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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
- Using the python wikipediabot
- English Wikipedia bot policy
- Steward requests/Bot status – to request an account be marked with a bot flag (for wikis without any active bureaucrat)
- Setting bot access – information for people running their own MediaWiki installation. Can be changed at Special:UserRights
[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
- Bot policy
- Lists of bots - where to find bots used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia foundation bot families.
- Vandalbot – advice on dealing with malicious bots
- robots.txt – file which tells web robots how to index your site.
- 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
- Pywikipediabot (Python)
- DotNetWikiBot Framework (.NET Framework 2.0, C#)
- Java Wiki Bot Framework (Java)
- MediaWiki::Bot (Perl)
- Anura robot framework (Perl)
- Bgbot (PHP)
- PHP mediawiki bot (PHP)
- SxWiki (PHP)
[edit] See also
| User groups | |
|---|---|
| Local: | blocked user – unregistered user – newly-registered user – registered user – bot – administrator – bureaucrat – oversight – checkuser – IP block exempt – Importer |
| Global: | locked account – unified account – bot – rollbacker – abuse filter editor – interface editor – new wiki importers - sysop – ombudsman – founder – staff – system administrator – steward |
