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".

1 Running your own bot
2 Current and proposed bots
3 Miscellaneous bot pages
4 Frameworks and interfaces for bot development
5 See also

[edit] Running your own bot

Using the python wikipediabot
English Wikipedia bot policy
Requests for bot status - to request an account be marked with a bot flag
Setting bot access - information for people running their own MediaWiki installation.

[edit] Current and proposed bots

Interwiki bot - includes details of the pywikipediabot
Uploadable Bots - a feature suggestion
Copyright bot - a proposal for finding copyright violations
Translation bot - proposal for a bot to translate taxonomic information.
KoyomiBot - proposal for a Japanese Wikipedia bot

[edit] Miscellaneous bot pages

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.