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The Signpost: 08 April 2013

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Message on CBNG's talk page
Hey!

Thought you might like to know there's a message on ClueBot's talk page that you may be interested in :)--5 albert square (talk) 20:30, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, should've pointed out it's RudolfRed's message :)--5 albert square (talk) 20:31, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I got it, arigato :) - Rich (MTCD) T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 20:39, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2013

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AFC articles under review
Just a reminder, you have two articles that are under review that were last edited on the 8th. If you are no longer reviewing them, please return them to "pending" status. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  19:15, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ - Rich (MTCD) T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 01:06, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Your review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Quixey
At the AfC help desk Vb7490 asked about the Quixey article that you reviewed: WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk. I'm not quite sure what to tell him; to me the article doesn't look that spammy any more. Could you please explain your rationale? Yours, Huon (talk) 02:15, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

✅ - Rich (MTCD) T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 01:05, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2013

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Help test new SuggestBot design
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A question to you
i have initiated a discussion at talk page of protection policy. The summary of my proposal is : instead of a reviewer it should be replaced by a bot with functions similar to CluebotNG.I just want to ask you whether making such a bot is feasible?Suri 100 (talk) 01:42, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Bot is useful
I found that the bot is performing very well in reverting vandalism. One of the examples can be seen over here. - Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery. Thanks. --Abhijeet Safai (talk) 11:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

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IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

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Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions
We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:


 * Views/Day : Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:


 * Content : Is more content needed?
 * Headings : Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
 * Images : Is the number of illustrative images about right?
 * Links : Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
 * Sources : For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

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