This page lists bots identified

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Bot list, status per Category:Bot accounts & Template:Bot/doc

Bot Username Tasks Last Confirmation Next Confirmation Status
User:AuCoBot Add Authority control data, like VIAF November 2012 granted bot flag 2015, January Active; Last edit November 2012
User:BenchBot Adding Supreme Court cases from http://bulk.resource.org/ that have been formatted according to the guidelines of Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:CandalBot interwiki maintenance Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:HesperianBot account is reserved for Hesperian to run a bot on August 2012, granted flag 2015, January Inactive, No bot edits, last owner edit within 24 hours of current 17:38, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
User:InductiveBot
  • Category work: creation, moving and renaming
  • Trivial but numerous replacements, additions or formatting of templates.
Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:JackBot Creates some categories from a template Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:JVbot Automatically patrols pages listed on the Whitelist Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:Mjbot Not run unattended Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:Pathosbot Multiple housekeeping tasks Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Inactive; (currently confirmed; bot flag)
User:Phe-bot Performs match & split tasks set by users Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:Sanbeg (bot)
  • Labeled Section Transclusion, such as adding section markers around existing verses and generating sets of individual verse pages.
  • Archive work
Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:SDrewthbot Multiple housekeeping tasks Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:SKbot Interwiki script Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Inactive; (currently confirmed; bot flag)
User:TarmstroBot Correct obvious OCR errors Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Active;
User:Xenophon (bot) repetitive changes Jan 2013 reconfirmed bot flag 2015, January Inactive; (currently confirmed; bot flag)
User:DougBot Custom jobs in the pagespace or mainspace July 2013 reconfirmed 2015, July Active;
User:Spangineer's bot Move pages and perform related cleanup July 2013 reconfirmed 2015, July Active;
User:MpaaBot
  • Categorisation of PSM main ns pages
  • Default sortkey in Category:PSM contriutors
  • Generation and monitoring of redirect for PSM articles
  • Insertion of wiki-links to multipart articles in notes field of header template of articles
January 2014 Reconfirmed 2016, January Active;
User:EmausBot Wikidata related updates January 2014 granted bot flag 2016, January Active;
User:Cswikisource-bot (in semi-manual mode) for interwiki changes. Feb 2012 granted bot flag 2014, July ongoing Inactive; last edit Jan 2013
User:LA2-bot Create raw OCR pages Feb 2012 granted bot flag 2014, July ongoing Inactive; Last edit March 2012
User:TalBot Mass maintenance which requires sysop privileges As an Admin bot, confirmation occurs with owner at Wikisource:Administrators Active; Last edit March 2012
User:555.bot Undefined Failed Confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:Addihockey10 (automated) Change superseded raster images to their vectorized counterparts Feb 2012 not granted N/A Unauthorized
User:AddihockeyBot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Albamhandaebot Interwiki August 2008 not granted N/A Unauthorized
User:Alex brolloBot Supervised edits May 2010 supervised, un-flagged operation ok N/A Unauthorized
User:Alexbot Unclear not found N/A Blocked
User:AvocatoBot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:BetacommandBot Unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:BotMultichill Interwiki updates August 2010, no objections N/A Unauthorized
User:Caypartisbot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:ChessBOT Undefined Failed Confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:CommonsDelinker
  • Rename or change of files as ordered at Commons
  • Removal of links of files deleted at Commons

Activity by CommonsDelinker is an alert to admins on Commons doing things requiring review. Should not be bot flagged.

March 2009 brief discussion N/A Unauthorized
User:CSNbot Assists mass uploads Voluntary/fail confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:DamonBot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:DarafshBot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Diego Grez Bot Interwikis and fix double redirects, and AWB per request. would only work on Author, Category and Wikisource's namespaces, mostly supervised August 2010 brief discusion N/A Unauthorized
User:EagleBot Pending approval May 2007, pending more tests N/A Unauthorized
User:EnBot Create author pages Feb 2011 pending more tests N/A Unauthorized
User:Interwiki-Bot Interwiki language links Feb 2011, long discusion, flag not required N/A Unauthorized
User:Jotterbot Unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:KamikazeBot By Request not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Lucia Bot Unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:MagnusA.Bot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:MerlLinkBot Changes links in articles which are outdated and can be successfully replaced by a new one not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Polbot
  • First function: Look for works that start with "The ", "A ", or "An ". make redirects (if they don't already exist) for the title without the article.
  • Second function: Import works from Bartleby, Gutenberg, etc., applying Wikiformatting and breaking them into chapters
Voluntary/fail confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:PoliticalBot
  • Recategorisation
  • Other tasks that may come up
  • Converting/fixing HTML
  • Adding Presidential proclamations, executive orders, and signing statements
Failed confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:Riccardobot Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) Failed confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:Schlep (bot) Started and stopped manually, and it is given specific targets Failed confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:SQLBot
  • Redirect cleanup
  • Template:Bbsc cleanup
January 2008 discussion N/A Unauthorized
User:Structor unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:UlaBot Test account while EVula figures out how the hell to run a bot. :) not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Uncle G's 'bot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Vagobot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Vl bot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:タチコマ robot Bot handled Special:Doubleredirects by using redirect.py (unsupervised, automatic). August 2012, flag not granted N/A "Blocked" On October 31, 2012, George Orwell III blocked タチコマ robot with an expiry time of indefinite (repeat offender - insistes on running bot without community consent)
User:CarsracBot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Dudubot Transfer PD images to commons not found N/A Unauthorized
User:EdwardsBot Tech newsletter Delivery consent for limited activity N/A Unauthorized/Active
User:Harryjamespotter1980(bot) unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Hoo User Page Bot syncs user and user talk pages across all wikis, supervised Operator whitelist, auto patrol N/A Unauthorized
User:LcawteBot Sandbox and double redirects July 2010, discusion N/A Unauthorized
User:MenoBot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:Translation Notification Bot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:TVT-bot
  • Interwiki
  • Fix double redirects
September 2009, trial supported N/A Unauthorized
User:VolkovBot Interlanguage link Voluntary/Fail confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:Wolfbot automate routine, but tediously repetitive tasks Voluntary/Fail confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:Wybot unclear not found N/A Unauthorized
User:YannBot upload scans of books November 2006, flag not granted N/A Unauthorized
User:Yobot Any edits here are just a result of history move not found N/A Unauthorized
User:File Upload Bot (LA2) Unclear Jan 2013 failed (voluntary) reconfirmation bot flag NA Inactive;
User:WikitanvirBot Add, modify, or remove inter-wiki links, whenever applicable. It is a global bot, therefore may not need a local flag on this wiki to work. Jan 2013 failed reconfirmation bot flag N/A Unauthorized;
User:ZSBot Interwiki linking and extracting text from DJVU text layers Jan 2013 failed (voluntary) reconfirmation bot flag N/A Inactive;
User:MediaWiki default unclear April 2013 Failed confirmation N/A Unauthorized
User:ThomasBot OCR service Feb 2013 failed reconfirmation bot flag N/A. Unauthorized:
User:FloBot Unclear/no edits Not found N/A Unauthorized:
User:Chobot Unclear/no edits Not found N/A Unauthorized:
User:SpBot Autoarchive resolved discussion sections 2016, December Active