Forum:Creating a bot...

I'm an administrator at the One Tree Hill Wiki, and given the fact that there is always the possibility of having to deal with mass vandalism and I've been thinking of making a bot to help out with fighting the vandalism so Caiite and I wouldn't have to go through the work of undoing tons of edits (yes, I know the VSTF have a bot similar to this; this is not a copycat bot). How would I go about creating this bot?  Love and Lust  00:12, September 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, if you don't want to take the time to operate a bot, you can always try out Wham!, a JS script that allows you to revert all the edits of a user, block a user quickly, bot yourself (you'd have to have the right to bot yourself), and delete all created pages/comments by a user. -- Plasma  ( Talk ) 00:21, September 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * Or basically, to make a bot for your wiki, you should create a separate account and send a request to Staff flagging this account. Once done it, you can choose an automatic editing software for your bot. There's wonderful guides by Randomtime so if you plan to set a bot it'd be good to take a look at them.
 * Instead of using a bot that will have to be run all the time, consider using AbuseFilter, which can do everything a countervandalism bot can do and more. The syntax can be a little hard to understand at first, but I would recommend it over coding a bot from scratch. 01:06, September 11, 2012 (UTC)