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Feedback on recommendations is welcome below. MiszaBot moves older feedback to the archives regularly, there is also an archive in User:SuggestBot/FeedbackArchive. Thanks for caring enough to leave a note. Nettrom (talk) 14:55, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No suggestions yet

Hello, I've subscribed for suggestions awhile ago and there is no update in my talk page. Let me know when changes occur. Thanks! Nashu2k 13:54, 25 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nashu2k (talk • contribs)

Hey, sorry about the delay, we've been having some problems over the past week and have been busy catching up with things. This has led to our request list being further delayed. I've got the bot going through the first half of the requests now, so you should see the suggestions posted to your talk page in the next couple of hours or so. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All OK now. Thanks for the feedback! Nashu2k 15:01, 1 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nashu2k (talk • contribs)

Very minor suggestion

When it gives out the messages, icons like [[File:Green cross.svg|15 px]], it should as [[File:Green cross.svg|15 px|alt=|link=]]. extra999 (talk) 01:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I hadn't thought carefully about those options when I wrote the code for it. I've now added alt-text where appropriate and made sure the images don't link. Thanks for pointing that out to me! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:45, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will we be informed when results are in?

I like the new feature where suggestbot gives you some idea how much a page is visited. It helps me choose where to spend my time more wisely. When the study you are running is over will those of us enrolled automatically get a notice so we can read it? I'm kind of a numbers junkie, and I love reading those things. :) Thanks. Tlqk56 (talk) 19:04, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, I'm happy to hear you find the info useful, that's what we aimed for! I've made a note to let you know when we've got our results published and I plan to post a note on your user talk page when that happens. Usually we publish at computer science conferences, so it will likely be early 2013 before we have a paper accepted anywhere. Then there's maybe a couple of months more before the actual conference. If you're on Twitter our research lab has an account where we tend to post about accepted papers, talks at conferences, etc, and we also publish many of our papers on our website. Regards, Nettrom (talk) 19:32, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I will visit your website, and look forward to the paper. Best wishes. Tlqk56 (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

SuggestBot should expand its scope, currently it gives suggestions only articles. For example, if a user has been making lots of contributions in portals then it should also give links to portals. Or does this happen, what do you think? extra999 (talk) 07:21, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the idea! It's been on our list for a while, but in the context of WikiProjects. One could imagine SuggestBot telling a user "You seem to edit many articles within the scope of Portal X" (or "WikiProject Y") and ask if the user wants to join the project or look at the portal for more work to do. I'll look into it to see how feasible this kind of feature is (one issue is how to figure out membership), and make sure it stays on our list of enhancements. Thanks again! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Specific Articles

Hi,

I really enjoy using SuggestBot because it is really helpful. I just have one suggestion, when I edit one article I get suggestions from articles that have a similar name but nothing to do with the article I edited. For example, if I edit a Tracy Beaker article I get suggestions from an article named Dick Tracy. Is there a way to narrow it down to articles that do have something to do with the article I want. Androzaniamy (talk) 10:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]