Forum:Using a bot account

Hello guys. I have another account I recently requested to be flagged as bot. I want to know the basic steps, and how to use it. Thank you. ~IndxcvNovelist (talk 13:24, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * AWB is probably the best thing to use if you're new to bots. Lambda logo.svg kat [ Talk ] 13:54, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Should I install it? Then what should I do after that? ~IndxcvNovelist (talk 13:58, June 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * run it, goto File->Log in /profiles and add your bots account and PW. also goto options-> preferences -> site TAB, and add you wiki. then log in and your bot name should show up in the lower right in green. then do bot stuff....--Sxerks 14:13, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * I am getting confused what to download on that site. Is it the zip files? And it's so many... which one? ~IndxcvNovelist (talk 15:25, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * This page can be of help. 15:38, June 5, 2012 (UTC)

I have install the AWB and I log in the account. I have read the manual too. How can I command the bot? I'm so sorry for so many questions. ~IndxcvNovelist (talk 11:44, June 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * First you are going to want to go to Special:Contact and have staff add the bot flag to your account, if you have not done so already. Note that you must say which wikis you want to have the bot flag on. This is so the bot's edits to not clog up the Wiki Activity and the Recent Changes as bots can make edits rapidly. Second, add a list of pages to the edit list. This can be done by importing a list of the pages in a certain category or it can be done manually. I think there are more ways but these are the only ways I have ever used the AWB. Next, you need to change the site by going to special preferences and putting in the URL of the wiki. To do this, go to Option > Preferences. Change "Project" to wikia and add the url into the row below this (for example, on this wiki, enter "community". Now log in and begin. There will be an edit box where you can add or remove text. This is all source editing. You can also make it so the default edit of the page is adding text to the start of end of the page. You can do this in the tabbed menu under More... and make sure Enabled is checked. Append is the end of a page and Prepend is the beginning. To save, click the save button under the Start tab. Skip a page if you do not want to edit it. Under the skip tab, you can make a page autoskip if it is either not created or created, or neither. Also, you can preview your edits or delete pages (if you are an admin.) Lastly, you probably want to change the edit summary. The easiest way to do this is to go to Option > Summaries and add the summary that you want. Then, go to the Start tab and chose the summary in the drop down. This is just the basics of AWB. There are many other things that the AWB can do. I hope this helps, and I REALLY hope that it wasn't to long. ¡ɯǝɥʇ ɹoɟ ˙˙˙ɹıɐɟ sɯǝǝs ʎlpɹɐɥ 'ʎuɐɯ os ʇsu!ɐƃɐ әuo 21:55, June 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have had the same questions as IndxcvNovelist had, and I would like to thank for the detailed information (above) about "what to do" and "how to do", it helped me a lot.
 * However, I have a few more questions:
 * If I want to use "Auto tag" function of AWB on all pages on my Wiki, how should I define the "Source" to get all pages to the list?
 * Is it possible to run some action automatically every day (for example the "Auto tag")? If it is not possible via AWB, is there any other possibility, how to do that?
 * Thanks, 11:12, June 15, 2012 (UTC)