机器人
机器人是一种设计用来执行于维基中某些特定且极其重复的工作的软件程序。机器人通常需要许可才能操纵，而且有的时候会被破坏者使用，并在短时间内大量破坏维基站点的内容。
本地机器人和全域机器人
On Wikimedia wikis, most bots are active on just one or a few wikis, and are subject to the approval of that wiki's community (see local bot policy). Approved bots are added to the local “机器人” user group. The list of all accounts which are bots on any particular wiki is shown at Special:ListUsers/bot.
Bots which can operate on every Wikimedia wiki may be approved as global bots (see global bot policy). Bots approved this way are added to the “全域机器人” global user group. The list of them is shown at Special:GlobalUsers/global-bot.
Local and global bots alike are granted the “bot” user right (this is sometimes called a “bot flag”), which permits them higher rate limits for MediaWiki actions such as editing pages, and allows their edits to not show up in recent changes by default.
Additionally, they are both exempt from some rate limits used to slow down web scrapers running against Wikimedia sites (see Wikimedia robot policy). As these exemptions can only be applied to global groups, a “局域机器人” global group exists, which is automatically synchronized with the local bot groups on every wiki.
运行你自己的机器人
完整說明請參閱Manual:Creating a bot on MediaWiki.org。
- 使用Pywikibot
- 中文维基百科的机器人方针
- Steward requests/Bot status —申请將帳戶标志為机器人（對於沒有活躍行政員的維基）
- 设置机器人访问—为人们运作他们自己的MediaWiki安装程序的信息。它可在Special:UserRights中更改
- wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Developing successful tools—對於所有機器人管理者的最佳實踐
其他机器人页面
- 机器人方针
- Small wiki toolkits/Starter kit/Bots and Tools——查找用于维基百科及其他维基媒体基金会项目的机器人家族
- 破坏性机器人——对处理有害的机器人提出建议
- 回退权——包含使用“机器人回退”的指引
机器人开发的框架和界面
有關列表，請參閱 mw:Manual:Creating a bot#Programming languages and libraries。