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A bot is a piece of software that makes automated edits on a wiki, or that helps human users to make semi-automated edits. Bots are most often used in short runs to make repetitive edits to many pages, such as moving a group of pages to a new category, fixing links to disambiguation pages, or to search for misspelled words and replace them with correct ones.
As bots can make many edits during their run, their edits can overwhelm the recent changes list, making it difficult to see and respond to edits by human users. For this reason, bots that have been tested and approved by a Wikia community can be given a bot flag, a setting in the MediaWiki software that hides bot edits from the recent changes list. Bot edits can always be revealed by clicking "Show bots" in the recent changes header.
Current running bots[]
This is a list of currently running bots. These are alternate accounts of actual users that have been flagged as bots.
- Dr. Ball, M.D. (Controlled by Grunny, has sysop privileges)