Wikipedia:Bots/Status

In this article, we want to focus on Wikipedia:Bots/Status, a topic that has captured the attention of many people in recent times. As the world advances, Wikipedia:Bots/Status has become a point of interest for researchers, professionals and enthusiasts alike. Through this article, we will seek to explore various facets of Wikipedia:Bots/Status and its impact on society, economy, culture, and more. Different perspectives and opinions will be addressed to offer a complete overview of Wikipedia:Bots/Status and delve into its relevance today. With a critical and analytical eye, we hope to provide our readers with a more complete understanding of Wikipedia:Bots/Status and its importance in the modern world.

Bot Stats
Flagged Bots 296
Approved Tasks 2,724
Bot Accounts 1336
Active Bots 188
Inactive Bots 1026

This is intended to be a list of all accounts that identify themselves as bot accounts.

Adding a bot

Please fill in your bot's information when approved.

Please use the template below to add your bot to this page

{{BotS|BOT NAME|BOT OPERATOR|STATUS|TASKS|APPROVAL DATE|OTHER LINKS}}

For the status variable please use:

active
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Registered bots

Active

Name Tasks Owner First Approval Status Link(s)
AAlertBot (talk · contribs) Deliver Article Alert reports to WikiProjects Hellknowz {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Acebot (talk · contribs) Statistics update for Wikipedias Ace111 2010-11-2626 November 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
AdminStatsBot (talk · contribs) Generating administrative statistics for the English Wikipedia (at User:JamesR/AdminStats) JamesR 2008-07-2323 July 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Amalthea (bot) (talk · contribs) Amalthea {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
AnkitAWB (talk · contribs) Ankit Maity {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
AnomieBOT (talk · contribs) Various, see task listing Anomie 2008-09-044 September 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
AnomieBOT II (talk · contribs) Creating subpages of Template:TFA title Anomie 2010-05-3131 May 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ArmbrustBot (talk · contribs) Implementing CFD decisisons Armbrust 2013-03-2323 March 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ArthurBot (talk · contribs) Mercy {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ArticlesForCreationBot (talk · contribs) Petrb {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
AvicBot (talk · contribs) Multiple tasks listed on bot user page Avicennasis 2011-05-2727 May 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
AvicBot2 (talk · contribs) Sandbox cleaning Avicennasis 2011-10-2828 October 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Bean49Bot (talk · contribs) Bean49 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
BOTijo (talk · contribs) emijrp {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
BotMultichill (talk · contribs) Multichill {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
BattyBot (talk · contribs) Updating/removing maintenance templates GoingBatty 2012-01-1313 January 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
BernsteinBot (talk · contribs) MZMcBride {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Bibcode Bot (talk · contribs) Adding citation information from the ADSABS database Headbomb 2011-04-2323 April 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
BG19bot (talk · contribs) Adding listas, fixing DEFAULTSORT, Wikiproject Biography tagging and WP:CHECKWIKI tasks Bgwhite 2011-05-055 May 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
COIBot (talk · contribs) On-wiki: attempted detection of conflict of interest editing, spam or external link abuse alerting; on-IRC: external links research tool, interface to external link addition database Beetstra 2007-04-1616 April 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
CorenSearchBot (talk · contribs) Hunts down copyvios in new pages, tags then posts to WP:SCV Coren 2007-08-099 August 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
CSBot (talk · contribs) Richard Melo da Silva {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Citation bot (talk · contribs) Smith609 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ChenzwBot (talk · contribs) Chenzw {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Chris G Bot 3 (talk · contribs) Archiving WP:CHU and WP:CHU/SUL Chris G 2008-07-2222 July 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ClueBot III (talk · contribs) Page archival Cobi 2007-09-1111 September 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ClueBot NG (talk · contribs) Reverting vandalism Cobi 2010-12-033 December 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
CommonsDelinker (talk · contribs) Delinking deleted files on Commons Siebrand 2007-03-1515 March 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
CommonsNotificationBot (talk · contribs) ErrantX {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Cyberbot I (talk · contribs) User:SoxBot takeover Cyberpower678 2012-04-1515 April 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Cyberbot II (talk · contribs) Tag pages PC protected with a padlock. Cyberpower678 2013-03-066 March 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Cydebot (talk · contribs) PyWikipediaBot stuff: mainly CFD and listifying categories Cyde {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DPL bot (talk · contribs) Adds and removes the {{dablinks}} template for articles above 15 dablinks; removes template below 10; notifies registered established editors of disambiguation links they have added to articles JaGa {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DeltaQuadBot (talk · contribs) See User:DeltaQuadBot DeltaQuad 2010-11-2222 November 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DinojermBot (talk · contribs) Market indexes updating Dinojerm 2006-11-2828 November 2006     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DpmukBOT (talk · contribs) Dpmuk {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DrTrigonBot (talk · contribs) SubsterBot for automatic inclusion of external sources DrTrigon 2012-01-088 January 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
· active?
DumbBOT (talk · contribs) Creating daily cats for WP:PROD, listing orphaned nominations for WP:AFD and WP:CP, creating various reports such as WP:PRODSUM Tizio 2006-07-1414 July 2006     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DyceBot (talk · contribs) Replacing migrated userboxes Dycedarg 2007-02-022 February 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DYKHousekeepingBot (talk · contribs) Update article DYK tags, tag DYK images, and create new DYK archives Shubinator 2009-05-1919 May 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
DYKUpdateBot (talk · contribs) Update DYK Shubinator 2010-03-022 March 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
EarwigBot (talk · contribs) Multiple tasks, full list at User:EarwigBot#Tasks. Includes copyright violation detection, statistics for AfC, daily category creation for AfC The Earwig 2009-05-1111 May 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
EdwardsBot (talk · contribs) MZMcBride {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
FacebookBot (talk · contribs) Facebook community page updater bot Facebookesun 2010-05-055 May 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Filedelinkerbot (talk · contribs) Delinking deleted files on Commons Krd 2014-02-1919 February 2014     -Active Rights · BRFAs
FiriBot (talk · contribs) Firilacroco 2012-06-2121 June 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
FrescoBot (talk · contribs) Mainly links syntax Basilicofresco 2009-03-1818 March 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
GA bot (talk · contribs) Chris G {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Ganeshbot (talk · contribs) WikiProject tagging, substing, automatically create India-related town stubs Ganeshk 2006-06-2525 June 2006     -Active Rights · BRFAs
GimmeBot (talk · contribs) Support WP:FA and WP:FAR process Gimmetrow 2007-01-2727 January 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
H3llBot (talk · contribs) Hellknowz {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
HasteurBot (talk · contribs) Hasteur {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
HBC AIV helperbot5 (talk · contribs) Maintain WP:AIV by performing maintenance tasks including removing blocked users JamesR 2008-03-011 March 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
HBC AIV helperbot7 (talk · contribs) Maintain WP:AIV by performing maintenance tasks including removing blocked users Wimt {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Hazard-Bot (talk · contribs) WikiProject banner adding; various individual tasks Hazard-SJ 2011-11-088 November 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
HersfoldArbClerkBot (talk · contribs) Hersfold {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
HiW-Bot (talk · contribs) Hedwig in Washington {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Hmainsbot1 (talk · contribs) Delink dates Hmains {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
HostBot (talk · contribs) Welcomes and invites new users to the Teahouse; updates Teahouse list of new users Jtmorgan 2012-04-055 April 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Image-req-proj-bot (talk · contribs) Traveler100 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ImageRemovalBot (talk · contribs) Removes links to deleted files Carnildo 2007-08-044 August 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
InceptionBot (talk · contribs) New article search for WikiProjects Bamyers99 2013-11-1111 November 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
JL-Bot (talk · contribs) Remove stale under-construction templates; remove incorrect orphan templates; maintain WikiProject recognized content lists; generate journal citation statistics JLaTondre 2007-07-088 July 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
JackieBot (talk · contribs) Interwiki on categories and main namespaces Jackie 2010-06-077 June 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
JamietwBot (talk · contribs) Marks articles with no links to other articles with Template:Deadend and adds Reference Lists Jamietw 2011-04-1010 April 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Jitse's bot (talk · contribs) Archives WP:RfC, summarizing activity for WikiProject Mathematics Jitse Niesen 2006-06-022 June 2006     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Joe's Null Bot (talk · contribs) Joe Decker 2012-05-2828 May 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
KamikazeBot (talk · contribs) Karol007 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
KingpinBot (talk · contribs) Kingpin13 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Knedlik-Pod (talk · contribs) Renessaince {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Kwjbot (talk · contribs) Double redirects Kwj2772 2008-06-1818 June 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
LaraBot (talk · contribs) MZMcBride {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Legobot (talk · contribs) Various, see User:Legobot/Tasks. Legoktm 2008-06-1515 June 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ListManBot (talk · contribs) Kingpin13 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
LivingBot (talk · contribs) Various BOTREQs, etc Jarry1250 January 2009January 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Lowercase sigmabot (talk · contribs) Adds and removes protection templates as needed Σ December 2011December 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Lucia Bot (talk · contribs) Beria {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MadmanBot (talk · contribs) Various work relating to {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} and WikiProjects in general Madman 2007-06-099 June 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MagnusA.Bot (talk · contribs) Interwiki links (global) MagnusA 2008-04-099 April 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MalafayaBot (talk · contribs) Double redirects, Featured articles Malafaya 2006-09-1010 September 2006     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Mathbot (talk · contribs) Maintains lists of mathematics categories and articles Oleg Alexandrov {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MedcabBot (talk · contribs) MedCab Case management Anomie 2011-10-2929 October 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Tasks
MediationBot (talk · contribs) Case management on the Requests for Mediation page, mass notification to involved parties Anomie 2011-02-033 February 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Tasks
MenasimBot (talk · contribs) Assessment Menasim 2007-01-1313 January 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MenoBot (talk · contribs) Automatic Wikiproject tagging of talk pages and fixing CHECKWIKI errors Meno25 2007-11-2222 November 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MenoBot II (talk · contribs) Mass maintenance templates tagging of newly created articles Meno25 2012-12-1212 December 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Merge bot (talk · contribs) Maintains Wikipedia:Proposed mergers/Log and related pages Wbm1058 2013-05-1616 May 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MerlLinkBot (talk · contribs) Repairing dead weblinks - deactivated Merlissimo 2009-04-2424 April 2009     -Inactive Rights · BRFAs
MessageDeliveryBot (talk · contribs) Delivering messages and newsletters EdoDodo 2010-08-033 August 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MGA73bot (talk · contribs) MGA73 {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MoohanBOT (talk · contribs) Sorting stubs Jamesmcmahon0 2013-08-066 August 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Mr.Z-bot (talk · contribs) Remove categories from AFC archive pages Mr.Z-man 2007-05-1313 May 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
MuZebot (talk · contribs) MuZemike {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
NodBot (talk · contribs) Nodulation {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
NoomBot (talk · contribs) Book reports and housekeeping Noommos 2011-02-077 February 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
OKBot (talk · contribs) OsamaK {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
OgreBot (talk · contribs) Magog the Ogre {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
One bot (talk · contribs) Chris G {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Orphaned talkpage deletion bot (talk · contribs) Chris G {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
PeerReviewBot (talk · contribs) Archiving peer review pages CBM May 2008May 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
People-photo-bot (talk · contribs) Traveler100 2010-07-2828 July 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
PixelBot (talk · contribs) Pixelfire {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
PotatoBot (talk · contribs) Anypodetos 2010-04-1919 April 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ProcseeBot (talk · contribs) Slakr {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
ProteinBoxBot (talk · contribs) AndrewGNF {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
RFC bot (talk · contribs) Chris G {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
RMCD bot (talk · contribs) Various list maintenance and notification tasks for WP:RM Wbm1058 2012-08-2929 August 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Rick Bot (talk · contribs) Update WP:LA, WP:CFD archives, WP:WBFAN, WP:WBFLN, WP:WBFTN Rick Block 2007-04-1515 April 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
RileyBot (talk · contribs) Open end find and replacement of URLs. Remove instances of "Add caption here" and "Example caption" from pages. Replace {{Sandbox heading}} with {{User sandbox}} in userspace. Riley Huntley {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
RjwilmsiBot (talk · contribs) Set page ranges within page parameter of citation templates to use en-dashes Rjwilmsi 2009-12-1515 December 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Robbot (talk · contribs) Andre Engels {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Robert SkyBot (talk · contribs) Removes from airport articles Robert Skyhawk 2009-02-1515 February 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
RscprinterBot (talk · contribs) Reverting test edits Rcsprinter123 2011-11-1717 November 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
RussBot (talk · contribs) Fixing double redirects and disambiguation links, maintaining WP:DPM, maintaining redirected categories R'n'B 2005-06-022 June 2005     -Active Rights · BRFAs
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Ryan Vesey Bot (talk · contribs) Ryan Vesey {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SDPatrolBot (talk · contribs) Replacing speedy deletion templates removed by page creator, or tagging for G7 Kingpin13 2009-05-2828 May 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Scsbot (talk · contribs) scs {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SeveroBot (talk · contribs) Severo {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SineBot (talk · contribs) Automatically sign unsigned contribs to discussion pages Slakr 2007-08-1919 August 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Snotbot (talk · contribs) Fixes section headings, fixes problems with AfD's, clerks and auto-archives at WP:RFPP, monitors requests for unblocking, other tasks described at User:Snotbot Scottywong 2011-01-1818 January 2011     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Snowbot (talk · contribs) Snowolf {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SporkBot (talk · contribs) Plastikspork {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
StatisticianBot (talk · contribs) Compiles and updates various statistical pages around the site. Currently this is only WP:GAC related Dvandersluis 2007-05-1212 May 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SteveBot (talk · contribs) Steven Zhang {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SuggestBot (talk · contribs) Matching people with articles tagged needing work, approved for recommending people and projects as well when developed Nettrom Circa Dec 2005Circa Dec 2005     -Active Rights · BRFAs
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Svenbot (talk · contribs) Sven Manguard {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
SvickBOT (talk · contribs) Svick {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
TAP Bot (talk · contribs) Goes through all moves in the mainspace which have happened more recently than 72 hours ago, but earlier than 48 hours ago, and check that there is a talkpage to the article. It will then go through all the subpages of the talk page, and if the subpage has an articlespace counterpart, it will skip it. If not, it will move it to the new page title to match the mainspace article Thine Antique Pen 2012-11-2727 November 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
TedderBot (talk · contribs) Tedder {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
The Anomebot2 (talk · contribs) Adding geodata tags to Wikipedia articles The Anome 2006-08-1818 August 2006     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Thehelpfulbot (talk · contribs) Fixes MediaWiki:Cite error refs without references errors and generic code cleanup, Sends out the WikiCup newsletter to users, Simple and regex find/replace tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Topic outline and any other articles that need it, Fixing double redirects Thehelpfulone 2009-02-055 February 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Theo's Little Bot (talk · contribs) See User:Theo's Little Bot#Tasks Theopolisme 2013-03-3131 March 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
source code
Tom's Tagging Bot (talk · contribs) Adding WikiProject banners Tom Morris 2012-10-033 October 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
TorNodeBot (talk · contribs) Blocks tor exit nodes that are not blocked by mw:Extension:TorBlock Shirik {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
TowBot (talk · contribs) 16 June 2012 Tow {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
TPBot (talk · contribs) sorting out {{coord}} templates, clerking adminstats TParis 2012-03-022 March 2012     -Active Rights · BRFAs
TuHan-Bot (talk · contribs) Tranletuhan {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
VeblenBot (talk · contribs) WikiProject Mathematics article ratings CBM 2007-03-2626 March 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs
VoxelBot (talk · contribs) Template:Vandalism information Fox Wilson 2013-01-1111 January 2013     -Inactive Rights · BRFAs
Bot notes
WelcomerBot (talk · contribs) Welcomes users created at WP:ACC EdoDodo 2010-09-022 September 2010     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Wikinews Importer Bot (talk · contribs) Importing autogenerated news lists from Wikinews to portal supbages on Wikipedia Misza13 January 2008January 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
WikitanvirBot (talk · contribs) Wikitanvir {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
WoodwardBot (talk · contribs) MZMcBride {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
WP 1.0 bot (talk · contribs) CBM {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
WxBot (talk · contribs) Performing link and template replacements for WikiProject Meteorology and its descendant WikiProjects Inks.LWC 2013-04-1717 April 2013     -Active Rights · BRFAs
XLinkBot (talk · contribs) Versageek {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Xqbot (talk · contribs) Xqt 2009-12-1313 December 2009     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot (talk · contribs) Chris G {{{5}}}     -Active Rights · BRFAs
Yobot (talk · contribs) Wikiproject Biography tagging. WP:CHECKWIKI tasks. Dealing with categories such as Category:Year of birth missing, Category:Place of birth missing, Category:Date of birth missing etc Magioladitis 2008-06-2626 June 2008     -Active Rights · BRFAs
タチコマ robot (talk · contribs) Fixing double redirects, other tasks とある白い猫 2007-06-3030 June 2007     -Active Rights · BRFAs

Inactive

Wikipedia:Bots/Status/inactive bots 1 and Wikipedia:Bots/Status/inactive bots 2 show the inactive bots.

See also