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Bots are programs which make automated edits to a wiki. They can be written in a language like Java, Perl, Python, or Ruby. OniGalore has never made use of bots up to this point, preferring to rely on overly-motivated human editors instead. Wikipedia has a nice article on bots [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Bots|here]].
'''Bots''' are programs which make automated edits to a wiki. As a user group, bots are not subject to the API rate limit imposed on regular users, but they are run with a throttle to prevent them from flooding the server with edits or running out of control before a human operator can stop them. Bot edits are marked in [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]] by a "b" and are also typically marked as "minor edits". OniGalore currently has a single bot, [[User:ValBot|ValBot]].


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Latest revision as of 03:00, 6 February 2021

Bots are programs which make automated edits to a wiki. As a user group, bots are not subject to the API rate limit imposed on regular users, but they are run with a throttle to prevent them from flooding the server with edits or running out of control before a human operator can stop them. Bot edits are marked in Recent Changes by a "b" and are also typically marked as "minor edits". OniGalore currently has a single bot, ValBot.