Forum:How to have a bot on my wiki?

I would like to know (step by step) on how can I get a bot to automatically add the template (stub) to articles who are stub once they are created and/or already created. Please don't send me to a "Help wikia" site about this, I would like to know step by step here since those places are no help to me, thanks AJona1992 19:27, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * First define what a stub article is. If you can not define it precisely a bot can not do this. -- 20:56, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * "A stub article is a short article that can be expanded" - ok so I have to add this information to a bot? but how? --AJona1992 21:07, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Define short article that can be expanded? as Dexter said if it can be defined like a minimum size of characters, then a bot can do it. But if you need to make a judgment call "I know it's short but I can't think how it could be expanded" then a bot can't do it. -- 21:34, August 9, 2010 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the AWB does this automatically, it defines stub pages by the amount of characters (which was 500?). -- Light Daxter -  Talk  21:16, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, there's some stub adding - but AWB can't pick up a recent changes feed - it needs to be given a list. It would have to be ran manually -- Random Time  21:21, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh wow ok I am lost here, so what's a AWB? --AJona1992 21:24, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB is a bot program, Pywikipediabot is another. -- 21:35, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * (EC) AutoWikiBrowser - a common bot tool -- Random Time  21:36, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok so I need this bot to do what I want it to do? --AJona1992 21:37, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, but you guys are ONLY telling me to write that but where? on the bot? and if so, where should I post that at? --AJona1992 21:47, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * That will depend on the Bot you choose -- 21:52, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok what? so I need to do (1) is create a USERNAME for a bot (example: stubBot) then (2) I have to add a description on it's TALKPAGE about it's job for my wiki. Is this what you guys are trying to tell me? Becuase this is what I am getting. --AJona1992 21:55, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * That is part of it. (well the talkpage is not required but is a very good idea). -- 22:13, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Like this (http://rodriguezfamilymembers.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:StubBot)? --AJona1992 22:27, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * The Required step, yes, the optional step shows you are still missing the point of my question. What is a "short article"? what is "can be expanded"? -- 22:37, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * A short article is a article that has less than 4,670 bytes (characters), "Can be expanded" means that the article is in need of expanison. Hows that? --AJona1992 22:52, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Better, A Bot Can use your definition of a Short article, but it would require a yet to be invented Artificial Intelligence to check for your "can be expanded" part. If you want to add the template to all articles with 4,670 characters or less, regardless wither they can be expanded or not, a bot can do that. So the next step would be to Choose which bot program you want. -- 23:02, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * So which bot should I use because I don't know where it is. --AJona1992 23:06, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Two bots have been suggested to you. and given you links about them. As which bot you choose will change the following steps we can't help you until you choose. -- 23:12, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, now where are these links? --AJona1992 23:43, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Earlier in this page. AutoWikiBrowser and Pywikipediabot -- 23:46, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, I choose AWB --AJona1992 23:50, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok I'll have to let some like RandomTime help you from here, as I've never used AWB myself. -- 23:57, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, do I have to ask him to help me? (LOLZ) --AJona1992 23:58, August 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Bump --AJona1992 01:25, August 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Many people could help such as I (no pun intended). —Manyman (talk) 08:05, August 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, so what do I need to do now? --AJona1992 11:14, August 10, 2010 (UTC)