KHWiki:Bots

A bot is an account that is capable of doing many edits quickly and at a large scale. Typically, a bot account is run by a particular user, who uses scripts to log-in as the bot account and perform edits.

To ease their main task of making lots of edits quickly, bot accounts have the following powers:

• They are always treated as autoconfirmed users.
• They can move pages without leaving redirects behind.
• They are allowed to skip human-confirmation processes (i.e. CAPTCHAs).
• They can use the API, and have higher rate limits than regular users do.
• They can edit user talk pages without triggering the "You have new messages" notice, done by marking such edits as minor.

Edits made by bots are naturally invisible on Special:RecentChanges so that their stream of fast-paced edits does not drown-out other users' edits; the "Show bots" option can be used to see them, and they are always visible in page histories.

List of bots

• KHWiki Fixer: Automated wiki process that fixes double redirects caused by page moves.
• KHWikiBot: Main bot account used by the wiki staff for automated, site-wide updates.
• PorpleBot: Run by Porplemontage for text replacements and miscellaneous technical tasks.