Introduction to bots on wikipedia
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Bots perform many important tasks on Wikipedia such as adding categories and templates to thousands of articles to help maintain the site. There are over 1,000 approved bot tasks and 600 active bots currently running on the English Wikipedia alone. Only trusted users are allowed to create and run bots, which must be approved through a request process to ensure they are helpful and harmless. The Python Wikipediabot Framework provides tools for automating work on Wikipedia and other wiki sites using bots programmed in Python.
Introduction to bots on wikipedia
- 1. Introduction to Bots on Wikipedia User:Tinucherian 13-June-2010 – WikiMeetup 15 Bangalore
- 2. Huh, Wikipedia is edited by bots? I thought Wikipedia is edited by humans, aliens , rogue admins and Jimmy Wales only! Wikipedia – “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” And why not bots ?
- 3. Why need Bots ? Primarily to carry out repetitive and mundane tasks in order to maintain the 3,250,454+ articles of the English Wikipedia alone. Imagine adding a category or template to 1000 articles.. Why do you want a human to do this ? They have better things to do !
- 4. Bots – Some stats 1,141+ bot tasks approved for use 614+ bots flagged with the "bot" flag right now. This is for English language Wikipedia alone ! There are 272 language wikipedias and bots running on most of them. You didn’t know, right ? ;)
- 5. Can everybody run bots ? NO ! Bots are able to make edits very rapidly and can disrupt Wikipedia if they are incorrectly designed or operated. For these reasons a bot policy has been developed. ONLY “Trusted users” are allowed to operate Bots ! Wikipedia policy states the bots must be harmless and useful, have approval, use separate user accounts, and be operated responsibly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy
- 6. I can’t write bots ,but I have a bot task to do! Don’t worry, just place a bot task request ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests
- 7. Different kinds of Bots User:ClueBot - reverts vandalism User:CorenSearchBot - checks for copyright violations on new pages User:DumbBOT - often removes protection templates from recently unprotected pages. User:OrphanBot - removes a particular set of images from articles Interwiki Bots – Add interwikilinks to articles
- 8. I have a bot idea, how do I create one ? Write the progam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot Create a bot username. Get the Bot task approval WP:BRFA Get a bot flag Run !
- 9. How to get approval for my Bot ? File a BRFA – Bots Requests for approval http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval Bot task are approved by BAG ( Bot Approval Group) members Bot flags are granted by Bureaucrats
- 10. Pywikipediabot The Python Wikipediabot Framework (pywikipedia) is a collection of tools that automate work on Wikipedia or other MediaWiki sites. It's written in Python, which is a free, cross-platform programming language. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/Scripts
- 11. Questions ?