Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4902411-20140522152740

Hi all,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Gnome-stock_person_bot.svg/120px-Gnome-stock_person_bot.svg.png It's been almost four years since the creation of the wiki, and we have grown much in these past few years. Almost 4.5k pages and 25k images, with about active users! However, our content is not perfect. We have lots of double and broken redirects, along with typos in articles. There's still some pending work that needs to be done. And for this, as the title suggests, we might as well have a bot to aid us. The bot account will be .sqmBot, and will be operated by me.

A bot?
Yes, a bot. We require it. Wouldn't it be tedious to manually check each and every page, and correct it (if required)? The bot would access the wikia via the API and do what it's commanded to. Additionally, it will not earn badges neither will appear on the leaderboard. It will be operated via AWB and/or Pywikibot, as and when required. It's speed will be limited to a maximum of one edit/second, so as to not burden the wikia servers. All of its edits will be supervised by me, and will be semi-automated.

What would it do?
In general, the bot will fix most pages, "wikify" them. It will also fix regular typos, double and broken redirects. It will also handle the edition of parameters of a widely used template, if needed. And, it will always be open for user requests.

Do we really need it?
That's for you to decide. Voice your opinions in the form of a reply, stating your views/criticism to the addition of a bot. Your opinion does matter.

If the community agrees on this, the said account will receive a bot flag by the Wikia Staff. The bot flag will hide all of the bot's edits from the RecentChanges, making it easier to track down other edits.

Questions? Feel free to pass on your word in the replies, and also, vote! Should we have a bot? Yes, it would make things easier No, other users can handle it I don't know

Thanks for reading all the way,  sqm talk 15:27, 05.22.2014  