Bot

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A bot is a robot designed for performing certain repetitive tasks on a Wiki. Bots typically require permission to be one, and are occasionally used by negative editors (such as vandals) to damage a Wiki's content.

For the system “bot” is a user group; Special:Listusers/bot produces a list of all users who are member of this group. In addition, “bot” is a user right. Edits by a user with this “right” (rather: property) by default do not show up in recent changes. Typically a user of type “bot” has user right “bot”. User rights are often called “flags”; bots with user right “bot” are often called “flagged” bots.

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[edit] Running your own bot

[edit] Current and proposed bots

[edit] Miscellaneous bot pages

  • Bot policy
  • Vandalbot – advice on dealing with malicious bots
  • robots.txt – file which tells web robots how to index your site.
  • Help:Administrators#Rollback – includes instructions for using “bot rollback” to hide vandalism from recent changes
  • Botopedia international project for generating Wikipedia articles from statistical data.

[edit] Frameworks and interfaces for bot development

[edit] See also

User groups
Local: blocked user – anonymous user – registered user – bot – administrator – bureaucrat – oversight – checkuser
Global: Abuse filter editors – locked account – unified account – bots – rollback – ombudsmen – sysop – system administrators – staff – steward – founder
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