ChatBot is available from BlueSpice 5.2. This extension has multiple prerequesites before it is available to users in a wiki.
Starting a conversation
If the chatbot is enabled in the wiki, the interface provides a chat assistant that can answer questions related to your wiki. Click the Chat button at the end of the page to open the chat.
The chat window
The chat window has the following main features:
- (1) Buttons to resize or close the chat:
- resize chat: The size of the chat window has 3 different settings.
- minimize chat: The chat window is hidden, but not closed. Clicking the chat button again restores the current session.
- close chat and delete chat history: The chat window is closed and the chat history of the session is deleted.
- (2) Prompt with timestamp: Once a conversation has been started by sending a prompt from the message area, it appears with a timestamp in the chat window.
- Answer to the prompt with the following elements:
- (3) the answer text
- (4) resources: the page references that were used as a data source
- (5) buttons to copy the answer to the clipboard or to save it as a wiki page (as a subpage of the current user's user profile page, e.g.
User:WikiSysop/Bot/...)
- (6) Suggested follow-up questions
- (7) Message prompt area
Search integration
When a user types in a search term and switches to the search center, the search results are preceded by a summary from the chatbot.
Excluding pages as a data source
To exclude a page as a data source for the chatbot:
- Click the Options menu in the visual editor toolbar.
Page options menu - Click Advanced settings.
- Click No, do not index after the label Can be indexed for ChatBot. Users can check this requirement in the visual editor toolbar under Options > Advanced options.
This adds the behavior switch to the page source.
Configuration manager
An administrator can configure the name of the bot that is shown at the beginning of the chat window in the Config Manager under extension ChatBot.
