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This is a list of currently running bots. Some of these may be actual users who are running bot scripts under their own account, and are not planning to apply for a bot flag. All bots must follow [[Wikipedia:Bot policy|the official bot policy]].
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==== Various tasks ====
|-
! Name !! Purpose !! Owner !! Date added !! Status
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| [[User:.anacondabot|.anacondabot]]
| [[Interwiki]] using warnfiles from the Interwiki link checker (automatic) and Interwiki on specific articles or whole categories (manually)
| [[User:.anaconda|.anaconda]]
| 2006-08-28
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:A4bot|A4bot]]
| Interwiki bot.
| [[User:A4|A4]]
| 2007-02-10
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Addbot|Addbot]]
| See [[User:Addbot|this page]] for task list
| [[User:Addshore|Addshore]]
| 2008-05-29
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Alaibot|Alaibot]]
| [[WP:SFD]] renaming; stub tag replacement, and merger
| [[User:Alai|Alai]]
| 2006-07-13
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:AMABot|AMABot]]
| Updates various [[Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates|AMA]] pages and does some IRC-based stuff for the AMA's IRC channel.
| [[User:Martinp23|Martinp23]]
| 2007-02-10
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:AP.BOT|AP.BOT]]
| Recategorising, [[Wikipedia:Template substitution|template subst'ing]], fixing user pages regarding [[WP:UB|the migration]]
| [[User:Andypandy.UK|Andypandy.UK]]
| 2006-10-26
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:AzaBot|AzaBot]]
| Spambot for [[WP:ACID]]
| [[User:AzaToth|AzaToth]]
| 2005-12-07
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:BJBot|BJBot]]
| List orphaned fair use images for deletion.
| [[User:Bjweeks|Bjweeks]]
| 2007-02-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:BOTijo|BOTijo]]
|
| [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]]
| 2007-12-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Beastie Bot|Beastie Bot]]
| Species: Conservation Status and IUCN References
| [[User:Pengo|Pengo]]
| 2006-06-06
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Bluebot|Bluebot]]
| Recategorising, [[Wikipedia:Template substitution|template subst'ing]], numerous formatting tasks.
| [[User:Bluemoose|Bluemoose]]
| 2005-11-12
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Broadbot|Broadbot]]
| Interwiki
| '''[[User:Broadbeer|Broadbeer]]''' <small>'''[[User talk:Broadbeer|talk]]'''</small>
| 2007-01-31
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:BrownBot|BrownBot]]
| [[WP:FILMS]] distributions, [[WP:SUBST|template substitution]].
| '''[[User:Cbrown1023|<font color="green">Cbrown1023</font>]]''' <small>'''<font color="#002bb8">[[User talk:Cbrown1023|talk]]</font>'''</small>
| 2007-04-14
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:CanisRufus|CanisRufus]]
| [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]], [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|CFD]] tasks.
| [[User:RedWolf|RedWolf]]
| 2004-09-19
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]]
| Human-assisted. Spelling, punctuation, capitalisation fixes, compacting external URLs, miscellaneous tasks.
| [[User:Cmdrjameson|Cmdrjameson]]
| 2006-03-14
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:タチコマ robot|タチコマ robot]]
| Multiple tasks (see bot userpage)
| [[User:White Cat|White Cat]]
| 2005-09-07
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:CopyToWiktionaryBot|CopyToWiktionaryBot]]
| Daily sweep to transwiki (full history) to en.wiktionary.org
| [[User:Connel MacKenzie]]
| 2006-10-08
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:CricketBot|CricketBot]]
| Human-assisted, corrects common errors in cricket articles.
| [[User:Stephen Turner|Stephen Turner]]
| 2005-12-13
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Cydebot|Cydebot]]
| Template and category maintenance per [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion|TFD]], [[Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion|SFD]], and [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|CFD]].
| [[User:Cyde|Cyde Weys]]
| 2006-04-30
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:CyeZBot|CyeZBot]]
| Multi-login, adds interwiki links, various tasks.
| [[User:CyeZ|CyeZ]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:DarioBot|darioBot]]
| Interwiki bot, and tag unsourced images
| [[User:Dario_vet|dario vet]]
| 4 April 2007
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:DcoetzeeBot|DcoetzeeBot]]
| [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|Disambiguation]], redirect bypassing, category moving.
| [[User:Deco|Deco]]
| 2005-09-06
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:DisambigBot|DisambigBot]]
| [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|Disambiguation]]
| [[User:Robchurch|Robchurch]]
| 2006-08-28
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:D6|D6]]
| [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]], categories, various tasks.
| [[User:Docu|Docu]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Drinibot|Drinibot]]
| Creating capitalization redirects, substing templates
| [[User:Drini|Drini]]
| 2006-04-20
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:DumbBOT|DumbBOT]]
| Completes [[WP:AFD]] noms, remove protection templates from non-protected pages, creates various reports such as [[WP:PRODSUM]]
| [[User:Tizio|Tizio]]
| 2007-04-27
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:DvyBot|DvyBot]]
| Adds WikiProject banners to pages in categories
| [[User:Dvyjones|Dvyjones]]
| 2008-08-31
| {{/inactive}}
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| [[User:EmxBot|EmxBot]]
| Interwiki, replacing, substing templates, various tasks.
| [[User:Emx|Emx]]
| 2007-03-26
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Fetofsbot|Fetofsbot]]
| Orphans images.
| [[User:Fetofs|Fetofs]]
| 2006-02-21
| {{/inactive}}
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| [[User:Fetofsbot2|Fetofsbot2]]
| Semi-automated disambiguation, double redirect, substing and other general fixes.
| [[User:Fetofs|Fetofs]]
| 2006-02-21
| {{/inactive}}
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| [[User:Fluxbot|Fluxbot]]
| Mostly processes [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy|CFDS]]; [[Wikipedia:German userbox solution|GUS]]; Fixing non [[Wikipedia:Template substitution|susbt'd]] templates.
| [[User:Xaosflux|xaosflux]]
| 2006-06-12
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Ganeshbot|Ganeshbot]]
| Creates stubs of Indian cities, adding [[Template:WP India|project banners]], handling [[WP:BOTREQ|requests]], general fixes using [[WP:AWB|AWB]]
| [[User:Ganeshk|Ganeshk]]
| 2006-03-24
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Gdrbot|Gdrbot]]
| Bypasses redirects, [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]], recategorisation, [[User:Gdr/DYKbot|DYKbot]], [[User:Gdr/Nomialbot|Nomialbot]], [[User:Gdr/Yearbot|Yearbot]], various tasks.
| [[User:Gdr|Gdr]]
| 2005-05-18
| {{/inactive}}
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| [[User:Guanabot|Guanabot]]
| Various tasks
| [[User:Guanaco|Guanaco]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Grammarbot|Grammarbot]]
| {{/unknown}}
| [[User:R3m0t|r3m0t]]
| 2005-03-04
| {{/inactive}}
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| [[User:HagermanBot|HagermanBot]]
| Leaves the {{t1|unsigned}} template on talk pages when a user forgets to sign.
| [[User:Hagerman|Hagerman]]
| 2006-12-03
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Janna|Janna]]
| {{/unknown}}
| [[User:Anthony DiPierro|Anthony DiPierro]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/discontinued}}
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| [[User:JdforresterBot|JdforresterBot]]
| Page/Category renaming and fixing the result.
| [[User:Jdforrester|Jdforrester]]
| 2005-04-12
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:KaiserbBot|KaiserbBot]]
| Disambiguation, re-categorisation, and redirect bypassing.
| [[User:Kaiserb|Kaiserb]]
| 2005-12-20
| {{/inactive}}
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| [[User:KevinBot|KevinBot]]
| Changes race and ethnicity links in [[User:Rambot|Rambot]] articles, various tasks.
| [[User:Kevin Rector|Kevin Rector]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Ligulembot|Ligulembot]]
| Human-assisted, exchanges template calls
| [[User:Ligulem|Ligulem]]
| 2006-09-11
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:LinkBot|LinkBot]]
| Suggests possible wikilinks.
| [[User:Nickj|Nickj]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:LupinBot|LupinBot]]
| Uploaders images.
| [[User:Lupin|Lupin]]
| 2005-05-07
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:MBot|MBot]]
| {{/unknown}}
| [[User:Mbecker|Mbecker]]
| 2005-04-18
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:MelonBot|MelonBot]]
| Various tasks.
| [[User:Happy-melon|Happy-melon]]
| 2008-08-15
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:MessedRobot|MessedRobot]]
| Fixing double redirects, replaces uses of redundant images, recategorization
| [[User:Messedrocker|Messedrocker]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:MetsBot|MetsBot]]
| Various template and category tasks, also diacritical mark correction.
| [[User:Mets501|Mets501]]
| 2006-09-23
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:MiszaBot|MiszaBot]]
| 1. Delivers the [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|Esperanza]] Newsletter. 2. Archives my talk page.
| [[User:Misza13|Misza13]]
| 2006-03-19
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Mr.Z-bot|Mr.Z-bot]]
|
| <font face="Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|<font color="#056366">Mr.</font>]]''[[User talk:Mr.Z-man|<font color="#056625">'''Z-'''</font><font color="#054F66">man</font>]]</font>''
| 2008-04-20
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Mulder416sBot|Mulder416sBot]]
| Whatever I feel like doing with python or AWB, mostly manual edits.
| [[User:Mulder416|Mulder416]]
| 2006-03-24
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Muro Bot|Muro Bot]]
| Fixes double redirects and adds/fixes interwikis.
| [[User:Muro de Aguas|Muro de Aguas]]
| 2007-11-19
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:MacBot|MacBot]]
| Edits stubs, disambiguation pages and SpongeBob articles.
| [[User:MacintoshApple|MacintoshApple]]
| 2006-11-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:N-Bot|N-Bot]]
| Replaces links to redirects to lists (of fictional characters, for instance) with links to the appropriate list section.
| [[User:Nickptar|Nickptar]]
| 2005-08-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[user:Newsletterbot|Newsletterbot]]
| Delivers newsletters
| [[user:Milk's Favorite Cookie|Milk's Favorite Cookie]]
| 2008-08-10
|-
| [[User:Nobot|Nobot]]
| Maintains municipality and county articles under [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway|WikiProject Norway]].
| [[User:Egil|Egil]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:NohatBot|NohatBot]]
| Various tasks.
| [[User:Nohat|Nohat]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Ocobot|Ocobot]]
| Finds dead external links.
| [[User:Ocolon|Ocolon]]
| 2007-03-24
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:OrphanBot|OrphanBot]]
| Removes unsourced or unknown-license images from articles.
| [[User:Carnildo|Carnildo]]
| 2006-01-13
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Pathosbot|Pathosbot]]
| Template conversion, [[Wikipedia:Template substitution|subst'ing]], various tasks.
| [[User:Pathoschild|Pathoschild]]
| 2006-03-13
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:PDFbot|PDFbot]]
| Updates file size on external links transcluding {{tl|PDFlink}} and corrects usage of said template.
| [[User:Dispenser|Dispenser]]
| 2007-03-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Pearle|Pearle]]
| Open source, various tasks.
| [[user:Beland|Beland]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:PockBot|PockBot]]
| Produces for a given category a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcats), as well as the status of those articles
| [[user:PocklingtonDan|PocklingtonDan]]
| 2006-12-08
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Rambot|Rambot]]
| Adds and maintains county and city articles, human-assisted spelling.
| [[User:Ram-Man|Ram-Man]]
| 2002-10-05
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Robbot|Robbot]]
| Human-assisted [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]], adds interwiki links.
| [[User:Andre Engels|Andre Engels]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:RobotG|RobotG]]
| Implements [[WP:CFD|CFD]] consensus; implements {{[[Template:category redirect|category redirect]]}}s.
| [[User:RobertG|RobertG]]
| 2006-07-14
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:RoryBot|RoryBot]]
| Bypassing ''deprecated'' redirects (e.g. article-to-project space).
| [[User:Rory096|Rory096]]
| 2006-05-26
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Rschen7754bot|Rschen7754bot]]
| Various highway-related tasks.
| [[User:Rschen7754|Rschen7754]]
| 2005-11-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:RussBot|RussBot]]
| Fixes double-redirects, disambiguation, updates [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance|disambig maintenance page]].
| [[User:RussBlau|RussBlau]]
| 2005-11-05
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Sethbot|Sethbot]]
| Creates redirects to American place names.
| [[User:Seth Ilys|Seth Illys]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:SelketBot|SelketBot]]
| Adds {{tl|SharedIP}} to talk pages of shared IP address users.
| [[User:Selket|Selket]]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABots%2FRequests_for_approval%2FSelketBot_2&diff=107950572&oldid=107534247 2007-02-14]
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SmackBot|SmackBot]]
| Makes simple or complex repetitive text changes. MoS, requests.
| [[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich Farmbrough]]
| 2006-02-01
| {{/active}}
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| [[User:Snowbot|Snowbot]]
| Replacing or deleting categories for [[WP:CFD|CFD]] and [[WP:UCFD|UCFD]]; replacing or removing stubs for [[WP:SFD|SFD]]; WikiProject tagging; [[Wikipedia:Template substitution|Templates subst:'ing]]. Using [[WP:AWB|AWB]] and [[m:pywikipedia]].
| [[User:Snowolf|Snowolf]]
| 2007-02-25
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Snobot|snobot]]
| Uploads images, fixes redirects.
| [[User:Snoyes|snoyes]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:StefanBot|StefanBot]]
| Adds [[fishbase]] and [[ITIS]] references to [[fish]] articles and adds conservation status to taxoboxes.
| [[User:Stefan|Stefan]]
| 2005-12-31
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:TestEditBot|TestEditBot]]
| Reverts common test edits and warns/reports users
| [[User:tj9991|tj9991]]
| 2008-07-28
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:TheJoshBot|TheJoshBot]]
| Converts infoboxes from one template to another. <small>[[User:TheJoshBot/Status|Current Status]]</small>
| [[User:TheJosh|TheJosh]]
| 2006-11-29
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Topjabot|Topjabot]]
| {{/unknown}}
| [[User:Gerritholl|Gerritholl]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Tsca.bot|Tsca.bot]]
| Bypasses redirects.
| [[User:Tsca|Tsca]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:UgenBot|UgenBot]]
| Human-assisted disambiguation, fixes interwiki links
| [[User:Ugen64|ugen64]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:VandalCountBot|VandalCountBot]]
| Updates vandalism statistics.
| [[User:Lightdarkness|Lightdarkness]]
| 2006-01-24
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:WatchlistBot|WatchlistBot]]
| Manage project watchlists (see user page for details)
| [[User:Mom2jandk|Ingrid]]
| 2006-03-19
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Werdnabot|Werdnabot]]
| Archives User talk pages, bypasses double-redirects, maintains [[User:Werdna648/.NET Bot Framework|.NET Bot Framework]].
| [[User:Werdna|Werdna]]
| 2006-06-04
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Whobot|Whobot]]
| [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|CFD]] bot for moving articles
| [[User:Who|Who]]
| 2005-10-13
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:WinBot|WinBot]]
| Unicodifying, [[WP:SUBST|Template substitution]]
| [[User:Winhunter|Winhunter]]
| 2006-07-14
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:ZsinjBot|ZsinjBot]]
| Templete substitution
| [[User:Zsinj|Zsinj]]
| 2006-03-28
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Tawkerbot|Tawkerbot]]
| basically spamming people w/ [[WP:WWPC|Wikipedia Weekly]] delivery notices among some other random things that I feel like doing :)
| [[User:Tawker|Tawker]]
| 2006-02-23
| {{/active}}
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==== Maintenance-related Bots ====
Bots listed here are used in the assistance of page maintenance.
|-
! Name !! Purpose !! Owner !! Date added !! Status
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| [[User:AFD Bot|AFD Bot]] (was [[User:VFD Bot|VFD Bot]])
| Various [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|AfD]] tasks.
| [[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]]
| 2005-03-05
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Alphachimpbot|Alphachimpbot]]
| Filing articles from [[:Category:Wikipedia cleanup|cleanup]] into month specific categories, subst's user talk templates. Runs 1-2 times/day.
| [[User:Alphachimp|Alphachimp]]
| 2006-07-07
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Bot523|Bot523]]
| Removing [[WP:AFDC|categories]] from closed AfD debates.
| [[User:ais523|ais523]]
| 2006-10-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:タチコマ robot|タチコマ robot]]
| Double redirects, Commonsdelinking, Category renaming
| [[User:White Cat|White Cat]]
| 2005-09-07
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:DFBot|DFBot]]
| Maintains the [[User:Dragons flight/RFA summary|RFA summary]] and [[User:Dragons flight/AFD summary|AFD summary]].
| [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]]
| 2006-04-25
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Dlyons493Bot|Dlyons493Bot]]
| Routine maintenance of the 342 articles on French arrondissements. Run manually occasionally as needed.
| [[User:Dlyons493|Dlyons493]]
| 2005-12-01
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:EssjayBot|EssjayBot]]
| Complement to [[User:Sandbot|Sandbot]].
| [[User:Essjay|Essjay]]
| 2006-07-22
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:EssjayBot_III|EssjayBot_III]]
| Archives user talk pages.
| [[User:Essjay|Essjay]]
| 2006-11-10
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:EssjayBot_IV|EssjayBot IV]]
| Archives article talk pages (by request).
| [[User:Essjay|Essjay]]
| 2006-11-23
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:JoeBot|JoeBot]]
| Finds commonly misspelled words and corrects them, user-assisted at all times. Pays special attention not to change regional spellings.
| [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]]
| 2006-02-27
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:LDBot|LDBot]]
| Has taken over automated tasks of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|AFD]].
| [[User:Lightdarkness|lightdarkness]]
| 2006-02-24
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Mairibot|Mairibot]]
| Using pywikipedia for [[Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion|SFD]] renames.
| [[User:Mairi|Mairi]]
| 2005-11-05
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:MedcabBot|MedcabBot]]
| Updates [[Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases]] periodically.
| [[User:Xyrael|Xyrael]]
| 2007-02-07
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:NekoDaemon|NekoDaemon]]
| CFD Bot.
| [[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]]
| 2005-04-18
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:NolBot|NolBot]]
| Changing of depreciated templates/infoboxes to the current version.
| [[User:Nol888|Nol888]]
| 17 March 2007
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Pfft Bot|Pfft Bot]]
| Occasionally moves images to commons semi-automatically.
| [[User:Phroziac|Phroziac]]
| 2005-12-28
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:RBot|RBot]]
| Automatic substing of user warnings
| [[User:R|R]]
| 2007-3-18
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Sandbot|Sandbot]]
| A bot that uses the pywikipedia framework so it can clean up the main sandbox and main sandbox talk page every 6 hours; Also cleans all tutorial sandboxes and tutorial sandbox talk pages every Monday. Work for additional sandboxes may be requested with the Bot owner.
| [[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]]
| 2005-03-05
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Syrcatbot|Syrcatbot]]
| Attended bot using [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] to assist in recategorization / category emptying at [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|CFD]].
| [[User:Syrthiss|Syrthiss]]
| 2006-02-05
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:TPO-bot|TPO-bot]]
| Manually run bot to assist with [[Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion|SFD]].
| [[User:TheParanoidOne|TheParanoidOne]]
| 2005-12-27
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:VoABot|VoABot]]
| Updating the '''full''', '''semi''', '''move''', and the '''other protected pages''' lists at [[Wikipedia:List of protected pages]]. Cleans up [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection]]. Notifies admins who protect certain pages without a summary.
| [[User:Voice of All|Voice of All]]
| 2006-05-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Zorglbot|Zorglbot]]
| [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems]] automated tasks.
| [[User:Schutz|Schutz]]
| 2006-05-18
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:UnCatBot|UnCatBot]]
| Go through [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] and tag all articles that are not in a category with the uncategorized template.
| [[User:nn123645|nn123645]]
| 2008-01-01
| {{/active}}
|-
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==== Disambiguation Bots ====
Bots listed below are used solely for disambiguation.
|-
! Name !! Purpose !! Owner !! Date added !! Status
|-
| [[User:ABot|ABot]]
| Disambiguation.
| [[User:ABCD|ABCD]]
| 2005-08-06
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Commander Keane bot|Commander Keane bot]]
| [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]].
| [[User:Commander Keane|Commander Keane]]
| 2005-10-15
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:DisambigBot|DisambigBot]]
| Disambiguation.
| [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]]
| 2005-08-27
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Margosbot|Margosbot]]
| Interwiki links (from [[:pl:|Polish Wikipedia]]).
| [[User:Margospl|Margospl]]
| 2005-05-05
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:WouterBot |WouterBot]]
| Disambiguation.
| [[User:WouterVH|WouterVH]]
| 2005-05-04
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Pfft Bot|Pfft Bot]]
| Disambiguation.
| [[User:Phroziac|Phroziac]]
| 2005-12-28
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:PlankBot|PlankBot]]
| Disambiguation.
| [[User:Faradayplank|Faradayplank]]
| 2008-06-14
| {{/active}}
|-
|colspan="5"|

==== Interwiki Bots ====
Bots listed below are used solely for interwiki linking.
|-
! Name !! Notes !! Owner !! Date added !! Status
|-
| [[User:Albambot|Albambot]]
| Mainly with [[:ko:|Korean Wikipedia]].
| [[User:Albamhandae|Albamhandae]]
| 2008-02-28
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:alnoktaBOT|alnoktaBOT]]
| With [[:ar:|Arabic Wikipedia]] as the start wiki, en,de,fr,es.
| [[:ar:مستخدم:alnokta|alnokta]]
| 2007-01-01
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Amirobot|Amirobot]]
| Home wiki are Persian wikipedia.
| [[:fa:User:Ladsgroup|Amir]]
| -
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Chobot|Chobot]]
| With [[:ko:|Korean Wikipedia]].
| [[User:ChongDae|ChongDae]]
| 2005-06-20
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:ChenzwBot|ChenzwBot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Chenzw|Chenzw]]
| 2008-10-24
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:タチコマ robot|タチコマ robot]]
| Interwikilinks many wikis. See [[m:User:White Cat#Wikipedia|this page]] for a full list
| [[User:White Cat|White Cat]]
| 2005-09-07
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:DorganBot|DorganBot]]
| With [[:hu:|Hungarian]], [[:ro:|Romanian]], [[:ru:|Russian]], [[:fr:|French]], [[:de:|Deutch]], [[:nl:|Dutch]] wikipedia.
| [[User:Dorgan|Dorgan]]
| 2006-12-23
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Escarbot|Escarbot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[:fr:User:Vargenau|fr:Vargenau]]
| 2006-11-01
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:FlaBot|FlaBot]]
| [http://www.flacus.de/wikipedia/Interwiki-Link-Checker/ Interwiki-Link-Checker]
| [[:de:User:Flacus|de:Flacus]]
| 2005-05-01
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:H92Bot|H92Bot]]
| Interwiki to new articles on no,nn,da,sv,de,fr,he
| &mdash;&nbsp;[[User:H92|H92]]&nbsp;<small>([[User talk:H92|t]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/H92|c]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[:no:Bruker:H92|no]])</small>
| 2007-04-27
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:JhsBot|JhsBot]]
| Mainly with [[:no:|Norwegian (Bokmål)]] Wikipedia.
| [[m:User:Jon Harald Søby|Jon Harald Søby]]
| 2007-01-30
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Jumbuck|Jumbuck]]
| ''none.''
| [[User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]]
| 2004-10-14
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:KhanBot|KhanBot]]
| ''none.''
| [[User:Harald Khan|Harald Khan]]
| 2008-04-15
| {{/active}}
|-

| [[User:Kisbesbot|Kisbesbot]]
| ''none.''
| [[User:Kisbes|Kisbes]]
| 2008-05-20
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:KocjoBot|KocjoBot]]
| With [[:sl:|Slovene Wikipedia]] as the start wiki; + en, de, hr, sr.
| [[User:Klemen Kocjancic|Klemen Kocjancic]]
| 2007-12-22
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Luuvabot|Luuvabot]]
| With [[:zh-min-nan:|Minnan Wikipedia]].
| [[User:Luuva|Luuva]]
| 2008-10-20
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:M7bot|M7bot]]
| With [[:it:|Italian Wikipedia]].
| [[User:M7|M7]]
| 2005-09-07
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:MalafayaBot|MalafayaBot]]
| With [[:ka:|Georgian Wikipedia]].
| [[User:Malafaya|Malafaya]]
| 2005-11-04
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Maksim-bot|Maksim-bot]]
| With [[:eo:|Esperanto Wikipedia]].
| [[User:Maksim-e|Maksim-e]]
| 2005-12-17
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:MenoBot|MenoBot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Meno25|Meno25]]
| 2007-11-24
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Nallimbot|Nallimbot]]
| Multi-logon bot. Home wiki is [[:ko:|Korean wikipedia]].
| [[User:Adrenalinup|Adrenalinup]]
| 2008-11-08
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Numbo3-bot|Numbo3-bot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Numbo3|Numbo3]]
| 2008-05-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:PipepBot|PipepBot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Pipep|Pipep]]
| 2007-07-31
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Ptbotgourou|Ptbotgourou]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Gdgourou|Gdgourou]]
| 2008-07-27
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Rei-bot|Rei-bot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[:pt:User:Rei-artur|Rei-artur]]
| 2007-01-21
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Riccardobot|Riccardobot]]
| With [[:it:|Italian Wikipedia]].
| [[User:Riccardov|Riccardov]]
| 2006-09-23
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:RoboDick|RoboDick]]
| Multilogon bot.
| [[:nl:User:Dutchy-Dick|nl:Dutchy-Dick]]
| 2006-02-01
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:RobotE|RobotE]]
| ''none.''
| [[User:Ellywa|Ellywa]]
| 2005-10-20
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:RobotJcb|RobotJcb]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Jcbos|Jcbos]]
| 2005-10-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SamatBot|SamatBot]]
| The bot works in huwiki, enwiki and dewiki from the [[:hu:|Hungarian Wikipedia]].
| [[:hu:User:Samat|Samat]]
| 2008-05-09
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SashatoBot|SashatoBot]]
| ''none.''
| [[User:Sasa Stefanovic|Sasa Stefanovic]]
| 2006-01-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SassoBot|SassoBot]]
| ''none.''
| [[User:Djsasso|DJSasso]]
| 2008-12-04
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SpBot|SpBot]]
| interwiki links
| [[:de:User:Euku|Euku]]
| 2008-06-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Synthebot|Synthebot]]
| Multi-logon bot, mainly with [[:ia:|Interlingua]] Wikipedia
| [[User:Julian Mendez|Julian Mendez]]
| 2007-03-29
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:tanhabot|tanhabot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Mardetanha|Mardetanha]]
| 2007-02
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Techman224 Interwiki Bot|Techman224 Interwiki Bot]]
| Interwiki links
| [[User:Techman224|Techman224]]
| 2008-010
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:TXiKiBoT|TXiKiBoT]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[:eu:Lankide:TXiKi|eu:TXiKi]]
| 2007-02
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Ugur Basak Bot|Ugur Basak Bot]]
| Multilogin bot, with [[:tr:|Turkish Wikipedia]].
| [[User:Ugur Basak|Ugur Basak]]
| 2006-02-08
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Vina-iwbot|Vina-iwbot]]
| Multilogin bot, [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], [[:ja:|Japanese Wikipedia]] and [[:ko:|Korean Wikipedia]]
| [[User:Vina|Vina]]
| 2006-06-17
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Vini 17bot5|Vini 17bot5]]
| Interwiki from Portuguese Wikipedia
| [[:pt:User:Vini 175|Vini 175]]
| 2008-08-17
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:WikiDreamer Bot|WikiDreamer Bot]]
| Interwiki from French Wikipedia
| [[:fr:User:WikiDreamer|WikiDreamer]]
| 2008-07-15
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:WuBot|WuBot]]
| Multilogin bot
| [[User:Wuzur|Wuzur]]
| 2008-07-17
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Wybot|Wybot]]
| Multilogin bot,interwiki bot
| [[User:WonYong|WonYong]]
| 2006-09-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:YurikBot|YurikBot]]
| Multilogin bot, ~90 languages.
| [[User:Yurik|Yurik]]
| 2005-03-14
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Zwobot|Zwobot]]
| Multi-logon bot.
| [[User:Head|Head]]
| 2005-07-14
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Jotterbot|Jotterbot]]
| Multilogin bot, [[:ml:|Malayalam Wikipedia]], [[:ta:|Tamil Wikipedia]]
| [[User:Jyothis|Jyothis]]
| 2007-11-06
| {{/active}}
|}

=== Bots running with administrator rights ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|colspan="5"|
Bots listed here operated on accounts with [[Wikipedia:Administrator|administrator]] rights. There are no bots currently authorized to run with sysop rights.
|-
! Name !! Purpose !! Owner !! Date added !! Status
|-
| [[User:Curps|Curps]]
|
#Detects page moves occuring more often than a certain rate threshold, issues an indefinite block and posts a notice at [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents|ANI]].
#Detects page moves to certain bad faith targets as vandalism. Reverts the move and deletes the redirect.
#Indefinitely blocks newly created accounts with names containing certain banned words and phrases, or that use certain special characters. Block summary is "user..."
#Detects certain behaviors as vandalism and automatically uses rollback.
#Decides that some of the automatically detected vandalism warrants a block summarized as "vandalism". Users triggering this are blocked indefinitely. Ordinary IPs are blocked for 24 hours and AOL IPs for 15 minutes.
| [[User:Curps|Curps]] (operator uses same account as bot)
| 2005-09-26
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
|}

=== Bots running without a flag ===
''These bots are run manually, under direct user control, without a bot flag so that they appear in [[Special:Recentchanges]]. Bots listed here should only be making edits 30-60 seconds apart until fully approved. Discussion related to these bots should be directed to the talk page at [[Wikipedia talk:Bots]] or to the owner of that bot.''

{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Purpose !! Owner !! Date added !! Status
|-
| [[User:79 androids|79 androids]]
| Maintains templates related to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players|WikiProject Baseball players]].
| [[User:Android79|Android79]]
| 2006-01-05
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:Afkbot|Afkbot]]
| Interwikis
| [[User:Korean alpha for knowledge|Korean alpha for knowledge]]
| 2006-02-15
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Andrewbot|Andrewbot]]
| Runs [[m:Pywikipedia|pywikipedia]] redirect.py.
| [[User:Andrew_pmk|Andrew_pmk]]
| 2005-08-16
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:AngBot|AngBot]]
| Deletes articles created by mass page-creation vandalism.
| [[User:Angela|Angela]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:Atomobot|Atomobot]]
| Various tasks.
| [[User:Atomique|Atomique]]
| 2006-03-18
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:BlueRobot|BlueRobot]]
| Interwikis
| [[User:BlueRbt|BlueRbt]]
| 2006-07-24
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[user:Catapult|catapult]]
| [[User:Freakofnurture/Catapult|Various tasks]]
| [[User:Freakofnurture|freakofnurture]]
| 2006-02-13
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:CbmBOT|CbmBOT]]
| Updates the statistics table on [[:Category:Cleanup by month|Cleanup by month]] daily.
| [[User:Dvandersluis|Dvandersluis]]
| 2006-08-04
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Crypticbot|Crypticbot]]
| Lists orphaned [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|AFD]] pages and automated archival.
| [[User:Cryptic|Cryptic]]
| 2005-10-29
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:Curpsbot-unicodify|Curpsbot-unicodify]]
| Converts some [[m:Help:Special characters|HTML and URL-encoded entities]] into Unicode characters.
| [[User:Curps|Curps]]
| 2005-08-22
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Diderobot|Diderobot]]
| Fixes spelling and syntax, various other tasks.
| [[User:Sam Hocevar|Sam Hocevar]]
| 2005-04-21
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Erwin85Bot|Erwin85Bot]]
| Disambiguation, redirects, etc.
| [[User:Erwin85|Erwin85]]
| 2006-06-24
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:EssjayBot II|EssjayBot II]]
| Archiving of project and project talk pages.
| [[User:Essjay|Essjay]]
| 2006-07-26
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:Eubot|Eubot]]
| Updates statistics on Dutch municipalities.
| [[User:Eugene van der Pijll|Eugene van der Pijll]]
| 2005-04-08
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:FairuseBot|FairuseBot]]
| Removal of disputed fair-use images from articles
| [[User:Carnildo|Carnildo]]
| 2006-04-01
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:G-Bot|G-Bot]]
| Semi-automated typo correction, disambiguates links, various other tasks.
| [[User:Gflores|Gflores]]
| 2006-01-12
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Gnome (Bot)|Gnome (Bot)]]
| Stub sorting in support of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] Is waiting for permission for debug. Info on [[Wikipedia talk:Bots]]
| [[User:Eagle 101|Eagle]] ([[User talk:Eagle 101|talk]]) ([[User:Eagle 101/Desk|desk]])
| 2006-03-05
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Guanabot2|Guanabot2]]
| RC patrol edits.
| [[User:Guanaco|Guanaco]]
| 2005-03-13
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:IsraBot|IsraBot]]
| Uploads stubs on Israeli cities.
| [[User:AdamRaizen|AdamRaizen]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:Kakashi Bot|Kakashi Bot]]
| Responds to bot requests.
| [[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]]
| 2005-02-25
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Kurando-san|Kurando-san]]
| Human-assisted archival.
| [[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]]
| 2005-03-30
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Matt Crypto (bot)|Matt Crypto (bot)]]
| Maintains [[List of cryptography topics]], various other tasks.
| [[User:Matt Crypto|Matt Crypto]]
| 2005-02-24
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:MediationBot|MediationBot]]
| Various tasks as needed by the [[WP:MC|Mediation Committee]], including [[WP:RFM|RFM]] case management and [[Template:Medcom|Committee member]] notifications.
| [[User:Essjay|Essjay]]</br>(Chairman)
| 2006-07-12
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| [[User:MediationBot1|MediationBot1]]
| Various tasks as needed by the [[WP:MC|Mediation Committee]], including [[WP:RFM|RFM]] case management and [[Template:Medcom|Committee member]] notifications.
| Mediation Committee
| 2006-07-12
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Mgmbot|Mgmbot]]
| Fixing links to moved template
| [[User:MacGyverMagic|MacGyverMagic]]
| 2007-10-27
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:NetBot|NetBot]]
| ''unspecified.''
| [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]
| 2005-03-01
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:NotificationBot|NotificationBot]]
| Semi-automates talk messages.
| [[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]]
| 2005-09-15
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Perebot|Perebot]]
| Interwiki
| [[User:Peremen|Peremen]]
| 2006-08-21
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Pfft Bot|Pfft Bot]]
| Solves disambiguations and moves images to commons.
| [[User:Phroziac|Phroziac]]
| 2005-12-28
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:PhD-Econobot|PhD-Econobot]]
| Disambiguates links to [[Native Americans]].
| [[User:Nat Krause|Nat Kraus]]
| 2005-10-11
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:RefBot|RefBot]]
| Processes references and citations.
| [[User:SEWilco|SEWilco]]
| 2005-12-23
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Roomba|Roomba]]
| Copyright-related media tagging.
| [[User:Gmaxwell|Gmaxwell]]
| 2005-11-06
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SecuniBot|SecuniBot]]
| Updates security statistics on [[Comparison of operating systems]].
| [[User:Sperling|K. Sperling]]
| 2005-07-25
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SEWilcoBot|SEWilcoBot]]
| Various tasks.
| [[User:SEWilco|SEWilco]]
| 2005-06-19
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:Shadowbot|Shadowbot]]
| Automated spam removal / warnings
| [[User:Shadow1|Shadow1]]
| 2006-12-23
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SuggestBot|SuggestBot]]
| Recommends articles to edit based on articles people have edited previously.
| [[User:ForteTuba|ForteTuba]]
| 2006-01-03
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:SusBot|SusBot]]
| Interwikibot, using pywikipedia
| [[User:Sustructu|Sustructu]]
| 2008-08-26
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Tawkerbot2|Tawkerbot2]], [[User:Tawkerbot4|Tawkerbot4]], [[User:AntiVandalBot|AntiVandalBot]], [[User:Xenophon (bot)|Xenophon (bot)]], [[User:Werdnabot2|Werdnabot2]], [[User:SgtDrini|SgtDrini]]
| Automatic vandalism revision / warnings. Does NOT run under direct manual control nor does it edit throttle, Runs w/o bot flag for greater visibility of it's actions.
| [[User:Tawker|Tawker]]
| 2006-03-05
|{{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Tractor]]
| Open-community [[IRC bot]] under development for [[Wikipedia:New contributors' help page]]
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/unknown}}
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:WdefconBot|WdefconBot]]
| Monitoring and maintenance of {{tl|Wdefcon}} through the [irc://irc.freenode.net/vandalism-en-wp #vandalism-en-wp] [[IRC]] channel.
| [[User:Misza13|Misza13]]
| 2006-07-16
| {{/active}}
|-
| [[User:Wherebot|Wherebot]]
| Examines the text of new articles to determine if they may be copyright violations and lists them on [[Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations]].
| [[User:Where|Where]]
| 2006-07-29
| {{/active}}
|-
| ''none''
| Checks open proxies ([[User:Fvw/POPBot|details]]).
| [[User:Fvw|fvw]]
| 2005-09-30
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| ''none''
| Semi-automates 'Did you know?' updates ([[User:Gdr/DYKbot|details]]).
| [[User:Gdr|Gdr]]
| 2005-05-29
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| ''none''
| ''unspecified.''
| [[User:Alterego|Alterego]]
| 2005-06-26
| {{/discontinued}}
|-
| ''none''
| Various tasks ([[User:IByte/Bot|details]]).
| [[User:IByte|IByte]]
| 2005-07-16
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| ''none''
| Runs [[m:Pywikipedia|pywikipedia]] editarticle.py.
| [[User:Shawn K. Quinn|Shawn K. Quinn]]
| 2005-07-19
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| ''none''
| ''unspecified ([[m:Pywikipedia|pywikipedia]]).
| [[User:Bmicomp|Bmicomp]]
| 2005-07-20
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| ''none''
| Semi-automates [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|AFD]]s.
| [[User:Ceejayoz|ceejayoz]]
| 2005-10-25
| {{/inactive}}
|-
| [[User:VoABot II|VoABot II]]
| Automatic revision of specific or likely edits by banned IP-revolving users and general [[AOL]]/shared [[IP address|IP]] '''Recent changes''' patrol. Watches for bad page-moves too.
| [[User:Voice of All|Voice of All]]
| 2006-27-07
|{{/active}}
|-
| [[User:HansimBot|HansimBot]]
| interwiki
| [[User:HansimBot|HansimBot]]
| 2007-01-19
| {{/active}}
|}
|}

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===Interwiki bots===
<td>{{User degree/PhD subject|Medicine}}</td>
* After a rough start related to its character set configuration the [[User:Jumbuck|Jumbuck]] seems to be doing fine updating interwiki links. --[[User: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason| ]] [[User: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/|Ævar]] [[User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/|Arnfjörð]] [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|action=edit&section=new}} Bjarmason] [[User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/| ]] 11:44, 2004 Oct 14 (UTC)
<td>{{User doctor|Macro Shell}}</td>
* [[User:Roboto de Ajvol]], apiece inserting ru interwiki. [[User:.:Ajvol:.|ajvol]] 15:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
</tr>
* [[User:NTBot|NTBot]] - to place backlinks from the portuguese wikipedia [[User:Nuno Tavares|Nuno Tavares]] 3 July 2005 20:32 (UTC)
<tr>
* [[User:E2mb0t|E2mb0t]] - backlinks from the Portuguese wikipedia and general stuff. --[[User:E2mb0t|E2mb0t]] 03:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
<td>{{User zh|Macro Shell}}</td>
* [[User:Dake|Dake]] - interwiki links from .fr version, restricted to articles about [[cryptography]], I will check all edits [[User:Dake|Dake]] 16:27, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
<td>{{User en|Macro Shell}}</td>
* [[User:NongBot|NongBot]] - backlinks from Thai Wikipedia.
<tr>
* [[User:YurikBot|YurikBot]] does interwikis - [[User:Yurik|Yurik]] 11:48, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
<td>{{User java|Macro Shell}}</td>
* [[User:MoriBot]] occasionally used for interwiki links [[User:Moribunt|Moribunt]] 17:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
<td>{{User actionscript|Macro Shell}}</td>
* [[User:Lt-wiki-bot]] is running interwiki across en.wiki & lt.wiki. [[User:Knutux|Knutux]] 06:58, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
</tr>
* [[User:MTSbot]] LT interwiki Bot. 17:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
<tr>
**'''Note''', this entry was added by {{user|24.30.99.132}}, not [[User:MTS|MTS]] or [[User:MTSbot|MTSbot]]. &mdash; '''''[[User:Freakofnurture/|<font color="006000" title="User:Freakofnurture">F<small>REAK OF</small> N<small>UR<sub>x</sub>TURE</small></font>]]'' <small>(<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:User talk:Freakofnurture|action=edit&section=new}} <font color="006000" title="User talk:Freakofnurture">TALK</font>]</span>)</small>''' <small>06:33, Feb. 8, 2006</small>
<td>{{User xml|Macro Shell}}</td>
* [[User:GrinBot|GrinBot]] updating en→hu interlang links, test running for a week, waiting for [[User talk:grin|complaints]] :) --[[User:Grin|grin]] [[User talk:grin|✎]] 10:40, 2005 September 1 (UTC)
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* [[User:KnightRider]] is doing interwiki links from es wikipedia to en. --[[User:KnightRider|KnightRider]] 18:45, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
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* [[User:Eskimbot]] does interwikis, from the French Wikipedia. [[User:Eskimoo|Eskimo]] [[User talk:Eskimoo|☼]] 11:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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* [[User:SundarBot]] adds interwikis from the [[:ta:|Tamil Wikipedia]]. -- [[User:Sundar|Sundar]] <sup>\[[User talk:Sundar|talk]] \[[Special:Contributions/Sundar|contribs]]</sup> 07:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
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*[[User:Bota47]] does interwikis, from the Czech Wikipedia --[[User:Li-sung|Li-sung]] 16:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
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*[[User:JAnDbot]], multilogon (>30) interwikibot starting from '''cs'', csb, '''hsb''' and small languages. [[User:JAn Dudík]] 07:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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*[[User:Idioma-bot]], does interwiki starting from lithuanian. [[User:Hugo.arg]] 19:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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*[[User:kwjbot]]-interwiki bot, in trial. usually from Korean Wikipedia.--[[User:Kwj2772|Kwj2772]] ([[User talk:Kwj2772|talk]]) 15:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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* ''[[User:The Anomebot]]'' was created for automated submissions by [[User:The Anome]]. The initial intent was to upload approximately 5000 map diagrams created by [[User:Wapcaplet]]. This has now been done, and new uses are now being thought of for the Anomebot.
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* ''[[User:BoxCrawler]]'' is being tested and its framework checks this page, historical or otherwise

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Revision as of 08:31, 2 January 2009

This Wikipedia page is currently unmaintained, and may lack updated and correct information. For a maintained page please view WP:Bots/Status.

This is a list of currently running bots. Some of these may be actual users who are running bot scripts under their own account, and are not planning to apply for a bot flag. All bots must follow the official bot policy.

Bots with a flag

Bots that are in this list should also appear in List of users with a bot flag.

Various tasks

Name Purpose Owner Date added Status
.anacondabot Interwiki using warnfiles from the Interwiki link checker (automatic) and Interwiki on specific articles or whole categories (manually) .anaconda 2006-08-28 User:Macro Shell/active
A4bot Interwiki bot. A4 2007-02-10 User:Macro Shell/active
Addbot See this page for task list Addshore 2008-05-29 User:Macro Shell/active
Alaibot WP:SFD renaming; stub tag replacement, and merger Alai 2006-07-13 User:Macro Shell/active
AMABot Updates various AMA pages and does some IRC-based stuff for the AMA's IRC channel. Martinp23 2007-02-10 User:Macro Shell/inactive
AP.BOT Recategorising, template subst'ing, fixing user pages regarding the migration Andypandy.UK 2006-10-26 User:Macro Shell/active
AzaBot Spambot for WP:ACID AzaToth 2005-12-07 User:Macro Shell/active
BJBot List orphaned fair use images for deletion. Bjweeks 2007-02-06 User:Macro Shell/active
BOTijo Emijrp 2007-12-16 User:Macro Shell/active
Beastie Bot Species: Conservation Status and IUCN References Pengo 2006-06-06 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Bluebot Recategorising, template subst'ing, numerous formatting tasks. Bluemoose 2005-11-12 User:Macro Shell/active
Broadbot Interwiki Broadbeer talk 2007-01-31 User:Macro Shell/active
BrownBot WP:FILMS distributions, template substitution. Cbrown1023 talk 2007-04-14 User:Macro Shell/active
CanisRufus disambiguation, CFD tasks. RedWolf 2004-09-19 User:Macro Shell/active
CmdrObot Human-assisted. Spelling, punctuation, capitalisation fixes, compacting external URLs, miscellaneous tasks. Cmdrjameson 2006-03-14 User:Macro Shell/active
タチコマ robot Multiple tasks (see bot userpage) White Cat 2005-09-07 User:Macro Shell/active
CopyToWiktionaryBot Daily sweep to transwiki (full history) to en.wiktionary.org User:Connel MacKenzie 2006-10-08 User:Macro Shell/active
CricketBot Human-assisted, corrects common errors in cricket articles. Stephen Turner 2005-12-13 User:Macro Shell/active
Cydebot Template and category maintenance per TFD, SFD, and CFD. Cyde Weys 2006-04-30 User:Macro Shell/active
CyeZBot Multi-login, adds interwiki links, various tasks. CyeZ User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
darioBot Interwiki bot, and tag unsourced images dario vet 4 April 2007 User:Macro Shell/active
DcoetzeeBot Disambiguation, redirect bypassing, category moving. Deco 2005-09-06 User:Macro Shell/inactive
DisambigBot Disambiguation Robchurch 2006-08-28 User:Macro Shell/inactive
D6 disambiguation, categories, various tasks. Docu User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/active
Drinibot Creating capitalization redirects, substing templates Drini 2006-04-20 User:Macro Shell/active
DumbBOT Completes WP:AFD noms, remove protection templates from non-protected pages, creates various reports such as WP:PRODSUM Tizio 2007-04-27 User:Macro Shell/active
DvyBot Adds WikiProject banners to pages in categories Dvyjones 2008-08-31 User:Macro Shell/inactive
EmxBot Interwiki, replacing, substing templates, various tasks. Emx 2007-03-26 User:Macro Shell/active
Fetofsbot Orphans images. Fetofs 2006-02-21 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Fetofsbot2 Semi-automated disambiguation, double redirect, substing and other general fixes. Fetofs 2006-02-21 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Fluxbot Mostly processes CFDS; GUS; Fixing non susbt'd templates. xaosflux 2006-06-12 User:Macro Shell/active
Ganeshbot Creates stubs of Indian cities, adding project banners, handling requests, general fixes using AWB Ganeshk 2006-03-24 User:Macro Shell/active
Gdrbot Bypasses redirects, disambiguation, recategorisation, DYKbot, Nomialbot, Yearbot, various tasks. Gdr 2005-05-18 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Guanabot Various tasks Guanaco User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/active
Grammarbot User:Macro Shell/unknown r3m0t 2005-03-04 User:Macro Shell/inactive
HagermanBot Leaves the {{unsigned}} template on talk pages when a user forgets to sign. Hagerman 2006-12-03 User:Macro Shell/active
Janna User:Macro Shell/unknown Anthony DiPierro User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/discontinued
JdforresterBot Page/Category renaming and fixing the result. Jdforrester 2005-04-12 User:Macro Shell/active
KaiserbBot Disambiguation, re-categorisation, and redirect bypassing. Kaiserb 2005-12-20 User:Macro Shell/inactive
KevinBot Changes race and ethnicity links in Rambot articles, various tasks. Kevin Rector User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
Ligulembot Human-assisted, exchanges template calls Ligulem 2006-09-11 User:Macro Shell/inactive
LinkBot Suggests possible wikilinks. Nickj User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
LupinBot Uploaders images. Lupin 2005-05-07 User:Macro Shell/inactive
MBot User:Macro Shell/unknown Mbecker 2005-04-18 User:Macro Shell/inactive
MelonBot Various tasks. Happy-melon 2008-08-15 User:Macro Shell/active
MessedRobot Fixing double redirects, replaces uses of redundant images, recategorization Messedrocker User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/active
MetsBot Various template and category tasks, also diacritical mark correction. Mets501 2006-09-23 User:Macro Shell/active
MiszaBot 1. Delivers the Esperanza Newsletter. 2. Archives my talk page. Misza13 2006-03-19 User:Macro Shell/active
Mr.Z-bot Mr.Z-man 2008-04-20 User:Macro Shell/active
Mulder416sBot Whatever I feel like doing with python or AWB, mostly manual edits. Mulder416 2006-03-24 User:Macro Shell/active
Muro Bot Fixes double redirects and adds/fixes interwikis. Muro de Aguas 2007-11-19 User:Macro Shell/active
MacBot Edits stubs, disambiguation pages and SpongeBob articles. MacintoshApple 2006-11-16 User:Macro Shell/active
N-Bot Replaces links to redirects to lists (of fictional characters, for instance) with links to the appropriate list section. Nickptar 2005-08-06 User:Macro Shell/active
Newsletterbot Delivers newsletters Milk's Favorite Cookie 2008-08-10
Nobot Maintains municipality and county articles under WikiProject Norway. Egil User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
NohatBot Various tasks. Nohat User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
Ocobot Finds dead external links. Ocolon 2007-03-24 User:Macro Shell/inactive
OrphanBot Removes unsourced or unknown-license images from articles. Carnildo 2006-01-13 User:Macro Shell/active
Pathosbot Template conversion, subst'ing, various tasks. Pathoschild 2006-03-13 User:Macro Shell/active
PDFbot Updates file size on external links transcluding {{PDFlink}} and corrects usage of said template. Dispenser 2007-03-06 User:Macro Shell/active
Pearle Open source, various tasks. Beland User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/active
PockBot Produces for a given category a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcats), as well as the status of those articles PocklingtonDan 2006-12-08 User:Macro Shell/active
Rambot Adds and maintains county and city articles, human-assisted spelling. Ram-Man 2002-10-05 User:Macro Shell/active
Robbot Human-assisted disambiguation, adds interwiki links. Andre Engels User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
RobotG Implements CFD consensus; implements {{category redirect}}s. RobertG 2006-07-14 User:Macro Shell/active
RoryBot Bypassing deprecated redirects (e.g. article-to-project space). Rory096 2006-05-26 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Rschen7754bot Various highway-related tasks. Rschen7754 2005-11-06 User:Macro Shell/active
RussBot Fixes double-redirects, disambiguation, updates disambig maintenance page. RussBlau 2005-11-05 User:Macro Shell/active
Sethbot Creates redirects to American place names. Seth Illys User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
SelketBot Adds {{SharedIP}} to talk pages of shared IP address users. Selket 2007-02-14 User:Macro Shell/active
SmackBot Makes simple or complex repetitive text changes. MoS, requests. Rich Farmbrough 2006-02-01 User:Macro Shell/active
Snowbot Replacing or deleting categories for CFD and UCFD; replacing or removing stubs for SFD; WikiProject tagging; Templates subst:'ing. Using AWB and m:pywikipedia. Snowolf 2007-02-25 User:Macro Shell/active
snobot Uploads images, fixes redirects. snoyes User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
StefanBot Adds fishbase and ITIS references to fish articles and adds conservation status to taxoboxes. Stefan 2005-12-31 User:Macro Shell/active
TestEditBot Reverts common test edits and warns/reports users tj9991 2008-07-28 User:Macro Shell/active
TheJoshBot Converts infoboxes from one template to another. Current Status TheJosh 2006-11-29 User:Macro Shell/active
Topjabot User:Macro Shell/unknown Gerritholl User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
Tsca.bot Bypasses redirects. Tsca User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/active
UgenBot Human-assisted disambiguation, fixes interwiki links ugen64 User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/inactive
VandalCountBot Updates vandalism statistics. Lightdarkness 2006-01-24 User:Macro Shell/inactive
WatchlistBot Manage project watchlists (see user page for details) Ingrid 2006-03-19 User:Macro Shell/active
Werdnabot Archives User talk pages, bypasses double-redirects, maintains .NET Bot Framework. Werdna 2006-06-04 User:Macro Shell/active
Whobot CFD bot for moving articles Who 2005-10-13 User:Macro Shell/inactive
WinBot Unicodifying, Template substitution Winhunter 2006-07-14 User:Macro Shell/active
ZsinjBot Templete substitution Zsinj 2006-03-28 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Tawkerbot basically spamming people w/ Wikipedia Weekly delivery notices among some other random things that I feel like doing :) Tawker 2006-02-23 User:Macro Shell/active

Bots listed here are used in the assistance of page maintenance.

Name Purpose Owner Date added Status
AFD Bot (was VFD Bot) Various AfD tasks. AllyUnion 2005-03-05 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Alphachimpbot Filing articles from cleanup into month specific categories, subst's user talk templates. Runs 1-2 times/day. Alphachimp 2006-07-07 User:Macro Shell/active
Bot523 Removing categories from closed AfD debates. ais523 2006-10-06 User:Macro Shell/active
タチコマ robot Double redirects, Commonsdelinking, Category renaming White Cat 2005-09-07 User:Macro Shell/active
DFBot Maintains the RFA summary and AFD summary. Dragons flight 2006-04-25 User:Macro Shell/active
Dlyons493Bot Routine maintenance of the 342 articles on French arrondissements. Run manually occasionally as needed. Dlyons493 2005-12-01 User:Macro Shell/active
EssjayBot Complement to Sandbot. Essjay 2006-07-22 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
EssjayBot_III Archives user talk pages. Essjay 2006-11-10 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
EssjayBot IV Archives article talk pages (by request). Essjay 2006-11-23 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
JoeBot Finds commonly misspelled words and corrects them, user-assisted at all times. Pays special attention not to change regional spellings. JoeSmack 2006-02-27 User:Macro Shell/active
LDBot Has taken over automated tasks of AFD. lightdarkness 2006-02-24 User:Macro Shell/active
Mairibot Using pywikipedia for SFD renames. Mairi 2005-11-05 User:Macro Shell/inactive
MedcabBot Updates Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases periodically. Xyrael 2007-02-07 User:Macro Shell/active
NekoDaemon CFD Bot. AllyUnion 2005-04-18 User:Macro Shell/inactive
NolBot Changing of depreciated templates/infoboxes to the current version. Nol888 17 March 2007 User:Macro Shell/active
Pfft Bot Occasionally moves images to commons semi-automatically. Phroziac 2005-12-28 User:Macro Shell/inactive
RBot Automatic substing of user warnings R 2007-3-18 User:Macro Shell/active
Sandbot A bot that uses the pywikipedia framework so it can clean up the main sandbox and main sandbox talk page every 6 hours; Also cleans all tutorial sandboxes and tutorial sandbox talk pages every Monday. Work for additional sandboxes may be requested with the Bot owner. AllyUnion 2005-03-05 User:Macro Shell/active
Syrcatbot Attended bot using AWB to assist in recategorization / category emptying at CFD. Syrthiss 2006-02-05 User:Macro Shell/inactive
TPO-bot Manually run bot to assist with SFD. TheParanoidOne 2005-12-27 User:Macro Shell/active
VoABot Updating the full, semi, move, and the other protected pages lists at Wikipedia:List of protected pages. Cleans up Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Notifies admins who protect certain pages without a summary. Voice of All 2006-05-16 User:Macro Shell/active
Zorglbot Wikipedia:Copyright problems automated tasks. Schutz 2006-05-18 User:Macro Shell/active
UnCatBot Go through Special:UncategorizedPages and tag all articles that are not in a category with the uncategorized template. nn123645 2008-01-01 User:Macro Shell/active

Disambiguation Bots

Bots listed below are used solely for disambiguation.

Name Purpose Owner Date added Status
ABot Disambiguation. ABCD 2005-08-06 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Commander Keane bot disambiguation. Commander Keane 2005-10-15 User:Macro Shell/inactive
DisambigBot Disambiguation. Rob Church 2005-08-27 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Margosbot Interwiki links (from Polish Wikipedia). Margospl 2005-05-05 User:Macro Shell/inactive
WouterBot Disambiguation. WouterVH 2005-05-04 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Pfft Bot Disambiguation. Phroziac 2005-12-28 User:Macro Shell/inactive
PlankBot Disambiguation. Faradayplank 2008-06-14 User:Macro Shell/active

Interwiki Bots

Bots listed below are used solely for interwiki linking.

Name Notes Owner Date added Status
Albambot Mainly with Korean Wikipedia. Albamhandae 2008-02-28 User:Macro Shell/active
alnoktaBOT With Arabic Wikipedia as the start wiki, en,de,fr,es. alnokta 2007-01-01 User:Macro Shell/active
Amirobot Home wiki are Persian wikipedia. Amir - User:Macro Shell/active
Chobot With Korean Wikipedia. ChongDae 2005-06-20 User:Macro Shell/active
ChenzwBot Multi-logon bot. Chenzw 2008-10-24 User:Macro Shell/active
タチコマ robot Interwikilinks many wikis. See this page for a full list White Cat 2005-09-07 User:Macro Shell/active
DorganBot With Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, French, Deutch, Dutch wikipedia. Dorgan 2006-12-23 User:Macro Shell/active
Escarbot Multi-logon bot. fr:Vargenau 2006-11-01 User:Macro Shell/active
FlaBot Interwiki-Link-Checker de:Flacus 2005-05-01 User:Macro Shell/active
H92Bot Interwiki to new articles on no,nn,da,sv,de,fr,he — H92 (t · c · no) 2007-04-27 User:Macro Shell/active
JhsBot Mainly with Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia. Jon Harald Søby 2007-01-30 User:Macro Shell/active
Jumbuck none. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2004-10-14 User:Macro Shell/inactive
KhanBot none. Harald Khan 2008-04-15 User:Macro Shell/active
Kisbesbot none. Kisbes 2008-05-20 User:Macro Shell/active
KocjoBot With Slovene Wikipedia as the start wiki; + en, de, hr, sr. Klemen Kocjancic 2007-12-22 User:Macro Shell/active
Luuvabot With Minnan Wikipedia. Luuva 2008-10-20 User:Macro Shell/active
M7bot With Italian Wikipedia. M7 2005-09-07 User:Macro Shell/inactive
MalafayaBot With Georgian Wikipedia. Malafaya 2005-11-04 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Maksim-bot With Esperanto Wikipedia. Maksim-e 2005-12-17 User:Macro Shell/active
MenoBot Multi-logon bot. Meno25 2007-11-24 User:Macro Shell/active
Nallimbot Multi-logon bot. Home wiki is Korean wikipedia. Adrenalinup 2008-11-08 User:Macro Shell/active
Numbo3-bot Multi-logon bot. Numbo3 2008-05-16 User:Macro Shell/active
PipepBot Multi-logon bot. Pipep 2007-07-31 User:Macro Shell/active
Ptbotgourou Multi-logon bot. Gdgourou 2008-07-27 User:Macro Shell/active
Rei-bot Multi-logon bot. Rei-artur 2007-01-21 User:Macro Shell/active
Riccardobot With Italian Wikipedia. Riccardov 2006-09-23 User:Macro Shell/inactive
RoboDick Multilogon bot. nl:Dutchy-Dick 2006-02-01 User:Macro Shell/inactive
RobotE none. Ellywa 2005-10-20 User:Macro Shell/inactive
RobotJcb Multi-logon bot. Jcbos 2005-10-16 User:Macro Shell/active
SamatBot The bot works in huwiki, enwiki and dewiki from the Hungarian Wikipedia. Samat 2008-05-09 User:Macro Shell/active
SashatoBot none. Sasa Stefanovic 2006-01-16 User:Macro Shell/active
SassoBot none. DJSasso 2008-12-04 User:Macro Shell/active
SpBot interwiki links Euku 2008-06-06 User:Macro Shell/active
Synthebot Multi-logon bot, mainly with Interlingua Wikipedia Julian Mendez 2007-03-29 User:Macro Shell/active
tanhabot Multi-logon bot. Mardetanha 2007-02 User:Macro Shell/active
Techman224 Interwiki Bot Interwiki links Techman224 2008-010 User:Macro Shell/active
TXiKiBoT Multi-logon bot. eu:TXiKi 2007-02 User:Macro Shell/active
Ugur Basak Bot Multilogin bot, with Turkish Wikipedia. Ugur Basak 2006-02-08 User:Macro Shell/active
Vina-iwbot Multilogin bot, Chinese Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia and Korean Wikipedia Vina 2006-06-17 User:Macro Shell/active
Vini 17bot5 Interwiki from Portuguese Wikipedia Vini 175 2008-08-17 User:Macro Shell/active
WikiDreamer Bot Interwiki from French Wikipedia WikiDreamer 2008-07-15 User:Macro Shell/active
WuBot Multilogin bot Wuzur 2008-07-17 User:Macro Shell/active
Wybot Multilogin bot,interwiki bot WonYong 2006-09-16 User:Macro Shell/active
YurikBot Multilogin bot, ~90 languages. Yurik 2005-03-14 User:Macro Shell/active
Zwobot Multi-logon bot. Head 2005-07-14 User:Macro Shell/active
Jotterbot Multilogin bot, Malayalam Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia Jyothis 2007-11-06 User:Macro Shell/active

Bots running with administrator rights

Bots listed here operated on accounts with administrator rights. There are no bots currently authorized to run with sysop rights.

Name Purpose Owner Date added Status
Curps
  1. Detects page moves occuring more often than a certain rate threshold, issues an indefinite block and posts a notice at ANI.
  2. Detects page moves to certain bad faith targets as vandalism. Reverts the move and deletes the redirect.
  3. Indefinitely blocks newly created accounts with names containing certain banned words and phrases, or that use certain special characters. Block summary is "user..."
  4. Detects certain behaviors as vandalism and automatically uses rollback.
  5. Decides that some of the automatically detected vandalism warrants a block summarized as "vandalism". Users triggering this are blocked indefinitely. Ordinary IPs are blocked for 24 hours and AOL IPs for 15 minutes.
Curps (operator uses same account as bot) 2005-09-26 User:Macro Shell/discontinued

Bots running without a flag

These bots are run manually, under direct user control, without a bot flag so that they appear in Special:Recentchanges. Bots listed here should only be making edits 30-60 seconds apart until fully approved. Discussion related to these bots should be directed to the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Bots or to the owner of that bot.

Name Purpose Owner Date added Status
79 androids Maintains templates related to WikiProject Baseball players. Android79 2006-01-05 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
Afkbot Interwikis Korean alpha for knowledge 2006-02-15 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Andrewbot Runs pywikipedia redirect.py. Andrew_pmk 2005-08-16 User:Macro Shell/inactive
AngBot Deletes articles created by mass page-creation vandalism. Angela User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/discontinued
Atomobot Various tasks. Atomique 2006-03-18 User:Macro Shell/active
BlueRobot Interwikis BlueRbt 2006-07-24 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
catapult Various tasks freakofnurture 2006-02-13 User:Macro Shell/active
CbmBOT Updates the statistics table on Cleanup by month daily. Dvandersluis 2006-08-04 User:Macro Shell/active
Crypticbot Lists orphaned AFD pages and automated archival. Cryptic 2005-10-29 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
Curpsbot-unicodify Converts some HTML and URL-encoded entities into Unicode characters. Curps 2005-08-22 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Diderobot Fixes spelling and syntax, various other tasks. Sam Hocevar 2005-04-21 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Erwin85Bot Disambiguation, redirects, etc. Erwin85 2006-06-24 User:Macro Shell/inactive
EssjayBot II Archiving of project and project talk pages. Essjay 2006-07-26 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
Eubot Updates statistics on Dutch municipalities. Eugene van der Pijll 2005-04-08 User:Macro Shell/inactive
FairuseBot Removal of disputed fair-use images from articles Carnildo 2006-04-01 User:Macro Shell/active
G-Bot Semi-automated typo correction, disambiguates links, various other tasks. Gflores 2006-01-12 User:Macro Shell/active
Gnome (Bot) Stub sorting in support of Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels Is waiting for permission for debug. Info on Wikipedia talk:Bots Eagle (talk) (desk) 2006-03-05 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Guanabot2 RC patrol edits. Guanaco 2005-03-13 User:Macro Shell/inactive
IsraBot Uploads stubs on Israeli cities. AdamRaizen User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/discontinued
Kakashi Bot Responds to bot requests. AllyUnion 2005-02-25 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Kurando-san Human-assisted archival. AllyUnion 2005-03-30 User:Macro Shell/active
Matt Crypto (bot) Maintains List of cryptography topics, various other tasks. Matt Crypto 2005-02-24 User:Macro Shell/active
MediationBot Various tasks as needed by the Mediation Committee, including RFM case management and Committee member notifications. Essjay
(Chairman)
2006-07-12 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
MediationBot1 Various tasks as needed by the Mediation Committee, including RFM case management and Committee member notifications. Mediation Committee 2006-07-12 User:Macro Shell/active
Mgmbot Fixing links to moved template MacGyverMagic 2007-10-27 User:Macro Shell/active
NetBot unspecified. Anthere 2005-03-01 User:Macro Shell/active
NotificationBot Semi-automates talk messages. AllyUnion 2005-09-15 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Perebot Interwiki Peremen 2006-08-21 User:Macro Shell/active
Pfft Bot Solves disambiguations and moves images to commons. Phroziac 2005-12-28 User:Macro Shell/active
PhD-Econobot Disambiguates links to Native Americans. Nat Kraus 2005-10-11 User:Macro Shell/inactive
RefBot Processes references and citations. SEWilco 2005-12-23 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Roomba Copyright-related media tagging. Gmaxwell 2005-11-06 User:Macro Shell/active
SecuniBot Updates security statistics on Comparison of operating systems. K. Sperling 2005-07-25 User:Macro Shell/active
SEWilcoBot Various tasks. SEWilco 2005-06-19 User:Macro Shell/inactive
Shadowbot Automated spam removal / warnings Shadow1 2006-12-23 User:Macro Shell/active
SuggestBot Recommends articles to edit based on articles people have edited previously. ForteTuba 2006-01-03 User:Macro Shell/active
SusBot Interwikibot, using pywikipedia Sustructu 2008-08-26 User:Macro Shell/active
Tawkerbot2, Tawkerbot4, AntiVandalBot, Xenophon (bot), Werdnabot2, SgtDrini Automatic vandalism revision / warnings. Does NOT run under direct manual control nor does it edit throttle, Runs w/o bot flag for greater visibility of it's actions. Tawker 2006-03-05 User:Macro Shell/active
User:Tractor Open-community IRC bot under development for Wikipedia:New contributors' help page User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/unknown User:Macro Shell/active
WdefconBot Monitoring and maintenance of {{Wdefcon}} through the #vandalism-en-wp IRC channel. Misza13 2006-07-16 User:Macro Shell/active
Wherebot Examines the text of new articles to determine if they may be copyright violations and lists them on Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations. Where 2006-07-29 User:Macro Shell/active
none Checks open proxies (details). fvw 2005-09-30 User:Macro Shell/discontinued
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