Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-27226474-20160513231005/@comment-1881961-20160515134850

DEmersonJMFM wrote: Jonray wrote: If you just need to use something like AutoWikiBrowser you can usually do that using your own account. Although communities which care deeply about edit counts, etc. may frown on that behavior. Generally if you use AWB to edit similarly to how you would a bot (fast, tedious edits), a bot flag is still advised. Also note, AWB has a checkpage option in which communities can block unauthorized use on their wikis. That makes sense. Similar to the OP, our content creator community is small. Two people (both admins) providing >90% of the content with a few others doing some random updates. The two of us who do a lot of content stuff often have to do mass page updates. We do make sure to tag those edits with "Using AWB" so people can see on the Activity page if it was a "real" edit or not.

I suppose a "Bot Account" would be better overall, it just hasn't been an issue for us in particular. Probably because the majority of our readers are mobile and so they don't use the Recent Activity page and such very often.

I can see where if we were having issues of other users doing mass updates with a bot we'd want to use the and  tags. We'd probably also have to protect more pages than we do today.