Wiktionary:Bots

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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 perform their jobs under a different user name than the owner, so that it is easy to tell them apart. Also, bot edits are hidden from pages like Special:Recentchanges to keep them from flooding the list. To see the bot edits, manually add hidebots=0 to your query string, or click "show bot edits" at the top of Newest changes.

The most popular type of bot is called the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework or "pywikipediabot" for short.

[change] Current bots

These users have been given a "bot flag" and are approved to perform tasks. See Special:Listusers/bot for a current list of fully approved bots.

Bot Name	Owner	function
MonoBot	User:Monobi	interwiki links, redirect cleanup
RobotGMwikt	User:GerardM	interwiki links
Tangobot	User:Tangotango	interwiki links
VolkovBot	w:ru:User:Volkov	interwiki links
WenliBot	User:Wenli	interwiki links

[change] Bot approvals

There is no formal bot approval process here, but you must place your request on Wiktionary:Simple talk and a bureaucrat will flag your bot.

[change] Requests

Hi, I don't know if this is the right place but a bot that would be very useful would be to gather wikt links from the simple.wiki which don't have a page here and list them, or even just to list the links on the wiki so a user could cross reference themselves. RTG 17:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)