Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-7514076-20130329230054/@comment-4712589-20130330010320

Elecbullet wrote: T3CHNOCIDE wrote: Hey there,

Firstly, I'm afraid that users are not permitted to use bots without a bot flag on a designated bot account - you can get this by contacting Wikia. Secondly, I would advise using AutoWikiBrowser as it's most stable and works best with Wikia hosted wikis. For more help with bots see the help page.

Regards.

Is there a rule that says you cannot act as a bot without a flag?

I know that it is exceptionally, extremely poor practice (my own Elecbotlet is fully bot-flagged on probably ten wikis and I am grateful for that) but is it forbidden sitewide or something?

I can't speak for certain whether or not Wikia forbid it completely or just prefer users not too, as there is no mention of bots in the ToC. However, their bot help page stipulates that bot accounts should be flagged, and they appear to make a big enough fuss about giving out these bot flags that they have reservations about bots as is. Because bots can overwhelm Wikia systems it would be logical to assume that, with the danger they pose and the presence of bot flags, Wikia would want users not to use bots without a flag (so they can keep track). You'd need to contact Wikia directly for a definite yes or no answer though.