Bots are automated scripts or processes which perform jobs on Wikipedia. Usually, they do jobs which would take a long time to do without the bot. Bots...

for Bot status. To request status, please see the talk page. Contributions Operator: Yotcmdr Programming language: AWB Function: Stub sorting bot Description:...

Operator: Grunny Programming language: PHP Function: Delivery Bot Description: Delivery Bot for Wikipedia:Simple News. The script was run on my account...

will have the bot run in AWB's automatic mode to correct instances of [[:: to [[:. I corrected a few such issues while flagging myself as bot, but there...

such as adding, removing, and moving. I can put an edit throttle on the bot if you wish, just specify the time you want. --ƏviŁŁyGøødcontributions 21:10...

FNAFPUPPETMASTER Programming language: Pywikibot Function: Tagging Description: The bot would tag new page protections, and remove them when it expired. It would...

BaseBot Operator: Base Programming language: Java, wiki-java. Function: Create 5 to 15 total stub articles about Paralympic Ice sledge hockey medalists...

inappropriate request. Mh7kJ (talk) 17:30, 14 June 2013 (UTC) User:John Bot II/OrphanBotStatus (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Aaqib...

give you the flag. As for GB5, since yours wasn't running EhJJ started a bot doing that task if you look below. You guys might want to confer with each...

page during the duration of their block. Bots may be blocked at any time if they are not following the bots policy. The main reasons this may be done...

has a useful link at Commons. Description: This is essentially what AvicBot does now for Geo-pages and the Main page. (Tasks 2 & 3. e.g., pages like...

tedious because it requires an extra step to opening and closing them. This bot will manage them isntead making things more simple (no pun intended). Computer...

User B To use bot rollback, you type in the URL http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Example&bot=1 replacing Example...

nofollow HTML tag is added to external links on all WMF projects. If you see a bot putting in links to other websites, please consider checking the other language...

 Disagree the bot is not even active, just a silly page and proving that Wikipedia is supposed to be reliable. So I bet John Bot II's bot flag has been...

Team Bluegoblin7 - Editor-in-chief Hydriz - Editor Pmlineditor - Editor Yotcmdr - Editor Contributors Ancient Apparition Other GoblinBot3 - Delivery Bot...

archival of discussions Description: See Discussion. Current bot isn't work. Would set up the bot for this task again. It used to do the work in the past....

bot flag ('bot' user group) are not displayed in recent changes or watchlists to users who have opted to hide bot changes. Small changes made by bot accounts...

when the bot is approved to operate, it will only do work within user talk namespace where the user has {{bots}}, {{bots|allow=all}}, or {{bots|allow=Bot873}}...

and therefore Flow bots have no tasks to perform and the userright will not be granted to any other bots other than the default bot that comes with the...

could use some more attention, so i decided to help out here as well. The bot will have many tasks, but the first task is to convert archive.is/md -> archive...

this new newsletter, simply go to Subscribe and fill in your details. A bot will deliver your newsletter direct to your talk page! If you want to unsubscribe...

permanent bot flag should be given remain the same - the user should create a secondary account and request a bot flag as normal. Only temporary bot flags...

reminder bot. Description: As above. The bot is expected to run rarely, but this process is required regardless, hence this request. Note that the bot automatically...

username. Editors who operate bots have to make separate accounts (and request they be marked as bot accounts via Wikipedia talk:Bots), so the automated changes...

than names that offend people. Names that have the word "bot" will confuse you with Wikipedia bots. It is not offensive, but it is confusing to the community...

language: Python (Pywikibot) Function: Updating the DYK Description: The bot automates the task of updating the DYK templates. This includes moving new...

Amandajm AmaraBot Amirobot AndersBot Archer7 Art LaPella ArthurBot Auntof6 AvicBot Avicennasis Barliner Barras Belinda Belovedfreak BenzolBot Bluegoblin7...

16th, an editor who is autoconfirmed can activate FehuBot on this page. If for any reason the bot is down or unable to edit it can be manually updated...

am no longer going to be using this bot (at least, not in the near future), I would like to request that its' bot flag be removed so long as it can be...

service with AWB access and a bot flag. My other sister GoblinBot3 is also getting ready to start editing as an interwiki bot. She has been given a trial...

50 trial edits of archiving talk pages that use the MiszaBot/Configuration template. My bot is PDLBotArchiver. Your messages are not being thrown away...

page, or have done something else wrong. Your bot is out of control (this is only for people who run bots). You have been blocked from editing. A user...

someone else initially ;-). In terms of bot flags, as everyone probably knows I've got bot experience with GoblinBots 1 through 6 (Though only 3 & 4 are in...

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communication. Local contact admin: User:Freshstart Bot account: User:CommonsTicker Bot author/maintainer: de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb Technical information:...

"enabledbots": [ "Auntof6Bot", "BattyBot", "ChenzwBot", "Djsasso", "KMLbot", "KolbertBot", "PmlineditorBot", "SassoBot", "Lee Vilenski", "Fehufanga"...

a potential long-term bot. A few disclaimers, the bot does not have the capability to and is not intended to replace ChenzwBot. The anti-vandalism role...

Please refer to WT:BOT#PiRSquared17Bot. The problem right now is not with the presence of the bot, rather it has got to do with the bot re-categorising the...

understand, the bot flag allows the bot to do high api reads and bypass the captchas, if you want the bots edits to show on recent changes the bot can tell mediawiki...

request for a Bot flag which was quickly denied based on his en:wp/Commons ban as well as the fact of it being an antivandal bot. We don't need bots controlled...

getting my bot to make them (about 10 a minute)? The other advantage with this technique, is that I can edit other articles whilst my bot is writting...

extra links are added), I'm willing to create a semi automated pywikipedia bot to change these if it is deemed needed. --NigelJ talk EN 21:51, 1 April 2007...

September 2009 (UTC) Seems to be a 'bot but hiding bot edits in my "New changes" makes no difference for this "bot". I'm off to bed but this needs to be...

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 3 days. For the archive overview, see Archive....

one or more pages, please consider leaving a message for User:XLinkBot. This bot will automatically revert listed sites if added by non-autoconfirmed...

Changes you make here will not stay, and will be automatically removed by a bot after a period of time. Please do not put inappropriate things like copyrighted...

testing, but not for long-term development, as it is regularly cleaned by a bot. To link to a user subpage called "Sandbox" from your main user page, place...

deletions • moves • right changes) - I don't run a bot, but I bet other bots would need a big bot flag bit for bots but not bats. Jonas_D._Rand (talk · contribs)...

(also called a "crat") is a user who can grant and revoke the admin and bot permissions. Checkuser is a user who can see private information about editors...

Depending on the purpose of the bot, either the pywiki bot framework, AWB, or some other program are needed to realy need the bot flag most of the time. --...

@Gomdoli4696: Without the bot flag, an account isn't a bot account. I've blocked DaedanBot because it has a bot name but isn't an approved bot here. --Auntof6 (talk)...

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bureaucrats are the only people who can close requests for adminship and bot flags as successful, as they are the only users who can give users the flags...

files available through Wikidata Description: Basically the same task as the bot performs on English Wikipedia: Manually generate a list of articles which...

up in my area I will help with it too ;) Also, i'm looking at getting a bot to keep this page updated for us. Cheers, Goblin 10:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)...

Resolved. Bot flag denied. Chenzw  Talk  14:23, 22 August 2010 (UTC) I've been directed here regarding my recent post to WT:BOTS#Hazard-Bot. It apparently...

about if this should be a new bot (EhJJ expressed interest in writing it) or an existing bot (IE: en:User:Slakr's bot) Thoughts? fr33kman talk 00:04...

vandalism (compared with only one edit in six months that wasn't vand, rv or bot); also possibility of hate vandalism. Request three months semi-protection...

2006 (UTC) Hello, I placed a request on Wikipedia talk:Bots to get a bot flag for Thijs!bot, my bot which adds interwiki-links on currently more than 25...

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 7 days....

Didn't a bot usually update that? I thought we have the bot sysops so it could...--Gordonrox24 | Talk 18:14, 26 December 2010 (UTC) The bot's been down...

Toolserver bots. Regards, Goblin 17:36, 15 July 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! botflag? --Barras (talk) 17:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC) Yup, GB2 has a bot flag. Goblin...

to QD it. Razorflame put catredirect instead, and the bot readded the interwiki links. The bot apparently didn't pick up the catredirect and change the...

flooding the New Changes page. For this, the account has temporarily gotten the Bot flag to handle this job. It normally doesn't generate this many edits and...

reason: This template isn't able to function on this site. Neither Citation bot nor its owner are active on here, so editors will simply have to fill out...

channel, WikiBot replies with links to Meta, not English Wikipedia. #wikidata – Discussions about Wikidata. Notice: In this channel, WikiBot replies with...

block) an (unconfirmed/IP) user that is "undoing" one or more edits (of bots/other (confirmed?) users). (User:199.216... in the edit history of Sexual...

(UTC) ‎AgraveBanks-Bot (edits) is making bot edits without a bot flag, and it doesn't look like the bot is approved. Sure, the bot is only making edits...

for vandalism, Twinkle now places it in the "Bot-reported" section, despite the fact that I'm not a bot. Can anything be done about this? Thanks, J991...

talk:Bots? --Auntof6 (talk) 09:08, 31 August 2011 (UTC) Removed. -Barras (talk) 09:09, 31 August 2011 (UTC) I believe he was actually rejected for a bot flag...

the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that...

etc). I let the bot do around 60 edits, and it forced me and FrancoGG to spend some time to fix the mistakes. Afterall, it is a bot, not that wise! I've...

(number of characters changed) are not monitored by the bot. User:ClueBot NG (different from User:ClueBot, which uses the "old" method to determine vandalism)...

newsletter, Simple News, our DYK section, and I also run 3 (Soon to be 5!) bots BG: I also create articles, participate in discussions and revert vandalism...

out that a lot of those articles are bot generated (well, AWB if you want to get technical but AWB is just a bot in a box). --Chris 11:50, 25 April 2009...

Yap 20:59, 23 October 2008 (UTC) Support - But someone has to maintain a bot or something. Chenzw  Talk  00:56, 24 October 2008 (UTC) No, we don't. Just...

to make editors redundant. Such a bot would indeed be very difficult to code. My idea of a bot is a semi-automatic bot. It may be able to identify which...

wanted to do it. They are aware the bot's are not working. It is a back end issue for one bot and IRL busy for another bot. I would suggest you put it back...

at Bot policy/New global bot discussion on Meta. Please subscribe yourself or your wiki if you are interested in new global bots proposals. For a bot to...

(UTC) Can someone please block QDPatrolBot because, it is currently an unapproved bot. Please block this bot with autoblock disabled only. --Katarighe...

pages weekly (maybe monthly to start). Would anyone like to help (especially bots), or does anyone have any objections? Kennedy (talk) 10:27, 31 October 2008...

needed. I would also be able to work with Bot requests since I run a bot myself and have some knowledge of bot coding. -Djsasso (talk) 01:38, 3 May 2009...

longer a bot to run the RfX report. Would anybody be interested in adding this task to their bot? Shapiros10 18:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC) Well, my bot is rather...

months ago. I recently did a calculation: Suppose a bot would get one page every ten seconds, thisw bot would need about 7.5 days to go through all (roughly...

about getting an alternate account with the bot flag. —MC8 (b · t) 17:56, Tuesday August 11 2009 (UTC) It's at bot requests right now (User:GriffinBot1). Griffinofwales...

tasks, including fixing ambiguous links. Solve disambiguation.py is a python bot script designed to help fix ambiguous links. Toolforge reports: Disambiguation...

noticeboard, I am in the process of developing a bot to archive/delete "stale" DYK nominations. This bot expects a given format, which was the format that...

rest of the checks can be done automatically. This would allow to write a bot, that browses through the articles, and proposes some of those which meet...

causing huge clean up tasks because of things you have done wrong with your bot for example. You have a long track record of making mistakes and almost no...

with my toolserver account. Also, moving the cats should be easy with a bot (we've done it elsewhere). So all in all, I think it is not the renaming...

blocked User:ShockingBot -- a bot that copied a few advanced antivandal scripts from enwiki to its userpages, and has made two "bot" edits... - tholly --Talk--...

the Bot's owner? He would more likely be able to tell you what is going on with his bot. --Creol(talk) 07:52, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Who is the Bot owner...

Im good at finding things to do then realizing a bot could handle them much easier. As CitationBot is coming online here and should handle the citation...

years ago, when the English Wikipedia was relatively new, someone created a bot that created new articles for every county, city, and town in the United...

my calculations are correct the bot will edit about 23125 pages. At an edit rate of about 9-12 edits per min the bot should be done in about a day and...

something that could be done by bot quite easily, with humans fixing the broken articles. I'd also like to suggest that, if such a bot is run, that it also find...

Another such case occurred just now. diffs In the long run, I think the bot needs a few changes: Get away from a strict "anonymous user posted article...

follow the instructions and as soon as the newsletter is ready, it will be bot-delivered direct to you. Perhaps you think it needs something else, that...

and that includes taking part in more mopping (closing RfA's and approving bots, for example). I meet our new policy for cratship and figure it can't hurt...

categories/counter categories/... will be created by the bot if they do not exist. I currently run the bot by hand, it uses either the recent changes or new...

Wikipedians by number of changes is no longer being updated. This is because the bot that used to do it, BOTijo, was run by emijrp, who has now retired. We need...

and ptwiki I bot-create new Wikidata items for articles and categories after 14 days, see d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Pi bot 19 for the full...

your bots work, some might work, some might not. That's an entirely different issue. Bot ops should fix their bots if they are broken. If your bots stop...

where the bot undid your work. -- Auntof6 (talk) 17:47, 21 December 2022 (UTC) I have been consistently against allowing these endless bot or bot-like geo...

There are now 130-odd pages with the non-existent category. Can we use a bot to clear these?--Eptalon (talk) 23:59, 8 August 2021 (UTC) Category:Temporary...

Wikimedia Commons. (verify) Transclusions {{User:Daisy/Botop}} This user is a BotOp on the Simple Wikipedia. Transclusions {{User:Fairfield/Userboxes/User...

@Chenzw: also has access to the bot/code. Maybe he can help? -Barras talk 13:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC) Indeed I have the code, the bot used to be on the (now defunct)...

the only easy-to-use bot programs. Generally, if you have a task that needs a bot, it's better to find someone who already runs a bot to help you figure...

if there is an infobox without pop. info, the bot should add to the box. If there is no such box, the bot should add it to the text, preferably in the...

Please see Wikipedia:Bots. One of the requirements for running a bot is to be a good, active contributor first. You're free to run the bot without a flag,...

this? Hey Resident Mario, That is added by a special bot, called SineBot. We don't have such a bot here at the moment, and neither is one needed. Not a...

version of this is apparently updated automatically by a bot. As far as I know, we don't have a bot here to do that, and I don't think we need one. --Auntof6...

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 3 days and sections whose most recent comment is older than 90 days. For the...

admin, then added to the review interface if valid and used to train the bot. Status of the report and comments can be seen from within the report panel...

when I was helping combat a vandalism bot over at EN and my browser kept crashing because of the crazy stuff the bot was putting on the pages..." --Philosopher Let...

Whether this proposal is feasible Whether it is possible to get a bot flag for User:HydrizBot to run these database reports What kind of reports that the community...

archivebot for Simple Talk?  Hazard-SJ Talk 16:57, 25 July 2010 (UTC) Yes, MiszaBot (talk · contribs). πr2 (talk • changes) 17:05, 25 July 2010 (UTC) Well can...

users who request a bot flag, except that admins could only give it temporarily, while crats are allowed to give it permanently to bots (i.e. not a technical...

the bot to cause this. If an archive bot makes an edit to fix a dead link and redirect the reference to an archived version of that reference, the bot only...

I know I'm not the only user who is sick and tired of the bot-like IP Pakistan editor. He is a regular contributor, but he has never created any account...

the bots take it from there. I only plan to go there to change if the one there is pointing to something wrong here since that could cause more bot issues...

and coincided with the deployment of vandal-fighting bots. There is less need to edit when a bot reverts juvenile vandalism faster than humans can, and...

because it's not actually flagged as a bot locally.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 19:32, 7 April 2011 (UTC) Same problem /w DEagleBot. --SEPTActaMTA8235 (talk) 18:41,...

bot to scan zoology articles and make the change automatically? Darkfrog24 (talk) 22:54, 3 May 2022 (UTC) @Darkfrog24: If nobody has an automated bot...

Wikipedia, he has agreed to modify his en:User:SoxBotV for use here, giving users the ability to have a bot account change your status from online to offline...

would like to use the crat tools. I'm very interested in working RFP and the BOTS page when I'm able. I have the ability to make sound judgement with regards...

en:User:Citation bot/use This page is a soft redirect....

en:User talk:Citation bot This page is a soft redirect....

template. It will take some time for me to do the bot, but if there is no hurry, I think we should let a bot do it and spend our precious times on other things...

several VIP reports and 2 VGAs and 1 GA apart from few DYKs. He also runs 4 bots, which help the project a lot. There's a lot of admin work to do and I think...

dedication, maybe they could write a Welcome bot. Allow me to explain - on Wikimedia Commons, they have a bot that automatically welcomes new users. You...

any user with a bot? Thanks--Pierpao (talk) 18:44, 12 April 2017 (UTC) Yes, there are some. You can see the list at Special:ListUsers/bot. --Auntof6 (talk)...

people to not bother editing mainspace. There's a reason why we try and bot as many things as possible, so people don't have reasons to be distracted...

is if the bot is offline. So far, the bot's been working fine 99% of the time. Editing the subpages is a complete waste of time if the bot is working...

(b) user does not say who is running the bot, which violates the rules for bots even if they don't have the bot bit. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:38, 12 December...

For typo fixing, category checking, and hopefully bot approval. Picochip08 proposed bot changesowner 19:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)  Done Majorly (talk)...

have a bot (EhJBot (talk · contribs)) that can do the rest, but it won't suppress the redirect creation when it moves the page. For this, the bot needs...

having HujiBot creating all those missing pages at the moment. It's almost finished by now. Just wanted to report it, and inform you that the bot is ready...

will wait for a 'crat to close the bot request if they think they should. I would like the bot to receive the bot right anyways for some future purpose...

workload cannot be imagined. We also have some logged in editors who uses bots (unauthorized) to run pages as IPs. Workload is clearly way too much. In...

2010 (UTC) How do you create a bot? Flags (talk) 17:57, 11 August 2010 (UTC) Take a read at en:Wikipedia:Creating a bot but generally if you have to ask...

Darkfrog24 (talk) 22:03, 3 June 2022 (UTC) Place names by bot again. This is a pest because the bot runs over any existing pages, and puts up standard items...

changed the layout of that page, so that the bot no longer works. And since EhJJ isn't around to fix his bot, it currently has to be done by hand. -DJSasso...

bots like Makecat-bot (talk · contribs) which their operator Makecat is inactive and have been indef for sockpuppetery at zhwp. Do we allow the bots to...

global bots and global rollback. Anyone want to make a draft? Techman224Talk 23:12, 17 November 2008 (UTC) I'll add something to the current bot and rollback...

one of our bots to do this at simple English Wikipedia for notifying whenever there's archiving of threads at AN or ST? There are lots of bots working here...

Category:Active Wikipedia bots (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Active Wikipedia bots with no specified BRFA...

look. I suspect most are not. You continuing to update prevents the archive bot from archiving this whole section. -DJSasso (talk) 18:02, 5 June 2019 (UTC)...

probably get a new bot going to take it over if it doesn't start back up again. -DJSasso (talk) 12:39, 15 October 2013 (UTC) A bot called Legobot ran...

knew I was right first time :) Goblin 19:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! P.S. Doesn't need a pile-on, only one person needs to answer such a simple...

intermittent failures are coming from the bot's IP being blocked globally. He still has interest in maintaining his bots. I'm working with him to solve the issue...

en:Special relativity for beginners → Transwiki:Special relativity for beginners Uncle G's 'bot 20:01, 17 November 2005 (UTC)...

BG7THAT'S NUMBERWANG! 08:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC) Sounds like a good job for a bot... The Rambling Man (talk) 09:12, 3 April 2009 (UTC) I agree with this. Some...

fails or not. Thanks again, Goblin 14:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Addition: Also, in the event this fails I won't be running again. I have...

error rather than bot error, because the user is running that script as bot assisted which means a human checks the edit before the bot makes it. Probably...

February 2009 (UTC) As User:MiszaBot has been on a hiatus for 4 days and topics have been piling up on pages, I just got my bot to: Archive 10+ threads from...

this phabricator ticket. As there are a large number of tickets for that bot, I assume it may take a bit. Desertborn (talk) 20:56, 15 August 2019 (UTC)...

right now is getting our vandal bot back up. I have contacted Chenzw again because unfortunately the repo for the bot is no longer there so I can't just...

a time based on categories and sub-cats would let much of it be done by bots for the most general of groupings (VG, geography, movies, biography, etc)...

Kennedy (talk) 12:15, 15 June 2012 (UTC) To fix that we could easily have the bot also fix that page every so many minutes like it does to the normal sandbox...

April 2008 (UTC) I would like to allow my bot to use AWB. Do I just add the name to the checkpage or does my bot have to go through a more formal process...

the operator said it would do. The bot does these edits without a bot flag, and the bot flag is not given until the bot is approved, after a successful trial...

few sides to this problem: ChenzwBot (and its predecessors) was designed with 1RR in mind. This means that the bot will never rollback a page to a revision...

blocking the bot long term. Being that we rely solely on commons images we need that bot. -DJSasso (talk) 12:19, 17 May 2012 (UTC) I left the bot op a notice...

--Coppertwig 22:18, 1 August 2007 (UTC) Well, I once decided to run a js bot to do them all, then I thought there may be cases where we would have an...

long time ago there was a bot that would automatically update and remove the template if there was a Wiktionary entry but that bot is no longer running so...

this place can be like!) Goblin 23:05, 22 June 2011 (UTC) I ♥ Nifky! ArthurBot (talk · contribs) has stopped working (hasn't edited since 10th of June,...

thinking of running a bot for general maintenance, similar to NetBot. It wouldn't be used very much at all (probably less than NetBot), but I'd like to hear...

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 3 days....

24 May 2017 (UTC) We shouldn't need to do anything about this because a bot regularly resets the sandbox. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC) Nah...

in creating/reading about such articles. I assume the most wanted list is bot-created. We should therefore cut down on the references, and get the list...

propose to have a tag maintinence bot created. Shakinglord (talk) 18:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC) Strong Support The bot will help keep backlogs down while...

(UTC) As the level of vandalism is kind of high recently we could use the bot's help. --Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 18:48, 31 March 2014 (UTC) Is anyone...

all other years). Also, I would like to receive a bot status on your site for my bot User:YurikBot. It will be mostly involved in interwikies. Thank you...

The only edits to Belle Plaine since it was written are a handful of bots (or bot like stub sorting). No real time lost. We frown on mass produced stubs...

better job for a bot. Griffinofwales (talk) 02:56, 30 July 2010 (UTC) Thanks.  Hazard-SJ Talk 02:57, 30 July 2010 (UTC) Please let a bot finish up for me...

copy/list the old revision history as a talk-page topic. Avoid running fixer-bots too often, and beware small auto-updates, especially for minor words or auto-fixing...

outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. I'll keep an eye on the bot, to ensure it doesn't automatically recreate these pages. --George (Talk...

licensing. I did some checking, I see more candidates... surely they made a bot. I might step over to Commons later to see if there is a project that is...

{{bots}} are built into the bot and when the bot sees it, the bot knows what to do as it is part of its coding language. If a bot is not exclusion compliant...

me a bot flag to clear the category. or what steps should be taken. Ringkjøbing (talk) 19:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Yeh, i'd suggest getting a bot flag...

Personally, I rarely use rollback (unless using a bot-rollback which is more because of the bot portion and not the rollback portion) as I already have...

articles I created have been popping up in notices with "Mike Peel" or "Pi bot" connecting it to Wikidata. How do I do this? Ely - Talk 12:42, 11 September...

for the first VG article on the main page, instead we have an automatic bot that randomly selects a VG article for the Main Page? --§ Snake311 (T + C)...

June 2008 (UTC) A StatusBot has now been implimented on this Wikipedia. Feel free to follow the instructions at User:SoxBot to set up your Status. Cheers...

to remember to set my bot to go regularly again to handle archiving. I was just doing it when I thought of it incase BarrasBot came back but it doesn't...

Simple. It's using the en:User:AntiAbuseBot open source code. It will be logged on IRC as the nick MrFishBot. It will be logged in through the MediaWiki...

article creation. A bot adding a link to the Wikipedia article does not convey authorship credit, any more than the corresponding bot adding to the Wikipedia...

is too much vandalism, a better option would be to enhance the antivandal bots (or get one of en.wiki's to work here as well) and enable the abuse filter...

to instead make a comment. Goblin 18:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Oh. What's disturbing about them? Majorly talk 18:53, 10 August 2009 (UTC)...

correct, I have not read them. I have also looked at who edited them (...bot are bots, they usually only add/change interwikis), the ones I looked at were...

from any potential promotion. Goblin 16:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! I always use an edit summary (or 99.9% of the time), and always provide...

the statistics I'm making at the moment, please add your details to StatsBot, so I can add more statistics (and make it more reliable). Just click below...

becomes difficult. Because if you wanted to write a bot that could recognise these, what would the bot have to look at? - How long the sentences are? The...

(UTC) @CM, Chenzw is a bureaucrat, so he assigned the bot flag. Bureaucrats can grant and revoke the bot flag to and from non-admins when needed. Best, PeterSymonds (talk)...

requests for bots when I came upon this when you applied for a bot: Not done You are far too soon off of a block for sockpuppetry to be permitted a bot account...

necessary to become a bureaucrat. I can only see him excelling working with bot flags, renames, and RfXs. Shappy talk 19:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Co-nomination...

someone ensure the inconsistencies throughout this Wikipedia are resolved? A bot seems like a good choice for this task. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:55, 2...

161.18 (talk) 13:36, 7 May 2011 (UTC) We all monitor RC's and we've got bots also. As for a wikiproject, they tend to die fast. Furthermore, everyone...

Category, Cities in Indiana [1]. It might be worthwhile to modify importing 'bots, so that our wordlist doesn't get hyperlinked? Terryeo (talk) 17:21, 24 February...

Just thinking... -- Mentifisto 18:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC) But your edits are bot related or semi-automatic. I think the community want to see more "normal"...

the simple one... Goblin 17:10, 25 June 2010 (UTC) I ♥ Meganmccarty! Use a bot to move all MediaWiki: /en to MediaWiki: /simple, and file a bug in bugzilla:...

counts and where they edit. Here is my suggestion: What if we get a bot like MathBot on the English Wikipedia who will post the edit count statistics on...

much on the fence. Cheers, Goblin 09:06, 13 November 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! I just discussed what else I have been doing besides RfD such as creating...

default MediaWiki configuration, which only defines the groups autoconfirmed, bot, sysop and bureaucrat. And we've already established our protocols for assigning...

entered IW links will get picked up by bots for entry into the system (ie. user writes article, adds en: iw link, bot adds us to the wikidata page matching...

to work to meet my needs and is outright hostile to them by threatening bots? I never got past the starting line. I quit the race and went down my own...

up being deleted. A bot wouldn't understand that either. These two situations are fairly rare, but this is not an area we needs bots to handle. Etamni | ✉ | ✓ ...

That is because most of them were created by bot during a craze where the wiki was creating articles via bot for straight foward articles like these. But...

shame. Nicolas--193.248.215.106 (talk) 03:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Has this bot of mine been doing good changes? I need the public's consencus here if I...

central place. --Auntof6 (talk) 00:54, 30 December 2016 (UTC) Given ChenzwBot's relative high detection rate nowadays, I think this list is also a good...

do. Just my 2¢. This is a random comment so I can sign the section so the bot will archive it eventually. -DJSasso (talk) 12:31, 17 May 2010 (UTC) Other...

from that process). Italy had 5 edits (2 vandal edits, 2 reverts, and 1 bot adding an interwiki link). Islam had 9 edits (2 vandalisms, 2 reverts, and...

be changed now? I'd rather have a discussion before asking someone with a bot to switch them all and delete the cat. I'm about to make a movie-stub and...

Punk '95  talk  23:10, 31 March 2008 (UTC) Would be nice if there were a bot for it, but I'll use it from now on. --Cethegus (talk) 17:39, 1 April 2008...

Flood flag/bot flag hides more than this does - I didn't see such a hoo-har about that! Goblin 22:04, 18 July 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! And what's the...

for every incorporated town, county, and township in the US, created by a bot with census data - would it make sense to try to do that here? —Random832...

it to them manually or the bots will take care of them ?! Specially there are some unicode languages and I think the bots won't be able to recognize them...

critical. You're a trusted user and if you're capable of evaluating RfXs, bot requests and rename requests, that's all this flag is about. If you can get...

wikimedia.org) was also down, bots which relied on the RC feed were not able to perform any task, most significantly User:ChenzwBot. I have gone through every...

worry about doing them by hand. My bot is flying through them to remove them now. Its actually easier for me and my bot if they are already deleted. If they...

indicated changes - or perhaps to explore the possibility of a purpose-made bot to accomplish part of the work (with which I have no experience, just supposing)...

English Wikipedia page about nautical terms. How can I, a human and not a bot, correct this and similar errors? Kdammers (talk) 12:52, 4 December 2019...

will look at the templates and attempt to simplify them. We may also need a bot to change the parameters as well, or we could alternatively keep it the same...

state explicitly 100 edits the "edits" aren't automated / semi-automated or bot like. I think this might be relevant via a policy change but well we can...

(bots included)/begin Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of changes (bots included)/end Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of changes (bots included)...

Chenzw  Talk  12:18, 14 November 2013 (UTC) Going to process the other articles by bot. Chenzw  Talk  12:30, 14 November 2013 (UTC) Category:Bisexual men (edit...

run its course. Thanks, Goblin 17:30, 10 September 2011 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! It already has been closed... All that was left was talking about other...

quick question. Is there any bot that can go through my talk page and archive discussions older than a set time? I've seen bots that do this(I think) but...

article either meets or doesn't meet certain numerical/binary criteria, a bot could promote GAs. The point is that there are non-quantifiable properties...

I think the approval should be granted to a specific bot account rather than a human editor. Bot accounts can also run tasks on a semi-automatic basis...

are that they're right! :) So to sum it all up succintly: just use your bot for tagging, etc., and pour out your knowledge and fervor on improving Wikipedia's...

PeterSymond's block yesterday. Goblin 15:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Oppose sadly. I had wanted to support but those rollback blunders are so...

page and one elsewhere requested you stop. Instead, you initiated a rapid bot like deletion flushing the 50 change Recent Changes. Most editors only use...

Anyone could tag an image also, but we'd need to change the definition. A bot could easily do this: Check uploads and tag all images uploaded by someone...

as (imo) it should be. I'm happy to clear up all the links to it with a bot if everyone is fine with it. I'm planning on starting adding these maps to...

kept filled up with the latest articles, though I am looking into getting a bot to do this at some stage. Cheers, Goblin 10:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC) The following...

from the last one (which should, in theory, be good to use) or after the bot has delivered the current one. As for the options, I will add a page shortly...

depending on the IP address in question. Please issue soft blocks on any bot coming from this address. If you are unsure as to how to do this correctly...

Hey all, can someone run a bot through this search to check if the linked word exists on simple.wikt? If the word exists, change :en:wikt: to :wikt: and...

2021 (UTC) Hello PotsdamLamb, we have had longer discussions in the past. A bot is archiving this board; it will take items that haven't seen any comments...

Question ==), and many users think it looks better that way. Also, I think most bots will add spaces, too. So, the space is not required, but it is most often...

being gay and Michael Jackson etc etc. I changed it to be more correct and a bot arrived and changed it back to the silly version. And gave me a warning for...

and BOT - George. W. Bush). Also DerHexer is not DerHexer like on en.wiki and de.wiki &mdsah; it's an obvious impersonator. As DerHexer created BOT - George...

org/wiki/User:Citation_bot with https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateLocalAccount as discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot#Simplewiki...

likely to be vandals score-ip:200 // flagged bots are likely not vandals, even if they add swear words score-bot:-20000 // people with high amount of flags...

monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes...

new bot operated by Chenzw. Please give me buearcat rights. Candidate's acceptance: i do not think this is how admin works i saw Wikipedia:Bots before...

seems to be the amount of time to wait before archiving. Since the bot User:MiszaBot is working there quite well, I have also added this page to being...

after not having receieved an answer, User:John Bot II, and I've left a message here. Since the bot was approved for Redirect fix, I couldn't find any...

are either welcoming users unecessarily, who have not edited, and even one bot, or "myspacey" edits about signatures. Sorry, not yet. BG7even 10:31, 19...

the edits were made by copying the bot template over from enwiki. I don't see why that was done,as it only made the bot template more complex and added the...

authorized bot, nor is it on global as a bot. Is this a true bot or a semi automated script that the user is using, or does that still qualify as a bot? Enfcer...

the process of developing a bot to automatically archive/delete stale items on TDYK. I have successfully tested the bot on a local copy of TDYK, and...

I helped Kennedy and others begin Simple News. I also run the delivery bot. I have dabbled in journalism in the past, and have run several school newspapers...

RFx's (apart from right now, apologies!) and a relatively small amount of bot/rename requests. Thus my potential 'crat time here shouldn't be too onerous...

 Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 09:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC) Category:Wikipedia bots with unknown status (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

renaming (which I notice a few have sat for quite a while recently) or bot approvals etc. Is there a pressing need for me to have these tools with all...

changes it back in like 5 Seconds but the shite I'm editing is true Sort the bot out Or I will sort you And your dog out — Preceding unsigned comment added...

bot internally calls the "angry revert list". Pages on that list are exempted from the bot's own 1RR logic (the goal here is to avoid locking the bot...

2022 (UTC) Correction: The EverybodyWiki article was written by a bot. They have a bot which scrapes articles here and on enwiki which are tagged for deletion...

filled with rubbish randomly extracted from wiki pages. I think it could be a bot using the Emailuser function to get you to reply. When you reply, your email...

of 4 people arguing on one talk page, five on another, a WP:CHU request, bot request, three discussions on wp:AN, a couple on Simple and two cross-wiki...

puts vandalism on each page. The bot was locked from changing across Wikipedia's sister projects. For example, the bot replaced the whole page with "This...

From what I can gather looking at Wikipedia_talk:Bots#QD_bot these were created for some sort of bot .... If I'm being blatantly honest i have no idea...

was to  Delete. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:35, 6 April 2024 (UTC) SwitchBot (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Ferien...

can now grant themselves the flood flag, which works in the same way as a bot flag: hides your edits from recent changes. Accessible through Special:UserRights...

he needs to, he participates in community discussions, runs very valuable bots (that do very valuable work and also participate in IRC). I can personally...

edits. I became an admin much later. Also, the protection would prevent bots from adding interwikis. Pmlineditor ∞ 11:20, 11 October 2009 (UTC) New iws...

WP:RFA, WP:VIP and WP:WANT, he s also a judge at Wikicup,. He also runs two bots. So, to summarise, he has need for the delete tool, the protect tool and...

out with 'crat tools here, particularly in changing username and flagging bots, while helping out in RFP as well. To be honest, I haven't been very active...

merging. The database reports exist. This template is intended to be used by bots to filter those reports before they re-publish on the wiki for maintenance...

problem occurs because MediaWiki requires "&bot=1" passed in order for an edit to be recognised as a bot edit, even if an account is flagged. AWB retrieves...

the first month of his career in Wikipedia). Good luck Albacore! HydrizTalkBot 08:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC) Sufficient active, has done gnomish things...

malfunctioning bot, not him. Either way (talk) 00:01, 17 May 2011 (UTC)  Done User_talk:JackPotte. Concerning the two recent blockings of my bot it's not really...

options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging.  Delete until another bot is developed that does the same job. Updating this manually would probably...

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 3 days....

-Barras (talk) 12:31, 10 February 2012 (UTC) Don't mind me, just adding  Done so the bot will archive it. -Orashmatash (talk) 20:29, 22 February 2012 (UTC)...

him know that getting a bot approved isn't that much work. --Eptalon (talk) 12:20, 15 August 2021 (UTC) It's not likely such a bot will be approved, since...

for only a little over 3 months, but already has 2,644 edits. Tholly has a bot, Thollybot and is also generally well-versed in policy, actively participating...

enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work (programming and tools, bot building, admin or sysop work, link repair, Mediawiki developers, etc.)....

Punk Bot are looked at by a human before being submitted. I can not see anything against bots fixing up spelling, especially fully manual AWB bots. --...

 Speedily closed as WP:QD#A4 Goblin 12:47, 10 April 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Edna Ribeiro (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Gordonrox24 | Talk...

since 2012. Can easily be recreated if anyone ever wants to create a new bot to do it. Although really probably not a priority. DJSasso (talk) 00:17,...

don't do that much my edits will be alot lower than most. I also now run a bot here which is already over a few thousand edits which are technically mine...

on my watchlist now, so any warning at any level issued by any editor or bot will be noticed. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  17:37, 1 February 2016 (UTC) Excessive vandalisim...

was editing a page on the wiki ChenzwBot thought it was vandalism and I believe it was not vandalism. And ChenzwBot got rid of my part I made of the page...

this running so NAC'ing... Goblin 23:01, 13 December 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Pure pwnage (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Candycanez...

some cleanup work on it. Goblin 17:12, 22 December 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Steve Howe (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Z1 (talk)...

know) 01:57, 20 July 2021 (UTC) Quick delete. The sources include a telegram bot as well, so its probably promotional. Elytrian - Talk 06:38, 20 July 2021...

Delete when the time comes - Amir's bot is currently exporting the badges to Wikidata, and is getting global bot approval. After that, they'll be useless...

the one caused by this move) and then revert the bot change on Death Fighter (prior to the move, a bot may notice the double redirect and tryto fix it...

(UTC)  Not done. No edits since end September. Marking as not done so the bot will archive. Please make another request later if you become more active...

deletion is script/bot-assisted, we need to take care that the bot moves them in the correct order. If help is needed, I could likely write a bot that does this...

doesn't seem to be in use, as Special:EnableFlow is restricted to the "Flow bot" user group. I posted a comment on Simple Talk regarding this issue that...

same mail address for multiple accounts. All my test accounts and also my bot use the same mail as my main account. So that shouldn't actually cause any...

you catch my drift. Thoughts? Goblin 20:58, 1 October 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! I'd prefer considerably shorter (say a month) with a probationary period...

in particular) in the close-call cases. In all, though, most renames and bot-flaggings are very easy, and I can only say that Gwib will get bored with...

the times that attack username where being created for admins and the JEW BOT names, and going back even further I noticed that some of them were school...

you know, Wikipedia:Simple News and Wikipedia:Wikicup. I also run three bots, two semi-regularly and one is in the testing phase. I have been active in...

[[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|c]])...

version), and removes the incorrect edits of 27 versions, 4 different IPs and a bot which didn't realize that what it was reverting to was already vandalized...

doesn't seem to be in use, as Special:EnableFlow is restricted to the "Flow bot" user group. I posted a comment on Simple Talk regarding this issue that...

Special:BookSources, Book sources given the 10- or 13-digit ISBN number Special:BotPasswords, Create bot passwords Special:BrokenRedirects, Broken redirects Special:BrokenLinks...

approve Bot's I will admit will be my weakest part. I have a limited knowledge of basic programming and will at least be able to vet the bots, although...

Chenzw suggested I pop up here. Goblin 19:37, 23 October 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! A crat chat does not have to be held. We elect a crat to make the choices...

it's perfectly NPOV. Cheers, Goblin 19:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! As admin I confirm the nac closure. --Barras (talk) 19:26, 13 November 2009...

–Juliancolton | Talk 12:42, 27 April 2010 (UTC) Goblin 22:12, 27 April 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! The scoring system works as follows: If you get a stub to a Regular Article...

would be helpful. Indeed, the need for a bureaucrat to flag editors as "bots" (hopefully soon to be remedied by the proposed introduction of the flood...

don't allow uploads here. If they need deletion do that at Commons and the bot will remove the picture here. SwirlBoy39 14:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)  Comment:...

it or making it acceptable. It has only two edits, one of which was by a bot. Please discuss this deletion below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't...

Simple does. So I often get beaten to the job. As for bot flaggings, we have far, far fewer bots (take out the interwiki ones here, and we'd cut down significantly...

27 July 2022 (UTC) I am not talking just about the "bot issue", and I am not saying that the bot issue was your fault. I am talking about the general...

I'm applying for the crat tools here to help out in changing usernames and bot approvals. I am active on the CHU page (80+ edits), where I usually fix malformed...

...

12 October 2008 (UTC) Current name: StaticBot New name: ShockingBot Reason: New Owner, new name. StaticBot  Leave me a memo!  14:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)...

ever was in December 2006. Made 9 renames, the last over a year ago, and 11 bot flags, the last nearly a year ago. Is inactive as an administrator as well...

every single rollbacker would be automatically added to the category using a bot, it would be another story. Not only this category is superfluous, it is...

AndyzBot (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC) More socks. SimonKSKContradict me... 20:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC) Well I blocked the A1a33 and AndyzBot because...

citations' URLs getting broken in certain cases (usually because of previous bot activities in the article), the targeted pages might be misaligned, resulting...

permissions Patroller PERM AutoWikiBrowser Rollback PERM IP-block-exempt Bot accounts PERM Global rights policy Advanced user groups Administrators RfA...

the article by Rodrigo Barbosy, I do not agree to delete this article. ✍️Bot Edguas (talk) This article must be kept is to be unprotected. 05:03, 30 October...

User:IonasRand was blocked as a sockpuppet of User:Ionas68224. Ionas claimed he created the account using an open proxy. In order to prevent the open proxy...

Aaqib has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Dictionary, only bots have edited this page. Aaqib 20:15, 25 June 2013 (UTC) Please discuss this...

"delete", such as merging. Keep Different templates for different uses. And the bots require this template to be there to clean the page. -DJSasso (talk) 11:34...

sock attack. Should blocking be made if confirmed as socks? These look like bot-created accounts to me. –Juliancolton | Talk 05:01, 2 June 2009 (UTC) 2 June...

an excellent worker with many useful tricks to get things done fast and a bot which works well. Gwib-(talk)- 09:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC) Support he should...

know that he has the technical know-how to conduct username requests and bot requests. I'd like to ask that we add him to the crat team. Thank you for...

username: MWBot (talk · contribs · logs · blocklog) Target username: Diego Grez Bot (talk · contribs · logs · blocklog) For bureaucrat use: User creation logs:...

(also called a "crat") is a user who can grant and revoke the admin and bot permissions. Checkuser is a user who can see private information about editors...

anti-vandalism, but also page and template creation, RfD voting, and (attempted) bot creation; almost doubling my edit count from my first request. Again, here...

05:46, 11 June 2010 (UTC) and the reason that the redirect is created by a bot is significant to the inclusion of said redirect because...? (sorry if i'm...

a few days ago Posting "WARNING" Messages on user talkpages of owners of bots, claming that they are malfunctioning, when there does not seem to be any...

27 July 2022 (UTC) I am not talking just about the "bot issue", and I am not saying that the bot issue was your fault. I am talking about the general...

headers. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Muro_Bot_4">Muro Bot</a> fixes them occasionally.<br/> <dl> <dt>False positives</dt>...

women Requests for deletion/Requests/2023/Category:Active Wikipedia bots Requests for deletion/Requests/2023/Category:American companies by location...

1 January 2024 (UTC)  Delete Non notable YouTuber. Followers can be from bot and it's not a criteria for notability. No significant coverage in a reliable...

criteria for very good article that can be easily automated; that way, a bot could (in theory) go through all articles, and propose candidates for very...

(talk) 17:45, 3 June 2012 (UTC) This request was  Done, marking it for the bot to archive. -Mh7kJ (talk) 00:29, 17 June 2012 (UTC) Wangxuan8331800 (talk ·...

such as merging. Comment - The RfD-tag has been manually removed. (And a bot has undone my later fix. That is okay for me, since i will be busy fixing...

(UTC) Delete per nom & Mac. Goblin 22:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Delete No notability at all. Carriearchdale 09:18, 18 October 2014 (UTC)...

to do tasks automatically or semi-automatically. DeleteBots, made to delete content VandalBots, made for vandalism Wikivatars, similar to a sockpuppet...

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC) I think the bot that archived old discussions hasn't run in the last week or so? Eptalon...

were created by the same person back in 2008 and have seen little to no non-bot traffic since creation.--Creol(talk) 20:31, 13 May 2013 (UTC) An article...

the other language page (Turkish). There have been more edits by a broken bot (repeated webarchives) than anything else. Pure Evil (talk) 15:10, 28 January...

though the user opted out, it probably saved a lot of time and at least the bot was tested. Other than that, I guess creating a few templates were nice but...

flag is given for specific tasks as approved by bureaucrats (similar to a bot). So.. with that being said, I feel you meet the exact requirements of the...

simplifying, use the talk page. Goblin 12:06, 7 October 2014 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! This request is due to close on 06:21, 14 October 2014 (UTC), seven days...

and how will you deal with it in the future? I was reverted once by GoblinBot 4 (false pos), but that was as close as I got to a dispute with a living...

November 2010 (UTC) Nah. Goblin 10:15, 24 November 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! The Rambling Man (talk) 10:18, 24 November 2010 (UTC) Gotanda (talk) 10:49...

its articles are updated. It does not refer to academic quality. Lsjbot, a bot run by Sverker Johansson [en], is responsible for much of the growth of the...

plans for 2009. Jonas Dalton Rand's plans for 2009 RyanCross' plans for 2009. Bluegoblin7's plans for 2009. GoblinBot's and his family's plans for 2009....

the score there. He has been incredibly active in areas such as DYK, his bots, GA and VGA, vandalism-fighting and other admin related areas. There have...

been an administrator for 7 months and I would like to help out in giving bot flags and renaming of vandal accounts, as well as other users' accounts....

-DJSasso (talk) 18:27, 19 August 2009 (UTC) Requested so as to not look like bot Xxobot (talk) 11:18, 18 August 2009 (UTC)  Done -DJSasso (talk) 12:35, 18...

(UTC) User has been notified. Goblin 13:21, 26 March 2011 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Personally, I feel the current system is not really a sensible one. I think...

Delete per all. Not notable. Goblin 19:26, 22 June 2013 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! This request is due to close on 15:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC), seven days after...

between languages. Category:Wikipedians who use StatusBot is useful if something is buggy with the bot so we can quickly find out who has it. Category:Wikipedians...

can be easily fixed, by substituting current usages of the templates. A bot can do this quite easily, I'd be happy to take care of it. But voting isn't...

sort, whereas on enWP, the sheer amount of edits overwhelm rollbackers and bots. If this is declined, feel free to reach out to me personally once you have...

(UTC) @Fehufanga The way they wrote their comment tells me they are spam bots. The wording matches a majority of these articles that get edited from that...

December 2011 (UTC) Delete. Goblin 14:37, 13 December 2011 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! This request is due to close on 20:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC), seven days...

mine). I also believe that enwiki is not equal to simplewiki. HydrizTalkBot 08:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC) Support Mr. Berty has been of late quite helpful...

in favour of a bot. fr33kman 19:57, 27 October 2024 (UTC) ┌─────────────────────────────────┘ I found C:User:SpBot/How to make SpBot archive your wiki...

and one elsewhere requested you stop. Instead, candidate initiated a rapid bot like deletion flushing the 50 change Recent Changes. Most editors only use...

Cities in Kentucky. Most of the articles in that category were created by a bot, and currently read X, Kentucky is a city in Kentucky., or very similar....

the articles in the other-language wikis were automatically generated by bots. The asteroid is not notable in and of itself. I don't think redirection...

himself. Cassandra 18:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC) Okay, well Gwib edited it, and a bot added the interwiki links, that makes two...! It doesn't seem particularly...

even phone wekipedia leave alone a celebrity or presidents unless you a bot and I don't know what criteria wekipedia uses but I saw articles in simple...

and at that time Module:TNT and others were updated by User:DiBabelYurikBot, In 2022 Module:TNT was indef-admin-protected which thereafter resulted in...

see a problem though. ST47ProxyBot is an admin bot. ST47 is not an admin here. While the Simple English Wikipedia's bot policy doesn't mention anything...

right as the created account has done nothing anymore and has the word "bot" in it. Chenzw  Talk  11:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC) Oppose — I don't know you;...

Changes you make here will not stay, and will be automatically removed by a bot after a period of time. Please do not put inappropriate things like copyrighted...

picture, I am an op in #vandalism-en-wp (the WP channel). In addition to CVU bots, I frequently watch for vandalism with CDVF. I know that my edit count is...

elsewhere and a policy change. Goblin 17:58, 7 September 2014 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Comment. A couple of things not mentioned in the nomination. The Hollywood...

they should therefore be kept. Goblin 17:51, 15 July 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Keep. We can still expand them.-- Tdxiang 04:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC) These...

about history not fitting in (it's some sexual nonsense likely done by a bot, so I assume "no meaningful content or history" fits...) -- Lofty abyss 19:52...

Though clearly needs some work. Goblin 13:34, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not change it...

GRP for the most part is just let an admin get to it. They will be able to bot rollback it which will hide it from recent changes and waiting for an admin...

December 2009 (UTC) Keep - We often use these kinds of redirects. If the bots are making bad interwiki links, we can add {{nobots}}. EhJJTALK 19:12, 22...

also be suggesting 'Keep'. Goblin 13:14, 8 September 2013 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! This request is due to close on 18:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC), seven days...

and science among his vandal scouting (seen it loads), welcoming, running bots and contributing in 8 languages (apparently?). I am new but I see that a...

keeping, then delete the rest. Goblin 15:50, 24 August 2012 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Delete - I don't really see the need to merge stuff to the Harry Potter...

vast amounts of bad edits perhaps using a tool such as automated scripts or bots it could be argued a block without warning first. However its relatively...

rollback. You have only made one undo here and that was reverting an incorrect Bot revert. Please come back later once you have more anti vandalism experience...

links on most of your articles created (eg. Vet, Chariot, In Flames etc) and bots need to fill in these. This shows both lack of knowledge on creation of articles...

that usernames suffixed with "bot" like -bot is not allowed at this project, but do we allow usernames prefixed with "bot"? I'm asking this because I found...

there was a way to run a report on articles with lack of edits other than bots. --Tbennert (talk) 01:27, 25 September 2012 (UTC) Delete. There's no information...

abuse filters were made or contributed to by Operator, he’s written code for bots we use on IRC channels, and is very well-versed in networking, IP addresses...

ChenzwBot.--Someone else might need to revert that edit, by that Bot. 2001:2020:309:CBE7:247D:46C0:A810:7B74 (talk) 18:29, 31 May 2025 (UTC) The bot rightfully...

April 2009 (UTC) Typically, on en wiki, deleted categories result in a tidy bot popping by to articles which use them and thence the removal of said category...

References fall into 9 categories 1. Self-published sources 2. Aggregators and bots like this 3. Unsolicited spam by subject 4. Internet forum posts 5. Non-notable...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: It was deleted on Wikipedia, bots moved to simple Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Artic...

Non-notable and borderline promo. Goblin 13:55, 5 January 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! keep I do not agree with the deletion. He has given certainly good works...

not a VGA any more. Cheers, Goblin 10:17, 21 August 2012 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! I agree with Barras here, it would be better to just demote it to GA status...

I'm referring to the creation, development, and implementation of CabalBot which supports our dedicated community of anti-vandalism editors on IRC....

all work now centres around permission requests of some kind, be it RfP or bot/IA work. We don't get that many of those types of requests, so generally...

shy of two years, and in that time have done a ton of work with spammers/bots, LTAs, and normal vandals, much of which are cross-wiki, which sparked my...

for several hundred stubs. Goblin 11:44, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Delete - Not enough articles that use it, therefore, is not needed any longer...

Description {{subst:The Bot Builder Award|message ~~~~}} The Bot Builder Award may be given to any user who makes or operates a bot for the Wikipedia project...

as a fellow sysop at enwiki, and as a vandal patroller. He runs the IRC bots which help patrol for vandalism, and is obviously dedicated to simplewiki...

This usually happens in minutes or seconds. A computer program called ClueBot NG removes a lot of obvious vandalism automatically. You will get an ugly...

Marsi.bot (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · SUL · CA · checkuser (log)) - new account Junoh Boy...

(unlikely), or just a day when there are many new entries indexed by the bots (which are invalid). Chang Chinmo River, or as TBC said, Chang Chen Mo river...

favor as they are writing. Should this be the decided course of action, a bot could be harnessed to adjust links similar to how it was originally down...

the case on previous VIP bot requests. There have been quite a few times now where good reports have been removed by the bot and having to check back...

times; it's an easy thing to do. I've even reverted a few anti-vandalism bots by accident and been warned by them. I remember the revert on en:Damien Leith...

them sooner rather than later! Goblin 14:15, 30 March 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Great job, Bluegoblin, for fixing all of my concerns (and rather quickly...

2025 (UTC) You need to request bot status at Wikipedia talk:Bots. I have requested a block on this bot as an unauthorized bot running. CountryANDWestern (talk)...

in general :). Regards, Goblin 18:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! You have notes. Talkpage. Do it. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:49, 10 September...

not one. No need to demote. Goblin 14:43, 21 March 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Keep promoted I agree with Goblin. I see no problem with this article. There...

any QD (I haven't seen any precedent on AI content), but when tested, QuillBot showed 100% AI-generated content. 🤘🤘 DovahFRD (talk) 15:29, 28 May 2024...

Perhaps a bit more technical: these bots are trained using specific models. Changing the model means that the bot will have to undergo re-training, in...

CountryANDWestern (talk) 12:32, 15 October 2025 (UTC) CaW has fixed this, there's a bot on enwiki that can fix this sort of thing, but it was just a case of changing...

(UTC) This page was originally deleted this morning due to a request from a bot asking for deletion of the article as I was trying to revise it. While the...

NetBot uploaded "Location-Albania.png" ({{GFDL}}) 18:17, 25 Sep 2004 NetBot uploaded "Location-Afghanistan.png" ({{GFDL}}) 18:09, 25 Sep 2004 NetBot uploaded...

behind it. Great work, Julian! Goblin 16:50, 27 March 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Mercury (planet) (change · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

feasible ot fix the archival bots; alternatively where in the foundation do I need to knock to get a set of archival bots (MiszaBot) set up that run on toolserver...

only 2 (both indefinitely blocked), Ottawahitech, not 9. All the rest were bots and simple category additions and removals. Voceditenore (talk) 11:50, 24...

for all your hard work! Goblin 16:03, 15 September 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Ernst Röhm (change · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) End...

able to flag for QD instead of having to monitor the recent changes page or bot channel which transmits all changes. An example I found today was after Eptalon...

to continue working on it. Goblin 17:33, 7 September 2013 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Rus793, thank you for the constructive criticism. I'm not sure what source...

user) Datestamp: 16:35, 5 May 2011 (UTC) Reason: I'm not a proper Wikipedia bot, just a user with some automatic simplification Edinbot (talk) 16:35, 5 May...

enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work (programming and tools, bot building, admin or sysop work, link repair, Mediawiki developers, etc.)....

this article. That is all. Goblin 02:39, 5 November 2010 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Image issue fixed so I vote to promote this as good. Kansan (talk) 03:20...

about it in en/jawiki. I think there was a bot to add {{authority control}} in jawiki (I forgot which bot), and that may have given hints to me. Many...

filed an RfD for all Pokémon). Goblin 15:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Note: Template:Pokémon series has other pokemon. I don't see why we should...

how however). For the last point it needs an interwiki link (hopefully the bots are able to do this automatically). Other than that it's fairly fine and...

your thoughts please people! Goblin 21:20, 6 January 2012 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Don't you mean Friday, January 13 2012? If not, this closed almost two years...

basically across the foundation (and in most cases is the only editor other then bots). There was a conversation with the person who requested the global blocks...

2005 London bombings (2,857 edits in 24 hours)[cr] Most edits by a bot: WP 1.0 bot (11,954,528 edits as of 27 November 2025) Most edits by a Wikipedian:...

good articles for tips. Thanks, Goblin 15:14, 26 March 2011 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Considering the main text of the article has gone through 4 years of revision...

subscribers in a legitimate manner (bots, of course it's bot; there's channels on youtube with 500k subs via bots that post 100 crappy videos and then...

redirected category using that template has entries in it, there might be a bot that moves things, but I'm not sure if there still is one. In any case, if...

are having a good weekend. Recently I came up with the idea of creating a bot that would help us insert QD templates into newly created articles. The operation...

should be updated too. Kk.urban (talk) 17:36, 14 September 2023 (UTC) This bot thinks I am a vandal and it should be shut down. It is misbehaving!...

Closed as not promoted: Heh, no. Goblin 12:46, 3 July 2011 (UTC) I ♥ GoblinBots! Tropical Depression Ten (2005) (change · talk · history · links · watch...

able to flag for QD instead of having to monitor the recent changes page or bot channel which transmits all changes. An example I found today was after Eptalon...

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 3 days....

is currently a discussion ongoing for a bot to help manage reports at VIP, at Wikipedia talk:Bots#VIP Helper Bot. Any input would be appreciated, particularly...

changes) 10:11, 2 November 2025 (UTC) I have the impression that our archival bots aren't running. IIRC, messages older than 14 days on this board should be...

the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages. Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have...

Shortcuts WP:VIPWP:VIP WP:AIVWP:AIV WP:ANVWP:ANV WP:UFAAWP:UFAA This page is to report vandals, spammers, and usernames that violate the username policy...

After I reviewed Khalsajudicary's unblock request, I have found UndeletionBOT (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user ·...

here in case anyone disagreed, No worries, It certainly pays to check every bot-like edit you make :), glad I have tbh, Anyway no worries thank you for commenting :)...

block log · SUL · CA · checkuser (log)) The ee we're going to have to go to Bot (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user ·...

Changes you make here will not stay, and will be automatically removed by a bot after a period of time. Please do not put inappropriate things like copyrighted...

Changes you make here will not stay, and will be automatically removed by a bot after a period of time. Please do not put inappropriate things like copyrighted...

(talk) 14:10, 21 December 2020 (UTC) I tryed 2 edit da sandbox from ClueBot Commonss praise page from regular Wikipedia and it wont let ma. Can one o...

28 August 2023 (UTC) but the bot has not in a month or more! 88.110.38.249 (talk) 10:11, 28 August 2023 (UTC) The bot is archiving regularly -- just...

and have AWB Usage rights - (2.) on English Wikipedia and I also operate a BOT on the English Wikipedia - (3.), now I am experienced using rollback on the...

permissions Patroller PERM AutoWikiBrowser Rollback PERM IP-block-exempt Bot accounts PERM Global rights policy Advanced user groups Administrators RfA...

you. Depextual (talk) 04:48, 9 December 2024 (UTC) I'm questioning the bot's behavior here. Twice per week it adds and removes a message. Depextual (talk)...

broken (not using the template) and will probably not be archived by the bot. However, what is weird is that the template refuses to accept URLs in its...

(talk) 00:54, 23 August 2024 (UTC) I just need to ask whether there is a bot that archives talk pages for use on my talk page? ToadetteEdit (talk) 15:45...

the infobox. Right now it just leaves a lot of white space. Is there some bot that can move the stub templates after authority control on every article...

have not been updated since 2019. They used to be updated by HydrizBot, but that bot has not been operating, also, since 2019. We ended up deleting one...

that you intend to keep helping out in the absence of our antivandalism bot, I'm granting you rollback permissions. Vermont (talk) 13:33, 25 June 2019...

back in. --Ferien (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2023 (UTC) Wikipedia bots: I don't think the bots mentioned there are notable enough to be on an article. Epsilon-Minus...

been gathered before they did all them. It almost looks like they had a bot run on their account they did them so fast in my opinion as well. Bobherry...

AndyzBot (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC) More socks. SimonKSKContradict me... 20:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC) Well I blocked the A1a33 and AndyzBot because...

(talk) 16:52, 17 March 2025 (UTC) I went back into late 2024 when the bot was archiving and the counter just had a number. Reading through the config...

spawning are fertilized? Eptalon (talk) 18:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC) Do we have a bot or anything that will purge everything in a category? It would be useful...

items from the tech changes that applies to everyone. The rest are admin and bot related for those users who use them or are them. The notice "Language links...

in a separate table, ideally updated by a wikidata bot (needs appropriate flagging); also the bot should only update numbers in the table. I don't know...

this was my first time seeing vandalism that was not restored by admins or bots! So i could get rollbacker rights in the future, so i will restore vandalism...

xml). Still not an issue, but the format will probably be automated, and a bot would be helpful and probably all that is needed, either now or in the future...

archiving system: topics with no comments for 21 days are archived by a bot. 2601:644:907E:A70:5DE:2EFE:97F6:A9B5 (talk) 06:26, 2 February 2025 (UTC)...

else think it would be good to have consistency in the way we do this, or a bot that does this job for us? --Ferien (talk) 21:17, 18 August 2023 (UTC) I...

Blissyu2 (talk) 14:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC) This thread was archived by a bot. In the meantime, AE3907 has continued to make edits only to their userspace...

maintained as I prefer manually archiving and most people here either use the bot or do it manually, People have this script installed on their common.js page...

when the size is exceeded new archive is created. I don't know what the bot supprts Eptalon (talk) 18:09, 21 June 2026 (UTC) Hello community of the simple...

(talk) 16:20, 22 September 2024 (UTC) The redirect has been undone, by a bot (some hours after the fact).--Good luck (while i fix other articles)....

What is left are 25 pages, which show up, but which have entries (note: bots use these, so the min. 3 entries rule likeyl doesn't apply). Eptalon (talk)...

the Simple English Wikipedia has vandalism, but the Wikipedia admins and bots are working to fight against vandalism. I also don't like vandalism, but...

User:IonasRand was blocked as a sockpuppet of User:Ionas68224. Ionas claimed he created the account using an open proxy. In order to prevent the open proxy...

should probably be set to Disallow and not Warn, because the fact that the bots are already dismissing the "Edit Check" suggests that they might be sophisticated...

different editors that contributed edits that weren't reverted (not including bots).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 13:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC) I've...

(there was a merge conflict between me and User:InternetArchiveBot, I think there shouldn't be any issues but if they are please let me know...

AI for discussion here. As you did not respect my wish not to chat with a bot, I am out here. NDG (talk) 12:52, 5 September 2025 (UTC) how it looks ai...