Forum:Bot magic

One of the great things about wikis is that you can write programming scripts, or "bots", to automatically or semi-automatically make repetitive changes to many pages at once in situations where doing it manually would be tedious. I noticed that the wiki currently doesn't have one (other than the few run by Wikia, of course) and so I'd like to offer to use my bot account ("The 888th Bot") to help maintain the wiki. If it interests you, I would use AutoWikiBrowser and Pywikipediabot software, and you can see previous contributions by the bot account on my home wiki here. Examples where I would use this bot would be to fix links on pages that are redirects, moving pages from one category to another, and a host of changes for consistency between articles.

If permission is granted, I (or an admin) can request that a bot flag be set for The 888th Bot so that its edits don't flood recent changes or Recent Wiki Activity. Since edits by bots are hidden, authorisation would be sought before making any significant changes (i.e. changes that aren't purely maintenance). The 888th Avatar  (talk)  02:52, April 15, 2012 (UTC)