As Stuart Yates kindly pointed out, SuggestBot is alive and well! (And in
case it wasn't obvious, I know this because I'm the one maintaining it :)
It's currently serving up article suggestions in seven languages. It also
updates the list of open tasks (e.g. the one shown on the English Community
Portal <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal>) in a few
languages (those task list updates pick a random selection of articles from
a given set of categories, they're not personalized recommendations).
There is currently not as far as I know any similar tool that does
personalized recommendations. Stuart mentioned some ways that wikipedias
organize work lists and keep track of things that need to be done. There's
also some tools that provide topical suggestions for things to do
(e.g. Citation
Hunt <https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en>). I haven't dug into
learning how those work.
When it comes to published research on how Wikipedia contributors work with
tasks, in addition to the two papers that have been published about
SuggestBot there's also this one: Krieger, M., Stark, E. M., & Klemmer, S.
R. "Coordinating tasks on the commons: designing for personal goals,
expertise and serendipity" CHI 2009.
Happy to answer any other questions you (or others) might have about
SuggestBot, of course!
Cheers,
Morten
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 18:21, Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
Thanks so much for answering my questions, Stuart.
It seems redlinks are related to article creation only.
Could you give me some detail about how "administrative groups" work in
term of task routing?
I also found the following TASK CENTER page (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Task_Center).
Are the links/lists (under "Do it!") used frequently by editors as routing
tools?
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
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(a) SuggestBot visited me in the last week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AStuartyeates&typ…
(b) There are lots of different task routing approaches: lists of
redlinks,administrative groups, etc.
(c) Sentences containing the words 'bot' and 'documented' appear to
mainly exist for comedic value. Bots are typically even less
documented than usual.
cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 15:24, Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
Hi all,
Is the SuggestBot still in use in Wikipedia?
Are there similar task routing tools that have been deployed in
Wikipedia?
Where in Wikipedia the use of such tools or bots was documented?
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
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