User blog:Oscuritaforze/Bot

So, I have a bot now, which will edit through this account.

Bots are pretty useful for quickly making tedious across a wiki, but they also have a tendency to flood Special:WikiActivity and Special:RecentChanges if they are just allowed to run normally. As a result, this blog is to ask if the users on this wiki would be particularly opposed to my bot account being given the bot flag, which allows for its edits to be hidden from the aforementioned special pages. If not, then I will request this flag from staff via Special:Contact.

If you are wondering what kinds of things a bot would be able to help with, check out the comments of this blog; many of the maintenance tasks described therein can be completed far faster by using a bot.

(And if you are uneasy about leaving these kinds of things to an automated process, I'm going to be running it semi-automatically at first. So, don't worry – the chance that destructive edits will be able to get through is pretty low.)