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Wikipedia editing bot run by Andre Engels From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robbot is a bot, but with user interaction. It was written by Rob Hooft, and is on en: operated by Andre Engels. It is being used for resolving Disambiguation problems more quickly than would be possible by hand. It is also being used for Interwiki links. The same code is also being used by Wikibot, operated by Alexandros.
This user account is a bot operated by Andre Engels (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it. |
The working of the robot is thus:
On the User talk page is an example.
For the interwiki-links, the bot does the following:
The code for Robbot is open, and available on sourceforge. Anyone who is interested in looking at, changing or running the bot can find the code on SourceForge. Before using it, however, it is good to check here, contact Rob Hooft and/or other developers and subscribe to the project's mailing list, as well as asking permission of the population of the MediaWiki project where you are running it.
I have been asked to put Robbot's work under a dual license or put it in the public domain. I don't think I am going to do that, because in my opinion Robbot's edits are all of such a minimal content that they are not copyrightable anyway. Feel free to use the material in any way you like, provided the previous editor(s) of the same text agree.
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