Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-171752-20181005181601/@comment-168424-20181008154749

Citrusellaeditswikis wrote: Tupka217 wrote:

If you're not an admin, you can't use bots, as the bot needs to be an admin too. Bots are a tool for admins, not regular users. Um, what? Did I miss something? (Or am I misunderstanding something?) I requested bot approval when I wasn't an admin on the wiki my bot is approved on (though on that front I guess something could have changed since 2013, though the bot help page doesn't list changes to the approval process). The bot itself is also not an admin unless I specifically add the user right because I need it to do something that requires admin rights, and I take the right away right after. (Also, I used AWB on a different (still-not-admin) account before getting bot approval, too; most of the reason for the bot approval was honestly just to hide the bot from recent changes by default.)

Yeah, Tupka217 might be thinking only of bots that can delete and do useful stuff that admins can do, but a bot can be run as a regular user account, it just will be limited in scope.