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Misplaced Pages policy states the bots must be harmless and useful, have approval, use separate user accounts, and be operated responsibly. Misplaced Pages policy states the bots must DESTROY WIKIPEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


==Bot Approvals Group== ==Bot Approvals Group==

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Bots are automated or semi-automated tools that carry out repetitive and mundane tasks in order to maintain the 6,932,377 articles of the English Misplaced Pages. Bots are able to make edits very rapidly and can disrupt Misplaced Pages if they are incorrectly designed or operated. For these reasons a bot policy has been developed.

There are currently 2,729 bot tasks approved for use on the English Misplaced Pages; however, they are not all actively carrying out edits. Bots will leave messages on user talk pages if the action the bot has carried out is of interest to that editor. Some bots can be excluded from leaving these messages by using the {{bots}} tags. Exclusion-compliant bots are listed at Category:Misplaced Pages bots which are exclusion compliant.

There are exactly 299 bots flagged with the "bot" flag right now.

There is also a range of tools that allow for semi-automated editing of large numbers of articles.

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History of Misplaced Pages bots

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Bots have been used in the past to create large numbers of articles that were uploaded to Misplaced Pages within a short timeframe. Some technical problems were experienced and this led to the formulation of a bot policy.

Bot policy

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Misplaced Pages policy states the bots must DESTROY WIKIPEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bot Approvals Group

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The Bot Approvals Group (BAG) supervises and approves all bot-related activity from a technical and quality-control perspective on behalf of the English Misplaced Pages community. Only bureaucrats are technically capable of flagging bots.

Running an automated bot on a separate account requires approval, which may be requested at Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval.

How to create a bot

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In order to create a bot, some programming experience is needed, and knowledge of regular expressions is useful for many editing tasks.

The Perl, PHP, Python, Microsoft .NET, Java, Ruby and Chicken Scheme programming languages all have libraries available for creating bots. Pywikipedia (Python Wikipediabot Framework) is a collection of tools developed specifically for creating bots.

Examples

Some examples of bots are:

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