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before the question. Again, welcome! Rettetast (talk) 18:36, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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SuggestBot
Hello. I read on this page that you are SuggestBot's caretaker. I wanted to find out when the next suggestions will be posted. Do you have any idea? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Syed Kazim (talk • contribs) 22:14, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
- We're making good progress with our data import, it currently looks like we'll be ready around June 1. From then on we should be able to send out suggestions at regular intervals like we've been doing on Norwegian wikipedia, thus getting to both those signed up for one-time suggestions as well as all our regulars. Nettrom (talk) 00:50, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping.
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker.
P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot (talk) 14:49, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Feedback
Hello, just a suggestion for SuggestBot (hmm. ironic) - Maybe the bot should see if a user edits alot of article in a certain area or city (by geocoordinates on articles) and suggest improving articles about things in these areas - thereby suggesting that the user add to articles which they would be interested in or know about. Ex. I edit Horner Junior High School, James Leitch Elementary School, and Fremont, California alot, so the bot might guess that I live in Fremont (and possibly that I like editing about schools) and suggest I edit Irvington High School. |:-) ~ QwerpQwertus ·_Contact Me_·· 03:33, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
- The way SuggestBot is built makes it likely that it'll catch some of those trends in what people edit. One example is comparing edit histories, it'll find other users who've also edited those articles, and because they're likely to have edited additional articles within the same area (because for instance users tend to edit what they know), the bot will recommend some of those to you. With that being said, we are planning to look into if doing additional categorization before recommending articles makes the suggestions "better". So we were thinking along those lines but hadn't thought of geographic data, which is a really cool idea, thanks for suggesting it! Nettrom (talk) 15:40, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
SuggestBot...
is hilarious. :D JJ (talk) 21:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- That's definitely one I'll keep around as an example of things working a little too well :D Thanks for being a good sport and seeing the humour in this! It's now on my list of things to look into for future improvements. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 14:56, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
SuggestBot feedback
Wow, I have to say that SuggestBot has improved vastly since last time I tried it - It's no longer fixated on my vandalism reversions, and the result is great. Thanks, decltype
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This SuggestBot is scary because it suggests different articles for different people. It is as if it is telling people, don't look up porn stars, sex articles, or Nazi articles because then I, the bot, will embarrass you by suggesting you write on porn or sex or Nazi articles. Please stop this. Gary Calgary 20 August 2010 03:42 UTC —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gary Calgary (talk • contribs) 03:42, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
- We have absolutely no knowledge of what articles specific people read on Wikipedia, and can therefore not suggest articles based on what they search for. Instead we look at the articles you've edited, as we also point out in the text surrounding the list of articles we recommend. In the current study we will only post once to your user talk page, so you won't see any more suggestions from us. Also note that your user talk page can be edited like any other Wikipedia article, so feel free to remove our recommendations if you find them bothering. It's your user talk page, so you're the one in charge there. Let me know if I failed to address your concerns. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 13:29, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Regular List
I have changed my preference on the SuggestBot Regulars list from once a month to twice a month. - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 14:50, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Error
Hello! The indefinitely blocked user Raven in Orbit is not listed here, yet still he gets the "Articles you might like to edit" feed every month by the SuggestBot. Could you try and figure out why your bot does that and remove him from that list (if there is an invicible one)? /81.232.86.231 (talk) 15:28, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
- The user was listed as a regular, but is now removed, thanks for letting me know about this! I've also added a note to check for things like this before posting suggestions in the future, as it's a simple change to make to our software. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:39, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey
Thanks for the advice, it really helps, but to be honest, I'm new to this, and I still don't understand how to wikify it with the lay out, it's like I tried uploading the picture of the cover and of course putting up screenshot, and I need to find an easier way to put up with the layouts, can you give me an easy example on how I put up with the layout on the right that has info on it? (comment by SC3nutter (talk) moved here by Nettrom (talk) 13:12, 11 September 2010 (UTC))
- Wikifying simply means to look for relevant articles to link to, based on the text in your article. The first sentence of the Retro Force article is "Retro Force is a Shoot-'em up game that is created and published by Psygnosis Ltd." which you can wikify by linking to the Shooter game and SCE Studio Liverpool articles like this: "Retro Force is a [[Shooter game#Shoot 'em up|Shoot-'em up game]] that is created and published by [[SCE Studio Liverpoo|Psygnosis Ltd]]." As WP:EFAQ#LINK explains, all you need to link to an article is the double brackets. I use the pipe symbol ("|") to replace the text used for the link, and that's it.
- The layout your talking about is known as an infobox, and there is a particular one for video games available on Template:Infobox video game. I don't know how difficult it is to use as I've never added an infobox to an article, and as I don't usually edit video game articles I do not know what kind of conventions are used in that infobox. Turns out you can experiment with it in the infobox video game sandbox, and there are some test cases available to show examples of how it is used. If it's confusing to you I suggest asking for help on the WikiProject Video games talk page as they'll probably have more knowledge about doing this than me. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 13:46, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, this really helps, cheers, SC3nutter —Preceding undated comment added 16:19, 12 September 2010 (UTC).
SuggestBot Feedback
Hiya Nettrom, with SuggestBot it's been giving me article suggestions from topics, of which the articles I edited were only those that had issues such as needing wikification for example. It seems the bot analyses every edit, wouldn't it be better if the bot analysed edits that didn't consitute say {{Multiple issues}} or {{cleanup}} to name a few? Since it really isn't analysing real content work. Regards, Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм | Champagne? 11:27, 16 September 2010 (UTC) PS. Also if the bot analysed a user's edit summary that would provide a better end-result, so if the edit summary contained tagged, or adding {{one source}} for example it would ignore those contributions. Keep up the good work with the development of the bot and I wish you well in your research. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм | Champagne? 11:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the comments! We currently filter out minor edits and reverts, because so much of that is work that doesn't really constitute an interest in the article, so they will not contribute to the suggestions you receive. Your examples should probably also be something we check for, so I've made a note to look into that. Similarly to anti-vandal work, it should not be regarded as the kind of edits that define what your interests are. Thanks again for the feedback, it's appreciated, and I look forward to sending you some improved suggestions in the future! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
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- Oh ok, you're welcome glad to help :) —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 03:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
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Cleanup on SuggestBot regulars
No problem. I wish I have time to go through every single one of the user on the list and remove those that are inactive, say no edits for a year or longer. OhanaUnitedTalk page 20:18, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
- I already have a program that goes through the list of regulars, I'll update it so it also lets me know who hasn't been editing in a while. A year should be a good indicator. So no need to do this manually, thanks for giving me the idea! Nettrom (talk) 20:43, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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- That's what I thought too, but I don't have the technical abilities to make computers complete tasks for me. Anyways, I removed 2 more off the list because they changed their usernames. OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:31, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you
I think suggest bot was a great idea.. hopefully, although I have a huge number of photographs I'm uploading and placing, and the other articles I create and edit won't make it impractical! I hope that's not a problem? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:44, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
- It might lead to some suggestions that makes you wonder what the bot is thinking. We use your contribution history (last 500 edits in main namespace with reverts and minor edits removed) as an indicator of what you find interesting, and in your case that might not truly reflect your interests, leading to suggestions that are not really articles you will edit. I do not think I've come across users who contribute and edit mainly with regards to media (photo/sound/video) on Wikipedia, and the bot might not currently be well-suited for this. I'd be really interested to know what you think about the suggestions, were they good, mostly uninteresting, or somewhere in between? Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 17:35, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
suggestbot
I thought your bot add suggest feedback every week or month, that's sad. Regards.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- You're absolutely right, and I am sorry for not keeping up with my commitments (things have been somewhat hectic here the past few weeks). I'll make sure the suggestions are posted within a few days. We are also going to switch to a template-based configuration system in the near future, and then the bot will run automatically so I won't have the problem of forgetting this again. :) Thanks again for the reminder! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 20:40, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Christmas Card
Happy 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia!
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re: template`
just wondering if thayt post has to be there all the time. ie- when archivingshould it stay on the main page?Lihaas (talk) 19:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Well, yes and no. If you don't want to have it on your user talk page, you can move it to your user page, or remove it and use the userbox on your user page instead, either of those will make SuggestBot post to your user talk page. You can also create a sub-page in your userpage, e.g. User:Lihaas/SuggestBot and add the config template there, and the suggestions will be posted there instead. Did that help? Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 01:31, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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- All you need to move is the template reference, which I added to the top of your user talk page. It looks like this:
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{{User:SuggestBot/config |frequency = once a month }}
Juve10
Nope, no questions at all, but I just wanted to say thanks. Suggest Box has been great and it has been a great addition to this project. Thanks again Juve10 (talk) 23:09, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
- You're most welcome, and thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate that! :) Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 17:43, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
Thankyou very much! Aaroncrick TALK 09:27, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Note
Just a note to tell you that all your hard work is appreciated. I found The Bot's list a bit overwhelming, but as an avowed (talk page stalker) I will grab an article once in while from my favs. Did Tremper High School today. It is shaping up. ;-) Namaste... Thanks again. — DocOfSoc • Talk • 03:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Had a look at the Tremper HS article, great work! And thanks so much for the kind words, they're greatly appreciated! I can understand that getting 36 article suggestions can be a bit overwhelming, sounds like you've found a good way to get around that. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Ditto DocOfSoc's appreciation. I've been signed up to get the suggestions for a while and enjoy seeing the "customized variety" of articles it suggests. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 12:36, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Suggestion
Hi Nettrom, great with SuggestBot. I'd like to make a few suggestions about which edits SuggestBot uses to make suggestions after analysis. As I work at FFU quite a lot I have to add uploaded files to their relevant article, most of the time that's the only edit I'll ever make to the article. It's giving me suggestions for these articles and I was wondering if you could modify SuggestBot so that edits where a file is added are ignored by the bot? Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 7:01pm • 08:01, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know about this problem! I've started to look into it, as this is clearly edits that appear to affect the suggestions in a negative way. We do filter out minor edits when we recommend articles, but from looking at your contributions it seems clear that calling these edits "minor" wouldn't be appropriate. I've also thought about whether it would be reasonable to use some type of standardized edit comments for those FFU-based edits (as it's easy for us to filter based on edit comments), but don't think that'll solve anything unless the edits are done with tools that'll write all or parts of the edit comments for you. So it does sound like I'll have to see if I can make SuggestBot start to analyse the actual edits that are made. Don't know exactly how much time that will take, but it's doable. :)
- Thanks again for pointing out this problem to me. Might be that I'll get in touch when I have a possible solution to ask you to test it. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 17:10, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing, well I use the edit summary "Adding image to article". I'd be willing to participate in tests if you want. Thanks for the timely response :) especially considering how busy you are. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:11am • 23:11, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Say hi Ling 1701
I'm giving a lecture right now. 134.84.44.124 (talk) 15:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
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Question
How do you type (|)? I know its a stupid question, but " There's no such thing as a stupid question but the're the easiest to answer. " PS: I copy-pasted Abc9100 (talk) 22:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- How you type it will depend on the layout of your keyboard. On my standard English/US keyboard, it's the key marked "\", and you hold down the Shift key at the same time to get "|". I don't really know many other keyboard layouts, so it might be that you'll have to google a bit to find the one that's right for your keyboard. If you're wondering about keyboard layouts, I noticed Wikipedia's got a substantial article on the subject. Hope this helps, let me know if it didn't. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 14:45, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Suggest a bot
Hi, I need to know if you or your bot sent me an email this morning and if this did happen I need an explanation of what you or the bot is talking about. Feel free to email me about this. Thank you in advance, --CrohnieGalTalk 12:04, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- Clicking one of the difs removed my talk page from my watchlist. I don't know what is going on with this email so I am taking this to AN/i to see if others are receiving this email. --CrohnieGalTalk 12:17, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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- I'm sorry, everything is alright now. The AN/i report helped me out with what it was all about. Again, I feel really stupid about this and I do apologize. Sorry, --CrohnieGalTalk 13:46, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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- Hey, no worries, I'm happy to hear it got sorted out. I checked out the AN/i thread about it, and was surprised to learn why this had happened, and I totally understand the confusion it must have created. You were perfectly right in getting in touch with me, sorry that I couldn't respond earlier, it's still kind of early on a Monday morning here. Again, glad to hear it got sorted out, and I hope you find our suggestions useful! Let me know if there's anything else :) Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:07, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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SuggestBot
Hey, suggestbot placed its recommendations in my archive. Are you able to fix that? For now I will just copy and past it back into my main area. Ryan Vesey (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- Ahh, I think I see what I did. Earlier I had the template placed on my talk page. Later I placed it on my user page. Thanks. Ryan Vesey (talk) 16:24, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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- I see now, you've got the userbox on your user page. Because the config template has priority, the bot ended up posting the suggestions to your archive. I inadvertently moved the config template to your user talk page, but now removed it again. From now on the bot will use the configuration of the userbox, so it'll give you suggestions twice a month on your user talk page (unless you decide to change it). Let me know if there's anything else. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:34, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
SuggestBot on local MediaWiki
Hi, I have recently installed a local intranet based mediawiki instance for my team (at my workplace). Can I get suggestbot working for that wiki ?? Is this piece of code open source ? in public domain ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by S raghu20 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
- I'll respond to this over on User talk:SuggestBot. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:49, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Using SuggestBot for newcomers
Hello,
I saw your edits on Swedish Wikipedia, and being a Wikimedia Fellow with the job of helping people who have just created their accounts, I wondered if SuggestBot could be modified to suit newcomers as well. Right now, we are among other things testing a new account creation process that asks the newcomers what their interest and their skill is and then give you suggestions based on what you answer. That list and the others are compiled manually based on different to-do lists. Unfortunally, they need to be updated constantly, as the articles are fixed. The point is, to make that solution scalable, it would be good to automatically update those lists. That's where SuggestBot comes in. I noticed that on the user page it says that you previously had a random setting, but that you removed it because nobody used it. Can you make it random, within a specified to-do category, such as stubs? Can you also make it random, within a specified topic? And finally, combine these two?
Best wishes//Hannibal (talk) 13:30, 13 June 2011 (UTC) (who writes here in English, because there are my bosses to consider :-) )
- Hi, I thought I'd start out by mentioning that I recently had a fairly long conversation with one of the incoming Summer of Research (SofR) participants, Jtmorgan, about improving the new user experience, and also how SuggestBot could be a part of that. As far as I understand he's planning to work on this as his SofR project, so it would be worthwhile to get in touch with him and coordinate to make sure that we're not duplicating efforts, and also that we get some good research out of it.
- That being said, the answers to your three questions are all "yes". We would have to write some solutions to gather the data and keep it up-to-date, and some web services so you can suggest articles to users on demand, but it's all doable.
- I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Maybe you could get in touch with User:Jtmorgan so we can start coordinating? Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Ad:User:SuggestBot
Is it open source? I am interested in introducing this bot into plwiki. Bulwersator (talk) 16:07, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, unfortunately it's currently not open source. The bot is part of a research project, and we have not yet had the resources available to look into if/how it could be made available. We are running it now on three different Wikipedias (en/no/sv), and if the plwiki community are interested in getting SuggestBot running on plwiki, I'd be happy to collaborate on making that happen (I'd need some help with translations). Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 19:47, 8 July 2011 (UTC)