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lang="de" dir="ltr">Deutsch</a></li> <li><span class="mw-pt-languages-ui mw-pt-languages-selected mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" lang="en" dir="ltr">English</span></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/nl" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Help:Bots (100% translated)" lang="nl" dir="ltr">Nederlands</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/kaa" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Botlar (6% translated)" lang="kaa" dir="ltr">Qaraqalpaqsha</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/vi" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Bot (83% translated)" lang="vi" dir="ltr">Tiếng Việt</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/tr" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Botlar (94% translated)" lang="tr" dir="ltr">Türkçe</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/ca" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Bots (89% translated)" lang="ca" dir="ltr">català</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/es" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Ayuda:Bots (89% translated)" lang="es" dir="ltr">español</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/fr" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Help:Robots (100% translated)" lang="fr" dir="ltr">français</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/gl" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Bots (83% translated)" lang="gl" dir="ltr">galego</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/nb" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Help:Botter (56% translated)" lang="nb" dir="ltr">norsk bokmål</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/pl" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Help:Boty (50% translated)" lang="pl" dir="ltr">polski</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/pt" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Robôs (89% translated)" lang="pt" dir="ltr">português</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/pt-br" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Bots (94% translated)" lang="pt-BR" dir="ltr">português do Brasil</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/ro" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Bots (83% translated)" lang="ro" dir="ltr">română</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/fi" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Ohje:Botit (39% translated)" lang="fi" dir="ltr">suomi</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/sv" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--med" title="Help:Bottar (33% translated)" lang="sv" dir="ltr">svenska</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/cs" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Nápověda:Roboti (100% translated)" lang="cs" dir="ltr">čeština</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/ru" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Справка:Боты (78% translated)" lang="ru" dir="ltr">русский</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/uk" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Боти (94% translated)" lang="uk" dir="ltr">українська</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/ar" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:Bots/ar (89% translated)" lang="ar" dir="rtl">العربية</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/fa" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="Help:رباتها (78% translated)" lang="fa" dir="rtl">فارسی</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/hi" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Help:बॉट्स (100% translated)" lang="hi" dir="ltr">हिन्दी</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/th" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--low" title="Help:Bots/th (0% translated)" lang="th" dir="ltr">ไทย</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/zh" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Help:机器人 (100% translated)" lang="zh" dir="ltr">中文</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/ja" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--complete" title="Help:ボット (100% translated)" lang="ja" dir="ltr">日本語</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots/ko" class="mw-pt-progress mw-pt-progress--high" title="도움말:봇 (72% translated)" lang="ko" dir="ltr">한국어</a></li></ul></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6098101">.mw-parser-output .template-pd-help-page{color:#000;border:solid 1px #A8A8A8;padding:0.5em;margin:0.5em 0;background-color:#FFF;font-size:95%;vertical-align:middle;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .template-pd-help-page .icon-cell{padding:0 1em;width:30px}</style><table class="template-pd-help-page"><tbody><tr> <td class="icon-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="PD" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240418032107im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/30px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20240418032107im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/45px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, 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See <a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Project:PD_help" title="Special:MyLanguage/Project:PD help">Public Domain Help Pages</a> for more info. </td> <td class="icon-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="PD" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240418032107im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/30px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20240418032107im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/45px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20240418032107im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/60px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196"/></span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>bot</b> is a computer program that automatically retrieves or updates wiki pages when it is executed. In general, bots are used for repetitive maintenance tasks, whose volume and characteristics are too large to be performed manually by users. </p><p>Developing and executing bots is normally outside the role of normal users, requires programming experience and must be done in coordination with the wiki's <a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Sysops_and_permissions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Sysops and permissions">admins</a>. </p><p>By default, bot edits are hidden in <a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Special:RecentChanges</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 data-mw-thread-id="h-Framework_and_interface_for_bot_development"><span class="mw-headline" id="Framework_and_interface_for_bot_development"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Framework_and_interface_for_bot_development"></span>Framework and interface for bot development<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Framework_and_interface_for_bot_development"></span></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Bots&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Framework and interface for bot development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Framework_and_interface_for_bot_development","replies":[]}}--></div> <p>Bots do not access the wiki through the normal graphical user interface. MediaWiki has an API (Application Programming Interface) available for this purpose. An API is a protocol for standardized communication between two computer programs. Check <a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code">API:Client code</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code" title="API:Client code"> </a></span> for more information. </p><p>Follow <a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating_a_bot" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating a bot">Manual:Creating a bot</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Creating_a_bot" title="Manual:Creating a bot"> </a></span> for guidelines how to create a bot. </p><p>To access a wiki through the API a bot must have a user account which has been granted 'bot' <a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:User_rights_and_groups" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:User rights and groups">permissions</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 data-mw-thread-id="h-Extension_alternatives"><span class="mw-headline" id="Extension_alternatives"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Extension_alternatives"></span>Extension alternatives<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Extension_alternatives"></span></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Bots&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Extension alternatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Extension_alternatives","replies":[]}}--></div> <ul><li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MassEditRegex" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MassEditRegex">Extension:MassEditRegex</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassEditRegex" title="Extension:MassEditRegex"> </a></span> — provides an alternative way to perform mass edits using regular expressions, through a special page in the wiki. Only admins can normally use this extension.</li> <li><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Replace_Text" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Replace Text">Extension:Replace Text</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text" title="Extension:Replace Text"> </a></span> — another option.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20240418032107/https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Bots&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-See_also","replies":[]}}--></div> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240418032107/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Bot" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Bot">m:Bot</a></li></ul> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.eqiad.main‐95455fc5b‐xpwrw Cached time: 20240416000802 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [] DiscussionTools time usage: 0.007 seconds CPU time usage: 0.219 seconds Real time usage: 0.346 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 524/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 4176/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 1091/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 13/100 Expensive parser function count: 14/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 5096/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.027/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 985708/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 104.159 1 -total 61.98% 64.555 4 Template:Ll 37.70% 39.269 1 Template:PD_Help_Page 17.12% 17.836 8 Template:Translatable 14.25% 14.842 4 Template:TNTN 9.53% 9.926 4 Template:Pagelang 4.86% 5.064 1 Translations:API:Client_code/Page_display_title/en 3.16% 3.290 1 Translations:Manual:Creating_a_bot/Page_display_title/en 3.15% 3.284 1 Translations:Extension:Replace_Text/Page_display_title/en 3.00% 3.130 1 Template:Cclang --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key mediawikiwiki:pcache:idhash:38687-0!canonical and timestamp 20240416000802 and revision id 6416289. 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