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If you're looking for recommendations, you have two options. Should you want to try it out just once, please go to User:SuggestBot/Requests. If you want recommendations regularly, you can add yourself to the list of SuggestBot Regulars.

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]

Blank Bot Approval Page

Your bot approval page is blank... feeling neglected? Or disapproved? twilsonb (talk) 14:26, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

From what I've been able to piece together after the fact, SuggestBot first got approval to run when there was no formal bot approval process. After that there's been three other approvals. I've been concerned about the link not working, but I failed to notice that there's a BRFA field in the bot template. It has been fixed now, pointing to the latest one which was approved in late February. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 14:59, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions Request to my user page

Bear (talk) 07:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)'Bear620 ^{Talk• Contributions} 03:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)Bear (talk) 03:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions are now posted to your user talk page :) Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 14:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SuggestBot in mobile apps?

Hi, is anybody interested in thinking how SuggestBot could help Wikipedia mobile users? Of course the same suggestions for pages to edit could be given based on previous edits, but in addition to this there are other use cases relevant in mobile where SuggestBot could be a good base technology:

Suggest pages to view based on your edited/viewed pages.
Add your current location to the equation.
Look for local cases like geolocation missing in this page, a picture is welcome to this page...

Please check the rationale of the fresh Wikipedia mobile app we are after. Hopefully SuggestBot can help there making happier mobile users and turning some of them into active participants.--Qgil (talk) 22:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry for not responding to this sooner, mainly I've spent the time thinking about how SuggestBot can help in this kind of scenario. I think the ideas of adding geolocation information and pictures to articles are really good, particularly because they can be done in a way that's user friendly. Likewise, I'm not sure how useful general suggestions for articles to edit would be, as a mobile users probably does not want to type in a lot of Wiki markup from their phone (maybe if it's a tablet). I'll have another look at the app rationale on Meta and have a discussion with my colleagues. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, hopefully we can find some way of incorporation SuggestBot that'll be beneficial for everyone. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:21, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your time and brain on this. :) You have a good point, in fact we have two scenarios: mobile users getting suggestions for "mobile contributions" (things you can do on the go) and mobile users just getting generic suggestions. Let's not dismiss this latter use case: many mobile users are also PC/laptop users and will welcome suggestions even if not all of them are perfectly suitable for mobile devices. One good thing about the mobile app we are defining here is that users will be implicitly encouraged to be all the time logged-in, even if it's only to browser pages. This could make SuggestBot a good fit even for those mobile users that haven't contributed much or at all before.--Qgil (talk) 18:08, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

a problem

I have set SuggestBot to leave suggestions on my talk page twice a month. However, I have gotten nothing from this bot for weeks. I got one post from this bot in March and none in April. Help, please? Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ^T/_S 00:20, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see from our logs and your talk page, you received a set of suggestions on March 25 (currently section 22 on your user talk page), and another set on April 10 (currently section 40).

If you don't want the suggestions to get lost in the rest of the traffic on your user talk page, you can move the config template to a subpage (e.g User:Crazymonkey1123/SuggestBot), and the bot will post the suggestions there instead (just add it to your watchlist, and you'll notice when the suggestions are posted).

Hope that helps, let me know if there's anything else. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 01:52, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the bot is posting on my talk page again. Thanks for the help. Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ^T/_S 15:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have the code:

on the subpage User talk:Crazymonkey1123/Suggestions from SuggestBot of my main talk page. Will I receive suggestions there? Am I doing anything wrong? Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ^T/_S 21:07, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your setup is correct, and SuggestBot will start posting the recommendations there. The next one is due May 8 or thereabouts, so you won't see it until then. Let me know if there's anything else. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 16:14, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I hate you

QUIT SUGGESTING THINGS TO ME!