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A '''bot''' is a piece of software that makes automated edits on a wiki, or that helps human users to make semi-automated edits. Bots are most often used in short runs to make repetitive edits to many pages, such as moving a group of pages to a new category, fixing links to disambiguation pages, or to search for misspelled words and replace them with correct ones.

==Bot flags==
As bots can make many edits during their run, their edits can overwhelm the [[Help:Recent changes|recent changes]] list, making it difficult to see and respond to edits by human users. For this reason, bots that have been tested and approved by a wiki community can be given a '''bot flag''', a setting in the MediaWiki software that hides bot edits from the recent changes list. Bot edits can always be revealed by clicking "Show bots" in the Recent changes header.

==How can I flag a bot?==
To receive a bot flag, please [[Special:Contact|contact]] a member of the [[Help:Community Team|Community Team]] with a link to a public discussion showing that the community approves of the use and flagging of the bot.

==Important notes==
Bots on Ryzom Wiki must use a '''limited editing rate''' so that they don't overload the servers by opening and editing many pages in a very short time frame.

The user page and user talk page for the bot should 
* clearly identify it as a bot, 
* link to its owner's user talk page for questions, 
* encourage users to have the bot blocked by an admin if its automated edits are causing damage to the wiki -- the block can be lifted after the causes for the damaging edits are understood and fixed.


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