Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3397118-20130214030604/@comment-5267906-20130215062602

I haven't used pywikipedia for a while, so someone else might have to help you with your first question. If I recall correctly, it's a bit of a pain to set up with Wikia. As for using it here, the process depends a lot on what wiki you plan to use it on. You would usually have to ask any other admins as well as the community for permission to use a bot. It's more for the sake of courtesy than anything. If you are the only admin on a small wiki, you can just go ahead and use it.

The way you use a bot is to create an account dedicated to the bot. You can then enter the username and password of this account into a program, which allows it to make edits using that account. So a bot can make any edits that another user is allowed to make. If you give the bot account admin rights on your wiki, it can perform the same tasks as an admin.

The only purpose of a bot flag is to hide the account's edits from the recent activity log and to identify it to other users as a bot. You can ask for a flag from Wikia staff at Special:Contact/general.