Project:Bots

Here are some things that it would be useful to set up a bot to deal with. If adding to this list then please include your signature so that any potential bot writers can contact you for more info if needed.

Note that all bots need to be run as dedicated bot users. Please speak to an administrator to request bot status if you plan to run a bot on MediaWiki.org.

Note that this list is currently not watched by many people, so bot requests may go un-noticed for a long period of time. Feel free to make a request in the appropriate forum if you want a quicker response.

Requests for ongoing bots

 * A bot that checks all links from this site to meta (both using the meta: interwiki prefix, and by full URL ), and if that page is a redirect to MW.org replaces the external link with the correct internal one. Ideally (though it's not a requirement) the bot should follow redirects if the meta redirect is out of date.  Even more ideally, it would fix meta to skip the redirect too, but perhaps that is too much to ask of a single bot. --HappyDog 19:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * A bot that checks through all pages that contain Template:SettingSummary and updates Manual:Configuration settings and Manual:Configuration settings (alphabetical). This is probably not quite possible at the moment, due to extra info on the page that shouldn't be lost by an update.  If there is someone interested in writing this bot then we will need to do a bit of a clean-up first, I think. A simple version of the bot would extract the 'summary' field from the individual pages and update the main page with the correct summary. --HappyDog 19:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * A bot that checks categories of non-English pages (which you can tell by the sub-page part), and if the page is categorised into the English category tree, to fix the category link so it points to the same place in the appropriate language tree (, where cc is the country code. Or more generally, if it is in the wrong category tree, fix it (as translations may not always come from the English original). --HappyDog 22:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Requests for one-off bots

 * A bot that scans a mediawiki website, page or collection of pages for "Wanted pages" and removes the  brackets from said pages en mass. To clarify, a bot that would remove the   enmass from a word in red like this that appears across multiple pages in the wiki.


 * ExtensionListBot - Operator: Benjamin Garn - This bot will update the AutoExtensionList until the Extension Matrix-Bot is working again.
 * Bot flag granted. i Alex  10:10, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Registered bots
See Special:Listusers/bot for the full list. Note that "MediaWiki default" is the account used internally by the MediaWiki software when it needs to make content changes as part of the installation/upgrade process, and is not a real bot.

Active bots

 * DuesenBot - Operator: User:Duesentrieb - Automatic updates to the Extension Matrix.
 * SieBot - Operator: User:Siebrand - Automatic updates of Localisation statistics.

Inactive bots

 * RobBot - Operator: Rob Church
 * RobBot was created and flagged in preparation for performing various bot tasks during the revival of MediaWiki.org as a feasible documentation alternative to Meta, although no tasks were ever devised for it and no code was thus written; it never performed automated edits. robchurch | talk 11:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * FearowBot - Operator: User:TheFearow - ??