Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SuggestBot 2


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

SuggestBot
Operator: ForteTuba

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised, but edits are automatically made.

Programming Language(s): Perl (WWW::Mediawiki), Python (pymediawiki), SQL, Java (mwdumper)

Function Summary: Help people find interesting things or people on wikipedia.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Irregularly, semi-manually

Edit rate requested: 1 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): not to my knowledge, don't particularly want one

Function Details: Looks at some of a user's contributions, combining them with info from a full dump in order to recommend articles to edit that are marked as needing work. It wants to expand in order to recommend WikiProjects, categories, and other Wikipedians that people might be interested in.

Discussion
SuggestBot has been running for about a year and has a lot of satisfied customers. It has some who have suggested improvements, so I am looking to do a substantial rewrite to fix known flaws and generate better recommendations. I think it can be used to improve feelings of community in Wikipedia by pointing people to other people and groups, so I intend to do that. -- ForteTuba 14:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You can trial out the new features and post diffs when you've done about 50 edits or so with no problems. — Mets501 (talk) 20:07, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Might be a while, coding time is pretty spastic these days, but it's good to have the go-ahead. -- ForteTuba 15:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

We'll archive this request for now. I'm sure the new request will be no problem, so consider it — M ETS 501 (talk) 15:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


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