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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
2	Gudigar (talk)	Add sources
61	Honnavar (talk)	Add sources
7	Braintree High School (talk)	Add sources
2,606	Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? (talk)	Add sources
671	Murder of Odin Lloyd (talk)	Add sources
16	Idagunji (talk)	Add sources
13	Pinangwan (talk)	Cleanup
683	Kodagu district (talk)	Cleanup
1,242	Microsoft Exchange Server (talk)	Cleanup
1,847	Usage share of web browsers (talk)	Expand
288	Acid3 (talk)	Expand
42	South Goa (talk)	Expand
623	Butterfly knife (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
245	Video game culture (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
309	Alauddin Khilji (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,602	Voice over IP (talk)	Merge
7,185	IOS (talk)	Merge
503	Internet security (talk)	Merge
23	Stolen (video game) (talk)	Wikify
0	Kapagal (talk)	Wikify
4	BIG Star Most Entertaining Television Actor - Female (talk)	Wikify
1	Ajjavara, Sulya (talk)	Orphan
4	Kinetic Monte Carlo surface growth method (talk)	Orphan
1	Mithur (talk)	Orphan
222	Eid Mubarak (talk)	Stub
1	Ajgaon (talk)	Stub
10	Dicle (talk)	Stub
6	Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (talk)	Stub
6	Jules Suriray (talk)	Stub
1	Ajjibal (talk)	Stub

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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.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

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?
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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?

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership

Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more

News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities

Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia

Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

WikiProject report: U2 Too

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans

WikiProject report: Australian Roads

Featured content: Under the sea

News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed

In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns

The Signpost: 16 October 2013

News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin

Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri

WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology

Featured content: That's a lot of pictures

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumblings in the German-language community

Traffic report: Your average week ... and a fish

Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia

Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more

In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: Elements of the world

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We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

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.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
96	Tulu Nadu (talk)	Add sources
2	Nimrod Pennyroyal (talk)	Add sources
17	Normandy High School (Missouri) (talk)	Add sources
2,664	States and union territories of India (talk)	Add sources
318	Fat fetishism (talk)	Add sources
8	Infernal Devices (Philip Reeve novel) (talk)	Add sources
32	Sathodi Falls (talk)	Cleanup
1,003	EarthBound (talk)	Cleanup
4,477	Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?...Ek Baar Phir (talk)	Cleanup
18,941	Beyond: Two Souls (talk)	Expand
2,449	Nintendo 2DS (talk)	Expand
172	Bellary (talk)	Expand
168	Dharwad (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
166	Cross-browser (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
182	Gaming computer (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52	Web browser history (talk)	Merge
14	Konkani in Karnataka and Kerala (talk)	Merge
831	IBM System i (talk)	Merge
26	Roopa Iyer (talk)	Wikify
5	M. D. Nanjundaswamy (talk)	Wikify
4	1980 Dominican Embassy siege in Bogotá (talk)	Wikify
1	Sangameshwara, Kalaghatagi (talk)	Orphan
2	Binnal (talk)	Orphan
0	Habalakatti (talk)	Orphan
2	Nicholas Quirke (talk)	Stub
23	Dhamara Ghat train accident (talk)	Stub
5	Anna Fang (talk)	Stub
4	River Falls High School (talk)	Stub
2	Magnus Crome (talk)	Stub
1	Ajjarni (talk)	Stub

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.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

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!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:51, 31 October 2013 (UTC)