Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-13003739-20121228204707/@comment-1504358-20121228210053

What kind of bot? There are at least tree:
 * 1) a software you use to make a lot of changes instead of having to do them by yourself with the web interface
 * 2) a set of software that run on a server that checks what ppl do to revert bad changes
 * 3) a set of software that perform maintenance on a regular basis

What you need to be done will influence how you build your bot.

You can read more there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots