User talk:SuggestBot

If you're looking for recommendations, please go to User:SuggestBot/Requests.

Feedback on recommendations is welcome below. I move older feedback to User:SuggestBot/FeedbackArchive every so often. Thanks for caring enough to leave a note. -- ForteTuba 11:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brain Overload

The bot gave me some good links to look at, although about 1/3rd were brain-related, which I can only assume had something to do with the fact that several of my recent edits were to change a bunch of redirects based on the Nintendo DS "Brain Training" game. Besides that, it did a pretty good job given it didn't have a large list of contributions to work from. Confusing Manifestation 12:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One of its recommendation strategies is text-based matching, very search-engine like. I can easily imagine how it would get overwhelmed by seeing the word "Brain" in multiple article titles. Sometimes this works great at finding useful similar articles, other times not so much. Thanks for the feedback. -- ForteTuba 15:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Innovation

First off, SuggestBot is one of the most innovative Wiki Bots I've seen. Second, I enjoyed fixing some of the articles suggested. One suggestion, though, is that (because I do a lot of vandalism reversion) perhaps minor edits, small edits, and edits marked with "rv" should be ignored when determining articles. Otherwise, you end up with some crazy suggestions. Porphyric Hemophiliac § 18:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the nice words, it felt like an interesting thing to try and I'm glad you got some value out of it. As for edits being ignored, it tries to ignore "rv" edits. Minor edits didn't seem to help in offline testing, but enough people have asked for them that when I build the new, improved SuggestBot, I'm going to have an option for filtering them that people can try with and without. It's a good idea--I've noticed that people who do vandalism reversion get a lot of bogus stuff (in particular, they tend to get popular/controversial articles). Thanks again. -- ForteTuba 17:08, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yay!

These suggestions have been hugely useful for me. You deserve a cookie. æle ✆ 2006-05-27t14:35z

Sweet, like the cookie -- I'm glad they helped you out. -- ForteTuba 17:09, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

I notcied that you've left messages for Cool3 on his talk page, so I thought you mihgt want to vote in his RfA at WP:RFA. ShortJason 15:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a bot account that posts suggested articles to edit; I don't generally have special insight into the people who use the bot and don't feel plugged-in enough to the admin process to have useful opinions to contribute. Thanks for the invite, though. -- ForteTuba 17:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions

Thanks for the suggestions - mostly inpiring, even if somewhat haphazardly. Presumably because I've done so much of the work on the Handcolouring article, I ended up with a bizarre array of articles with the word "hand" in them: :Hand tool, Hand jive, First hand, Right Hand of Doom, I Kiss Your Hand, Madame,...! But I find this slightly random element fun, and it leads me to some subjects that I otherwise might not have looked at. Thanks again. Pinkville 20:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the text-based recommender has a bad habit of getting wrapped around an axle, but I'm glad you got something out of it. Thanks for the feedback. -- ForteTuba 02:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Programming

What language is this written in? I'm a basic-level programmer, and I'd be interested in looking at the source if that's okay with you. --Mathwizard1232 04:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]