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Hello there! I was wondering if you could update SuggestBot to have the tables it posts on user's talk page be
HTML5 compliant. I'd be happy to help if you point me to the source code for the script or templates used to make those tables. Currently, I'm seeing a lot of align='right'
—align='center'
—align='left'
where style="text-align: right;"
—style="text-align: center;"
—style="text-align: left;"
would be up-to-date and appropriate. If you could do this, it would fix a huge eyesore for me and a couple other users. Thanks! — {{U|
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I'v done and people got credit but now ? Zaed.zaman ( talk) 04:59, 6 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Nettrom,
I wanted to give you and User:EpochFail an update on m:Research:Screening WikiProject Medicine articles for quality/Stub prediction table. I'm "done", in the sense that I've checked every page on the list at least once. Overall, I think it was useful. I personally reassessed the class on about 450 articles, and in other cases I kept the class rating but made other adjustments, like adding task forces or removing the WPMED banner altogether. I really appreciated the list of pages that were redirects.
Here are a few complications:
I think it might be useful to run through a list like this maybe a couple of times a year, but I don't think that it's a good candidate for an everyday maintenance task. If you were setting up a bot to do this, then you might consider having it run once a month. Every day would be too often to be useful.
And, finally, I could see some value in two other lists:
Thank you both again for doing this. Between all of us, we have probably corrected the ratings on 2% of WPMED's articles this way. I really appreciate it.
Are you interested in doing this for other groups? I don't want to go out and volunteer your time, but a few of the more organized projects might benefit from a list. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:45, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for helping me unsubscribe. Hope to sign up again in the near future. The suggestbot has been useful for me. Thanks -- Nkansahrexford ( talk) 22:49, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Can you please configure Suggestbot to suggest articles every 2 days. THANK YOU A.A.Wasif | Talk 10:22, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
I have recently used suggest bot and want to let you know that I find it very helpful. I want to let you know that I appreciate you as its 'caretaker'. Thank you for your work on this bot. Best Regards,
Hi Nettrom! I am working on WikiProject X, an effort to overhaul WikiProjects. As part of this, I am interested in developing a scalable approach for generating article worklists. I am very encouraged by the efforts you've made with SuggestBot, especially in the above talk page thread about stub prediction for WikiProject Medicine, and I would be interested in something that would allow any WikiProject to generate these kinds of reports. I was considering just using User:SuggestBot/Requests, but WikiProject categories index a bunch of talk pages, rather than the articles themselves. So would it be possible to come up with some way to make the request feature work for WikiProjects? Thanks, Harej ( talk) 17:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|category1=WikiProject History}}
In either case, it will be seeded by up to 256 articles from that category, and it uses the timestamp of when the article was added to the category to sort them with the oldest one first (meaning it assumes that older timestamps are articles in less need of improvement than younger ones).Nettrom, any update on this? (See also parallel discussion on SuggestBot's talk page.) I would be happy to make the change to the code myself, but I cannot find any up-to-date code repositories. Harej ( talk) 20:01, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, About 22:00 (my local time) I submitted a SB request. It's now 06:30 (overnight) and yet no response from SuggestBot. Idea: can SB send back immediately something like, what number your request is in the Queue? and or Expected wait time? I have only used SB a few times, once it gave back suggestions in 10 minutes, another time it was over 18 hours... Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 11:42, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom,
I saw a note from Harej's WikiProject X about the rev score service, which reminded me: would it be easy to re-populate m:Research:Screening WikiProject Medicine articles for quality/Redirect table for me? I'm looking for a mostly mindless task, and fixing banners on redirects would fit the bill very nicely. (No rush, and I understand if you can't get to it.) Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 02:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you edited a page which mentions the average number of views per day of some articles. I would like to have a table with information about the average number of views per day of articles I created ( draft is here). Is it possible to add some template which would update this data to the table I created? -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 07:39, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to implement such a mechanism on plwiki community portal. Could you set your bot to extract and update several lists from specified categories? ofc I'll take care of usability, consensus and everything else. Tar Lócesilion ( queta) 18:32, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Re-posting this message from SB talk page and asking for a status update please.
Greetings, Since I started on WP, I visit Teahouse almost every day. While "exploring" I discovered that SuggestBot requests can be made at this Teahouse page. Click on Get suggestions and follow the instructions. IMO this third way is more user friendly versus the other two request methods. Here is my first draft for update to the start of this page (and the User page).
If you're looking for SuggestBot recommendations, you have these options.
I have only used SB a few times (and BTW this last time with the detail columns is Great!) so the above draft may need to be tweaked. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 14:30, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
ω Awaiting JoeHebda ( talk) 17:43, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
* Resolved Thanks. JoeHebda ( talk) 17:55, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Greetings Nettrom/Archive 2 The proposal to add shaded heading boxes (at
Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Opentask)was introduced on 16:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC).
Since that time, the example was updated several times. In addition, I posted at
Wikipedia talk:Community portal on 23:51, 27 September 2015 (UTC).
Still looking for feedback, discussion & consensus. My concern is the 5,000 page watchers at Community portal & the responses triggered if I am bold and make this change.
Please advise of how to proceed.
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Hello Nettrom.
Great idea, the SuggestBot!
Do you think your bot could work on the french wikipedia?
I can help if needed.
Cheers.
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OK, there's consensus, I set 9 categories (links here). This is the page to be updated. I separated them to provide 1. more transclusions without including the layout 2. flexibility: which lists [not] to transclude. As a consequence, eventually, your bot will be able to update several sets that could be used independently from one another. SuggestBot actually has a flag on pl, so this is also done. As for frequency, once per hour is fine. Tar Lócesilion ( queta) 18:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Would there be any way for people to submit articles not yet created but desired to the suggestbot and have those suggestions sent out to people as a separate post on talk page? It would simplify the process instead of having to manually check all the way time. And it could update new suggestions in realtime so you would know there are new desired articles. Nice to meet another u Of m guy, i graduated from there in 2003 😊 Very fond memories. Notgoingtotellyou ( talk) 21:07, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
The lead says further down;
"On January 26, 2014, Snarky Puppy, along with Lalah Hathaway, won a Grammy Award in the Best R&B Performance category for their rendition of the Brenda Russell song "Something" from Family Dinner - Volume 1."
I always think there's an element of peacocking in shoving "award winning", and the like, into leads. But many editors seem to think it needs to be done ASAP, either to capture the reader's fickle attention, or in case someone reaches for the delete button before reading any further! :) -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 20:04, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on my IEG proposal page. I'm a little embarrassed I didn't know about the projects you mentioned, Ekstrand & Riedl (2009) in particular as they addressed much of what I am proposing. At this point I'm not sure exactly where my project extends the work that you and others have already done other than trying to frame the problem in evolutionary terms. But I'll keep working at it and see if I can identify some key differences and highlight them in the proposal.
Evoapps ( talk) 16:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for coming up with a good idea -- your User:SuggestBot! It helped me a lot to find the articles that I like, thanks :) → The Pancake of Heaven! ( T • C • E) 15:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC) |
Hi, I have got to you a question about work of the SuggestBot. Does suggestbot generate articles also based on my watchlist? Regards. Dawid2009 ( talk) 12:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
You're right, thank you for the appointment. I already reverted my edition.
Regards, Rachmaninoff ( talk) 22:16, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Nettrom,
I'm interested in your bot in Persian wikipedia, but my talk pages is Flow, so bot doesn't work in it, can you add support of it to the bot ?
Regards. MohammadtheEditor ( talk) 02:40, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for managing SuggestBot! It makes my work on improving Wikipedia much easier, and I think it helps a lot of other people, too! Thanks again! — Editor 357 ( Talk • Contributions) 16:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC) |
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For working tirelessly on SuggestBot and it's code, and for bringing it online ASAP when it goes down! Thank you for maximizing SuggestBot's potential, and for sending me and countless others helpful and accurate suggestions! UN$¢_Łuke_1Ø21 Repørts 13:44, 15 December 2016 (UTC) |
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SuggestBot should check Google to see if the only way to contribute to the page is by using copyvios. Those pages should be removed from the list before they are sent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Dylan ( talk • contribs) 13:46, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
This is the problem. SuggestBot brought me to that page, and the following list was deleted due to copyvios. However, it is more a matter of the copyright implications of verifiable lists, now that I think of it. ( David Dylan ( talk) 22:58, 19 January 2017 (UTC))
Hi, do you can create page for suggestions to me from SuggestBot? I am having hard time get this thing. best wishes. Dawid2009 ( talk) 10:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Community portal#Archive_18. I truly hope that another three sections "Create these articles", "Represent a worldwide view" and "Add historical information" can be added to Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask.-- RekishiEJ ( talk) 08:08, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the answer at EpochFail's page. Wikipedians have asked this question repeatedly over years and I had a sense that somehow it had become answerable with the availability of new tools. You pieced it together and now I get to see interesting information which no one has seen before, and also we have a general solution to the problem. I will write this entire process out somewhere, and I also plan to share these results. Thanks for commenting on the problem and finding a solution - this is very interesting. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:52, 19 May 2017 (UTC) |
Your opinion/suggestion would be appreciated a lot! Thanks :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 19:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Got the bot working :) Bobo.03 ( talk) 02:28, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Template:Gettingstarted adding links has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 07:37, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
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For SuggestBot. This is a genius idea. Cheers, FriyMan Per aspera ad astra 15:26, 18 July 2017 (UTC) |
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Hi.
I never saw your photo in the original size, I only saw the thumbnail. And all this time I thought you had a ponytail. I even pinged you once as "cool guy with a ponytail" or something like that ({{u|Nettrom|cool guy with a ponytail}}). But I realised now that it is somebody else's hairs. My ping at that time might have looked inappropriate. I apologise for that. I hope you understand my mistake. Sorry again.
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There are no apologies needed for the removal of the SuggestBot I am not that worried about it! This is a little overwhelming to me but I am slowly learning what I need to! OhioGirl42986 01:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by OhioGirl42986 ( talk • contribs)
Hello, I am from Thai Wikipedia. I would like to use SuggestBot to update open task for the local Community Portal, however my programming skill is miserably terrible. So I would like to ask how can I use the bot? Thanks! -- Horus ( talk) 06:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello again! I have concluded open task to list in the community portal including: th:หมวดหมู่:หน้าที่ต้องการความช่วยเหลือ, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่ขาดแหล่งอ้างอิง, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่ยังไม่สมบูรณ์, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความวิกิพีเดียทั้งหมดที่ต้องการปรับ, th:หมวดหมู่:ตรวจภาษา, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่ไม่ได้อธิบายความสำคัญ, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่มีลิงก์เสีย, th:หมวดหมู่:ตรวจแก้รูปแบบ and th:หมวดหมู่:หน้าที่ยังไม่ได้จัดหมวดหมู่. Please inform me from time to time about the progress or if you have any questions. Thank you. -- Horus ( talk) 12:26, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom!
A french user, Danfarid133, would like to receive contributions from your bot, but it doesn't seem to work anymore on frwiki since one month. Is that normal? Thank you in advance. Lofhi ( talk) 23:07, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
File:Balao.png | Appreciated help! |
Thank you for your help! Higginsal ( talk) 23:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC) |
Hi. Your bot request at Thai Wikipedia has been approved. Thank you for helping us there. -- Lerdsuwa ( talk) 16:08, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Sorry that the filter blocked the bot again. I will look into it quickly and make sure it's not happening again. -- Horus ( talk) 10:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I came in your userpage through SuggestBot's user page. I am actually new here in Wikipedia so i need help. First question how can i create a bot like SuggestBot? I am interested on making one. And how can i ban/block users who are violating the terms and conditions of Wikipedia by editing childish way or more and last question how can i delete some articles which hasnt been verified since beginning. Looking forward to your answers :) -{User|Sirshak9927} Sirshak9927 ( talk) 09:58, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Just giving' out tasty cheeseburgers. Want some? HorsesARENice Ride me to my talk page 06:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC) |
How do I get SuggestBot to stop recommending articles about Indian soap operas? I don't recall ever editing articles like that. Help would be enjoyed. lol. UNSC Luke 1021 ( talk) 17:46, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I have left a message on SuggestBot's talk page, please read it. Kpgjhpjm ( talk) 02:22, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom, Thank you so much for the suggestions. will try to edit as much as I could. Good day. RaRaBa ( talk) 06:27, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Nettrom for sharing the useful links on my talk page. Have a great day. Nat.Account ( talk) 06:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help. Nat.Account ( talk) 06:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC) |
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Hi Nettrom, just heard you have developed a machine learning program to quantify article quality and wanted to give a few suggestions on quality markers:
Placement of citations are interesting. I would give higher weight to citations in the first section and also higher weight to citations at the top of each section and of each paragraph.
But, since you are using machine learning, it would be best to just feed in measurements of citation location and spacing, number of paragraphs per section and number of sentences per paragraph, etc and let the machine find the best fit.
Seahawk01 ( talk) 01:34, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
I am smart enough to be able to add suggestbot, but I am not smart enough to know how to get rid of it. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of suggestbot? Thanks. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 02:01, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Nettrom 🙂
I was looking for information about when have started the article creation restriction, and thanks to this page and this one I founded out that it appeared at the begining of April 2006, the date on which appears the authorization 'Create article' (Allows user to create a new article) that is, from the first day, restricted to registered users.
From what I understood in your article Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Post-trial Research Report, it looks like this is something that was not done before.
Would you be so kind as to tell me where is the point I probably did not understand ? Article creation was not limited to users with autoconfirmed status before ? If then, what was the meaning of the 'Create article' authorization ? It would be very nice from you to enlighten my darkness !
Best regards, Nonaphile ( My talk page) -- Preceding comment added by Nonaphile 14:49, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
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Is s53463__actrial_p.npp_queue_size something that's publicly viewable? I'm curious about the difficulty of adding a count of articles that are in the queue which are over 90 days old (i.e. past the index point) but can't seem to find the data to use myself. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 15:03, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Nettrom! (... or Morten, if you like. :P )
I'm an admin at the Albanian Wikipedia and I continuously lurk on the EnWiki looking for tech things "to steal" for our community. :P I saw your bot at action at one of the users' talk pages and was very surprised by it. Suggestions are the latest trends on every website these days but Wikimedia has always been a bit old-fashioned in that way. In fact, I've spent quite some time teaching newbies how to get around Wikipedia and the hardest thing for them to understand is always this "old fashion" Wikimedia has in its projects. The not so sophisticated GUI, dealing with code, the way discussions work with talkpages and signatures... Everything seems like a bit too much for the basic social media user where everything I've mentioned above is a bit different. I've gone so far as to make the ping template at our community resemble the Facebook way of mentioning someone {{@|Name}} to facilitate this whole process. So I'm always on the lookout for features like these and was very happy of finding your bot. Can we also get it to run at our community?
Also, if I might be allowed to make some suggestions...
We're a small community compared to EnWiki. Unfortunately, the community feeling is not that strong in SqWiki. People rarely spend time looking after the tech/help/category pages, our WikiProjects are rarely active in the true sense of the word and there is not much discussion going on on the users' talkpages except for the casual editwars there may arise. As an admin, I'm always trying to build on this aspect - Lately I created more than 200 templates for barnstars and we'll try to install the WikiLove extension soon. - so I thought maybe Suggestbot could help in this direction too? Can it be made possible to suggest other things besides articles? Like WikiProjects or categories someone may be interested? Or suggest fixing categories, templates, help and project pages? Maybe even have some extra-features for admins suggesting pages with lint errors to be fixed or system messages that need maintenance? Basically find work (fine-tuning its frequency so it won't look overwhelming) for everyone to do according to their preferences in all namespaces and more. This would give way for people to engage with their community, help the community by raising its tech quality and basically make the whole experience much more fun for everyone involved.
I also say these things because many times I've found myself wanting to pass some time at Wikipedia but not knowing what really to do. As I focus more on the tech side than the mainspace, it would be nice having something like Suggestbot finding work for me periodically. Also, many times I know what needs to be done but it looks too much adding a whole new project to the already filled projects' queue I'm working on. However, if work was distributed slowly, one task at a time, it would make the acceptance of it more easy, another reason where Suggestbot could help.
I'm sorry for the long post but I very much enjoyed the idea of a suggestion's robot and wanted to give some insight on how the situation is on smaller wikis and how the Suggestbot may help with them. Maybe I'm overly evaluating the bot's potential but I think finding work easily according to one's preferences should be one of the core features of MediaWiki these days (as finding articles to read is). - Klein Muçi ( talk) 16:57, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Dear user, i think you remember me, when i asked you to take your bot in the Greek Wikipedia. The result from the discussion there was generally positive, i suggest you to temporally try the bot there to see if it works well. I await your reply, Eni vak (speak) 23:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom,
We have a data question at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles/RFC on pharmaceutical drug prices. We'd like to know whether this is a reasonable/non-misleading use of this database (and if it's not, then how we could do it better). Most of the folks involved are solid editors, but we're not data geeks. If you're interested, please help us figure out the best way to improve Wikipedia's drug articles.
I think I'll also post a request at the m:Research:Newsletter (which is on Meta, so I fixed the link in your global user page). Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:47, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom! As the operator of Suggestbot, which is listed as updating the pages at Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask (although seems to no longer be doing so), we would very much appreciate your thoughts at Wikipedia_talk:Task_Center#Add_example_articles?. Sdkb ( talk) 15:15, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the SuggestBot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti ( talk) 08:01, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, hope you're doing well.
I'm fairly new and I have been working on stub articles that I received using the suggestion bot. I'm pretty sure I have been doing enough to remove the stub/needs expansion tags, however, if you have a few minutes, could you check them out?
I have one article, Water Mears in the DKY nomination process, so I'm sure it's fine. I have recently expanded (all journalists) Russell Carollo, Marjie Lundstrom, and Alan Miller.(Apologies for not knowing how to add links to them in a talk page)
I just don't understand the process; is there some kind of checking system that shows updates? Maybe I'm being too skittish, but I don't want to leave a mess for someone to clean up, behind me.
Thanks! Mollifiednow ( talk) 02:03, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Nettrom. I have seen that suggestbot is not in bn.wikipedia.org. I currently thinking to put it on bnwiki. I am here to get permitted and also some suggestion to contribute or maintain the source codes. Hope you are going to help me. Thanks. Waiting for your reply. A. Shohag ( pingme|| Talk) 07:26, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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dictionary is where the configuration of the categories of articles go, so that doesn't need updating until we have all of those. Since I don't understand Bengali, I'll be needing some help with those translations :)পরামর্শবট
is actually requested by me as an bengali of suggestbot.Hello, Nettrom. I wondered whether SuggestBot could be tweaked to meet the need described at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 33#A tool to help find a good/featured article companion for non-featured articles (maybe on a user talk page rather than in the article). Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to bother you, but the SuggestBot doesn't update a rubric on plwikipedia for quite a few months. Look at the infobox rubric; it says none, while in fact there is plenty to choose from: pl:Kategoria:Artykuły bez infoboksu. Thanks in advance for fixing it. Cheers, Tufor ( talk) 16:55, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom
I used Suggestbot very successfully on my Talk Page on 5 March and having worked on many of the pages it highlighted, I tried to activate it again on 28 March (and again on 29 March, thinking I might have got something wrong). It has still not fired up so I'm now wondering if there is something amiss? Mike Turnbull ( talk) 10:37, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Morten. I hope you are doing well. I was thinking, would it be technically possible to include the articles from WP:Forgotten Articles in suggestions? That is, obviously the articles based on editor's pattern, and requested suggestions. From my personal experience, I have observed that a lot of articles from that list get neglected again. Maybe including them in bot's recommendation might make them active again. What do you think? —usernamekiran (talk) 05:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
That is actually awesome and a good idea as well that will help New members To become well grounded in Wikipedia. Destiny div ( talk) 23:28, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
I humble wish to make a discussion because of my ability to do so .and what I want to discus is about the rate of increase in the family life of our people .Where their is too much of hatred and divorce so my problem now is that if this continues we night lose our culture of good home .so what do we do to solve this so that our next generation won't think is a culture Destiny div ( talk) 23:35, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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That's true Destiny div ( talk) 23:36, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
That is actually awesome and a good idea as well that will help New members To become well grounded in Wikipedia. Destiny div (talk) 23:28, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello dear Nettrom, may I ask something about suggest bot. I'm new on wikipedia. I did translated one page to Turkish to English. And one moderator did writing changes on it and it looks waiting for review, should i add it to suggest bot ? There is page; /info/en/?search=Draft:Ya%C5%9Far_Vurdem and turkish page is here (original source) ; https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Vurdem
Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peacesaa ( talk • contribs) 19:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello there! I was wondering if you could update SuggestBot to have the tables it posts on user's talk page be
HTML5 compliant. I'd be happy to help if you point me to the source code for the script or templates used to make those tables. Currently, I'm seeing a lot of align='right'
—align='center'
—align='left'
where style="text-align: right;"
—style="text-align: center;"
—style="text-align: left;"
would be up-to-date and appropriate. If you could do this, it would fix a huge eyesore for me and a couple other users. Thanks! — {{U|
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I'v done and people got credit but now ? Zaed.zaman ( talk) 04:59, 6 December 2014 (UTC) |
Hi Nettrom,
I wanted to give you and User:EpochFail an update on m:Research:Screening WikiProject Medicine articles for quality/Stub prediction table. I'm "done", in the sense that I've checked every page on the list at least once. Overall, I think it was useful. I personally reassessed the class on about 450 articles, and in other cases I kept the class rating but made other adjustments, like adding task forces or removing the WPMED banner altogether. I really appreciated the list of pages that were redirects.
Here are a few complications:
I think it might be useful to run through a list like this maybe a couple of times a year, but I don't think that it's a good candidate for an everyday maintenance task. If you were setting up a bot to do this, then you might consider having it run once a month. Every day would be too often to be useful.
And, finally, I could see some value in two other lists:
Thank you both again for doing this. Between all of us, we have probably corrected the ratings on 2% of WPMED's articles this way. I really appreciate it.
Are you interested in doing this for other groups? I don't want to go out and volunteer your time, but a few of the more organized projects might benefit from a list. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:45, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for helping me unsubscribe. Hope to sign up again in the near future. The suggestbot has been useful for me. Thanks -- Nkansahrexford ( talk) 22:49, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Can you please configure Suggestbot to suggest articles every 2 days. THANK YOU A.A.Wasif | Talk 10:22, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
I have recently used suggest bot and want to let you know that I find it very helpful. I want to let you know that I appreciate you as its 'caretaker'. Thank you for your work on this bot. Best Regards,
Hi Nettrom! I am working on WikiProject X, an effort to overhaul WikiProjects. As part of this, I am interested in developing a scalable approach for generating article worklists. I am very encouraged by the efforts you've made with SuggestBot, especially in the above talk page thread about stub prediction for WikiProject Medicine, and I would be interested in something that would allow any WikiProject to generate these kinds of reports. I was considering just using User:SuggestBot/Requests, but WikiProject categories index a bunch of talk pages, rather than the articles themselves. So would it be possible to come up with some way to make the request feature work for WikiProjects? Thanks, Harej ( talk) 17:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|category1=WikiProject History}}
In either case, it will be seeded by up to 256 articles from that category, and it uses the timestamp of when the article was added to the category to sort them with the oldest one first (meaning it assumes that older timestamps are articles in less need of improvement than younger ones).Nettrom, any update on this? (See also parallel discussion on SuggestBot's talk page.) I would be happy to make the change to the code myself, but I cannot find any up-to-date code repositories. Harej ( talk) 20:01, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, About 22:00 (my local time) I submitted a SB request. It's now 06:30 (overnight) and yet no response from SuggestBot. Idea: can SB send back immediately something like, what number your request is in the Queue? and or Expected wait time? I have only used SB a few times, once it gave back suggestions in 10 minutes, another time it was over 18 hours... Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 11:42, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom,
I saw a note from Harej's WikiProject X about the rev score service, which reminded me: would it be easy to re-populate m:Research:Screening WikiProject Medicine articles for quality/Redirect table for me? I'm looking for a mostly mindless task, and fixing banners on redirects would fit the bill very nicely. (No rush, and I understand if you can't get to it.) Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 02:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you edited a page which mentions the average number of views per day of some articles. I would like to have a table with information about the average number of views per day of articles I created ( draft is here). Is it possible to add some template which would update this data to the table I created? -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 07:39, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to implement such a mechanism on plwiki community portal. Could you set your bot to extract and update several lists from specified categories? ofc I'll take care of usability, consensus and everything else. Tar Lócesilion ( queta) 18:32, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Re-posting this message from SB talk page and asking for a status update please.
Greetings, Since I started on WP, I visit Teahouse almost every day. While "exploring" I discovered that SuggestBot requests can be made at this Teahouse page. Click on Get suggestions and follow the instructions. IMO this third way is more user friendly versus the other two request methods. Here is my first draft for update to the start of this page (and the User page).
If you're looking for SuggestBot recommendations, you have these options.
I have only used SB a few times (and BTW this last time with the detail columns is Great!) so the above draft may need to be tweaked. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 14:30, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
ω Awaiting JoeHebda ( talk) 17:43, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
* Resolved Thanks. JoeHebda ( talk) 17:55, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Greetings Nettrom/Archive 2 The proposal to add shaded heading boxes (at
Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Opentask)was introduced on 16:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC).
Since that time, the example was updated several times. In addition, I posted at
Wikipedia talk:Community portal on 23:51, 27 September 2015 (UTC).
Still looking for feedback, discussion & consensus. My concern is the 5,000 page watchers at Community portal & the responses triggered if I am bold and make this change.
Please advise of how to proceed.
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Hello Nettrom.
Great idea, the SuggestBot!
Do you think your bot could work on the french wikipedia?
I can help if needed.
Cheers.
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OK, there's consensus, I set 9 categories (links here). This is the page to be updated. I separated them to provide 1. more transclusions without including the layout 2. flexibility: which lists [not] to transclude. As a consequence, eventually, your bot will be able to update several sets that could be used independently from one another. SuggestBot actually has a flag on pl, so this is also done. As for frequency, once per hour is fine. Tar Lócesilion ( queta) 18:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Would there be any way for people to submit articles not yet created but desired to the suggestbot and have those suggestions sent out to people as a separate post on talk page? It would simplify the process instead of having to manually check all the way time. And it could update new suggestions in realtime so you would know there are new desired articles. Nice to meet another u Of m guy, i graduated from there in 2003 😊 Very fond memories. Notgoingtotellyou ( talk) 21:07, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
The lead says further down;
"On January 26, 2014, Snarky Puppy, along with Lalah Hathaway, won a Grammy Award in the Best R&B Performance category for their rendition of the Brenda Russell song "Something" from Family Dinner - Volume 1."
I always think there's an element of peacocking in shoving "award winning", and the like, into leads. But many editors seem to think it needs to be done ASAP, either to capture the reader's fickle attention, or in case someone reaches for the delete button before reading any further! :) -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 20:04, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on my IEG proposal page. I'm a little embarrassed I didn't know about the projects you mentioned, Ekstrand & Riedl (2009) in particular as they addressed much of what I am proposing. At this point I'm not sure exactly where my project extends the work that you and others have already done other than trying to frame the problem in evolutionary terms. But I'll keep working at it and see if I can identify some key differences and highlight them in the proposal.
Evoapps ( talk) 16:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for coming up with a good idea -- your User:SuggestBot! It helped me a lot to find the articles that I like, thanks :) → The Pancake of Heaven! ( T • C • E) 15:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC) |
Hi, I have got to you a question about work of the SuggestBot. Does suggestbot generate articles also based on my watchlist? Regards. Dawid2009 ( talk) 12:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
You're right, thank you for the appointment. I already reverted my edition.
Regards, Rachmaninoff ( talk) 22:16, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Nettrom,
I'm interested in your bot in Persian wikipedia, but my talk pages is Flow, so bot doesn't work in it, can you add support of it to the bot ?
Regards. MohammadtheEditor ( talk) 02:40, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for managing SuggestBot! It makes my work on improving Wikipedia much easier, and I think it helps a lot of other people, too! Thanks again! — Editor 357 ( Talk • Contributions) 16:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC) |
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For working tirelessly on SuggestBot and it's code, and for bringing it online ASAP when it goes down! Thank you for maximizing SuggestBot's potential, and for sending me and countless others helpful and accurate suggestions! UN$¢_Łuke_1Ø21 Repørts 13:44, 15 December 2016 (UTC) |
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SuggestBot should check Google to see if the only way to contribute to the page is by using copyvios. Those pages should be removed from the list before they are sent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Dylan ( talk • contribs) 13:46, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
This is the problem. SuggestBot brought me to that page, and the following list was deleted due to copyvios. However, it is more a matter of the copyright implications of verifiable lists, now that I think of it. ( David Dylan ( talk) 22:58, 19 January 2017 (UTC))
Hi, do you can create page for suggestions to me from SuggestBot? I am having hard time get this thing. best wishes. Dawid2009 ( talk) 10:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Community portal#Archive_18. I truly hope that another three sections "Create these articles", "Represent a worldwide view" and "Add historical information" can be added to Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask.-- RekishiEJ ( talk) 08:08, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the answer at EpochFail's page. Wikipedians have asked this question repeatedly over years and I had a sense that somehow it had become answerable with the availability of new tools. You pieced it together and now I get to see interesting information which no one has seen before, and also we have a general solution to the problem. I will write this entire process out somewhere, and I also plan to share these results. Thanks for commenting on the problem and finding a solution - this is very interesting. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:52, 19 May 2017 (UTC) |
Your opinion/suggestion would be appreciated a lot! Thanks :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 19:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Got the bot working :) Bobo.03 ( talk) 02:28, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Template:Gettingstarted adding links has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 07:37, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
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For SuggestBot. This is a genius idea. Cheers, FriyMan Per aspera ad astra 15:26, 18 July 2017 (UTC) |
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Hi.
I never saw your photo in the original size, I only saw the thumbnail. And all this time I thought you had a ponytail. I even pinged you once as "cool guy with a ponytail" or something like that ({{u|Nettrom|cool guy with a ponytail}}). But I realised now that it is somebody else's hairs. My ping at that time might have looked inappropriate. I apologise for that. I hope you understand my mistake. Sorry again.
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There are no apologies needed for the removal of the SuggestBot I am not that worried about it! This is a little overwhelming to me but I am slowly learning what I need to! OhioGirl42986 01:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by OhioGirl42986 ( talk • contribs)
Hello, I am from Thai Wikipedia. I would like to use SuggestBot to update open task for the local Community Portal, however my programming skill is miserably terrible. So I would like to ask how can I use the bot? Thanks! -- Horus ( talk) 06:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello again! I have concluded open task to list in the community portal including: th:หมวดหมู่:หน้าที่ต้องการความช่วยเหลือ, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่ขาดแหล่งอ้างอิง, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่ยังไม่สมบูรณ์, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความวิกิพีเดียทั้งหมดที่ต้องการปรับ, th:หมวดหมู่:ตรวจภาษา, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่ไม่ได้อธิบายความสำคัญ, th:หมวดหมู่:บทความที่มีลิงก์เสีย, th:หมวดหมู่:ตรวจแก้รูปแบบ and th:หมวดหมู่:หน้าที่ยังไม่ได้จัดหมวดหมู่. Please inform me from time to time about the progress or if you have any questions. Thank you. -- Horus ( talk) 12:26, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom!
A french user, Danfarid133, would like to receive contributions from your bot, but it doesn't seem to work anymore on frwiki since one month. Is that normal? Thank you in advance. Lofhi ( talk) 23:07, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
File:Balao.png | Appreciated help! |
Thank you for your help! Higginsal ( talk) 23:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC) |
Hi. Your bot request at Thai Wikipedia has been approved. Thank you for helping us there. -- Lerdsuwa ( talk) 16:08, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Sorry that the filter blocked the bot again. I will look into it quickly and make sure it's not happening again. -- Horus ( talk) 10:11, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I came in your userpage through SuggestBot's user page. I am actually new here in Wikipedia so i need help. First question how can i create a bot like SuggestBot? I am interested on making one. And how can i ban/block users who are violating the terms and conditions of Wikipedia by editing childish way or more and last question how can i delete some articles which hasnt been verified since beginning. Looking forward to your answers :) -{User|Sirshak9927} Sirshak9927 ( talk) 09:58, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Just giving' out tasty cheeseburgers. Want some? HorsesARENice Ride me to my talk page 06:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC) |
How do I get SuggestBot to stop recommending articles about Indian soap operas? I don't recall ever editing articles like that. Help would be enjoyed. lol. UNSC Luke 1021 ( talk) 17:46, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I have left a message on SuggestBot's talk page, please read it. Kpgjhpjm ( talk) 02:22, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom, Thank you so much for the suggestions. will try to edit as much as I could. Good day. RaRaBa ( talk) 06:27, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Nettrom for sharing the useful links on my talk page. Have a great day. Nat.Account ( talk) 06:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help. Nat.Account ( talk) 06:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC) |
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Hi Nettrom, just heard you have developed a machine learning program to quantify article quality and wanted to give a few suggestions on quality markers:
Placement of citations are interesting. I would give higher weight to citations in the first section and also higher weight to citations at the top of each section and of each paragraph.
But, since you are using machine learning, it would be best to just feed in measurements of citation location and spacing, number of paragraphs per section and number of sentences per paragraph, etc and let the machine find the best fit.
Seahawk01 ( talk) 01:34, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
I am smart enough to be able to add suggestbot, but I am not smart enough to know how to get rid of it. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of suggestbot? Thanks. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 02:01, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Nettrom 🙂
I was looking for information about when have started the article creation restriction, and thanks to this page and this one I founded out that it appeared at the begining of April 2006, the date on which appears the authorization 'Create article' (Allows user to create a new article) that is, from the first day, restricted to registered users.
From what I understood in your article Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Post-trial Research Report, it looks like this is something that was not done before.
Would you be so kind as to tell me where is the point I probably did not understand ? Article creation was not limited to users with autoconfirmed status before ? If then, what was the meaning of the 'Create article' authorization ? It would be very nice from you to enlighten my darkness !
Best regards, Nonaphile ( My talk page) -- Preceding comment added by Nonaphile 14:49, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
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Is s53463__actrial_p.npp_queue_size something that's publicly viewable? I'm curious about the difficulty of adding a count of articles that are in the queue which are over 90 days old (i.e. past the index point) but can't seem to find the data to use myself. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 15:03, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Nettrom! (... or Morten, if you like. :P )
I'm an admin at the Albanian Wikipedia and I continuously lurk on the EnWiki looking for tech things "to steal" for our community. :P I saw your bot at action at one of the users' talk pages and was very surprised by it. Suggestions are the latest trends on every website these days but Wikimedia has always been a bit old-fashioned in that way. In fact, I've spent quite some time teaching newbies how to get around Wikipedia and the hardest thing for them to understand is always this "old fashion" Wikimedia has in its projects. The not so sophisticated GUI, dealing with code, the way discussions work with talkpages and signatures... Everything seems like a bit too much for the basic social media user where everything I've mentioned above is a bit different. I've gone so far as to make the ping template at our community resemble the Facebook way of mentioning someone {{@|Name}} to facilitate this whole process. So I'm always on the lookout for features like these and was very happy of finding your bot. Can we also get it to run at our community?
Also, if I might be allowed to make some suggestions...
We're a small community compared to EnWiki. Unfortunately, the community feeling is not that strong in SqWiki. People rarely spend time looking after the tech/help/category pages, our WikiProjects are rarely active in the true sense of the word and there is not much discussion going on on the users' talkpages except for the casual editwars there may arise. As an admin, I'm always trying to build on this aspect - Lately I created more than 200 templates for barnstars and we'll try to install the WikiLove extension soon. - so I thought maybe Suggestbot could help in this direction too? Can it be made possible to suggest other things besides articles? Like WikiProjects or categories someone may be interested? Or suggest fixing categories, templates, help and project pages? Maybe even have some extra-features for admins suggesting pages with lint errors to be fixed or system messages that need maintenance? Basically find work (fine-tuning its frequency so it won't look overwhelming) for everyone to do according to their preferences in all namespaces and more. This would give way for people to engage with their community, help the community by raising its tech quality and basically make the whole experience much more fun for everyone involved.
I also say these things because many times I've found myself wanting to pass some time at Wikipedia but not knowing what really to do. As I focus more on the tech side than the mainspace, it would be nice having something like Suggestbot finding work for me periodically. Also, many times I know what needs to be done but it looks too much adding a whole new project to the already filled projects' queue I'm working on. However, if work was distributed slowly, one task at a time, it would make the acceptance of it more easy, another reason where Suggestbot could help.
I'm sorry for the long post but I very much enjoyed the idea of a suggestion's robot and wanted to give some insight on how the situation is on smaller wikis and how the Suggestbot may help with them. Maybe I'm overly evaluating the bot's potential but I think finding work easily according to one's preferences should be one of the core features of MediaWiki these days (as finding articles to read is). - Klein Muçi ( talk) 16:57, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Dear user, i think you remember me, when i asked you to take your bot in the Greek Wikipedia. The result from the discussion there was generally positive, i suggest you to temporally try the bot there to see if it works well. I await your reply, Eni vak (speak) 23:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom,
We have a data question at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles/RFC on pharmaceutical drug prices. We'd like to know whether this is a reasonable/non-misleading use of this database (and if it's not, then how we could do it better). Most of the folks involved are solid editors, but we're not data geeks. If you're interested, please help us figure out the best way to improve Wikipedia's drug articles.
I think I'll also post a request at the m:Research:Newsletter (which is on Meta, so I fixed the link in your global user page). Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:47, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom! As the operator of Suggestbot, which is listed as updating the pages at Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask (although seems to no longer be doing so), we would very much appreciate your thoughts at Wikipedia_talk:Task_Center#Add_example_articles?. Sdkb ( talk) 15:15, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the SuggestBot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti ( talk) 08:01, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, hope you're doing well.
I'm fairly new and I have been working on stub articles that I received using the suggestion bot. I'm pretty sure I have been doing enough to remove the stub/needs expansion tags, however, if you have a few minutes, could you check them out?
I have one article, Water Mears in the DKY nomination process, so I'm sure it's fine. I have recently expanded (all journalists) Russell Carollo, Marjie Lundstrom, and Alan Miller.(Apologies for not knowing how to add links to them in a talk page)
I just don't understand the process; is there some kind of checking system that shows updates? Maybe I'm being too skittish, but I don't want to leave a mess for someone to clean up, behind me.
Thanks! Mollifiednow ( talk) 02:03, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Nettrom. I have seen that suggestbot is not in bn.wikipedia.org. I currently thinking to put it on bnwiki. I am here to get permitted and also some suggestion to contribute or maintain the source codes. Hope you are going to help me. Thanks. Waiting for your reply. A. Shohag ( pingme|| Talk) 07:26, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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dictionary is where the configuration of the categories of articles go, so that doesn't need updating until we have all of those. Since I don't understand Bengali, I'll be needing some help with those translations :)পরামর্শবট
is actually requested by me as an bengali of suggestbot.Hello, Nettrom. I wondered whether SuggestBot could be tweaked to meet the need described at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 33#A tool to help find a good/featured article companion for non-featured articles (maybe on a user talk page rather than in the article). Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to bother you, but the SuggestBot doesn't update a rubric on plwikipedia for quite a few months. Look at the infobox rubric; it says none, while in fact there is plenty to choose from: pl:Kategoria:Artykuły bez infoboksu. Thanks in advance for fixing it. Cheers, Tufor ( talk) 16:55, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Nettrom
I used Suggestbot very successfully on my Talk Page on 5 March and having worked on many of the pages it highlighted, I tried to activate it again on 28 March (and again on 29 March, thinking I might have got something wrong). It has still not fired up so I'm now wondering if there is something amiss? Mike Turnbull ( talk) 10:37, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Morten. I hope you are doing well. I was thinking, would it be technically possible to include the articles from WP:Forgotten Articles in suggestions? That is, obviously the articles based on editor's pattern, and requested suggestions. From my personal experience, I have observed that a lot of articles from that list get neglected again. Maybe including them in bot's recommendation might make them active again. What do you think? —usernamekiran (talk) 05:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
That is actually awesome and a good idea as well that will help New members To become well grounded in Wikipedia. Destiny div ( talk) 23:28, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
I humble wish to make a discussion because of my ability to do so .and what I want to discus is about the rate of increase in the family life of our people .Where their is too much of hatred and divorce so my problem now is that if this continues we night lose our culture of good home .so what do we do to solve this so that our next generation won't think is a culture Destiny div ( talk) 23:35, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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That's true Destiny div ( talk) 23:36, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
That is actually awesome and a good idea as well that will help New members To become well grounded in Wikipedia. Destiny div (talk) 23:28, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello dear Nettrom, may I ask something about suggest bot. I'm new on wikipedia. I did translated one page to Turkish to English. And one moderator did writing changes on it and it looks waiting for review, should i add it to suggest bot ? There is page; /info/en/?search=Draft:Ya%C5%9Far_Vurdem and turkish page is here (original source) ; https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C5%9Far_Vurdem
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