Lists of bots
This content should be moved to the MediaWiki FAQ in a maintenance section.
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[edit] What bots are available for large maintenance tasks?
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects use many bots to assist with tasks which may otherwise pose an excessive burden on wiki users or administators. Using bots to automate tasks is especially important for implementing large multilingual wiki families.
The most helpful page describing tasks performed by particular bots on Wikipedia is Wikipedia:Registered bots.
Many bot scripts use the Python Wikipediabot Framework (pywikipedia). Pywikipediabot scripts lists bots based on pywikipedia. The source code repository may be browsed from the pywikipedia Subversion repository. The CONTENTS file describes the various files in the repository.
See also the Meta Wikimedia bot page and BotWiki.
The listing of Wikipedia bot users or Wikipedia bots by name lists user accounts running bots but neither most linked bot user accounts nor the user accounts of their owners give sufficient information about the bots. Information lacking a link to the source code would be insufficient for implementors. Insufficient information is a similar problem with other Wikipedia bot pages such as Wikipedia:Bots.
| 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 |
