StrategyWiki:Requests for permissions/Bot

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Bot status (also required for semi-automated processes), gives the account a special flag so its edits will not show up in recent changes or users' watchlists. The bot flag is suggested for users with access to automated processes (rapid requests of data) which make many small and/or cleanup edits, to avoid unnecessarily flooding recent changes and watchlists. Users can opt to see bot edits on the recent changes page or in their preferences for watchlists.

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Bot account information
If you plan to submit a bot for authorisation, please have the following information available on its user page:
 * Purpose (e.g. typo and punctuation repair)
 * Programming language and license
 * Running times, if known
 * Author and maintainer of the software (preferably with a link to their user page on StrategyWiki)

User:Sigma 7

 * Purpose: AutoWikiBrowser activity (current focus on image categories)
 * Runs under AutoWikiBrowser (available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/)
 * Manual usage.

I've encountered old guides, such as Ghosts 'n Goblins that have plenty of images, but none of the images for that game belong to the category. While I can use AWB on my primary account to add categories to these images, it would involve editing over 113 files; the result is many entries in recent changes either clustered at once or appearing in the same day.

AWB is a semi-auto editing utility that allows a user to either make multiple edits in a short period of time, or to spread out the edits over a long period of time. It is given a list of files to process (in this case, all images from the various subpages) and filtered out those that did not have the GnG prefix.

(FYI, I already created an account, but disabled it.)  --Sigma 7 04:57, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

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