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This page explains how to try [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]] out by making it send you suggestions only once. We use a template for this because it is relatively easy to use, while also making us able to automate the process of sending out suggestions. As this document will explain, it also provides you with the possibility to influence what pages the suggestions are based on. SuggestBot removes the template automatically at the same time as it sends you the suggestions, thus ensuring that you only get suggestions once. If you are wondering what SuggestBot is and how it works, please see [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]].
SuggestBot uses your prior contributions to predict other articles you might want to edit. If you want to try it out, leave your username below and I'll arrange for [[User:SuggestBot]] to make such a list ([[User_talk:ForteTuba#Articles_you_might_like_to_edit.2C_from_SuggestBot|something like this]]) and post it on your talk page.
How you make SuggestBot send you suggestions depends on what you already have done:
It's not perfect, but it has gotten mostly good feedback so far. Limitations: SuggestBot only uses articles in the main namespace. It also operates on dumps, not on the live namespace for its suggestions. We're currently working off the July 17 dump. It gets live, up-to-the
minute edits when making recommendations, but only up to 500; frequent contributors may find that it recommends articles they've worked on before.
It filters out minor edits and ones that appear to be reverts and disambiguation based on the comments, in an effort to improve recommendations.
* If you haven't already edited any pages you need to [[#Suggestions based on specific pages|tell SuggestBot what you're interested in]].
If you have ideas on improving SuggestBot, please leave feedback on [[User_talk:SuggestBot|its talk page]].
* If you have already edited pages you may:
** get suggestions [[#Suggestions based on the pages you've edited|based on the pages you've edited]], or
** get suggestions [[#Suggestions based on specific pages|based on a specific set of pages]].
Should anything in this documentation be confusing or unclear, we appreciate questions and suggestions for improvements on [[User talk:SuggestBot|our talk page]].
== I want personalized SuggestBot suggestions for articles to edit ==
== Suggestions based on the pages you've edited ==
Please leave your name below. You'll get suggestions in the not too distant future, within a week and probably sooner. Once you get a chance to explore your suggestions, any [[User talk:SuggestBot|feedback]] you can give will tell me what to tweak. Thanks for your interest! -- [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]] 02:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
This is the way SuggestBot usually works: it fetches your last few hundred edits and suggests articles that are similar and in need of improvement. To get such a set of suggestions, add the following code to your user talk page:
'''Example:'''
<pre style="overflow: auto">
[[User:ForteTuba]]
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest}}
</pre>
Normally you will add the code to your user talk page. For example, if your user name is "MyName", add the code to <code>User talk:MyName</code>. If you have other user pages, you can add the code there. For example, you may have created a [[WP:USERSUBPAGE|subpage]] called "To Do" to save a list of things you want to do on Wikipedia. In that case, you can add the code to <code>User:MyName/To Do</code>. Then the suggestions will be posted to your "To Do" page instead of your talk page.
:will grab ForteTuba's (up to 500) most recent edits and make suggestions based on them.
We look for users who have added the template code at regular intervals, so you should get the suggestions fairly quickly, usually within about fifteen minutes.
'''Your username below (at bottom of this section, please):'''
== [[Suggestion system|Suggestions]] based on specific pages ==
[[User:Baristarim]]
You can tell SuggestBot exactly which pages it should base its suggestions on, which gives you the opportunity to potentially receive a set of suggestions limited to a certain area of interest. If you do this the bot will not look at your recent edits and can therefore end up suggesting articles you've recently edited, but it will not suggest any of the articles you've specified.
[[User:JoshDinger]]
As an example, let's assume you are interested in [[World War I]] and [[World War II]]. Wikipedia has specific pages about these subjects, so we can specify that SuggestBot should use these as the basis of the suggestions by listing them in the template code separated by "|", like this:
[[User:Amaas120]]
<pre style="overflow: auto">
[[User:AndrewRT]]
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|World War I|World War II}}
</pre>
Unfortunately SuggestBot does not work very well with such a low number of pages, which is why we have also made it possible to specify names of Wikipedia categories, which it will then fetch page titles from. Going back to our example using World War I & II, we can use the fact that Wikipedia also has categories about these subjects ([[:Category:World War I]] and [[:Category:World War II]]) and tell SuggestBot to use all the articles from these categories:
[[User:Pulveriser]]
<pre style="overflow: auto">
[[User:$yD!]]
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|Category:World War I|Category:World War II}}
</pre>
SuggestBot will use up to 128 pages from the listed categories and post suggestions based on those. It does not look at subcategories, so if a category has a subcategory you are interested in you will also have to list the subcategory. It is of course also possible to mix pages and categories in the listing, like this:
[[User:Keesiewonder]]
<pre style="overflow: auto">
[[User:TenguTech]]
{{User:SuggestBot/suggest|World War I|World War II|Category:Politics of World War II}}
</pre>
In summary the template code consists of the name of the template ("User:SuggestBot/suggest") followed by either "|" (a [[vertical bar]]) and the title of a page, or "|" and the title of a category, as many times as necessary. If you want a more formal definition you can expand the section below.
[[User:3R1C]]
{{Collapse top|title=Formal definition in [[Backus–Naur form]]}}<pre style="overflow: auto">
[[User:delldot]]
suggestion = "{{" TemplateName [ Pages ] "}}"
TemplateName = "User:SuggestBot/suggest"
Pages = { "|" PageOrCategory }
PageorCategory = PageTitle | CategoryTitle
// PageTitle is the title of a page, e.g. "World War I"
// CategoryTitle is the title of a category including "Category:", e.g. "Category:World War I"
</pre>
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== Your suggestions have been posted ==
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== People who SB has trouble posting for ==
Alas, it's very bad at accented characters in names right now. It's on the
list of things to fix.
[[User:Âme Errante]]
[[User:Aeæ]]
It can't post to blocked accounts, either.
[[User:YBO]]
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