Forum:Bots???

How do i set up a bot to do tasks such as catergorising photos, pages and making pages and copying the information from wikipedia and other sites. A friend from another wiki has left wikia due to change so i cant ask them how to it but i know thats how they used to tidy up their wiki and add information of they were going to be away for extended periods of time.

Thanks

TheWWC2 19:54, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

One way is to get access to awb or you could create your own bot, although the second way is a lot more complicated and requires knowledge of how to make them. 08:40, October 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * There are a few options when creating a bot. The easiest, as Sentra246 said, is AWB, which is semi-automated bot program that has a full user manual to help you learn to use it. Another popular option is the Pywikipedia bot framework, which also has fairly detailed documentation on how to use it, which you can find here. Pywikipedia is a little more complicated to use. There also many other bot options, including writing your own if you have knowledge of coding. you can read more about creating bots and different bot frameworks available on the Creating a bot page on Wikipedia. Hope that helps! :) Cheers, Grunny  ( talk ) 09:00, October 14, 2010 (UTC)