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==Welcome from [[User:EWS23|EWS23]]==

Hey- I saw your edit at [[Wikipedia talk:Welcoming committee]], and was surprised to see that you had never been welcomed yourself! Please accept my welcome below. :o) Also, it's great to see a fellow tuba player on the project- assuming I'm not extrapolating too much from your user name, of course.

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Hello {{PAGENAME}}! My name is Eric, and it is my pleasure to be the first to [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|welcome]] you to Wikipedia! I hope you will decide to stay a long time and help us continue to make this one of the greatest sites on the world wide web. Here are a few useful links for you to explore:
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[[User:EWS23|EWS23]] | [[User talk:EWS23|(Leave me a message!)]] 17:03, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

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==Thanks for the note==
Hi [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]], thanks for the note of encouragement left on my [[User_talk:Phaedrus86|talk page]], and sorry for the slow reply. I do keep my finger on the pulse and I do intend to work on more articles, its just that at present I am just too darn busy on non-Wikipedia work. Regards
[[User:Phaedrus86|Phaedrus86]] 12:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

==Thanks for the note==
Hi ForteTuba, Thanks for lefting a note on [[User:Da Vinci]] talk page, actually this's my account which I created when I forgot the password for my first account here, Mido then forgot also Mido ar :S, then finally I managed to find out Mido ar's pass and it was better for me to choose this one to use, as for the articles, I won't make much work here indeed but I'll concentrate on Egyptian related articles, I'm currently a sysop on the Arabic wikipedia which needs alot of work now. any further comments, I'd be happy to receive it on my [[User_talk:Mido ar|talk page]] --[[User:Mido ar|Mido]] 01:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

== Happy Spring celebration / Easter (as your preferences and beliefs dictate) ==

[[Image:JellyBellyPile.JPG|thumb|left|Here's hoping that if the bunny leaves you any beans they're this kind! <font color="green">[[User:Lar/Esperanza|+]]</font>+[[User:Lar|Lar]]: [[User_talk:Lar|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/Lar|c]] 15:37, 16 April 2006 (UTC) ]]
: Heh, thanks.  The bunnies were mostly absent this year, it's a pretty busy time for everyone around the house, but thanks for the well-wishes.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks & Idea ==

Thanks for the suggestions, they are pretty accurate! I had an idea for a helpful tool and you seemed like just the guy to help me figure out if its feasible. Wikipedia has 40,000+ articles without categories, adding the categories is a slow manual process. I was thinking that by examining the links on the page a "reccomended categories" list could be built that would then allow a human user to simply pick the best ones. What do you think, is it feasible, and if so think it would be fast enough to be usefull? -[[User:Ravedave|Ravedave]] 17:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
: Sweet that they're useful.  As for the categories: yes, I think it would not be hard to come up with at least reasonable candidate categories.  The DB keeps a list of page links and of category links that would be pretty handy.  No idea on speed; things are pretty slow on our copy here and I haven't been able to get access to the toolserver.  

:Here's a little something-something that appears to suggest reasonable categories for [[Agder]].   The basic idea is to find all the pages that Agder links to, count the categories that _those_ pages link to, and present a list of the most common categories.  You can add a limit clause to the query to only show, say, the top 5 or 10 categories for a page.  You might also want to look at pages that link _to_ the page in question, but I don't have a jiffy query for that.

 mysql>  select cl_to, count(cl_to) c from categorylinks, pagelinks, page p1, page p2 where
 cl_from=p1.page_id and p1.page_title=pl_title and p1.page_namespace=0 and p2.page_namespace=0 and
 pl_from=p2.page_id and p2.page_title="Agder" group by cl_to order by c desc;
 +-----------------------------+---+
 | cl_to                       | c |
 +-----------------------------+---+
 | Counties_of_Norway          | 2 |
 | Districts_of_Norway         | 2 |
 | Marshall_County,_Minnesota  | 1 |
 | Townships_in_Minnesota      | 1 |
 | Districts                   | 1 |
 | Minnesota                   | 1 |
 | States_of_the_United_States | 1 |
 | Regions_of_Norway           | 1 |
 +-----------------------------+---+

:And for "Bathtub curve"

 mysql>  select cl_to, count(cl_to) c from categorylinks, pagelinks, page p1, page p2 where
 cl_from=p1.page_id and p1.page_title=pl_title and p1.page_namespace=0 and p2.page_namespace=0 and
 cl_from=p2.page_id and p2.page_title="Bathtub_curve" group by cl_to order by c desc;
 +-------------------------+---+
 | cl_to                   | c |
 +-------------------------+---+
 | Failure                 | 1 |
 | Reliability_engineering | 1 |
 +-------------------------+---+

:That ran reasonably fast.  There are a few bots listed on [[WP:B|the bots page]] that appear to do some kinds of category work; I'd say this is closer to [[User:Nickj|Nickj]]'s [[User:LinkBot|LinkBot]] that puts suggested links on an article's talk page.  Posting a list of suggested categories on talk pages could maybe get a lot of them done fast.

: I think your idea is good and feasible.  My wikipedia dump is going on 3 months old (they fail a lot) so I'd hesitate to run it myself.  (I'm also trying to finish a dissertation, so I'm not looking for new projects.)  Maybe you might put a copy/pointer to this on the [[WP:BR|bot requests page]] and see if someone who has access and a little free time bites.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 21:32, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

::Awesome,Thanks! I think I can write the bot/tool. I just needed to know how to go about figuring out which categories to present. Maybe I can work something out with [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser]] to make a nice front end. I think if I downloaded the DB dump and ran this query on page missing categories and then presented text files for the AWB tool it just might work-[[User:Ravedave|Ravedave]] 22:15, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

::: Cool, I hope you make use of it.  If you do, and you remember, let me know how it works.  AWB looks kind of neat, thanks for the pointer. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 23:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

==[[Maximilian von Spee]]==

''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich ]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'' suggested that your bot might solicit interested parties to provide references for this article which has none, save the one I added last night.  Thanks.--[[User:Beth Wellington|Beth Wellington]] 00:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
: Alas, not quite.  If the article is tagged with the unreferenced or Primarysources tags, then next time the bot updates its lists of articles needing work, it will become willing to suggest it to users.  However, it will only do so if a user comes along and requests suggestions, and the article comes up as one of the ones they're most likely to be willing to edit.

:It would be interesting to write something that could suggest the most likely people to edit a given article, especially with a reasonable social mechanism for asking people.  (Suggestbot works on-demand only these days; pushing suggestions out unsolicited didn't work very well.)  But, it would be reasonably hard to modify it to do this and I've got other fish frying, so it seems unlikely I'll make those changes soon. 

:I'd say the most direct approach would be to add it to [[Template:Opentask]] but there's no category listed there for articles that need sources.  If the article could have another tag added, you could list the article under that tag.  The lists on that template are rebuilt by a different bot every 24 hours or so but it would be a way for you to get your request in front of a bunch of eyes on the [[Wikipedia:Community Portal|Community Portal]].   More info about Opentask is available on its page.

:Sorry I can't be direct help with the bot, good luck in your quest. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 04:06, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

::I was aware this was the opposite direction to the bot's normal way of working - that's why I described it as a "challenge" to Beth...  Re the tags looked for, would it be a good idea to look for the {{tl|fact}} template as well? ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich ]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'' 17:53 [[19  April]] [[2006]] (UTC).

:::It uses the code from the [[User:Pearle|Pearle bot]] to download categories, so whatever templates are attached to a given category page are included in the list.  So, for example, the [[:Category:Articles_to_be_merged|Merge]] category includes any articles tagged with the tags listed at the top of the category page. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 20:12, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

== Suggestion for SuggestBot ==

Looking at my list of suggested articles, I noticed that a lot of them weren't actually that relevant to me.  My guess it's mostly because I don't focus in one specific area, and I've done a lot of vandalism reversion, maintenance work, etc.  Might it be possible for the bot to ignore certain edits based on edit summaries?  For example, any edit done with the rollback tool, or any edit with the phrase "reverted", "rv", or "rvv" should probably be ignored.  Also, it might ignore edits if many of them contain the exact same edit summary; when doing maintenance work, I cut-and-paste edit summaries to each article.  Thanks a lot for your work, in any event- it's not perfect, but it's a great tool.  [[User:Ral315|Ral315]] ([[User talk:Ral315|talk]]) 17:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

: Also, one other thing; before posting, you might check whether pages have become redlinks or (possibly) redirects since the last database dump.  [[User:Ral315|Ral315]] ([[User talk:Ral315|talk]]) 17:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

:: Yeah, it's stupid about redirects and only updates which pages are in which categories twice a month.  In a perfect world this would be better.  rv edits are ignored -- I hadn't thought about the looking for repetitive tasks as a way to eliminate irrelevant edits, that's a pretty good idea that I'll have to ponder on.  As you say, people who do a lot of vandalism reversion look like they're interested in everything, especially controversial stuff.  Thanks for the feedback. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 17:05, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I tried to send you an email at cosley at umn.edu and it bounced? How do i just send you a message instead of editing this page?
JohnLeonard
: It's cosley at cs.umn.edu -- try that and see if it works for you. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 02:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

== Feedback on SuggestBot ==
nice work on suggest bot- [[User:Moondisaster|Moondisaster]] 18:26, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi
Thanks for sending the SuggestBot stuff - Yes, it was fun.
I've prepared some feedback for you, in case it's helpful. Please visit [[User:Ballista/SuggestBot]]. I would be grateful for feedback on the feedback, if you have time - just stick it on [[User talk:Ballista]] or on the [[User:Ballista/SuggestBot]]page. Good health and fortune.  [[User:Ballista|Ballista]] 06:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Just came back to correct misprint & to say 'Hi!'. [[User:Ballista|Ballista]] 17:08, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

== Help me! ==
hi well it would be nice if we could start our own clubs on wikipedia so can u make a template bot like an animation that you choose an image or upload one. Then choose the backround and what it says. thanks please make this bot- [[User:Moondisaster|Moondisaster]] 18:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello!
I'm a Persian Wikipedian and I wanna build a robot, but I like to build a one in English Wikipedia.
So Can you help to make a bot step by step???
Thanks a lot!
--[[User:MehranVB|MehranVB]] 17:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
:I'm not going to be able to help you out very much, unfortunately, because I am short on time.  You might start with [[WP:B#Software_which_may_be_useful_for_making_bots||software on the WP:B page]], which has some links out to other projects.  I used [[User:Pearle|Pearle]] for some guidance and functionality.  Sorry I can't be more specific/helpful. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 00:16, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

== Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot == 

[[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles.  Have fun!
{|cellspacing=10 style="background-color:transparent;"
|-
|valign=top|
;Stubs:<!--'''[[Wikipedia:Stub|Stubs]]:'''-->
:[[Orbulon]]
:[[Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria)]]
:[[Constitution Day (United States)]]
:[[SNDMSG]]
:[[Fork in the road]]
:[[Radar gun]]
:[[Reharmonization]]
:[[The Rembrandts]]
:[[Axis system]]
:[[Species (film)]]
:[[Deutsch tritone paradox]]
:[[Contra-alto flute]]
:[[The salt pit]]
:[[Seventh son of a seventh son]]
:[[Contrabass clarinet]]
:[[Bad Frog Beer]]
:[[Red Prophet]]
:[[Hugh O'Connor]]
:[[Chord substitution]]
|align=top|
;Cleanup
:[[AdventureQuest]]
:[[Crystal Decisions]]
:[[Minor WarioWare characters]]
:[[Crystal momentum]]
:[[Lotr castle wars]]
;Merge
:[[Jehovah's Witnesses and blood]]
:[[Kinship and descent]]
:[[Opposition to Jehovah's Witnesses]]
;Add Sources
:[[Equity]]
:[[Machine Spirit]]
:[[Alpha-beta pruning]]
;Wikify
:[[Frazer Richardson]]
:[[Ellie Crystal]]
:[[Spoons]]
;Expand
:[[The World of The Dark Crystal]]
:[[Midlands English]]
:[[Women artists]]
|}

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 [[User_talk:SuggestBot|SuggestBot's talk page]].  Thanks from [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]], SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on [[User:SuggestBot/Requests|the SuggestBot request page]].  If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] 02:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks for the note ==

Hi, 
thanks for the note :) I'm abroad for a while so I cannot contribute much right no, but I'll do my best after I come back. --[[User:Windom|Windom]] 07:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

== SuggestBot ==

A great idea, but how often does it get updated? I'm waiting to get my stuff! --[[User:Quentin Smith|Qu]][[User:Quentin Smith/Greene|<font style="color:green">'''''e'''''</font>]][[User:Quentin Smith|ntin]] [[User_talk:Quentin Smith|Smith]] 18:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
: It's grinding through the most recent dump right now.  I'm hoping it's done tonight or tomorrow, and that I can post some suggestions on the weekend. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 18:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
: Done, finally, at least enough to use.  Tonight when things are slower on WP I'll post some. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 14:01, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

==SuggestBot is a fabulous idea==
Must say I appreciated the suggestions.  A great contribution.  Cheers -- [[User:Samir_(The_Scope)|Samir]]   <small>[[User_talk:Samir_(The_Scope)|धर्म]]</small> 02:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

: Cool, glad you liked them, and thanks for the note. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 14:00, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea of a automated service which gives you ideas on what to improve and edit. I can never think of anything, so I'm always editing the exact same articles, and things have been slow in those articles. I haven't even gotten the suggestions yet and I already think this service is brilliant, that it should be fully approved and upgraded as a Wikipedia Tool, and that you ForteTuba, should get the Brilliant Idea Barnstar! Unfortunately I'm not an admistrator, you you'll have to settle for my good-will. But hey, that's worth... something... [[User:Radman622]] 17:05, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

== Doownyl32 ==

I notice from a random Google search that you wrote on Doownyl32's talk page in February asking "Could you make some new contributions soon to help make Wikipedia better?".

I suggest you read this Cherwell article:

http://www.cherwell.org/st_annes_student_killed_by_train

The only first-year (as of December) PPE student here to have a particular interest in trains was the Wikipedia described in the Cherwell article.

[[User:Stannered|Stannered]] 12:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

: Sigh, thanks for the note. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 14:00, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

==Question about SuggestBot==

Great idea by the way, but I'm just wondering how long it takes for the bot to give me a suggestion, it processed my request nearly half a month ago...
Thanks again for the service :)
[[User:FLCE - Bronzey|Bronzey]] 08:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
: I think it just doesn't like redirects of talk pages. Thanks for the note, I posted some suggestions manually. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 01:49, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
::Whee, great. Thanks for the suggestions, and yeah, I knew when I changed username this sorta stuff was gonna happen... Thanks again. [[User:Bronzie|Bronzey]] 04:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

==Thanks==

I am glad you created suggestbot.  I was just thinking of creating the same thing recently, but did not think it would turn out to work very well, so I am glad you've done it.  Great idea.  It is great to see other Minnesotans on Wikipedia.  [[User:False Prophet|False Prophet]] 03:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
: Heh, not Minnesotan for long -- moving on to Cornell it looks like.  It only works okay, it could use better algorithms that I hope to work on after finishing a dissertation, but I'm glad you think it's a good idea. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 01:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

==redirected talk page==
Just got my recommendations thanks. !!  I did not think about the potential problems associated with the redirect of my talk page from [[User talk:Daycd]].  Thanks for going manual :-) [[User:David D.|David D.]] [[User talk:David D.|(Talk)]] 17:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
: Heh, not a problem.  Someday SuggestBot will get smarter about things like redirects -- it's not at all obvious it's your responsibility to think about how talk redirects break other people's stuff.  Hope they turn out to be useful. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:23, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

== SuggestBot gratitude ==
Thanks very much, it looks like I'll be having some fun with Irish politics for a while! :) [[User:Snoutwood|Snoutwood]] [[User talk:Snoutwood|(talk)]] 01:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
: And, who wouldn't?  Glad they're useful. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

== User Page ==
Certainly, you have my permission to use my userpage. I try to just keep it simple and with items of utility. I don't see it as a big deal, but you are certainly free to use it. --[[User:DanielCD|DanielCD]] 03:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
: Sweet, thanks for the permission -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 13:00, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

== Re: Screenshot of my talk page with SuggestBot's suggestions ==

Yeah! :D That would be cool! I don't mind it at all. What is it on, out of interest? Let me know.
Cheers -- [[User:Garykirk|G]][[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<font color="red"><B>a</B></font>]][[User:Garykirk|rykirk]] | [[User_talk:Garykirk|<sup>talk!</sup>]] 08:38, 22 June 2006 08:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
: I've been working on how community software can encourage people to contribute more to the maintenance and upkeep of communities.  "Upkeep" = building community-specific databases, doing moderation, welcoming new folks, etc., though most of what I've actually studies has been the first: building up a movie database at movielens.umn.edu and working on articles here in WP.  Part of the thesis deals with studying how and why editorial review works, and why open review like Wikipedia still produces good results; the other part is about matching people with maintenance tasks they'd like to do (a la SuggestBot).  I'm really looking forward to being done with the thesis process and having more time to poke at SuggestBot.  It's been a lot of fun working on it (and hearing from people who contribute on WP.) Thanks for the permission, I'll send a link or something when done if you're interested. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 13:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] ==

How do I get [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] to give me suggestion of articles that I may be able to edit?--[[User:Sean gorter|Sean gorter]] 10:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
: Go to [[User:SuggestBot/Requests]]. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 00:34, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

==A barnstar for you!==
[[Image:Vitruvian Barnstar.png|thumb|150px|right|I, [[User:EWS23|EWS23]], hereby award '''ForteTuba''' the ''da Vinci Barnstar'' for his programming and implementation of the ever-useful [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]]. Keep up the good work!  20:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)]]
Hi Dan! I just wanted to let you know that your work here is greatly appreciated. On that note, it is my honor to award you this barnstar. The '''da Vinci Barnstar''' (named of course after the inventor, etc., [[Leonardo da Vinci]]) is awarded to those who have enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work, especially exceptional work in programming and bot building. Feel free to copy/move this barnstar to your user page to show it off (you deserve it). Congratulations! [[User:EWS23|<font color="green">'''EWS23'''</font>]] ([[User talk:EWS23|Leave me a message!]]) 20:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
: Heh, thanks for that.  It's been fun, hopefully will continue to be fun. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 17:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

==Bot idea...==
I just ran across a SuggestBot edit to a user talk page on my watchlist, and I read the "user" page for it.  I have an idea that I've been kicking around in the back of my head for a while now, and I think you might be an appropriate person to mention it to.

I'm a software engineer specializing in automated processing of digital images, primarily bitonal document images, and as such, I use a lot of simple, heuristic based AI to analyze images looking for certain features.  A big part of this is coming up with confidence measures, so the algorithm can provide some indication of how much data it had to work with, and how consistent and reliable the result is likely to be.  

It occurred to me a while back that a similar technique could be used to analyze Wikipedia articles to generate a "goodness" factor.  What I would consider to be "good" would be:

* Stability.  Not a lot of large edits in the recent past, and a certain minimum age.
* Wide contribution base.  A larger number of contributors--even if most were minor edits, those editors correcting typos implicitly approved of the page content.
* Reliability of editors.  Look for at least some editors with significant edit counts, over a long period of time--this should indicate a fairly accepted user and someone whose judgement is more likely to be good.

Those things can be seen just by looking at the article history, and the contribution history of editors, both of which are globally available.  If admin priveleges are available, there's more:

* Watchlist count.  A page on a large number of watchlists will be fixed quickly if vandalized.
* Block logs.  If a page is stable because it's blocked, that indicates that the content is still subject to debate and might not be in a good state, even though it would show as widely contributed to and stable.

Obviously, being heuristic based it would mark some "good" articles as not good--articles about current events, for example, are going to change significantly on a day-by-day basis.  Also, it might mark some bogus or POV articles as good, if they are obscure and only edited by a small group of creators (or one creator and his collection of sock puppets).  I realize there are wetware committees to do just this sort of thing, but the ones I have seen are topic oriented, and so will only cover a small number of articles.  A software 'bot could always be backed by a committee--heck, combine it with the SuggestBot to pass out the good/bad ratings to likely experts who could verify the ratings.

Let me know what you think.  I've not had any experience writing Wikibots, so I have no idea if this is practical or not, but the SuggestBot certainly makes it seem like it a "rater-bot" could be done.  [[User:Fluzwup|scot]] 21:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


: Seems like an interesting thing to do in general.  There has been some research on this: see the Lih and Stvilia articles at [[meta:Wiki_Research_Bibliography]].  Lih is more like your idea; Stvilia uses a lot of article features.  Using the ratings to help decide what needs work (and what might be a candidate for a featured article) as you say could be cool.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

::Yeah, Lih's approach is similar (meta-data based), and one assumes a bit better researched :).  I've not really had any dealings with featured articles, but you're right, anything that a "rater-bot" rates highly would be a good FAC.  So where does one go to find details on implementing a bot?  Maybe I should look into that, and see what it would take.
::: Actually, I wasn't that excited about the Lih article, but your idea reminded me enough of it to mention it.  As for starting a bot, for this particular one you might not even need a bot.  You could probably download the full dump file from http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20060702/ and get started with that -- it has edit histories, etc.  See [[meta:Data_dumps]] for info about dumps and processing them.  We have a (slow) program that processes the dump file to pull out information about who has edited what.  That program is a hog, and you might have more luck using the mwdumper program from the data dumps page, and customizing its output to give you exactly what you want. 

::: Once you have the data you could have the program spit out a list of possibly interesting articles and manually post it to an appropriate place like whoever nominated featured articles.  If you didn't want to deal with dump processing, you could probably write a little script to grab an article's text and its edit history, and use that to get started.  You might still want the dump, though---it could be cool to compute a score not just for articles, but for editors, and use the editor score to weight their contributions to an article's quality.

::: Finally, you might want to check [[WP:B|the bots page]] and articles linked from it to see if anyone is working on a similar project and get together with them.  I don't know off the top of my head, I'm just doing my own thing here.

::And, BTW, I got my first list of suggestions from the SuggestBot; I've already filled out one stub article ([[riot gun]]) and I was already in the process of gathering references for a re-write of [[teflon coated bullet]], which was also recommended (teflon is actually peripheral to the issue, it's the core material that matters).  [[User:Fluzwup|scot]] 16:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
::: Sweet, glad it was able to do some useful work for you. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 16:50, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

== Your botty needs a trophy, but not yet... ==

The headline means that your bot is not ready for trophy yet. Just a <small>teeny</small> question, what is the meaning of ''Wikify''?
: Check out [[:Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified]] for more information, but basically it means to convert an article from, say, HTML, to wiki markup, including things like adding links to other articles. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:14, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

== Bot creation references?==
Can't wait for my first set of SuggestBot ideas :)  I've looked at a bunch of bots people have done and they seem like highly useful things as well as being fun to work on.  I have not, however, had any luck at all finding information on  how one goes about creating them.  Can you point me to some good references on how to create a bot?  I have done some programming in a variety of languages including perl.  Thanks (and good luck on your dissertation!)  (PS Can you cc your reply to my Talk page?  Thanks!)  [[User:Bookgrrl|Bookgrrl]] 18:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
: Replied on talk page. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:28, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

== A welcome ==
Thank you for the welcome and encouragement to contribute. Appreciated! [[User:Rickety|Rickety]] 03:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Sure thing.  There's a whole world of people underneath the articles and it goes pretty well with the contributing.  Enjoy. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== SuggestBot/Ballista ==

Hello & thanks for taking a look at my feedback on my two forays into SuggestBot (I'm sorry I've been very slow dealing with the latest list). I assume you found my sub-page: [[User:Ballista/SuggestBot]]. As for more detailed feedback, I'm not sure. I don't know why some articles are suggested at all or, do I remember, does it throw in the odd 'random' one for fun? I don't know how to provide 'higher-level' feedback, as I'm not quite sure what you mean. One thing I could ask, though, is is there any way in which a User's stated interests (from User page if stated) could be incorporated, in the selection parameters? To say that I'm frustrated at the POV going on is an understatement. I believe WP needs these articles but needs the POV like a rampant software virus in its main server! What's with these guys? Anything that breaks out of the mainstream mould appears to generate rampant opposition from those who like the security of the establishment umbrella. Some of the Che CAM folk appear to be unable to write in such a way that makes no claims or implied claims. I've offered to do a 'strictly neutral' article on homeopathy, on several occasions, but I've been told 'not necessary'. - [[User:Ballista|Ballista]] 03:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

::I have updated this page, on several occasions, during the interim. - [[User:Ballista|Ballista]] 19:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

==Thank You==
Thank you for creating SuggestBot!
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[[User:Jeffklib]] has smiled at you! Smiles promote [[Wikipedia:WikiLove|WikiLove]] and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{tls|smile}}, {{tls|smile2}} or {{tls|smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing! [[User:Jeffklib|Jeffklib]] 07:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks, and you're welcome.  It was fun (and useful to me too, so, all good). -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

== Hey cool ==

Hey, I just found an edit from [[User:SuggestBot]] on a user's talk page, and I read up on this for the first time. I think it's a really cool idea! I'd offer help if I knew perl, but I don't. Anyways, great idea! [[User:BigNate37|'''<span style="color:#DF2F2F">Big</span><span style="color:#3F3F3F">Nate</span><span style="color:#DF2F2F">37</span>''']]<sub>[[User talk:BigNate37|(T)]]</sub> 02:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yes, suggestbot is a really cool tool. It is esspecially useful when you are out of ideas, and dont know what to edit. Thanks for this awsome tool. Great work, ForteTuba!--[[User:Deepujoseph| thunderboltz]]<sup>a.k.a.D<font color="green">[[User:Deepujoseph/Esperanza|e]]</font>epu<font color="white">&nbsp;</font>Joseph&nbsp;|<font color="green">[[user_talk:Deepujoseph|TALK]]</font></sup>14:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

::Thanks for the support.  Hopefully I keep pushing it and it gets better, but I'm glad some people find it useful as-is. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

==Applets==
ForteTuba: I saw that your "SuggestBot" makes sophisticated use of databases on other computers and other tricks.  I am doing an article on [[thermodynamic temperature]].  Note the [[Thermodynamic_temperature#Overview|first animation]].  I am currently working with [http://www2.davidson.edu/index.asp Davidson College] to develop a GIF-based animation that has greater frame rate that what you currently see.  However, the source for the animation is actually an applet.  You can see that applet in operation, [http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/KineticMolecularTheory/BasicConcepts.html here].  Do you know how to make an applet run on Wikipedia?  Please respond at [[User_talk:Greg_L|my user page]].   [[User:Greg L|Greg L]] 22:31, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


==Active Contributor==

''I hope you decide to become a more active contributor again. Feel free to drop me a line on my talk page. -- ForteTuba 03:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)''
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dev_Bhikar"

I am unlikely to further contribute to Wikipedia until I see reasons to trust its independence. For further explantion see my comments 2 September 2006 at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prem_Rawat

Dev Bhikar


== SuggestBot is awesome ==

Hey, this is Free-encyclopedia. A few days ago, I put my name on the SuggestBot list. I got it for the first time today, and it is great! A really superb WikiInvention you have here. Hey, I just created a word! WikiInvention! Anyway, can you just leave a message on my talk page to show you got the message? I would also enjoy hearing how you invented SuggestBot.[[User:Free-encyclopedia|Free-encyclopedia]] 22:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

== Haven't heard from SuggestBot since June?==
Something broke or did my name get removed? -- <font color="Green">'''[[User:Ipstenu|Ipstenu]]''' ''([[User talk:Ipstenu|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Ipstenu|contribs]])''</font> 18:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
: Not sure what happened.  It normally only makes one set of suggestions per request.  I'll put your name on the list, since it sounds like you want suggestions.  If that's wrong, then sorry for the suggestions you're about to receive. :)

== Thanks ==

Very impressive work on Suggestbot, the suggestions it gave me were good. --[[User:Tpbradbury|Tom]] 10:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
: Nice, glad that you were able to use them.  Feel free to come back and get more sometime. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 12:38, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

== In Iraq ==

Dan, thanks for dropping me a line.  I haven't been more active lately because I've been deployed to Iraq since January.

== Re: Spiffy ==

I've noticed that "Suggestbot" was located on the community portal, and it had this neat little link going to your userpage. Now, I was wondering in grief why the word "spiffy" (NOT the artist or whatever) is '''not''' in wikipedia. I thought that someone would have added it by now, so is there a particular reason for this? Thanks, --[[User:Fudgegirl1995|Fudgegirl1995]] 21:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
: Heh, thanks for the implication that SB is spiffy.  It's a nice and underused adjective that apparently lives over in wiktionary. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 00:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

== Your suggestion in resolving this matter ==

Hello ForteTuba,

I need your help in resolving this matter. [[User:Power_level_(Dragon_Ball)]] is being uncivil on his [[User_talk:Power_level_(Dragon_Ball)|talk page]] toward [[User:Someguy0830]]. I have added a warning, and he wants me to remove it ([[User_talk:Yuser31415]]). Could you please look into this and say what you think? [[User:Yuser31415|Yuser31415]] <sup>[[User_talk:Yuser31415|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Yuser31415|contribs]]</sup> 21:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

:Already resoluted now :) [[User:Yuser31415|Yuser31415]] <sup>[[User_talk:Yuser31415|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Yuser31415|contribs]]</sup> 00:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
:: Cool.  Sorry I didn't reply -- I don't actually log on and check things out that much except to keep SuggestBot running. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 00:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

== Re:SuggestBot ==

I'm interested in your suggestbot function. Could you perhaps run the bot on me to see what comes up. I'm always looking for new opportunities to contribute to wikipedia. {{User:je_at_uwo/sig}} 23:12, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
: Just drop your name at [[User:SuggestBot/Requests]] and you'll get some next time I run it. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 13:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

== Okay? ==

Where the ll3H did suggest Bot get those articles? I do not have a clue as to what was in its brain. None of those articles I have a clue about what to do with them. Please help me out here!--[[User: Ælfwine|Æ]][[Special:Contributions/Ælfwine|lfw]][[User talk: Ælfwine|ine]] 19:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
: Looks like the only main namespace edit you have listed is the article [Veni, vidi, vici] -- not a lot of data for it to go on, so it spewed garbage.  It might be cleverer if it said "oh, by the way, this was based on just one article edited," so thanks for letting me know just how bad it was. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

== happy Turkey Day!!!!! ==

{{User:Randfan/accomplishments/personal b-day stuff!/Thanksgiving}}

== Suggestbot ==

Hey,
I had you use suggestbot.
It suggested axpansion on the [[Prince (musician)]] page. The page for Prince, however, is already overly, and stupidly, long. I don't know how you program it, but I'm pretty sure it didn't warrant expansion at all.
: Most likely it found a tag on the page that said that someone wanted it to be expanded -- it uses the tags people mark articles with to decide what needs work.  It might have just been a section that wanted expanding. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 01:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

== SuggestBot- questions ==

Hi, i'm contacting you as operator of SuggestBot. I was just wondering, is SuggestBot opt-in? Has it passed approval? Just a warning that my second bot ran some test during its bot approval process and performed a similar function to yours - it was not opt-in and some users left surprisingly vehement feedback about the fact they considered such bots to be "spam". Just a warning that if this bot is not opt-in you might be laying yourself open to attack. Cheers - <span style="color:#ccf;background:#ccf;border-style: single">[[User:PocklingtonDan|PocklingtonDan]]</span> 18:28, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
: It is opt-in, too bad some folks weren't so excited.  At first I picked who got suggestions and that didn't work so well. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 01:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks for the SuggestBot! ==

Thanks for the suggestions from the Bot - they were really good and in line with my interests, so it seems to work fine. --[[User:Screensaver|Screensaver]] 20:22, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
: Sweet, glad it was able to do you some good. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 18:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

== Wonderful Bot ==

SuggestBot is wonderful. Thank you. --[[User:Meno25|Meno25]] 04:40, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Me too, I'm very happy with the list I got - even the subjects I hadn't heard of! [[User:Totnesmartin|Totnesmartin]] 19:56, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

: Thanks, I'm a fan of praise and helping people out too. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

== Hi ==

From SuggestBots talkpage:


I signed up for SuggestBot and it worked. My name is still on the list. Is that ok and will I keep getting suggestions? [[User:WikiMan53|WikiMan53]] [[User talk:WikiMan53|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/WikiMan53|C]]  [[User:WikiMan53/Esperanza|e@]] 21:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Respond on my [[User talk:WikiMan53|talk page please]]
: Responded on talk page. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 18:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

== Your bot request ==

Hi ForteTube: please resubmit your bot request with the proper formatting (and a new subpage) as is detailed at [[WP:BRFA]].  This helps with recordkeeping so we ask that all users follow the procedure.  Your original requested is below. Thanks! —<span style="font: small-caps 14px times; color: red;">[[User:Mets501|Mets501]] ([[User talk:Mets501|talk]])</span> 22:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
<blockquote>
[[User:SuggestBot]] currently helps people find articles they might want to edit, based on their previous edits.  I'm looking to go in and do a substantial rewrite to fix some known flaws, and while I do this I would also like to expand its scope of recommendations to include categories, WikiProjects, and other Wikipedians that a person might wish to interact with.  SuggestBot would continue to run semi-manually.  New features run on a limited, experimental basis at first to judge their effects on people's behavior, and to make sure bad things (like it only recommending a few people to everybody) don't happen.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 16:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
</blockquote>
: Ok. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 14:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


== Activate Bot for the Requests ==

Can you please activate the bot to complete the requests at: [[User:SuggestBot/Requests]]. Thnx. --[[User:Foundby|Foundby]] 18:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

==Hi==

Can your bot make a list of all Judaism/Israel related articles tagged for for cleanup? Best [[User:FrummerThanThou|frummer]] 02:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
:perhaps you're also interested in our research into new user trends. Check out [[:Category:WelcomeBotResearch]] Cheers. [[User:FrummerThanThou|frummer]] 02:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

== Modification of Suggestbot ==

Could Suggestbot be modified to suggest articles for tagging(stubs,starts, etc.)? We could use it in the military history project and among our task forces. [[User:Wandalstouring|Wandalstouring]] 17:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
: SuggestBot itself, no, because you would need some way to decide whether articles need work.  This could be done -- look at measurable characteristics of articles that already have work tags, and then train some machine learning algorithm to predict whether new articles should have those tags -- but it's not SuggestBot's thing.  It would be an interesting coding project, though, for someone who is more into AI and has a little more time than I do. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

== Suggestbot ==

Hi ForteTube; I was just curious: how's [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SuggestBot2|this task]] coming along? —<span style="font: small-caps 14px times; color: red;">[[User:Mets501|Mets501]] ([[User talk:Mets501|talk]])</span> 18:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
: Slowly. I recruited a couple of students to help with re-coding it but it's going to be one of those long grinding processes it looks like.  Thanks for checking up. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
== Requests ==

I understand that other users may have asked you this before but could you please make a separate list for users who would like to receive suggested articles they might like to edit from SuggestBot periodically? --[[User:Meno25|Meno25]] 02:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
: Yes, I will do this.  I was hoping to do it as part of a grand rebuilding, but that's going slow.  Look for it in a week or so. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Your edits to [[User Talk: Navou]] == 
A reply has been posted.  Regards, [[User:Navou|<font color="Blue">'''Navou'''</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Navou|'''<font color="Blue">banter</font>''']]</sup> 14:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

== bot ==

hey, congrats on the bot work, i really like it! --''''<span style="background:#000">[[User:Tbone55|<span style="color:#fff">•Tbon</span>]][[User:Tbone55/Esperanza|<span style="color:#0c0">e</span>]][[User:Tbone55|<span style="color:#fff">55•</span>]]</span>'''''<sup>[[User talk:Tbone55|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Tbone55|(Contribs)]] [[User:tbone55/wiki/UBS/Mine|(UBX)]] [[User:tbone55/autographbook| (autographbook)]] </sup> 03:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

: Sweet, always nice to hear from folks who get something out of what I do. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== yet another question about suggestbot ==
Some people from the spanish wikipedia are interested about your bot. How feasible would it be to get it there? Is the code available? Would it be difficult to run a copy or localize it? Can you ping me back? -- <small> [[User talk:Drini|Drini]]</small> 17:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
: please? a yes or no? -- <small> [[User talk:Drini|Drini]]</small> 22:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
:: Sorry, I've been sick and travelling.  Right now it would be pretty much a disaster to try to run; it's not good at extended alphabets and has been cobbled together from a million parts and is partly manual.  So the short-term answer is no.  I have some students working on reimplementing, and I will ask them to do a better job with unicode than I did, but it will take some time.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 19:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== SuggestBot ACM pdf ==

Hello. Your paper (in Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies) in really is not "Available at the ACM digital library", since I don't have password to read papers in this library. -- [[User:AKA MBG|AKA MBG]] 13:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
: Yeah, I'll be putting up a preprint that's more accessible soon. [http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~cosley/view/suggestbot-iui07.pdf Here's a temporary link.] -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 16:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
:: Thank you very much [[User:AKA MBG|AKA MBG]] 11:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

==Barnstar!==
{{award|image=Original_Barnstar.png|text=Dear ForteTuba, I award you this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Barnstar]] for creating SuggestBot - an all-time great idea. I love your Bot! Best, [[User talk:PeaceNT|''P''ea]][[Special:Contributions/PeaceNT|ceNT]] 16:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC) }}
: Sweet, thank you for that.  It's always nice to be recognized... just wish I had more time to make it even better, but I'm glad you're a fan. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 18:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

==Got a question...==
How do I sign up for your SuggestBot? I can't find anything on there saying how to get it's messages. Thanks. --''[[User: ASDFGHJKL|ASDFGHJKL]]=[[User talk:ASDFGHJKL|Greatest Person Ever]]+[[Special:Contributions/ASDFGHJKL|Coolest Person Ever]]'' 18:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
: Go to [[User:SuggestBot/Requests]]; you can sign up there. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 18:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

==SuggestBot==
Just got my first SuggestBot recommendations.  Not Bad at all!  Congratulations on a great tool![[User:Muchris|Muchris]] 14:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

==Weird suggestions==
Recently, Suggestbot listed in my talk page a couple of articles related to some German-British Royal families. It is very weird to me, I never expressed any interests in this old-fashioned topic before (apart from adding  few info today to a [[Rick Wakeman]]'s record):
:Could it be becouse of my recent posts at [[Talk:Tangerine Dream]]]? Nah...[[User:Doktor Who|Doktor Who]] 20:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC) ''(originally posted on 18:06, 10 April 2007)''

==Barnstar==
[[Image:Original Barnstar.png|frame|right|I [[User:Angelbo|Angelbo]] award you this Barnstar for the work on SuggestBot.]]
Hi ForteTuba<br>
Here is a barnstar, you really earned it. You did an amazing job on developing and implementing the [[profiling]] [[algorithm]]<br>
Best regards and happy editing<br>
Mads [[User:Angelbo|Angelbo]] <sup>[[User_talk:Angelbo|Talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/Angelbo|Contribs]]</sup> 07:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

== suggestions please ==

I hope you aren't annoyed by this, but, I put a request for suggestions on your bot talk, and nothing has happed yet.  So I am requesting suggestions here.  [[user:Sir Intellegent|Sir intellegent]] - [[User_talk:Sir Intellegent|smartr tahn eaver!!!!]] 16:08, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

== Did ya see? ==

[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1216295.1216309 Congratulations]! <span style="font-size:95%">&mdash;[[User talk:Messedrocker|Signed]], your friendly neighborhood '''[[User:Messedrocker|MessedRocker]]'''.</span> 22:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

== Idea for SuggestBot ==

You could put SuggestBot on other wikis, for example we could use one [[Wookieepedia|here]].'''''<span style="background:#cc0; color:red">[[User:Drahcir|Drahcir]]</span><span style="background:#cc0;color:blue"><sup>[[User Talk:Drahcir|my talk]]</sup></span><span style="background:#cc0"><sub>[[User:Drahcir/monobook.css|get my skin]]</sub></span>''''' 01:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

== Incompatible username for SuggestBot ==

I think [[User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|this username]] would be SuggestBot's worst nightnare, since it has trouble handling usernames with non-latin characters. '''<span style="font-size:95%;font-variant:small-caps;font-family:Trebuchet MS"><font color="#229922">[[User:Magnus animum|''~'' Magnus animuM]]</font> <sup>[[User talk:Magnus animum|<span style="color:red">Brain Freeze!</span>]]</sup></span>''' 16:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Thank you! you and your bot are doing great!<font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="4">[[User:Arnon Chaffin|Arnon Chaffin]] </font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><sup>[[User Talk:Arnon Chaffin|Got a message?]]</sup>   </font> 14:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

== Award ==



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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''The [[Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:Creating a bot|Bot Builder]] Award'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Here is an award for being the only one with the common sense to make a robot that suggests things for people to do. [[User:Powerfulmind|<font color="#FF0000">Po</font><font color="#00FF00">we</font><font color="#0000FF">rf</font><font color="#990099">ul</font><font color="#009999">mi</font><font color="#999900">nd</font>]] '''[[User talk:Powerfulmind|<sup><font color="#275481">please talk to me</font>!</sup>]] [[Special:Contributions/Powerfulmind|<sub><font color="#815427">look at all of my edits</font>!</sub>]]''' 11:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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</noinclude>

==I know, I know, "Go back and read the directions"...==
Hi! How do I get a fresh list from SuggestBot? [[User:Zephyrad|Zephyrad]] 19:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
: You can sign up again on [[User:SuggestBot/Requests]], or if you want them on a recurring basis, on [[User:SuggestBot/Regulars]]. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 13:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

==Barnstar!!==
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The da Vinci Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I would like to recognize the creation of SuggestBot(Probably for the 8,000th time).  Keep up the awesome work!! ''[[User:Malinaccier|<span style="color: #801818">•Malinaccier•</span>]]'' 22:50, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
|}

== Smile ==

<div style="float:center; border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">[[Image:Smiley.svg|left|62px]] 

{{{1|[[User:Connell66|Connell66]]}}} has smiled at you! Smiles promote [[Wikipedia:WikiLove|WikiLove]] and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! {{{2|}}} <br /> Smile at others by adding {{tls|Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
</div><!-- Template:smile -->

== Barnstar ==

==Barnstar!!==
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The da Vinci Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For creating and maintaining SuggestBot, one of the most useful bots on the project, and one that actually helps improve content (rather then speedy tagging it), I award you this barnstar.  Use it well! [[User:Giggy/Powderfinger|<font color="Green">'''G'''</font>]][[User:Giggy|iggy]]\<sup>[[User talk:Giggy|Talk]]</sup> 06:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
|}

== Great Talk ==

Hi Dan,
Just wanted to tell that I enjoyed the talk at UIUC today. I've been an admin in English-Wikipedia for the last 2 years, and am also a bureaucrat at the Bengali wikipedia. I've been doing quantitative studies of WP articles, and if you are interested, I can share some of my findings on the readability analysis. 

Thanks. --[[User:Ragib|Ragib]] 18:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

== Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot == 

[[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles.  Have fun!
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|valign=top|
;Stubs:<!--'''[[Wikipedia:Stub|Stubs]]:'''-->
:[[Varsity Blues (film)]]
:[[Vest-Agder]]
:[[Triton Fountain]]
:[[Sørlandet]]
:[[Roy Eldridge]]
:[[Contra-alto flute]]
:[[Chord substitution]]
:[[SNDMSG]]
:[[Vlkolínec]]
:[[Ben Pollack]]
:[[Substitute (song)]]
:[[Contra-alto clarinet]]
:[[Clout]]
:[[Substitute (cricket)]]
:[[Constant factor rule in integration]]
:[[Axis system]]
:[[Kjotve the Rich]]
:[[Želary]]
:[[Nordmøre]]
|align=top|
;Cleanup
:[[Cathedral diagram]]
:[[Proto-Germanic]]
:[[Definition of music]]
;Merge
:[[Tetrachord]]
:[[Crystal gazing]]
:[[Smash Mouth]]
;Add Sources
:[[Petty kingdom]]
:[[Solør]]
:[[Bratislava Castle]]
;Wikify
:[[Ľudovít Štúr]]
:[[Interior design]]
:[[Fenni]]
;Expand
:[[Neolithic architecture]]
:[[Polaris Industries]]
:[[Cell microprocessor]]
|}

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 [[User_talk:SuggestBot|SuggestBot's talk page]].  Thanks from [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]], SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on [[User:SuggestBot/Requests|the SuggestBot request page]].  If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] 01:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

== Great Job ==


I hope that this is the right page to talk you..... I applaud you encouraging other people to contribute more. It is an excellent idea to make specific suggestions of things to work on. I think some of the new editors feel intimidated. The SuggestBot is a big help. {{unsigned|Strafidlo}}
: Thanks... I wish it were easier to help newer editors find it.  The original goal was to target it at newer folks, but it definitely mostly gets used by old hands. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba|talk]]) 17:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

::I am a somewhat new user and I have just stumbled accross your bot. I can't comment on it yet because the next cycle hasn't run but it sounds like a great idea. Also, as a new user I am noticing certian things that might make it easier to become an editor that by the time I learn how to fix them I won't remember to need them anymore.  I eventually hope to start a "New User project" that will have things such as annotated indexes of list of syntax, useful tools, FAQs, and general wiki concepts presented in a reference/welcome format that can be used by the average web user, this a subpage of mine that hopefully will become the to do list for this project, contributions gladly accepted:  [[User:Eoag/new]]<br />[[User:Eoag|Eoag]] ([[User talk:Eoag|talk]]) 22:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

== SuggestBot problem ==
I removed my name from the list a while back, but am still getting messages from it. Why? [[User:Davnel03|Davnel03]] 20:57, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
: It was still there just now, on the [[User:SuggestBot/Regulars]] page under the once a month section.  I just re-removed it, sorry about the confusion. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 21:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
:: OK. Thank You. [[User:Davnel03|Davnel03]] 21:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

== Talk Page Archiving ==

May I Suggest Archiving your and Suggest bot's talk page. they are very lengthy and and messy. A information can be found [[Help:Archiving_a_talk_page|here]]. Thank you in advanced! <font style="color:Blue;">'''[[User:Compwhizii|Comp]]'''whiz '''[[User_Talk:Compwhizii|II]]'''</font> 23:28, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
: I know it's a norm, it's just a really low priority item for me -- my WP time is all about running SuggestBot right now.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba|talk]]) 17:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

== SuggestBot in de.wikipedia? ==
Hi at first thanks a lot for your cool idea. I talked about SuggestBot in de.wikipedia and some people were quite impressed. So is it possible running this bot there as well? If so, what do you need in advance (translated message strings etc...)? If not why not (so that we maybe can help solving the problem)... Cheers, [[User:Arnomane|Arnomane]] 19:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
: Right now, no.  It does a whole lot of really messy pre-processing of database dumps, and messes up unicode characters in the process, so it's of limited use on non-english wikipedias.  I want to reimplement (actually, was contacted by some folks at Wikia) in a way that assumes direct access to the database, even if it has to do some occasional processing of that.  It was sad -- at one point I had more time to work on this and kept trying to get a toolserver account.  That would have been perfect for fixing up, but my request was ignored a couple of times and I gave up.  Now, not so much time.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba|talk]]) 17:51, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
:: Hm. Sad to hear that you had such bureaucratic troubles. This tool would be a perfect match for the toolserver (direct database access and such). I just talked to [[:de:Benutzer:DaB.]] the main toolserver admin and he said that he didn't notice any request from you. Where did you try to ask for an account? At the central page on [[meta:Toolserver/New_accounts]] I couldn't find anything. So just enter some words there at meta and I am confident that DaB. will give you an account quickly. In case you need some help, let me know maybe I can organize it (for example [[:de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb]] is a toolserver database wizard, although he does not have much time right now he maybe can give you some hints on tools <-> database). Keep up the good work. [[User:Arnomane|Arnomane]] ([[User talk:Arnomane|talk]]) 19:50, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

== SuggestBot not work... ==

I don't get any messages from SuggestBot! It is probably broken! <font style="border: solid 1px red; background-color: lightblue;" color="342D7E">[[User:Kubek15|Kubek15]] - [[User talk:Kubek15|Talk]], [[User:Kubek15/Userboxes|Userboxes]], [[Special:Contributions/Kubek15|Contributions]]</font> 11:06, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

== SuggestBot ==

Hi youre Suggest bot is really cool i was just wondering if it would be possible to set it up for parisitic twins and conjoinded twins for [[User:Iamsocool!]]. Thanks. '''<span style="background:Red;color:White">&nbsp;[[User:Sunderland06|<font color="White">Sunder</font>]][[User talk:Sunderland06|<font color="black">land</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Sunderland06|<font color="White">06</font>]]&nbsp;</span>''' 17:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
:Any ideas. '''<span style="background:Red;color:White">&nbsp;[[User:Sunderland06|<font color="White">Sunder</font>]][[User talk:Sunderland06|<font color="black">land</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Sunderland06|<font color="White">06</font>]]&nbsp;</span>''' 22:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

== SuggestBot block ==

*I blocked SuggestBot preventatively, since it was just putting that notice on everyone's talk page that it couldn't find anything, sans header and sans signature. I only did it do it could be looked into and we wouldn't have more useless notices being posted. If the problem is fixed I have no problem unblocking. (i only did it for 24 hours anyway so it could be looked into) [[User:Wizardman|<span style="color:#060">'''''Wizardman'''''</span>]] 22:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

: Okay, thanks for doing that.  I'll check it out.  Sigh.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 15:52, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

== Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot == 

[[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles.  Have fun!
{|cellspacing=10 style="background-color:transparent;"
|-
|valign=top|
;Stubs:<!--'''[[Wikipedia:Stub|Stubs]]:'''-->
:[[Vlkolínec]]
:[[Axis system]]
:[[History of the Arab Peoples]]
:[[Chord substitution]]
:[[Prentice Alvin]]
:[[Hildegard Knef]]
:[[Red Prophet]]
:[[Nordmøre]]
:[[Simple and compound intervals]]
:[[Most Apollo]]
:[[Clout]]
:[[Offspring]]
:[[Čachtice Castle]]
:[[A Bell for Adano]]
:[[A Light in the Attic]]
:[[Tempo]]
:[[Cornelia Funke]]
:[[Substitute (song)]]
:[[Brigitte Helm]]
|align=top|
;Cleanup
:[[Crystal momentum]]
:[[Facial tissue]]
:[[Gynoid]]
;Merge
:[[Nickel-cadmium battery]]
:[[Humanoid robot]]
:[[Inbreeding]]
;Add Sources
:[[Bratislava Castle]]
:[[Petty kingdom]]
:[[Brian De Palma]]
;Wikify
:[[Alamo, California]]
:[[Alfred Sturtevant]]
:[[The Crystal Set]]
;Expand
:[[Echinoderm]]
:[[Jools Holland]]
:[[Waldensians]]
|}

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 [[User_talk:SuggestBot|SuggestBot's talk page]].  Thanks from [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]], SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on [[User:SuggestBot/Requests|the SuggestBot request page]].  If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] ([[User talk:SuggestBot|talk]]) 16:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

== Help on bots requests time ==

I signed up to this on the 25th March and its been a week and a half since despite the caption saying "not too distant future etc" so I would be gratful if someone could chase it up. Thanks. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]]&nbsp;([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])<font size="4">☺</font> 08:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC).

== Is SuggestBot running ? ==

Hiya. Is the code still running ? I put in a request on the 3rd June and haven't heard a thing - also, looking at the log of people it's made suggestions to, it doesn't seem to have cleared any since 10th June...a victim of its own popularity ? :-) [[User:CultureDrone|CultureDrone]] ([[User talk:CultureDrone|talk]]) 07:00, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
:By the way, I shouldn't just complain - its a great idea :-) [[User:CultureDrone|CultureDrone]] ([[User talk:CultureDrone|talk]]) 07:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
:: No problem.  It's been running really sporadically because, well, mostly, I've been busy trying to get our research lab up and going this summer and have not had a lot of time to play with it.  Plus, I'm really frustrated with the current version and want to recode, but... not a priority issue for the lab, so that progress is slow, too.  Sorry about the delays; I hope to get it into a more self-sustaining and responsive state sometime during the summer. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 19:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
:::You mean you've been putting your research lab above Wikipedia ?! Shame ! ;-) [[User:CultureDrone|CultureDrone]] ([[User talk:CultureDrone|talk]])
:::: Yeah, I'm kind of a jackass that way. :) -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 15:32, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

== Remove me from SuggestBot list ==

Hey ForteTuba.  I was wondering if you could take me off the list for SuggestBot (I don't know where it is...).  I'm not often at Wikipedia anymore, and it just seems to be cluttering up my talk page.  Thanks! [[User:The Spotted Swans|Swannie]] ([[User talk:The Spotted Swans|talk]]) 16:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
: No problem, I went ahead and removed.  Just in case others want to self-remove, it's at [[User:SuggestBot/Regulars]] -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 15:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

== More than ten months I am waiting for suggestions ==
Too long time for waiting suggestions. From 26 August 2007 to now, about eleven months, I am not recieve any suggestions from SuggestBot, what I did something wrong? Is re-request require? (I am asked this questions on SuggestBot's talk page. Sorry for asking on your talkpage.) --[[User:Love Krittaya|Love Krittaya]] ([[User talk:Love Krittaya|talk]]) 06:26, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
: I'm guessing what happened is that your name got marked as done even though it wasn't; I'll add you. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 14:08, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

== Suggestbot looks cool and I hope it doesn't bitrot and disappear ==
Hey, just wanted to say that I saw SuggestBot for the first time today and it looked really cool, but from other comments it doesn't look like it's running anymore.  Anyway, I just wanted to give you some encouragement to continue the project :) [[User:Scott Ritchie|Scott Ritchie]] ([[User talk:Scott Ritchie|talk]]) 20:03, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
: Thanks for doing that.  I'm a new prof and the semester started a couple of weeks ago, so I managed to let it fall all the way off my plate.  It will continue. [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 16:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
:: There's a lot of names on the page who've been patiently or impatiently waiting ages, with no communication. It might be worth posting some holding messages if they're going to be waiting longer? --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) 14:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
::Just throwing another vote in here for an update. It looks like it hasn't been run since July. --[[User:Clubjuggle|Clubjuggle]] <sup><small>[[User_Talk:Clubjuggle|<font color="#0047AB">'''T'''</font>]]</small></sup>/[[Special:Contributions/Clubjuggle|<font color="#0047AB"><small>'''C'''</small></font>]] 14:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
::: I tried to run in August, didn't get around to checking the logs (new professor, many things pulling at my time), turns out there was some database corruption on the box back at my old school.  They graciously fixed it this week and I think it's going to work now; I'm going to try to churn out a small set and see what happens.  What I'd like to do is find a committed student here to make it run on-demand and do smarter things, but until I find that student, it's going to be sporadic. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 14:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)



== Suggestbot ==

Thanks for the new suggestions! As usual, they're spot on. Does this mean the bot will be running more frequently now? [[User:Matthewedwards|Matthewedwards]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Matthewedwards|talk]] <small>•</small> [[Special:Contributions/Matthewedwards|contribs]]&nbsp;<small>•</small> [[Special:Emailuser/Matthewedwards|email]]) 23:27, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
: More than it was the last 3 months, for sure; there were some hardware problems back at the ranch I graduated from, which they were really kind to fix.  Eventually it wants to come to my new place and do more clever things. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 16:48, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

==Smiley Award==

Feel free to place this award on your user page, as a token of appreciation for your contributions. If you're willing to help spread the good cheer to others, please see the project page for the Random Smiley Award at: [[User:Elipongo/SmileyAward]]--[[User:Unionhawk|Unionhawk]] ([[User talk:Unionhawk|talk]]) 21:17, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

<div style="background-color:#f9f0C9; border:1px solid #888850; clear:right; float:right; padding:2px; width:300px;">
[[image:smiley.svg|left|90px]]<small>For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted <b>[[User:Elipongo/SmileyAward|Random Smiley Award]]</b><br />([[User:Elipongo/SmileyAward#Explanation and Disclaimer:|Explanation and Disclaimer]])</small>
</div>

== No offense, but... ==

How do I get SuggestBot to stop suggesting for me? I went and looked for my name in the archived lists, but couldn't find it. (I just don't have as much time to edit as I did when I signed up for it.) Thanks! <strong><font style="color:red;background:navy;">[[User:WiiWillieWiki|Wii]]</font><font style="color:blue;background:yellow;">[[User_talk:WiiWillieWiki|Willie]]</font><font style="color:yellow;background:maroon;">[[Special:Random|Wiki]]</font></strong> 15:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

: None taken.  There's a page for regulars that your name was on at [[User:SuggestBot/Regulars]]; I went ahead and removed it. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 19:28, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

==Hey==
Could you have SuggestBot make a stop at my talk page because I need something to do.--[[User:Iamawesome800|Iamawesome800]] ([[User talk:Iamawesome800|talk]]) 15:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
: I'll add you to [[User:SuggestBot/Requests]] and you'll get some next time it runs. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 03:55, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
: Oops, nevermind, guess you got some already. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 03:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Hi ForteTuba, just a note to send my thanks for your manual posting of SuggestBot results to my and many other users' talk pages. This must have taken a considerable amount of your time and I am very grateful. Thanks, [[User:Pretzels|'''P<span style="font-size:0.9em;">retzels</span>''']]<sup>[[User talk:Pretzels|Talk!]]</sup> 02:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
: No worries.  About 1/10 times, the server gives back something the perl mediawiki code doesn't understand so I just have to drop them in by hand.  Kind of a ritual.  I just hope they're useful... -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 03:53, 24 November 2008 (UTC)



== SuggestBot ==

Thanks, great stuff. You might like to know SuggestBot's in my essay: [[User:Dweller/Suggestions for wikistressed editors|Suggestions for wikistressed editors]] --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) 14:36, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
: Sweet. :)  The first (and maybe last) time I'll ever get the "sheer genius" tag.  Messages like that make me really, really, really want to work on it more. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 18:26, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
:: More outstanding suggestions, thank you, with the usual quirks that make it all the more interesting. Anything I can do to prompt you to further effort is well worthwhile! --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) 14:01, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

== SuggestBot data ==

I'm a little concerned. I've started looking at the suggestions, and the first two I looked at ("wikify") have both not had wikify tags on them for some time, in one case [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Anouk_Aim%C3%A9e&diff=prev&oldid=178444126 since Dec 2007]. Is SuggestBot running off old data? --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) 11:32, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
: Yes.  Last time I downloaded category tags, I forgot to move them to the "live" running version.  I don't do it very often because it's server-intensive.  -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 18:38, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
:: Hmm. Still is a problem. My latest batch includes a "wikify" suggestion on [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Darren_Currie&diff=next&oldid=159663634 this article, that had its wikify tag removed nearly 1.5 years ago.] --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) 15:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

==Question==

I had signed up almost two months ago and I still hve never received results.  What is that about? [[User:The New Mikemoral|The New Mikemoral]] ([[User talk:The New Mikemoral|talk]]) 19:30, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
: It's about traveling over the break, having the duties of a professor, and the machine room at the building that hosts the server getting flooded. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 18:25, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

==HHHMMMMMMM!!!!==
I'm not sure weather to think its Christams or feel like my front yard has just been "tissued"...O well...I didn't have anything else to do but work 3 jobs, raise 4 kids, chase my daughters lazy boyfriend off the computer, cook dinner, work on my disertation, rotate the tires on the Dodge Dart, go feed my sick mother across town, volunteer at the local library, sort my socks, etc. Just kidding , of course. Thanks to SuggestBot for the work...TC...--[[User:Buster7|Buster7]] ([[User talk:Buster7|talk]]) 22:47, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

== Suggestbot ==

So you now own the odious Suggestbot, yes? How do I get it to stop shitting on my talkpage? [[User:Xdenizen|X MarX the Spot]] ([[User talk:Xdenizen|talk]]) 16:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
: You take your name off the list of people who requested that it shit on their talkpages, [[User:SuggestBot/Regulars]], or you ask someone to do so.  I went ahead and removed your name. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 13:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

== Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot == 

[[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles.  Have fun!
{|cellspacing=10 style="background-color:transparent;"
|-
|valign=top|
;Stubs:<!--'''[[Wikipedia:Stub|Stubs]]:'''-->
:[[Chord substitution]]
:[[Clout]]
:[[Substitute (song)]]
:[[Red Prophet]]
:[[Nordmøre]]
:[[Triton Fountain]]
:[[A Bell for Adano]]
:[[Cornelia Funke]]
:[[Political union]]
:[[Barometer Rising]]
:[[History of the Arab Peoples]]
:[[Offspring]]
:[[Axis system]]
:[[Kjotve the Rich]]
:[[Constant factor rule in integration]]
:[[Brigitte Helm]]
:[[Hildegard Knef]]
:[[Hornblower in the West Indies]]
:[[Prentice Alvin]]
|align=top|
;Cleanup
:[[Crystal momentum]]
:[[Puppetry of the Penis]]
:[[Echinoderm]]
;Merge
:[[Humanoid robot]]
:[[Simultaneous multithreading]]
:[[Tetrachord]]
;Add Sources
:[[Petty kingdom]]
:[[Locrian mode]]
:[[Alsace-Lorraine]]
;Wikify
:[[Alamo, California]]
:[[Helmut Hofer]]
:[[The Straight Story]]
;Expand
:[[Tulip Revolution]]
:[[Alvin Ailey]]
:[[Transposing instrument]]
|}

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 [[User_talk:SuggestBot|SuggestBot's talk page]].  Thanks from [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]], SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on [[User:SuggestBot/Requests|the SuggestBot request page]].  If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] ([[User talk:SuggestBot|talk]]) 15:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

== Just a little thing ==

{| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #EEEEEE;"
|rowspan="2" valign="top" | [[Image:Dykbb.png|80px]]
|rowspan="2" |
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''The [[Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:Creating a bot|Bot Builder]] Award'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you ever so much for building SuggestBot, it has helped a great deal in expanding my editorial horizon. [[User:Ayrton Prost|<span style="color:#7d7d7d">'''a'''yrton</span>]]<span style="color:#7d7d7d">_</span>[[User talk:Ayrton Prost|<span style="color:#7d7d7d">'''p'''rost</span>]] 20:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
|}

== Re:SuggestBot ==

Regarding SuggestBot, when will the next run be? My last request was on the 2nd and I have been waiting since. Thanks, '''''[[User:The New Mikemoral|<span style="color: #0095B6">The New</span>]]''''' [[User talk:The New Mikemoral|<span style="color: #1E90FF">Mikemoral</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/The New Mikemoral|♪♫]] 02:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
:Yeah, how's it going with fixing it?--[[User talk:Giants27|<font face="Bauhaus 93" color="black" size="3">Giants27</font>]] (<span>[[Special:Contributions/Giants27|<font color="black">c</font>]]|[[User:Giants27/guestbook|<font color="black">s</font>]]) 00:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
:: Slower than I'd like.  A couple of folks are nominally on a new improved version but progress is slow, so I'm trying to hack the old version back into service for at least a couple of months.  It turns out when you don't look at perl code for three years, and you wrote it in a hurry, you're unhappy three years later. -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] ([[User talk:ForteTuba#top|talk]]) 19:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

==SuggestBot is Back==
Good to see the bot back and running. Well done, it's list of articles for me look great!

[[User:WVRMad|<font face="Abbey Old Style SF" color="#8B0000">WVRMAD</font>]]•[[User Talk:WVRMad|<font face="Plantagenet Cherokee" color="#2E8B57">''Talk ''</font>]]•[[User:WVRMad/Guestbook|<font face="Iskoola Pota" color="#4682B4">''Guestbook ''</font>]] 08:54, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

== Award ==


{| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #EEEEEE;"
|rowspan="2" valign="top" | [[Image:Dykbb.png|60px]]
|rowspan="2" |
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''The [[Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:Creating a bot|Bot Builder]] Award'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: center; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | SuggestBot is a wonderful idea that helps link editors to pages that they are needed at but are still linked to pages they're interested in.  I hereby award you the Bot Builder award for this excellent tool!  [[User:Ojay123|<span style="color:#008000">Ojay123</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Ojay123|Talk]]&bull;[[Special:EmailUser/Ojay123|E-Mail]]&bull;[[Special:Contributions/Ojay123|Contribs]]&bull;[[User:Ojay123/Sandbox|Sandbox]])</sup> 02:15, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
|}