thing. usually use phone, smaller, more portable. use ipad if more stationary, or if reading. kindle for just books. use phone for bursts of info that i need, not anything i need to be using for a long while. does not specify what kind of phone.iphone; bored and away from computer, surf web, play games, texting/callingLG optimus android. use mostly for texting and calling. rarely use internet on it because he has tablet.I use an iphone 5 - use it for text messageing mostly, browsing web, watching youtube videos - sometimes netflix videos. emails too. he doesn't like phone calling - occasionally gamesyes use phone constantly, it is in my hands most of the day, I have my work and home emails on there, mostly email, like pintrest, fb regularly (couple times a day) searching on info on safari iphone 6+ and a samsung note 3 for android. samsung is unlocked so I can use it as a hotspot for other devices and I can swap sim cards back and forth if I am in an area without wifi, Also, I have more for user testing actually, so different os.
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If you do have more than one phone, why do you have multiple phones? Please describe how you use them differently (if you do use them differentlydo not have more than one phone. there is a blackberry in the household, user has always used iphonesboth she and husband have note 2s. hers is used more for business but both are used for personal purposes.nodon't have more than one phone. I only have one (only for personal use)I generally just have multiple phones at the same time, so I will upgrade. When I upgrade,I will keep the old one. Keeping the old number, I like to use a separate numver from my home number, use it for business.. my iphone5 is the one I use mainly, and the nokia is not able to get on internet, so don't really use it. nonot more than one, but sometimes will borrow friends' android phones for games.n/ahe just picked up an android phone - an LG - it is running kitkat - not sure he can upgrade to lollipop yet.. he is using it for usertesting. not connected to the network, he is only using it on wifi.. it is a prepaid phone.. doesn't want a contract or anything - using boost mobile. rates are goodonly one phone
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do you use a tablet? If so, please tell us what kind and what you mainly use it for.do not own/use tabletshe is using a samsung note 3 (looks like the bezel is more similar to the tablet product, but it could also be a phablet). use it when phone is dead, likes to multitask on the tablet, or want to see something bigger than can on phone. personal and business use.asus tablet. check email, go on craigslist, internet, browsers, research, livingsocial, read news, read about history, other people, maps, bankingdo not use a tablet, don't own one. Would like to get one, just not in my budget right now. I just got my kids ipads for christmas and I play with them on those. Had a nook color a long time ago, just for reading.

I have an ipad, using it for playing games, instagram, facebook with the kids. It is thiers, so I use my phone for everything. 		don't have a tabletipad, reading news articles, typing.LG android tablet and an older ipad. both used to watch things in rooms without ability to stream. don't usually use tablets outside. ipad no 3g/4g, LG does. primarily used for games and movies. use to call using facetime once in a while.Asus memo pad, android 4.2.2. use mainly for testing, not mostly for personal use.I do use a tablet.. originally I was an ipad user, but accidentally broke it in a garage door accident. got screen replaced - upgraded to i0s7 and it was laggy and buggy - he sold it on ebay, used the money he got to buy a lexus 7 tablet. price was good. It is already running lollipop - he has another tablet (his son's) it is a cubby - a kids tablet. HE might use his son's to do some google querry or a chrome cast. but usually uses his own. he want's another ipad.. likes the experience better than with the android. the little details are better.

he mainly uses it for searching, netflix, youtube and some games. before his son got his own tablet, he played with his son. he started doing some reading using the kindle app. he wants to write a book so he is reading on the web. how to do stuff - set up ubuntu, etc. gaming occasionally. email. 		ipad mini - for work and for home - at work - for assessment and dtat tracking / reports. keeps it in her hands all day - emails / calendar / reminders as she goes around building.
at home - for safari browsing - bigger screen good especially for shopping, reading magazines and books. Has more than one. she also has a surface at work - it is different because she uses it for in meetings and taking notes- has a keyboard attached. ipad, she uses for looking at reports and viewing stuff rather than note taking or input. 		have an ipad air 2. because the other tech I have at home is mac.. I find a lot of good integration in the mac ecosystem. "my iphone is a miniphablet a mini tablet, If you will". improvements integrate with ios8. I do a lot of reading on tablet and phone. consume media, videos, video blogs, tech videos and channels , box therapy.. keeping up to date in tech world.. consume a lot of media on both deveices as I am on the go. websites, books, mags, use feedly as RSS. to keep tabs.
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If you do have more than one tablet, why do you have multiple tablets? Please describe how you use them differently (if you do use them differentlyn/adaughter has a tablet, but it mostly has her games on it.nonopedon't have multiple.. my kids each have one, but it is theirs not mine, I just play with them on it. no tabletnoandroid and ipad, don't use them differently.other tablets he owns are for his kids.answered above. not much difference. see above
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Do you use a computer (laptop or desktop)? If so, please tell us what kind of computer (or computers) you use
laptop - mb air with yosemite, use safari and chrome. use for everything, work, spreadsheets, docs, surfing the net, corresponding/communications, texting, facetime, reading.

also have windows laptop, use to test out clients' things and work projects, how they view on each, programs that use windows only, but primarily use mbair.

older mac desktop, use bc has larger monitor. does not use frequently.		desktop - HPasus laptop. runs IE11/chrome.use multiple computers - work in IT. have a macbook pro at home and am buiding a pc work station - at work there are windows linux and mac machines
pcs for graphics (3d and 2d) use laptop for sys admin, use linux as shell devices for optimizing server... 		I use a desktop - dell inspiron 530s - ONly one. I have two laptops - use one more than the other, for no reason in particular, but one has a camera and the other doesnt' I use the one that has more ram for graphics. it works faster.

I only turn the other one on when I need something that is on it. I don't really use it much. I use the better one for all my research and work. 		laptop - mb pro. use it for browsing web, email, reading news articles, other internet stuff. editing photos, creating images. more extended sessions of reading, browsing, vs ipad/phone.sony vaio laptopsamsung laptop running windows 8.1, use it for everything, gaming, internet, read news, etc. not much social networking stuff though.macbook pro (main machine - web development - search engine evaluation) -he likes the fluidity between devices (using yosemite). has a mac mini he uses as a server - he has a toshiba laptop (windows - it is his wifes, but he is using it in his home office... uses that one to get mail, etc. sometimes browse craigslist for different gigs. see belowmain home computer - mac book pro 2011 - pimped. snappy with ssd. for his home needs - video photography editing serving email, journaling, blogging - and a windows 7 machine -work for a software company IT consulting/ business analyst... use that a lot differently than I do my home personal computer
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If you do use more than one computer, why do you have multiple computers, and how you use them differently (if you do use them differently)?see aboven/anosee above (split between work and home - and uses multiple machines at work for different purposes as he is in IT)only have one in the house. I use it for personal things. not biz. take tests on the computer - search web if I don't have phone, the computer is a bigger screen, so I use the computer when I am home. nothere is a main desktop in the house - usually only use that one for printing. use laptop for everything.have another compaq laptop running windows xp, very slow, mostly is a backup.answered above. uses laptop at home - desktop at work - use both regularly - reports and billing and paying bills online (likes larger screen to click and login)
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Would you please show us and describe, in general, how you use Wikipedia on your smart phone or tablet (whichever one you generally use)?*** perhaps the list of possible ways to access wikipedia in the question is leading? ***

have wiki's 'today's featured article' on browser in mobile web. she remarks, 'not sure why i don't have the app on here, but i will after this test'. pulls up her browser and types in "crater lake oregon" into the search/address bar. typically use search bar. she uses siri often (asks siri a specific question or generally about a topic), and siri often pulls up wiki results as one of the top results. she usually will search for the topic, or something like a person's name and 'age'. if she thinks wiki might not be one of the top results and she wants that, she will put in something like 'abraham lincoln enwiki', but typically for something that may be more obscure.

she is unable to pull up her two searches bc of slow internet connection (crater lake and civil war dates)		not showing us on tablet yet, but describing how she sometimes isn't even looking to get to wikipedia but wiki results typically show up as one of the first results when searching in google.

otherwise, she shows us that she would typically just go to the wikipedia homepage (not en- specific) - she opens a new tab, starts typing in wikipedia in the search bar, and taps on the wikipedia.org link

says she does not have the wiki app, and did not know there was one. googles in phone browser (types in google.com), searches for henry ford, and henry ford's wiki page is the first link, clicks the link and is taken to the mobile web site.		usually goes to the search bar in browser and types in wiki, and clicks the mobile site when it comes up.reading today's featured article. he scrolls through and browsing.. he likes the "in the news ' section - it reminds him about the current events that are happening today and that that stuff will go into the encyclopedia. Typically if he finds something interestin, he will look into it.. he is interested in tunesian president, just to learn since he doesn't know much. Reading a bit, typically would go further into the article. He likes to see who the acting president is and who was before him.. he is understanding the lineage... he might read more about the election and likes to see statistics broken down visually.
goes back to main page.. reads summary. Goes to article, likes to see the picture. 		use my phone. I usually go via google. most time first result is wikipedia. she searches for taylor swift. she scrolls down to find teh taylor swift page. she says most of the time the first site is the wiki one. she clicks on it.. takes her to wikipedia.

she doesn't go to wiki unless she really knows what she is looking for and it doesn't pop up from google. then she would go directly to wiki. 		What I normally do, is go to Safari and type in wikipedia. go to a page, i on't use it much on my mobile phone, I use wiki on the laptop most, and not on phone that much. I do all my work on my laptop, so mostly use wikipedia there.

I also might enter a search term into google, like for example "carniverous plants" mostly something from wikipedia will pop up - then I type on what I am interested in. Everfything I search for has something in wiki.

Onlyl if I am not sure what I am looking for, will I type in wikipedia. but I generally know what I am searching for. 		use wikipedia mostly for 'coffee talk' knowledge, trivia, learn more about people, places, things, etc.

opens new browser page on tablet, and goes to the search bar. types in explicit. in the search results on her browser, the wikipedia link for explicit memory comes up first, but she says she wants explicit specifically so she goes to the search results page, where explicit wiki page is the third result. navigates there. then goes to the wiktionary entry, and scrolls down to look for synonyms.		don't directly go to wikipedia. she opens up a new tab and types cats wiki in the search bar (chrome). will google what i want and then click on the wiki result (first result is cat). says something about the search bar being small and hard to find (but i dont think this is necessarily directed to where search is on the wiki site?), so it is easier to just search in google and click on the result. use wiki for random fact, wiki will give overall outline of the topic.types in wikipedia.com in url bar. hits english wikipedia link. this is how he accesses wikipedia on all devices.he doesn't recognize the wikipedia home page on mobile web. HE usually googles and gets to wikipedia via google. he does a lot of googling from his tablet. he is using nexus 7. He would nromally go to the browser

not aware of the app and doesn't think there is a need for the app. uses the mobile web page. he does a little review of teh mobile web page.

goes to search (browser) joel olstein and puts "wiki" afterwords to get to wikipedia. He finds the Joel Osteen page. clicks on it. this is his default way of finding something. If he wants to find some detail, he puts key words in google and adds "wiki" 		usually goes to google in browser - she notes that on her phone there is an icon that shows her wikipedia first, but on her tablet, the first thing that shows up is google results. she says the it departnemt set up this tablet -

i think I have the app on my phone (confirms he does have it), but not on ipad - he's not sure... then he goes to ipad and finds wikiapp. . he opens app on ipad , it is on the "shinng" (the movie) page.This is the last page I searched for.. it was on cable nd I wanted to find out a couple things. "I do use it for that, trying to find out things" "I find the app experience a little quicker" having something dedicated is nice. the search capabilities are pretty good. he shows us how he went to learn about net neutrality and got himself educated about that. types in "net neutrailty" he likes the way articles are layed out in wikipedia. especially in 2014 he was happy to ahve this information.
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Please walk us through what you did the last time you went to Wikipedia. If you can't remember what you did last time, no problem, we can move on to the next question. she does not retry the browser search method, but instead goes to the wiki menu and hits 'random article'. she arrives at a stub, and says that she likes reading about birth dates, information about the person's work and personal details. she scrolls up and down a bit but it is a stub, and she mentions that it is admittedly not the best article on which to show/describe how she typically reads wikipedia on mobile.

she then clicks on the menu icon and tries to show that it is difficult for her to find how to search within wikipedia. she taps on 'nearby', then clicks back to the menu, taps home and is then confused that home isn't showing something else. she tries again and realizes that is just how homepage looks on mweb. it is interesting how much she uses the menu button but does not seem to register that the search bar to search wikipedia is literally right next to the menu button. she then scrolls down the homepage, and clicks on a 'in the news' link about alan gross.

remarks that this is the type of page layout she is used to seeing, the quick info in the infobox, then she scrolled past the top paragraphs and stops when the section titles begin. she says she uses these section titles heavily, and opens up the life and career subject line. tells a bit about the types of people she looks up, likes to look up important dates, and if the person is an author, to look up the list of publications.		(henry ford search)clicks the menu button, clicks out. taps the wiki search bar, types in star wars and clicks on the first result. scrolls through the page, gets to the cast and crew (section headers are condensed) section. went to princess leia and figured out the actress' name. clicks to princess leia's page.typically he is seeking a specific answer for example "who won the last superbowl" or "what is the history of springfield cashew chicken" - he woudl typically go to search wiki function at top - he also likes random button. last time, she searched (we watched the maze runner and I wanted to know about the actor who played the main part.. can't remember his name. She googles maze runner in google.. to find the actors's name. He went to maze runner in wiki - then the book popped up - she searched maze runner movie.. thne she found it. she sees dylan obrien and searches for him. IMdb was first. she went to Dylan's page. she was wondering if she had seen him before, and looked at the past movies he was in. She looked at his filmography. She sees chart with his movies. what I would have done, don't remember exactly, woudl have searched in google and looked fo rthe right link. she didn't show us. n/a same as above celluses tippett (featured article) as an example. she says that if she wants to learn something, she will scroll through and read what she finds interesting; provides an example that if she is looking for something specific about, say, a celebrity with a sordid past, she may go to the toc/contents section and look for a relevant section. if nothing specific, she will go through and read the whole article.

she explains that she can't remember exactly what she searched for last time, but she would go about it in the same way. she types in unsolved deaths wiki in the search bar and clicks on the first result (list of unsolved deaths), scrolls through the contents section, and scrolls a bit. says she gets into the wiki spiral. she clicks a date range section in the contents, and there is a list of unsolved deaths there... she says she would click the link of whatever she found interesting. she goes back to the cat page (said her last search was too morbid), and says she would explore the cat page, their vocalizations... lets the links take her to a lot of things.		he describes what just happened, literally, in the last cell.I don't remember. The last time he went to wikipedia it was at work for a search engine evaluation. Doesn't remember the page. she was trying to find the time of the sugar bowl last nigth. she typed in "times for sugar bowl on her phone last night. she shows us on her ipad: she types "wikipedia" into google search in safari, goes to the wikipedia.org front page, taps on "english" (while at the same time is describing to us that last night she typed "times for sugar bowl" into browser and it gave her the wikipedia page for it) "which didn't actually give me the information I was looking for, but it did give me some facts, and history and current pay outs". She says "I am going to type it into the search again, like I did last night, and types" sugarbowl 2015" and clicks search. scrolling snd showing us history in a list... she sees stats on the two teams in the info box, it was interesting for her to see the "rundown" (pointing to infobox). I didn't read the stuff on the left (the article content) just the stuff in here (infobox) Just looking through stats = where, who, list of payouts. She notes that she saw the list of payouts on her phone yesterday, but not here on her ipad today. Moves on.he shows us about the shining article again - looking at the plot, scrolling around to find out more about the article.
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Please find the Wikipedia article about Barak Obama, and show us how you would find the date that Michelle and Barak were marriedscrolls up the alan gross page and seems to be motioning to click on the menu icon again, but then realizes that the search bar is there. reiterates that it's not in our menu. types in 'bara' and selects the barack obama page in the search dropdown. scrolls down the page to where the section headers are to look for personal information, opens 'family and personal life' section. finds the date they were married. scrolls all the way back up the page, checks out the bottom portion of the infobox to see if it is also listed there, and also scans the first lines of the first paragraph. scrolls back up again to see spouse information nearer the top of the infobox (spouse - 1992- present). has the year they were married listed.searches for barack obama in google search, goes to the wikipedia page result. scrolling slowly through the top section, saying, it should be here in the top section... points out the spouse section (1992-). clicks on michelle obama's page link, says the same thing in her infobox. she hits the back button, scrolls down barack's page... (the sections are not collapsed by default here - also, perhaps she skipped a toc contents section? don't recall seeing it). reading through the section titles, starts scrolling faster midway through, sounds more frustrated. scrolls slightly more slowly, 'i'm sure the exact date is in here, i just don't want to scroll all the way through'. stops.taps wiki search bar, types in his name (typed incorrectly), is taken to the correct page. scrolls slowly through infobox, goes to the bottom of the page where the section headers are, clicks personal life, scrolls through again, and scans the met michelle paragraph and finds the date.looks for barak article. he finds it using wiki search, found michelle in the infobox, he browses down to teh sections, lookinf for "family and personal life" is scanning and scrolling, browsing through, finds mention of michelle, finds out when they met, finds out when they were married
he used sections to hone in.. says it was greatly helpful in finding that fact. 		she goes to search in mobileweb. he keyboard did not pop up, and it appeared and then went away. difficulty. She searches for Barak (because I spelled it wrong in creating the study ((blush)) and then corrects the spelling and finds Barack Obama's page. She clicks on it.

she scrolls looking via info box. looking in info box, and sees spouse michelle robinson (1992 to present) assumes that this is their marriage date. and this is right. 		google sesarch, "wedding barak obama looks through search results, not much from wikipedia, so then she adds "wiki" to the search. then she chooses going to barak obama - she says she usually sees the info on teh right (infobox) on the laptop. She is looking around, doesn't find it. She finds Immediate family and about Michelle - she is scrolling up and down and looking for the wedding date. He would expect to find it.. (she says she doesn't often use mobile). she is used to seeing info box on right - but doesn't find it.

goes back to google, and adds wedding date barack obama - she goes to michelle obama page - she finds that they were married in 1992 in michelle obama's info box on michelle's page		closes the tab with the wiktionary entry (and realizes that she doesn't want to search wiktionary), and goes back to the mweb page. goes to wiki search bar, and types in obama marriage michelle. 'no search results' thing comes up, she pauses, asks, did i spell that right? then presses go to search. search results page comes up. barack obama, first inauguration, family of "", barack and michelle, etc. etc. she wonders if she should navigate to family? navigates there. index takes up the page for a second, she seems a bit taken aback, the page resets correctly. she scrolls through the top intro section, looks through the toc. scrolls down more, the page is a bit scattered and disorganized-looking. scrolls through a lot of extended family info, 'guess i could've used the toc at the top, but i don't mind scrolling through everything'. scrolling near to the bottom now, and saying 'oh, come on now, this is not as easy as i thought'. goes back to search results, and clicks on fourth result, barack and michelle (it is the page on a book about their marriage). 'if i click on marriage, will it take me to marriage or their marriage?', back to search results, scrolling through the rest of the search results, clicks on early life and career of barack obama. looking through toc, clicks on adult life section.. scrolls through and sees the year 1992 for their marriage in the settling down in chicago section.searched for barack obama in browser and gets to wiki page that way. scrolls down and says that that info is usually in the infobox somewhere (all their information is in that little box). points out the spouse section 1992-present. wonders if she needs to find something more specific; goes back to search page (remembers seeing michelle's name), but then goes back to obama's page and scrolls down. the sections are not condensed to the titles. scrolling down.... she scrolls down faster, then scrolls back up and says, i'm surprised there isn't a thing (the contents section). oddly, after she scrolls back up, the contents section is collapsed, and she looks through it to get to the family and personal section and finds the date.

says the contents looks messy on tablet.		he is scrolling through the en.m.wiki page slowly, thinking the obama page would be there on the home page randomly. scrolls back up and says he needs to search wikipedia. taps the wiki search bar and then types in barack obama, is directed to his page. scrolls down, mentions that it may be in the infobox section here. he finds spouse section, 1992-present.goes to google and searches "obama wiki"
he says he generally finds the answer to his question in "this block" pointing to infobox. He found that they were married in 1992 in the info box). He is looking for the specific date now. he is scrolling down, goes to early life - not finding stuff - goes to "family" section -gets to "family life of barack obama" scrolling around, reading, He doesn't have to click around much usually - he doesnt do heavy duty research usually, and usually finds what he wants to really quickly without having to scroll around a bunch. He says he will move on, but keeps scrolling and scanning for the date. too much info - he's not going to keep going through it. Goes back to the page he was initially on. HE settles with the 1992 date. HE thinks there should be a section for the detailed info. 		goes to wiki search and writes" barack ...she sees "barack obama" with picture and says, "it comes up, I didn't have to finish typing it" and clicks on the page. she is looking in infobox. scrolling down. sees it in infobox. she thinks to click on the date in info box to find the actual date. doesn't work. she is on a mission to find the actual date. She goest to the first paragraph and starts reading out loud.scanning.. scrolling doen.. wondering .. scrolls down to contents.. scrolling through. finds "family and personal life' shows pic of fam.. scanning and reading the section. points out the wedding date. "that was pretty easy for me to navigate and find"he clicks on link in test, thinking it might be the barack obama article.. sees it isn't and goes back to the app. searches - it auto compltes he likes that. scrolling through to find date.. reading about family... scrolling fast - scannign fast - he goes to top to see if he can "jump to a link" doesn't find one - goes to search to "search directly for it" types in "barack and ichelle" finds a page.. it is very short. a book... he said "for a search like this, I might just search for it in google"

goes back to barack search - was at barack obama marriage
he scans info box which is on the left???? Finds the marriage date in infobox. scrolling down scanning...looking in "family life section" he scrolls by.. he says" unfortunately, it is burried here" he scrolled by, didn't see it. He gives up and says honestly I could go to google... and goes to google.. types in "michelle and barack wedding date- he finds it down a bit in the search results. "a simple google search will give me that a lot faster than wikipedia" "Wiki isn't a reallly intuitive search...I can't find it in wikipedia."
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Please think about something you want to know more about - something that is not just a single fact, but something you want to learn in depth about. If you can think of something, please show us how you would go about learning more about that topic within Wikipedia. (We know there are many sources for understanding and knowledge, but all we can impact is Wikipedia. So, if you wouldn't use Wikipedia for something like this, or you can't think of a topic, just say so and move on to the next question.) first searches within wikipedia for neuroscience - to see who the foremost thinkers are, best schools for learning. switches up the topic to buddhism

expects to see the different schools of thought within buddhism, scrolls down a bit to the second paragraph, where she points out the explanation of the two major branches of buddhism. mostly interested in theravada traditions, so she clicks on the link ('love[s] having the links on there'. scrolling through the infobox for theravada, scriptures section, different schools, then gets to the section headings. she says she would explore all of them, but she specifically points out history and external links sections. she scrolls back up a bit and opens up the teachings section, and says she would like to see actual teachers/foremost thinkers of this branch (content issue). notes that wiki is sometimes more historical or general facts-based, and in this particular example she would want more current information on centers that practice this or information about thinkers/teachers (she continues scrolling down on the page as she talks). she scrolls back up, remarks that she was trying to un-collapse the section she was scrolling through but that it was really long (something that can possibly be improved upon UI-wise?). however, she goes on to open the 'festivals and customs' section, and says wiki provides a good way of learning about this branch of buddhism. would like to see even more section titles and subsections (there are links in the festivals section, but she then goes back to open the teachings section and remarks on how long it is and that it could use subsection titling). long sections burdensome on mobile, with option to show all. overall great information. typically will check out page/sections of interest and then go to sources and external links for additional research. it will either take her to other useful/relevant sites on wikipedia or springboard to external sites. external links can be improved upon/added to.		clicks on barack obama page from google search, scrolls up a bit, 'i should be able to search here, right?' keeps trying to click on the wiki search bar, but the keyboard isn't coming up. goes back to google search page and types in astrology, goes to wiki page (first result). scrolls/looks through the infobox, explains that you can look through any of the subcategories of astrology here. does not scroll past the bottom of infobox and first two paragraphs of page.goes to the wiki search bar, and types in bible. goes to the bible pages, reviews the first paragraph, mentions the different types of bibles. he scrolls through a bit, then navigates to the hebrew bible. find out that it is written in latin. scrolls past intro paragraphs, gets to the section headers area. holds his finger over the headers, and taps on the origins and components section. scans the sections, then scrolls down and back up to the usage section, and then scrolls through that section. feels that it was very easy to learn and find what he was interested in. ends up clicking on 'new covenant theology', thinks it is easy to explore other relevant topics. finds the information very thorough. goes back to the hebrew bible page, scrolls down and shows us the external links section, very easy to do research using wiki.He goes looking for more about where Barack grew up - finds out about Hawaii and that his Dad is Kenyan. HE finds out about Barak's tribe and more about Barak's Dad and life. Participant says that it is easy to learn more and more about a topic and relevant topics because of all the many links in the article. Lots of scrolling.
he says typically he wouldn' tgo anywhere but wikipedia to learn more.. but if he wanted to get more detailed information he would typically Google the topic. He says that Wikipedia is a good way to get a summary of informaiton but it may not always have the most thorough amoutn of information - conflicting reports, etx. he says to get a more broad perspective on a topic, he will google. 		She wants to know more about the phillipines. She said that the natives of the phillipines (or in one part ) are african americans, they don't look like the traditional asian look. So she is looking for native phillipinos. Her keyboard kept not coming up.

she searches for "native african american philippinos" she reads through the search results. she finds filipino people of spanish ancestry. she scrolls through again. clicks on "ethnic groups in phillipines. scrolling through, she scrolls down scanning, and sees "negrito" and says - oh here it is. She reads "earliest human beings to settlie in phillipines. they are a part of the multicultural population. She sais it took her a while, and she had to search through categories (sesarch results) says it didn't automatically come up. she reviews the results and shows how far down what she wanted to see was. 		she goes to google again, "roridula" - she finds the wiki page for this plant. she said she can learn more about it.. there are sub species she could click the linnks of.. she looks at sections and looks for references - says there isn't much - clicks on the related species. She would follow the main link first (of each species) and then to the sub species, and then she might look into the family of those plants, and then the scientific classifications - she says there is a lot that she can learn from the main page and because of the links there is a lot more info she can learn.searching sleepy hollow kazakhstan in wiki search bar, because she had heard about it somewhere before. clicks on the first search result, which is 'filming location'. she goes there, but it's a general article so she goes back to search result. she tries another result, borzoi, and laughs when she finds out it's a dog breed. goes back to search, and types in mining town kazakhstan, and then mining town kazakhstan radiation. none of the results seem to match what exactly she's looking for. she ends up clicking on uranium. talks about a town where there is radiation wind, and people go to sleep when the wind picks up.says the interest comes organically, and she'll be reading about something or hear something on the tv that she'll want to look up.searches black holes theory in wiki search. scrolls through the search results and reads through a few of them. explains that he would find an article topic/title that sounds the most related to what he's looking for. says there are search results here for black holes and theories.he uses google search - trujillo - a dominican dictator - his dad always mentiones this guy, he wants to learn more -wants to learn about his rule and how he died, when he was born, he wants to know random facts about the guy. HE reads stuff from the info box and discusses. he wants more pictures, but has only scrolled down a tiny bit. He is reading the disambiguation pages. starts scrolling and reading info box facts.

a little confusion about info box and which line item relates to which president (there ar ea few mentioned) He is showing us how he reads the page.

he got thwarted by the infobos, thought he would find the sections before the info box. HE says the info box would fulfil his informaiton cravings for today. He likes the table of contents so he can see it high level and decide where to dig in. One of his questions was how the guy died. He finds out Trojillo was assasinated in his Chevy. Participants says there is a ton of info on this page and he can really dig in and research. 		she's going back to learn more about the super bowl.
she scrolls scrolls scrolls up to the wiki search bar. "related to yesterday's sugar bowl, I want to search the 2015 college football championship game" She types in "2015 college football championship game" - clicks search - goes to first page listed "2015 college football playoff national championship" wants more information about it. she point to info box, the two teams that made it over the weekend, and their stats - which stadium, location, fav to win, networks carrying it.. there are lots of articles she can read.. replaces BCS national game, I can read background about the game - seats can cost up to two thousand dollars, each team gets so many tickets, she scrolls down article, sees a template prepared for stats on the game. she notes that she can learn more about the teams that will play each other and about the stadium, pointing to links. "if I want to keep clicking through. "I could use wikipedia, I could use google, but I like how wikipedia gies concise facts, I like this box to the right of facts I would be looking for"		looking for net neutrailty. searched in in wiki - sees main page and deffinitions, scrolling down, looking reading through. he can see different topics it covers. he sees the pencil icons- thinks it indicates that the pencil indicates someone within the wikipedia commumity has edited it. headings are clear - looking at different topics to skim through and choose what to read. he likes the hyperlinks - linking to other wiki articles. Also notes references at the bottom he can connect to. He will scan and read article and then follow some hyper links if he needs more.
He describes the possible rabbit hole that one can get into and says sometimes it is hard to know when you have enough info and have saturated your brain with informations...until your curiosity is satisfied..
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Please describe how you would begin to map out the way the North American continent became populated with human beings and the socio political events that shaped the current population of the United States of America. Obviously, you don't need to do all the work it would take to map this all out - but take a few minutes here to see what you can find and describe how you might start a project like this using Wikipedia. scrolls up to the top of the page and hits the menu button. comments that she'd like to see more categorized menu, like on shopping sites (women v men sections, etc). without categories, she would use search. she searches for 'history of population in north america' (don't know if i would write it that way, but). selects north america from the results list, scrolls down page to look for something to start with. sees relevant information in one of the first paragraphs, and says she would start there, click on some of the links (e.g., paleoindians) in that paragraph. opens up geography and extent, then closes it to review the other section headings. says she would probably review in further detail the geography section and/or the countries, territories and dependencies section. she reviews the geography section. then goes to the countries section. doesn't get much from either, so she goes to the history section. not as sure about how she would find more info about sociopolitical events... she goes back to the countries section, goes to the united states section within that section. says she would dig deeper in this section and explore other links here. would use information to put together a timeline/outline.tries the wiki search bar again, it works this time. one-off issue or more prevalent?

types in populating north america and waits to see what it brings up. initially says no search results, search within pages..., but then, search results come on the screen. does not see much that is relevant, but scrolls down and sees 'history of north america', clicks there. gets to the toc contents section, says colonial era sections could be relevant. scrolls up, then types socio political events in wiki search. scrolls through results, but doesn't see anything useful, scrolls back up. says again that she'd go to history of north america and go from there. searches for political events. goes back, searches political events north america. searches history of north america again and goes back to that page, while saying, 'so this is why i use google, because google will give you... break it down and give you the wikipedia link that you're looking for' (perspective on wiki search vs external search).

scrolls through the history of north america page, and would go to the relevant links on that page to figure out how to do the rest of the mapping exercise.		using wiki search again to search for north american continent and how populated. hits the 'go' button, gets that no search results found page, but then the results come up after a moment of 'thinking'. reads through the search results, north america and americas, etc.; he decides to search again. looking up north america. scrolls down and back up on the results, so searches north america population - no results he likes. he says, this is a very broad topic. he ends up going to the page for north america. scrolls through and describes some items in the infobox, the intro paragraphs. he stops at the paragraph about the paleoindians, and reads a bit from the paragraph. goes to the section headers part; he reads through the header titles, and he goes to history section. scrolls through the history section, says this is mostly geological info... scrolls through more, then again to the bottom of the page. says he doesn't see anything about how north america became populated. clicks on the economy section. felt he couldn't directly answer the research question (sociopolitical part), but did find some other information. this is the start of what i'd be able to find... would've like to see a migration map on this north america page somewhere, and didn't see a politics section.he says he woudl look info settling of north america - he scrolls to top and adds "settling of north america' into the search box in wiki. HE gets results, scrolling through, nothing specifically looks like it 'hits the nail on the head" although "they probably all relate to it in some way" he says. He is scrolling fast and scanning the titles.
he searches "north america" and decides it might work to widdle it down from there, he might find things in tehre. he scrolls down to section headers - clicks on "history" finds geologic history "interesting but not what we are looking for" HE finds pre columbian times - orgins of early human population - thinks this is a good place to go to consider pre columbian.. he finds post columbian, after europeans arrived. he is reading. he scrolls a bunch and says that would be a good place to start. He says his first search was too specific, and found it easy to hit the main topic "north america" and then looks to what other content is there, and to the links in the topic. HE says in this way, wikipedia is very well organized. 		"alright, it's kind of complicated, but here I go" she types in 'how north american population began" she isn't sure it is right.. doesn't find things that are useful - she is having difficulty with her keyboard not showing up. Starts again.. "north america first settlers" not finding what she needs to find. she says, this is how you would find it.. you would search for settlers, "it isn't that easy to search here" She then sees the North america page, and goes there. starts scrolling down / scanning. she finds the paleo indians. She said that is who first people were paleo indians. differentiated into other populations. She is findign lots of information and reading it out. She says that is the begining of the search and she woudl search"socio political events that lead to the current population" she is looking into the other topics. She said she would start with North america and then go from there to search more. she would go back to google and enter " first humans north america" she finds "settlement of the americas" page. she zooms into the map - and starts looking at the article, lots of links, she woudl begin by readin gthe main topics and tehn click on all teh relevant links to know what she needs to add to the article she is writing.. scrolling up and down - she says she would go about it like this, is not a historian so she doesn't necessarily know how this all works (writing about history) She woudl write down the basics first, and then follwo links and more to fill in the details. she is looking at sections and land bridge theory and "understanding the debate" - she would go through everything and read everything and put it together. in wiki search bar, she types in population north america history, looks through the results (north america is 2nd result, she points it out). scrolls down further, and she navigates to the americas page. read through the intro paragraph, then says this will give her info on what she needs for the americas, maybe not specifically north america, but useful info. she then scrolls down to the toc, and sees a section titled politics, and she navigates there. reviews the chart of countries and territories, and scrolls quickly all the way down to the united states entry. then she clicks on the united states page. scrolls down a bit and reads one of the intro paragraphs about the paleo-indians. scans through the next couple paragraphs and reads out a bit of content from each.searches for early american migration in browser, says she's glad wikipedia result came up first. navigates to first result, settlement of americas. looks at the top photo, and talks through the contents/section headers. scrolls through timeline. mentions the land bridge theory, migration theories, etc.

for sociopolitical aspect, searches socio political events north america. 'a little bit more broad', starts with the american revolution (first result and only wiki result among top results). she navigates to page, but goes back to search again right away. searches political events population usa. goes to timeline of US history (one of the top results), would scan through the events on this page and note down immigration, ellis island, and other events that may be relevant.

generally, google something, go to wikipedia, get lost in the wiki spiral on both super broad/detailed pages and more specific pages. also mentions that she likes to go through the general information, then wikipedia is a jumping off point for things to cite if needed. goes to notes and references sections and shows us an example.		in wiki search, looks up united states history. gets to history of united states page. scrolls down a bit, says this page goes back pretty far, and essentially says that this page would provide a lot of the resources he would need to start researching this topic.for some reason he goes to the wikipedia search (says he is going there instead so search - types in "beginnings of north america" no search results - finds "beginings of north america" finds "history of north america" page. reads teh question again. He says he used the internal search for the first time -he hardly has ever used wiki search. he liked the search.

starts scrolling and reads teh first paragraph. Soem good info in the second sentance. populated later than other continents. reading first paragraphs carefully. he scrolls down and looks at contents. looking for something that stood out to him to answer this question. HE says this is the page he would start out on.. read through and start. If he couldn't find more within the page that he needed, he would go for searching in wiki search, and if he didn't find anything more useful in there, he woudl use google.

he writes a search term in and says "I hope wikipedia fixes that for me" because he typed in a wronly spelled word.. He was happy to see "did you mean..." Helped. x

he is looking for the first political parties.. starts reading "political parties in the united states" page. reads first paragraph, learns a few things. scrolling down to table of contents. he clicks on a section and finds lots of good info. He says this page would also be reslly helpful. 		scrolls up to search wiki search bar. writes "formation of continents" sarch results "see if I can find some history" scrolling down.. "some are kind of related, haven't seen anything yet. this last one seems most related" clicks on . "End of Earth: Voyage to antarctica"

reading.. "not quite what I wanted" goes back (using back button) clicks on "supercontinent" says "we'll start with that maybe"

pointing out facts about the super continent.. when all the continents were one.. "lookign for stuff about humans" as she scrolls down the article scanning...reading topic headings. gets to bottom. "I'm not getting to the part where it has 'socio political events of america". She scrolls scrolls up to the search "I'm gonna back up here" to search types in "humans on continents" reading through - "some of the same results came back, some are different", scrolling down slowly. "looking at lots of diff articles here, but .." goes back "I think I am over searching this" types in "humans coming to morth america" {NOTE: TOP result is "Rodent (section Interaction with Humans"?!)

scrolls down through results "there's quite a bit here" scrolling slowly and reading. back up to top. "not having a whole lot of luck here, I'm not sure how to word what you're asking to get the best search results, so I'm trying several different things."
tries "forumulation adn population of north america" looks, scrolling slowly. clicks on top result "North America" reading info box, population, goes to contents and clicks on "population" - "oh that's the population of countries" - listing out some sections she is reading in TOC... she guesses she could could get all the information she needs here, by reading and looking at links to find the different pieces of that history. she said "getting to that precise search term took me several tries" 		he says he would start fairly broad and then get details. he goes to search - types in "colonization of americas" goes to european colonization of americas // one topic comes up - he looks in toc and finds "colonization of the united states" starts reading. talking through it... he is rambling on about it off the top of his hand now.. talking about land grabs, etc. scrolls down looking over topics.. he points out a map -and says obviously maps would be involved.. he thinks of american history in grade school.. says emegration woudl be really important to talk about too - goes to search "immigration" found "immigration to the united states" page. scanning and scrolling a little.. looking at early immigration -Irish Germans, fleeing from wars... from nazzis. a lot of those things major events shaping the country. I would go on bigger topics and then dive in.. I would want to organize all the info in linear fashion and have.. would want to use lots of links and have it be very visual and have references, it is a big topic and could inspire lots of conversations.
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Answers to Post-test Questionnaire
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Please tell us - from your experience before this exercise - what Wikipedia provides for you as a reader.It's my encyclopedia--just like those actual books I used growing up. When I'm looking for information it's my go to, my learning tool/aid. Mostly I go to them to find information about something/one specific but I will also broswe simply to learn about something I didn't know about or learn more about subjectes I might not familiar with. It provides me info inlcuding dates, names, locations, definitions, images about all subjects inlcuding people, events, geography, subjects, etc.Easy access to accurate informationdid not answerWikipedia provides for me an easy way to find answers I am seeking to specific questions, but also enables a deeper "accidental" broadening of knowledge by neatly aggregating related links to events/people/places from the original topic. It also allows for a nice random slice of information about a very universal variety of topics that I may not have known existed or didn't have a great amount of thorough understanding of previously.It's like a modern day encyclopedia where you can find up to date info about just about everything.Wikipedia provides a lot of basic information for any new topic that I am interested in. I use it mainly to get a first impression of a particular topic before moving on to a more 'in-depth' description elsewhere. This is not always the case however as some topics are very well documented on Wiki and provide sufficient information.As a reader, Wikipedia provides a well-linked library of information and trusworthy sources thereof
It's a great source of information and a good place to go when I'm curious about something and want to learn more.
It provides useful in depth information on just about any topic that has been thought of.I usually go to Wikipedia to look up facts quickly [ celebrity, historical, VIPs (presidents, other notable people), music-related info ]. So, to answer the question directly - Wikipedia provides me with quick and convenient access to information.lots of facts, history, and links to more informationdid not answer
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Is there anything that you like Wikipedia to provide you as a reader, that isn't currently provided?I'd love more functionlaity/organization with categories and subcategories -- impoved navigation using sub menus/categories. I think this would increase the browsing and discovering capacity of wiki and not just the go find soemthign specific source.Not that i can think ofdid not answerSometimes I wish there was a "conflicting information" box that could pop out to lead to a description or account that challenges the printed Wikipedia information. I understand this could cloud the accuracy of the page, but it is nice to have a more transparent communication if there is a topic that is publicly debated or cloudy in details.I would liek to see more pictures of search results.some topics lack information altogether, but for the most part, I have a always been able to find what I was looking for. I can not think of anything off-hand that I think is missing.
Sometimes, I had wished for more images (or links to images) related to the topic that I was researching.
No, I have never had any issues finding more out that I want to know.Wikipedia meets my standards.There's nothing I can think of at this time. If I do think of something, I'll make sure to use the contact information on Wikipedia to get it over to you.it takes me a few tries to find desired information, it would be nice to have simpler searches or self populating boxes of popular searchesdid not answer
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Have you ever edited or contributed to Wikipedia in any way (besides participating in this exercise)? If so, please tell us how.
No I haven't -- guess I'd want to know what makes someone qualified to contribute or what should prompt someone to contribute something more -- are there clear guidelines, helpful formats for making additions? Do you "become an "editor" or just contribute?Nodid not answerI have not ever contributed to Wikipedia as I cannot call myself anything close to a researcher or historian. In terms of pop culture additions that I could provide, often someone beats me to adding it if I were inclined to do so.No, I have never contributed to Wikipedia. I believe I may have tried to change a picture, but I don't think I succeeded. Something went wrong.No, I have never contributed to Wikipedia in terms of submitting articles or editing.Unfortunately, no...don't have the credentials to do so.No, I have never edited.I have never contributed to wikipedia.I have never directly contributed to Wikipedia (editing or donations). However, I do remember completing a few tasks several months ago where I would check Wikipedia revisions and make sure that they were not malicious (gibberish, false information, etc..). I don't recall which company it was for exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was either Leapforce or Clickworker.nodid not answer
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Do we have your permission to share this video with our volunteer community who also build and maintain Wikipedia?Yes within a contained environment -- not publicly available/searchable on youtube or the like. Would love to help b/c I truly value what wiki provides and offeres.Yesdid not answerAbsolutely, please do.Sure, of course.Yes, that is fine. I hope it is helpful.
Yes.Sure, go ahead.Absolutely! You have my permission to use this video.Yes.yesdid not answer