IRC/Bots
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This page deals with the approval and cloaking of IRC bots on freenode. These can be identified with two types of cloaks: those in the form project/usernick/bot/botnick (user cloak) which represent bots that may or may not actually be for Wikimedia's use but are operated by their owner, and project/bot/botnick (Wikimedia cloak), for bots which have a practical use for Wikimedia and which have been approved by a group contact.
The procedure for requesting cloaks can be found here. If you already have a user cloak for your bot and (as is the case for most bots) it should be a Wikimedia cloak, go to the same page and follow the instructions in the "Changing cloaks" section.
There are a number of guidelines for the operation of IRC bots on freenode:
- A bot should not pose a nuisance, flood, or harass users.
- The ircname of the bot should preferably contain a URL to a wiki page or web page describing the bot.
- Bot behaviour remains the responsibility of their operators.
[edit] List of bots
The following table lists all currently known bots. Please update if incorrect, and keep alphabetised by bot nick.
| Bot nickname | Bot username (if applicable) | Operator nickname | Operator username | Primary channel | Brief description bot's function | Cloak (if applicable) |
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| ACCBot | — |
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#wikipedia-en-accounts | Alerts account creators to new requests | wikimedia/bot/ACCBot
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| AntiSpamMeta | — | AfterDeath | WHeimbigner | Alerts ops about users that are excessively flooding and provides alerts in #wikimedia-ops. see /AntiSpamMeta. | AntiSpamMeta/.
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— | Barras | Barras | #cvn-* | Reports new on-wiki events to the cvn channels | wikimedia/barras/bot/bRCBot
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| b[stew] | User:Barras | Barras | Barras | Does steward/admin actions | wikimedia/barras/bot/b-stew
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— | Mike_lifeguard | Mike.lifeguard | Reports edits to the workspace on the relevant wiki, as defined by the channel community. (documentation) |
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| CheMoBot | en:User:CheMoBot | Beetstra | Beetstra | #wikichem | Follows selected fields in infoboxes for verification purposes. Tags pages with changes to selected, verified fields |
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| COIBot | Beetstra | Beetstra | #wikipedia-spam-t | Catch edits where username overlaps significantly with page edited, where username overlaps significantly with url added, monitor link additions, link statistics. | wikimedia/bot/coibot
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— | stwalkerster | Stwalkerster | Linkbot and miscellaneous other functions. See w:WP:HELPMEBOT and http://helpmebot.org.uk/w/ for more info. | wikimedia/bot/helpmebot
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| Jotter | — | Jyothis | Jyothis | #cvn-sw | Helper bot to help users do translation and language code lookup. | wikimedia/bot/Jotter
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| JBot-RC, JBot-CVN, JBot-HELP, JBot-0 thru 9 | — | Jyothis | Jyothis | Reports edits, cvn alerts etc for all wikimedia projects into subscribed channels. | wikimedia/bot/JBot-RC
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User:LiWa3 (doesn't edit) | Beetstra | Beetstra | Reports new additions of links on approx. 751 wikis. |
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| Marco27Bot | Marco27Bot | Marco27 | Marco 27 | # | RC bot, reports changes related to it:Wikipedia:Bot | wikipedia/Marco27/bot/Marco27Bot
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| MiszaBot | — | Misza13 | Misza13 | Anti-vandalism bot | wikimedia/bot/MiszaBot
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| Pitsilemu | Diego_Grez | Diego Grez | #wikinews | English language version of orejotas, #wikipedia-es bot. |
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— | [Pmlineditor] | Pmlineditor | Based on EhJJ's bot for usage in CVN channels | wikimedia/pmlineditor/bot/pmlineditor-bot
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| route_bot | — | vishwin | O | A bot based on unilinky that expands links, gives answers to FAQs, and provides notifications. | wikimedia/O/bot/route-bot
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| statusbot | — | Mike_lifeguard | Mike.lifeguard | Echoes /topic changes and other events with the aim of quickly disseminating status information for WMF sites. (documentation) | wikimedia/bot/statusbot
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— | Laaknor | Laaknor | #cvn-unifications | Reports filtered account unifications. (documentation) | wikimedia/bot/SULWatcher
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| StewardBot | — | dungodung | Dungodung | #wikimedia-stewards | Reports information relevant to stewards | wikimedia/bot/StewardBot
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| SWMTBot | — |
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Small Wiki Monitoring Team | #cvn-sw | Monitors vandalism on hundreds of wikis each | wikimedia/bot/SWMTBot
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| Tangobot3 | — | Tangotango | Tangotango | #wikipedia-en-help | Monitors en:WP:HD, etc. for new topics (documentation) | wikipedia/Tangotango/bot
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| UnBlockBot | — | Beetstra | User:Beetstra | #wikipedia-en-unblock | Automatically reports new uses of {{unblock}} and all users in en:CAT:RFU with !unblock. |
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| unilinky | — | HardDisk_WP | user:HardDisk | [[irc:{{{channel}}}|#{{{channel}}}]] | Link expander, huge seen-db, factoids | wikipedia/harddisk/bot/unilinky
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| VMbot | — | C-M | C-M | #wikipedia-de-rc | VMbot is an IRC-Bot watching the recent changes looking for new entrys on de:WP:VM, the german Version of en:Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Aditionaly he is managing the @admin -command to show available admins. | wikimedia/C-M/bot/VMbot
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| VVVBot | VVVBot | VasilievVV | VasilievVV | Process commands like !admin | wikimedia/VasilievVV/bot/VVVBot
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| Wiki-Bot | — | Platonides | Platonides | #wikimedia-commons-image-uploads2 | Reports uploads at commons and suspicious files. | wikimedia/bot/Wiki-Bot
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| WikiLinkBot | — | Sumurai8 | Sumurai8 | #wikipedia-nl | Makes [[ ]] and {{ }} clickable links, alerts opted-in mods on !mod-command (doc) | wikimedia/bot/WikiLinkBot
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| wiktlinky | — | Wuzur | Wuzur | #wiktionary-de | expands wikilinks |
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| Wikilinker | — | Zach | Zachary | #wikinews | Converts wiki syntax to URLs (documentation) | wikimedia/Zachary/bot/Wikilinker
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| Wikiwikio | XeBot | Orango | Orango | Make Urls(TinyUrls) for Wiki commands, Social functions (RSS, Weather, Math..) | wikimedia/Orango/bot/XeBot
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| wmfgcbot | Wmfgcbot | seanw | Sean Whitton | #wikimedia-irc | Once actually coded, this bot will perform time-saving tasks for the group contacts. | wikimedia/bot/wmfgcbot
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| XLinkBot | en:User:XLinkBot |
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#wikipedia-spam-t | Reverts link additions on en.wikipedia.org |
