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I probably mess up your results because I'm a combination of " my edits are narrowly targeted and planned ahead of time" and "totally spontaneous" (for that reason, I marked interested - I may get bored). Speaking of which, I must have done some editing of Intelligent Design articles recently - though I don't recall having done so, offhand. I did go through and re-assess all of the articles that weren't really stubs, even if I'm "not interested" in them, bumping one up to C-class! -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:07, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Key: - interesting,
I may work on it,
I'm definitely going to improve it significantly;
Unlikely that I'll expand it,
not interesting;
Don't know why it's on the list,
not a stub/cleanup/etc.
Using the above template use, as it looks more useful.
3 columns of or
or
Just giving you some suggestions on how to make SuggestBot better.
1. Can you introduce an option for SuggestBot to post on the talk page more than twice a month? Because I edit very frequently and a lot of things can happen in the timespace of two weeks. Maybe once a week will do.
2. Can you introduce a parameter for SuggestBot to make new suggestions starting with a level 3 header (i.e.===Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot===)? For instance:
If you want the bot to start recommendations with a level 3 header:
{{User:SuggestBot/config |frequency = once a week |replace |level 3 }}
If you don't want the bot to start recommendations with a level 3 header:
{{User:SuggestBot/config |frequency = once a week |replace }}
3. I think you should merge "Stubs" with "Expand" because they are pretty much the same thing. Also, you should introduce an "Add Images" recommendation section into SuggestBot posts. For instance:
Anyways, thank you for listening and I hope that you will implement some of these ideas in the near future. EpicWikipedian ( talk) 15:32, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I love the new format of the SuggestBot requests! But I was wondering, is there any way to run a viewership comparison like that on a set list(e.g. on a WikiProject, taskforce, or category's listings)? It could be good to know that so-and-so article is getting many more pageviews than the others like it, so maybe it should be fixed up first. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:32, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi just letting you know that this has worked well for me again, except for a few, all are pages that I would be happy to edit. It even has predicted which Tank is my favorite... Are you sure that this bot doen't read minds?R <laughter />... :) Starfleet Academy " Live long and prosper." 00:06, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
Actually....maybe some of the computer ones are related to my edits on CERO? That's the only thing I can think of. If so, then those shouldn't be added. Video games and general software stuff and the people who are of interest in each are generally 2 different types of people.
Hmm, is there a way we can customize our article list received? So it's all pages, say, from the tropical cyclone WikiProject? Thanks! HurricaneFan 25 14:13, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
Feedback format copied off Jinnai. Also, if SuggestBot didn't do to well for me, it's probably more because of my editing habits than anything else. Thanks! - Benzband ( talk) 17:41, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
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This is for treating the Wikipedia with such a good functionality!
Man this should be folk wisdom - something everyone should know about! DharavSolanki ( talk) 14:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC) |
The bot seems to give me suggestions based on pages I edit using Reflinks and articles for creation submissions I move into the mainspace and other semi-automated script tasks. Is there a way to filter out such edits so that users get suggestions that reflect their interests? — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 1:47pm • 03:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have just received some suggestions after requesting them.
One of the problems i found was that, since i am a vandal fighter using huggle/other tools, i think those articles are being taken into consideration. i would personally prefer if articles edited via vandal tools are kept out of the suggestion. PS: i haven't edited too many articles without them so there may not be suggestions for me.Still, wanted to try this Bot.
Arnavchaudhary ( talk) 20:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
It should also look at what you spend a lot of time doing. Rather than telling me what articles to expand-when I dislike expanding articles and never do it-it should tell me what articles to create-which I do much more frequently! Other than this...it's a great bot, although needs tweaking because not all of the suggestions were relevant to me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RDN1F ( talk • contribs) 19:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
I have signed up for a regular SuggestBot feed. Can I get a date somewhere prominent (top?) so I know when I received it? -- Greenmaven ( talk) 13:27, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
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I need to share one with you... because your suggestions keep me up all night! Cocoaguy ここがいい 03:43, 30 December 2011 (UTC) |
My suggestion were mostly correct. However some came up that i just would never edit. My thought is this come from when i use Igloo vandalism software. Is there a way to stop the bot looking at edits made with this software when recommending articles. Edinburgh Wanderer 21:04, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, quick question: does SB look for uncategorized pages? Because if it doesn't then that could be another section. Helpful to those with HC! :D Starfleet Academy Hail ML 01:44, 8 Mar, 2012 UTC
No problems. The suggestions were perfectly reasonable and gave me a bit more focus for my editing. Will use again. I even liked the fact that it threw up a couple of articles that I would never have looked at otherwise. I would like to be able to specify my activity type more effectively: stub expansion is my preferred task. Tigerboy1966 ( talk) 14:22, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
I hope I'm not violating etiquette with this question: can the bot be exported to another wiki? We have a small (~15,000 article) sci-fi wiki, and I feel this would dove-tail well with our 50-some strong active membership. Please let me know.-- Revanche ( talk) 05:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Just FYI, I saw suggest bot working on another user's talk page and decided to try it out. I have to say, the first round of suggestions were spot on, with a good mix of articles I am interested in, as well as some others that I hadn't thought about, but am now looking forward to reading/working on. Good job, at least as far as I am concerned! Quinn ░ RAIN 17:58, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Where can I get the source code? user:BrxBrx 15:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
For those of us who do much vandalism-fighting, it would be nice if they weren't used (or if there was an option for them not to be used, since some people may be using the minor-edit flag for other types of edits). My minor edits are rather random... Thanks! Allens ( talk | contribs) 17:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mir Almaat 1 S1 ( talk • contribs) 13:11, 29 April 2012
I hope I'm not violating etiquette with this question: can the bot be exported to another wiki? We have a small (~15,000 article) sci-fi wiki, and I feel this would dove-tail well with our 50-some strong active membership. Please let me know.-- Revanche ( talk) 05:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
I want some football article suggestions for adding references references. I would love to add it if you suggest. ZZ47 ( talk) 10:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Please suggest. Thanks.
Legolover26 ( talk) 01:48, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Does SuggestBot pick up articles with copyedit tags (either alone or in {{ multiple issues}})? As a member of the GOCE, I'd love to have some suggestions on articles to copyedit. I'm also wondering on the articles needing references - if you're only going by "unreferenced" currently, you might want to also put in ones with both "notability" and "refimprove". Allens ( talk | contribs) 12:04, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
And about died when I saw Rape pornography is listed among the other articles LOL I have no idea what I have edited that would suggest I would enjoy editing that article. The other suggestions are pretty much spot on, thank you. Krystaleen ( talk) 15:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I've subscribed for suggestions awhile ago and there is no update in my talk page. Let me know when changes occur. Thanks! Nashu2k 13:54, 25 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nashu2k ( talk • contribs)
When it gives out the messages, icons like [[File:Green cross.svg|15 px]]
, it should as [[File:Green cross.svg|15 px|alt=|link=]]
.
extra999 (
talk)
01:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I like the new feature where suggestbot gives you some idea how much a page is visited. It helps me choose where to spend my time more wisely. When the study you are running is over will those of us enrolled automatically get a notice so we can read it? I'm kind of a numbers junkie, and I love reading those things. :) Thanks. Tlqk56 ( talk) 19:04, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
SuggestBot should expand its scope, currently it gives suggestions only articles. For example, if a user has been making lots of contributions in portals then it should also give links to portals. Or does this happen, what do you think? extra999 ( talk) 07:21, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I really enjoy using SuggestBot because it is really helpful. I just have one suggestion, when I edit one article I get suggestions from articles that have a similar name but nothing to do with the article I edited. For example, if I edit a Tracy Beaker article I get suggestions from an article named Dick Tracy. Is there a way to narrow it down to articles that do have something to do with the article I want. Androzaniamy ( talk) 10:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey, thanks! I'll make sure SuggestBot gets the oil in portions so everything keeps running smoothly, looks good so far *knocks on wood* Cheers, Nettrom ( talk) 20:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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The platinum banana for the most original and surprising Robot |
Always a pleasure to receive news from you. Best, Caleb Crabb 09:32, 26 July 2012 (UTC) |
I've been (pleasantly) surprised by the high readership marks given a lot of the recommendations I receive. I really didn't expect anyone was reading the type of articles I generally work on. I'd love more info on how those designations are arrived at. Is there a specific number of readers over time for each catagory, or what? Thanks. I always look forward to its suggestions, even though sometimes I don't have time to get to many of them. Tlqk56 ( talk) 19:23, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I've seen other people mentioning a read count/rating of some sort in the suggestions but for some reason the suggestions I've gotten have never included such a thing, do I need to opt-in or something? Thanks in advance! Krystaleen 17:37, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Query: Why did SuggestBot recently make the suggestion of adding source to Fungus, when that is a featured article with countless sources already listed? What triggered the suggestion? -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 06:21, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The newest "Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot" posting was added incorrectly. Instead of being appended to my talk page, it was appended to a separate page (
User:Richwales/Tabs/TalkBanner), which I transclude at the top of my talk page. Any idea why this happened? Can the problem please be fixed? I moved the posting to where it should have been put to begin with, but I don't want to have to keep doing that every time. —
Rich
wales
01:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I would like to be in this study, please.-- Lucky102 ( talk) 20:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that on User talk:Hahc21's talk page, SuggestBot doesn't leave all that stuff - the stars and the icons in a huge table. Is there anyway SuggestBot could not leave that stuff on my page and make like Hahc21's? Please?
Thanks, MathewTownsend ( talk) 19:39, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot’s recommendations. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information in the consent information sheet.
We have added information about the readership and quality of the suggested articles using a Low/Medium/High scale. For readership the scale goes from Low
to High
, while for quality the scale goes from Low
to High
.
My suggestions have nothing for the olympics/paralimpics...considering i updated a whole bunch there should be some. Lihaas ( talk) 12:22, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi SuggestBot! How's tricks? Please help me. At the stage of completing 11 months on Wikipedia, I have nothing much to do on Wikipedia. Please suggest anything. Anything suitable for me. My interests are Indian history, Indian soap opera and a bit of mythology. Thank you. -- Tamravidhir ( Jiva is Shiva!) 15:13, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest}}
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|Category:Indian soap opera actors}}
Are there any plans to expand this into other languages? I am thinking specifically Portuguese. GoEThe ( talk) 14:21, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Nettrom / Suggestbot.
Is it possible that I would be able to get Suggestbot to send his weekly suggestions to this custom made sandbox rather than on my talk page or would that be a limitation? Many thanks. MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 21:18, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
could you have this bot add a category to this template, inside of some <noinclude>...</noinclude>
tags? this will keep it out of the list of uncategorized templates.
Frietjes (
talk)
00:01, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mr Suggest Bot:). if i ask you to give me this code for running in fawiki you accepted? if you do this, is very helpful for fawiki. thanks.:)
Mahdi
talk
12:09, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Is is possible to run it in Hungarian Wikipedia? What does it need: someone who port the code, or just translation? I can translate but I cannot code. You may ask about the interests here: hu:Wikipédia:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok) (with "uj szakasz+"). Misibacsi ( talk) 07:38, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I think there is enough interested editors in Hungarian Wikipedia: hu:Wikipédia:Kocsmafal (javaslatok)#Suggestbot. I guess I can help in text translation, just tell me how. Misibacsi ( talk) 06:56, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
I tried placing {{User:SuggestBot/suggest}} on my usertalk page, but it's been almost a full day and I didn't get anything. The only issue I can think of is that I didn't give the line its own header. Could that be a problem? -- YPN YPN ✡ 21:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to stop receiving suggestions from the SuggestBot. How do I do that? Thanks, AFisch99 ( talk) 15:44, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I added a SuggestBot template at User:Ongepotchket/Suggestions and have not yet received them. Thanks. :) -- Ongepotchket ( talk) 08:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I saw SuggestBot's message on another user's page make an entry with colorful plus signs grading the urgency, but when I got my message, it was just a plain text without any urgency grading. That user uses User:SuggestBot/config, but without any parameter that would explain the difference, while I used User:SuggestBot/suggest. Is the default different? — Sebastian 15:46, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Do you think you could run this bot on Commons? Maybe for places to take pictures of or tasks to do? Mono 00:27, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Sure, sign me up! And thanks for all the suggestions over the years :) Matthewedwards ( talk · contribs) 02:34, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
I would also like to help out. :) Arctic Kangaroo 17:41, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm up for it.-- Mjs1991 ( talk) 04:54, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Yep me too, cheers! Basket Feudalist 15:20, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
me too :) DrunkSquirrel ( talk) 22:51, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Sing me up. Stuartyeates ( talk) 08:29, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Sure, I'll try it out! Ethraen ( talk) 14:55, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Sign me up as well please! - down load ׀ talk 19:12, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
I'll do it too. - Camyoung54 talk 00:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Another volunteer here :) Rushton2010 ( talk) 01:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Count me in please.-- ukexpat ( talk) 12:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Ooh! C'mon! Pick me! Ooh!
Diego (
talk)
13:24, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, Nettrom, but I don't think I've got the link on my talk page yet. Thanks, Tary123 ( talk) 08:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
SuggestBot is great!
Thanks,
Anand (
talk page)
18:31, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
This is a very good bot. Thanks! Thus Spake Lee Tru. 19:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
Excellent changes! The new design is much much better! -- Tito Dutta ( contact) 17:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC) |
I was checking the suggestions
User_talk:Titodutta#Articles_you_might_like_to_edit.2C_from_SuggestBot. I can not understand what does "Images " mean! --
Tito Dutta (
contact)
18:01, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Anyway, that was a bit confusing. In case if you allow me here are some feedback (mostly unhelpful, I guess)
Suggestbot's suggestion was
Views/Day | Quality | Title | Content | Headings | Images | Links | Sources | Tagged with… |
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Subarnarekha (film) ( talk) |
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Stub |
But, really the recent changes are very helpful. I have made some changes in the suggestion. Note, these are my own opinion, I can understand some of these might be impossible (specially the MoS errors I have mentioned), still—
Title | Content | Quality | Maintenance tags | Views/Day | Headings | Images | Links | Sources | Dablink | MoS error | Major issue |
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Subarnarekha (film) | 5,826 bytes |
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{{ Refimprove}}, 2 inline {{ Citation needed}} (not applicable, for example) | 39 | ![]() 7 sections |
1 image NF | 14 wikilinks (did not count, rough guess) | 3 citations 0 dead links | 1 ( Fix) (not applicable, for example) | 2 ( WP:ORDER, MOS:HEAD) (not applicable, for example) |
add sources Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
-- Tito Dutta ( contact) 22:02, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
I think your "images" column needs some adjustment. Jim Van Fossen is a stub/start biography (ranked as a "start-class" on the talk page, but with a stub template on the article at the time o assessment by SuggestBot) with the appropriate number of images - one, a portrait in the inobox. Why was it tagged as needing image help? Perhaps the infobox or the length of the election table's code conused the bot? – Philosopher Let us reason together. 07:02, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm confused — yesterday on my User Talk page there was a long SuggestBot message, similar to the kind that normally accompanies the suggestions, but there were no suggestions. Was this omission in error, or were you simply posting an explanation of the new design in advance of posting actual suggestions? Lawikitejana ( talk) 17:57, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, recently I have been requesting
SuggestBot to suggest articles related to Singapore butterflies for me to edit by placing {{
User:SuggestBot/suggest|Category:Butterflies of Singapore}}
on my talk page. However, it keeps on suggesting articles which are either not related to the topic, or articles about butterflies not in the category. Could I know how this one-time suggestion works? Cheers.
Arctic Kangaroo (
✉ •
✎)
08:26, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I was suggested some pages to edit yesterday. I did find it helpful and Thank you for making & taking care of such a bot. Now to the main topic for which I came here. Some articles which SuggestBot had recommended but I had no interest in editing them were - Moskovskaya Line, Institut Kultury (Minsk Metro), Park Chelyuskintsev (Minsk Metro), Ploshchad Lenina (Minsk Metro) and 2012 Novak Djokovic tennis season. I think, the Minsk Metro articles were recommend because of my edits to 2 newly created Minsk Metro station which I had actually made while reviewing them. I have no interest in these. Let me tell you what I think you must do.
1. Make a list of all WikiProjects (excluding those which are specifically for Wikipedia related topics/issues) at a subpage of User:SuggestBot, in the same way as at Wikipedia:Feedback request service.
2. Now it's time to communicate with those people who want SuggestBot to recommend articles.
3. Now make the required changes in SuggestBot's configuration so that almost 75% articles suggested are from the topics user's want. All the articles will surely have been tagged with at-least one WikiProject on it's talk page. Those articles can be recommended which have been rated & added to the category Stub-class, Star-class, C-class or B-class.
I believe that if this method is followed, it would be better. I hope that these suggestions were useful to you. Thanks. Regards. - Jayadevp 13 05:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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I love the new format!!! Panpog1 ( talk) 01:20, 6 June 2013 (UTC) |
Pardon me for pulling this back to the left margin. Thanks for elaborating, turns out we were thinking along the same lines all along! When it comes to number of articles per category, perhaps also which categories we serve articles from, I had that exact same idea when I was finalising setting up the new layout. The idea has been around for a while, it comes up from time to time, but making it happen was partly complicated by our old layout with two columns. It's now all rows in a table, which should make it easier to allow the kind of configurability you describe. As we plan to gather some feedback on the new design later this summer, I'd like to leave the current configuration until after Wikimania, to make sure we know everyone has seen the same thing, and then look into a way of making it more configurable.
When it comes to filtering by popularity and/or the specific tasks, that's not as straightforward for us to do because our current data sources are slower to access. At the moment we only compute those once we've decided which 30 articles to suggest. It might be that I'll solve the popularity data problem as part of a related project I'm working on, so don't be surprised if that shows up all of a sudden. When it comes to the specific tasks it's easy for me to see projects where it would be relevant, but I'm not sure when we'll get around to it. So yeah, some of this is ideas I'll work on figuring out how to do. Thanks again! Regards, Nettrom ( talk) 16:05, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
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I probably mess up your results because I'm a combination of " my edits are narrowly targeted and planned ahead of time" and "totally spontaneous" (for that reason, I marked interested - I may get bored). Speaking of which, I must have done some editing of Intelligent Design articles recently - though I don't recall having done so, offhand. I did go through and re-assess all of the articles that weren't really stubs, even if I'm "not interested" in them, bumping one up to C-class! -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:07, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Key: - interesting,
I may work on it,
I'm definitely going to improve it significantly;
Unlikely that I'll expand it,
not interesting;
Don't know why it's on the list,
not a stub/cleanup/etc.
Using the above template use, as it looks more useful.
3 columns of or
or
Just giving you some suggestions on how to make SuggestBot better.
1. Can you introduce an option for SuggestBot to post on the talk page more than twice a month? Because I edit very frequently and a lot of things can happen in the timespace of two weeks. Maybe once a week will do.
2. Can you introduce a parameter for SuggestBot to make new suggestions starting with a level 3 header (i.e.===Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot===)? For instance:
If you want the bot to start recommendations with a level 3 header:
{{User:SuggestBot/config |frequency = once a week |replace |level 3 }}
If you don't want the bot to start recommendations with a level 3 header:
{{User:SuggestBot/config |frequency = once a week |replace }}
3. I think you should merge "Stubs" with "Expand" because they are pretty much the same thing. Also, you should introduce an "Add Images" recommendation section into SuggestBot posts. For instance:
Anyways, thank you for listening and I hope that you will implement some of these ideas in the near future. EpicWikipedian ( talk) 15:32, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I love the new format of the SuggestBot requests! But I was wondering, is there any way to run a viewership comparison like that on a set list(e.g. on a WikiProject, taskforce, or category's listings)? It could be good to know that so-and-so article is getting many more pageviews than the others like it, so maybe it should be fixed up first. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:32, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi just letting you know that this has worked well for me again, except for a few, all are pages that I would be happy to edit. It even has predicted which Tank is my favorite... Are you sure that this bot doen't read minds?R <laughter />... :) Starfleet Academy " Live long and prosper." 00:06, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
Actually....maybe some of the computer ones are related to my edits on CERO? That's the only thing I can think of. If so, then those shouldn't be added. Video games and general software stuff and the people who are of interest in each are generally 2 different types of people.
Hmm, is there a way we can customize our article list received? So it's all pages, say, from the tropical cyclone WikiProject? Thanks! HurricaneFan 25 14:13, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
Feedback format copied off Jinnai. Also, if SuggestBot didn't do to well for me, it's probably more because of my editing habits than anything else. Thanks! - Benzband ( talk) 17:41, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
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This is for treating the Wikipedia with such a good functionality!
Man this should be folk wisdom - something everyone should know about! DharavSolanki ( talk) 14:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC) |
The bot seems to give me suggestions based on pages I edit using Reflinks and articles for creation submissions I move into the mainspace and other semi-automated script tasks. Is there a way to filter out such edits so that users get suggestions that reflect their interests? — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 1:47pm • 03:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have just received some suggestions after requesting them.
One of the problems i found was that, since i am a vandal fighter using huggle/other tools, i think those articles are being taken into consideration. i would personally prefer if articles edited via vandal tools are kept out of the suggestion. PS: i haven't edited too many articles without them so there may not be suggestions for me.Still, wanted to try this Bot.
Arnavchaudhary ( talk) 20:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
It should also look at what you spend a lot of time doing. Rather than telling me what articles to expand-when I dislike expanding articles and never do it-it should tell me what articles to create-which I do much more frequently! Other than this...it's a great bot, although needs tweaking because not all of the suggestions were relevant to me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RDN1F ( talk • contribs) 19:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
I have signed up for a regular SuggestBot feed. Can I get a date somewhere prominent (top?) so I know when I received it? -- Greenmaven ( talk) 13:27, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
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I need to share one with you... because your suggestions keep me up all night! Cocoaguy ここがいい 03:43, 30 December 2011 (UTC) |
My suggestion were mostly correct. However some came up that i just would never edit. My thought is this come from when i use Igloo vandalism software. Is there a way to stop the bot looking at edits made with this software when recommending articles. Edinburgh Wanderer 21:04, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, quick question: does SB look for uncategorized pages? Because if it doesn't then that could be another section. Helpful to those with HC! :D Starfleet Academy Hail ML 01:44, 8 Mar, 2012 UTC
No problems. The suggestions were perfectly reasonable and gave me a bit more focus for my editing. Will use again. I even liked the fact that it threw up a couple of articles that I would never have looked at otherwise. I would like to be able to specify my activity type more effectively: stub expansion is my preferred task. Tigerboy1966 ( talk) 14:22, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
I hope I'm not violating etiquette with this question: can the bot be exported to another wiki? We have a small (~15,000 article) sci-fi wiki, and I feel this would dove-tail well with our 50-some strong active membership. Please let me know.-- Revanche ( talk) 05:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Just FYI, I saw suggest bot working on another user's talk page and decided to try it out. I have to say, the first round of suggestions were spot on, with a good mix of articles I am interested in, as well as some others that I hadn't thought about, but am now looking forward to reading/working on. Good job, at least as far as I am concerned! Quinn ░ RAIN 17:58, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Where can I get the source code? user:BrxBrx 15:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
For those of us who do much vandalism-fighting, it would be nice if they weren't used (or if there was an option for them not to be used, since some people may be using the minor-edit flag for other types of edits). My minor edits are rather random... Thanks! Allens ( talk | contribs) 17:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mir Almaat 1 S1 ( talk • contribs) 13:11, 29 April 2012
I hope I'm not violating etiquette with this question: can the bot be exported to another wiki? We have a small (~15,000 article) sci-fi wiki, and I feel this would dove-tail well with our 50-some strong active membership. Please let me know.-- Revanche ( talk) 05:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
I want some football article suggestions for adding references references. I would love to add it if you suggest. ZZ47 ( talk) 10:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Please suggest. Thanks.
Legolover26 ( talk) 01:48, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Does SuggestBot pick up articles with copyedit tags (either alone or in {{ multiple issues}})? As a member of the GOCE, I'd love to have some suggestions on articles to copyedit. I'm also wondering on the articles needing references - if you're only going by "unreferenced" currently, you might want to also put in ones with both "notability" and "refimprove". Allens ( talk | contribs) 12:04, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
And about died when I saw Rape pornography is listed among the other articles LOL I have no idea what I have edited that would suggest I would enjoy editing that article. The other suggestions are pretty much spot on, thank you. Krystaleen ( talk) 15:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I've subscribed for suggestions awhile ago and there is no update in my talk page. Let me know when changes occur. Thanks! Nashu2k 13:54, 25 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nashu2k ( talk • contribs)
When it gives out the messages, icons like [[File:Green cross.svg|15 px]]
, it should as [[File:Green cross.svg|15 px|alt=|link=]]
.
extra999 (
talk)
01:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I like the new feature where suggestbot gives you some idea how much a page is visited. It helps me choose where to spend my time more wisely. When the study you are running is over will those of us enrolled automatically get a notice so we can read it? I'm kind of a numbers junkie, and I love reading those things. :) Thanks. Tlqk56 ( talk) 19:04, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
SuggestBot should expand its scope, currently it gives suggestions only articles. For example, if a user has been making lots of contributions in portals then it should also give links to portals. Or does this happen, what do you think? extra999 ( talk) 07:21, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I really enjoy using SuggestBot because it is really helpful. I just have one suggestion, when I edit one article I get suggestions from articles that have a similar name but nothing to do with the article I edited. For example, if I edit a Tracy Beaker article I get suggestions from an article named Dick Tracy. Is there a way to narrow it down to articles that do have something to do with the article I want. Androzaniamy ( talk) 10:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey, thanks! I'll make sure SuggestBot gets the oil in portions so everything keeps running smoothly, looks good so far *knocks on wood* Cheers, Nettrom ( talk) 20:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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The platinum banana for the most original and surprising Robot |
Always a pleasure to receive news from you. Best, Caleb Crabb 09:32, 26 July 2012 (UTC) |
I've been (pleasantly) surprised by the high readership marks given a lot of the recommendations I receive. I really didn't expect anyone was reading the type of articles I generally work on. I'd love more info on how those designations are arrived at. Is there a specific number of readers over time for each catagory, or what? Thanks. I always look forward to its suggestions, even though sometimes I don't have time to get to many of them. Tlqk56 ( talk) 19:23, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I've seen other people mentioning a read count/rating of some sort in the suggestions but for some reason the suggestions I've gotten have never included such a thing, do I need to opt-in or something? Thanks in advance! Krystaleen 17:37, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Query: Why did SuggestBot recently make the suggestion of adding source to Fungus, when that is a featured article with countless sources already listed? What triggered the suggestion? -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 06:21, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The newest "Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot" posting was added incorrectly. Instead of being appended to my talk page, it was appended to a separate page (
User:Richwales/Tabs/TalkBanner), which I transclude at the top of my talk page. Any idea why this happened? Can the problem please be fixed? I moved the posting to where it should have been put to begin with, but I don't want to have to keep doing that every time. —
Rich
wales
01:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I would like to be in this study, please.-- Lucky102 ( talk) 20:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that on User talk:Hahc21's talk page, SuggestBot doesn't leave all that stuff - the stars and the icons in a huge table. Is there anyway SuggestBot could not leave that stuff on my page and make like Hahc21's? Please?
Thanks, MathewTownsend ( talk) 19:39, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot’s recommendations. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information in the consent information sheet.
We have added information about the readership and quality of the suggested articles using a Low/Medium/High scale. For readership the scale goes from Low
to High
, while for quality the scale goes from Low
to High
.
My suggestions have nothing for the olympics/paralimpics...considering i updated a whole bunch there should be some. Lihaas ( talk) 12:22, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi SuggestBot! How's tricks? Please help me. At the stage of completing 11 months on Wikipedia, I have nothing much to do on Wikipedia. Please suggest anything. Anything suitable for me. My interests are Indian history, Indian soap opera and a bit of mythology. Thank you. -- Tamravidhir ( Jiva is Shiva!) 15:13, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest}}
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|Category:Indian soap opera actors}}
Are there any plans to expand this into other languages? I am thinking specifically Portuguese. GoEThe ( talk) 14:21, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Greetings Nettrom / Suggestbot.
Is it possible that I would be able to get Suggestbot to send his weekly suggestions to this custom made sandbox rather than on my talk page or would that be a limitation? Many thanks. MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 21:18, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
could you have this bot add a category to this template, inside of some <noinclude>...</noinclude>
tags? this will keep it out of the list of uncategorized templates.
Frietjes (
talk)
00:01, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Mr Suggest Bot:). if i ask you to give me this code for running in fawiki you accepted? if you do this, is very helpful for fawiki. thanks.:)
Mahdi
talk
12:09, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Is is possible to run it in Hungarian Wikipedia? What does it need: someone who port the code, or just translation? I can translate but I cannot code. You may ask about the interests here: hu:Wikipédia:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok) (with "uj szakasz+"). Misibacsi ( talk) 07:38, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I think there is enough interested editors in Hungarian Wikipedia: hu:Wikipédia:Kocsmafal (javaslatok)#Suggestbot. I guess I can help in text translation, just tell me how. Misibacsi ( talk) 06:56, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
I tried placing {{User:SuggestBot/suggest}} on my usertalk page, but it's been almost a full day and I didn't get anything. The only issue I can think of is that I didn't give the line its own header. Could that be a problem? -- YPN YPN ✡ 21:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to stop receiving suggestions from the SuggestBot. How do I do that? Thanks, AFisch99 ( talk) 15:44, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I added a SuggestBot template at User:Ongepotchket/Suggestions and have not yet received them. Thanks. :) -- Ongepotchket ( talk) 08:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I saw SuggestBot's message on another user's page make an entry with colorful plus signs grading the urgency, but when I got my message, it was just a plain text without any urgency grading. That user uses User:SuggestBot/config, but without any parameter that would explain the difference, while I used User:SuggestBot/suggest. Is the default different? — Sebastian 15:46, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Do you think you could run this bot on Commons? Maybe for places to take pictures of or tasks to do? Mono 00:27, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Sure, sign me up! And thanks for all the suggestions over the years :) Matthewedwards ( talk · contribs) 02:34, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
I would also like to help out. :) Arctic Kangaroo 17:41, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm up for it.-- Mjs1991 ( talk) 04:54, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Yep me too, cheers! Basket Feudalist 15:20, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
me too :) DrunkSquirrel ( talk) 22:51, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Sing me up. Stuartyeates ( talk) 08:29, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Sure, I'll try it out! Ethraen ( talk) 14:55, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Sign me up as well please! - down load ׀ talk 19:12, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
I'll do it too. - Camyoung54 talk 00:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Another volunteer here :) Rushton2010 ( talk) 01:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Count me in please.-- ukexpat ( talk) 12:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Ooh! C'mon! Pick me! Ooh!
Diego (
talk)
13:24, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, Nettrom, but I don't think I've got the link on my talk page yet. Thanks, Tary123 ( talk) 08:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
SuggestBot is great!
Thanks,
Anand (
talk page)
18:31, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
This is a very good bot. Thanks! Thus Spake Lee Tru. 19:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
Excellent changes! The new design is much much better! -- Tito Dutta ( contact) 17:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC) |
I was checking the suggestions
User_talk:Titodutta#Articles_you_might_like_to_edit.2C_from_SuggestBot. I can not understand what does "Images " mean! --
Tito Dutta (
contact)
18:01, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Anyway, that was a bit confusing. In case if you allow me here are some feedback (mostly unhelpful, I guess)
Suggestbot's suggestion was
Views/Day | Quality | Title | Content | Headings | Images | Links | Sources | Tagged with… |
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39 |
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Subarnarekha (film) ( talk) |
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Stub |
But, really the recent changes are very helpful. I have made some changes in the suggestion. Note, these are my own opinion, I can understand some of these might be impossible (specially the MoS errors I have mentioned), still—
Title | Content | Quality | Maintenance tags | Views/Day | Headings | Images | Links | Sources | Dablink | MoS error | Major issue |
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Subarnarekha (film) | 5,826 bytes |
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{{ Refimprove}}, 2 inline {{ Citation needed}} (not applicable, for example) | 39 | ![]() 7 sections |
1 image NF | 14 wikilinks (did not count, rough guess) | 3 citations 0 dead links | 1 ( Fix) (not applicable, for example) | 2 ( WP:ORDER, MOS:HEAD) (not applicable, for example) |
add sources Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
-- Tito Dutta ( contact) 22:02, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
I think your "images" column needs some adjustment. Jim Van Fossen is a stub/start biography (ranked as a "start-class" on the talk page, but with a stub template on the article at the time o assessment by SuggestBot) with the appropriate number of images - one, a portrait in the inobox. Why was it tagged as needing image help? Perhaps the infobox or the length of the election table's code conused the bot? – Philosopher Let us reason together. 07:02, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm confused — yesterday on my User Talk page there was a long SuggestBot message, similar to the kind that normally accompanies the suggestions, but there were no suggestions. Was this omission in error, or were you simply posting an explanation of the new design in advance of posting actual suggestions? Lawikitejana ( talk) 17:57, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, recently I have been requesting
SuggestBot to suggest articles related to Singapore butterflies for me to edit by placing {{
User:SuggestBot/suggest|Category:Butterflies of Singapore}}
on my talk page. However, it keeps on suggesting articles which are either not related to the topic, or articles about butterflies not in the category. Could I know how this one-time suggestion works? Cheers.
Arctic Kangaroo (
✉ •
✎)
08:26, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I was suggested some pages to edit yesterday. I did find it helpful and Thank you for making & taking care of such a bot. Now to the main topic for which I came here. Some articles which SuggestBot had recommended but I had no interest in editing them were - Moskovskaya Line, Institut Kultury (Minsk Metro), Park Chelyuskintsev (Minsk Metro), Ploshchad Lenina (Minsk Metro) and 2012 Novak Djokovic tennis season. I think, the Minsk Metro articles were recommend because of my edits to 2 newly created Minsk Metro station which I had actually made while reviewing them. I have no interest in these. Let me tell you what I think you must do.
1. Make a list of all WikiProjects (excluding those which are specifically for Wikipedia related topics/issues) at a subpage of User:SuggestBot, in the same way as at Wikipedia:Feedback request service.
2. Now it's time to communicate with those people who want SuggestBot to recommend articles.
3. Now make the required changes in SuggestBot's configuration so that almost 75% articles suggested are from the topics user's want. All the articles will surely have been tagged with at-least one WikiProject on it's talk page. Those articles can be recommended which have been rated & added to the category Stub-class, Star-class, C-class or B-class.
I believe that if this method is followed, it would be better. I hope that these suggestions were useful to you. Thanks. Regards. - Jayadevp 13 05:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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I love the new format!!! Panpog1 ( talk) 01:20, 6 June 2013 (UTC) |
Pardon me for pulling this back to the left margin. Thanks for elaborating, turns out we were thinking along the same lines all along! When it comes to number of articles per category, perhaps also which categories we serve articles from, I had that exact same idea when I was finalising setting up the new layout. The idea has been around for a while, it comes up from time to time, but making it happen was partly complicated by our old layout with two columns. It's now all rows in a table, which should make it easier to allow the kind of configurability you describe. As we plan to gather some feedback on the new design later this summer, I'd like to leave the current configuration until after Wikimania, to make sure we know everyone has seen the same thing, and then look into a way of making it more configurable.
When it comes to filtering by popularity and/or the specific tasks, that's not as straightforward for us to do because our current data sources are slower to access. At the moment we only compute those once we've decided which 30 articles to suggest. It might be that I'll solve the popularity data problem as part of a related project I'm working on, so don't be surprised if that shows up all of a sudden. When it comes to the specific tasks it's easy for me to see projects where it would be relevant, but I'm not sure when we'll get around to it. So yeah, some of this is ideas I'll work on figuring out how to do. Thanks again! Regards, Nettrom ( talk) 16:05, 21 June 2013 (UTC)