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StrategyWiki welcomes the responsible use of bots to automate routine tasks and prevent death by boredom. | StrategyWiki welcomes the responsible use of bots to automate routine tasks and prevent death by boredom. | ||
==Bot authorisation== | == Bot authorisation == | ||
To be authorised, your bot | If you have a sincere and genuine reason for needing to run a bot on StrategyWiki, you are advised to talk to one of the sysops about it on their talk page, who will then consider your application and forward it to a bureaucrat for implementation, as only bureaucrats can grant bot users the bot flag necessary for them to be allowed to run on StrategyWiki. | ||
To be authorised, your bot must… | |||
* not request pages from StrategyWiki more than once every '''10 seconds'''. | * not request pages from StrategyWiki more than once every '''10 seconds'''. | ||
* not download huge numbers of pages in one go (page dumps are available upon request for this purpose). | * not download huge numbers of pages in one go (page dumps are available upon request for this purpose). | ||
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* be proven to be stable and conform to all rules. | * be proven to be stable and conform to all rules. | ||
==Currently authorised bots== | 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) | |||
=== Currently authorised bots === | |||
* [[User:Boothby (bot)|Boothby]] | * [[User:Boothby (bot)|Boothby]] | ||
* [[User:Auto Prod Bot|Auto Prod Bot]] | * [[User:Auto Prod Bot|Auto Prod Bot]] | ||
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* [[User:Garrbot|Garrbot]] | * [[User:Garrbot|Garrbot]] | ||
* [[User:HAL (bot)|Hal (bot)]] | * [[User:HAL (bot)|Hal (bot)]] | ||
==Writing bots== | == Writing bots == | ||
If you want to write a bot for MediaWiki/StrategyWiki, you are very welcome to do so. However, when writing a bot, make sure that it will do no harm when you're testing it, ideally using a local test installation of MediaWiki before releasing the bot into the wild, or at least making sure that any edits it makes are logged locally and never actually uploaded. | |||
If you want to write a bot for MediaWiki/StrategyWiki, you are very welcome to do so, and there are [[User:DrBob|people here who are willing to help]], providing they know about the language you plan to use. However, when writing a bot, make sure that it will do no harm when you're testing it, ideally using a local test installation of MediaWiki before releasing the bot into the wild, or at least making sure that any edits it makes are logged locally and never actually uploaded. | |||
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