Manual:Bots

Bots are automated tools that can be used to perform tedious work on or pertaining to your wiki. An IRC RC Bot can post recent changes to your wiki on an IRC channel. w:WP:CREATEBOT has information on many bot frameworks, written in various programming languages, that can be used to edit wikis through the API. To avoid flooding recent changes, a user rights should be configured to cause the bot to be designated as such so that its edits will not appear in the default recent changes feed. Some malicious bots are created to spam wikis; for information on combating these, see Manual:Combating spam.