Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-44590628-20200622171220/@comment-1038387-20200622181902

Vicarage wrote: You need to ask the staff to give your account the permission. They will suggest you set up a separate login for the purpose, but they didn't insist for me.

Generally, you have to make a separate account. You can run scripts on your main account, but you're not likely going to get a bot flag on that.

For a starter bot used for mass editing, I'd recommend AWB over PyWiki.