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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots Learned something new today. I didn't have any idea Wikipedia was part

• ErrantX 15y ago
  The biggest editing bots tend to do template maintenance (so correcting formatting issues and adding dates to templates). Bots simply do tedious work (that would have to be done anyway) faster - so hence a big edit count. My bot (which notifies English Wikipedia of image deletions on Wikimedia Commons) edits about three times more than I do each month (and I am somewhere around #500 activity wise). The very top bot ClueBot NG does more than double the edits of anyone else per month; that is an anti-vandalism bot, it catches about 50% of vandalism on Wikipedia each month. So pretty crucial :) Cydebot (#2) does some sort of category maintenance (not sure what, never seen it before). SineBot (#5) goes around and signs peoples comments when they forget (handy beast). Basically it is just infrastructure; but because of the nature of the Wiki it is more visible than other forms of infrastructure :)
• lsb 15y ago
  Autolinking is tedious, but valuable, so it's a perfect thing for bots to do, especially for general topic links at the bottom of pages.
• JustinSeriously 15y ago
  Some bots auto-revert changes that are likely to be vandalism or spam, like if an anonymous user adds a link to a blog on a free blog hosting site. (Specifically, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XLinkBot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XLinkBot .)