User blog comment:Trellar/A new way to promote your wiki/@comment-1474707-20120829213108/@comment-188432-20120830013836

I, for one, would argue to keep bots in the mix. Everyone thinks that bots are just an easy way to edit — that somehow the edit count of a bot should be hidden. But I've spent a heck of a lot of time learning how to program my bot with elaborate regex user-fixes, so I definitely feel that its edit count is "real". There's a very real case to be made that real humans who edit in a robotic way are contributing less to the wiki than a bot that's been thoughtfully programmed.

Also, I want newcomers to know up front that there's a bot in heavy operation on our wiki. It indicates that the wiki staff are serious about maintaining order.