Wikipedia:Registered bots
This is a list of currently running bots. Some of these may be actual users who are running bot scripts under their own account, and are not planning to apply for a bot flag. All bots must follow the official bot policy.
Bots with a flag
Bots that are in this list should also appear in List of users with a bot flag.
Various tasks | ||||
| Name | Purpose | Owner | Date added | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .anacondabot | Interwiki using warnfiles from the Interwiki link checker (automatic) and Interwiki on specific articles or whole categories (manually) | .anaconda | 2006-08-28 | -Active |
| Alaibot | WP:SFD renaming; stub tag replacement, and merger | Alai | 2006-07-13 | -Active |
| AP.BOT | Recategorising, template subst'ing, fixing user pages regarding the migration | Andypandy.UK | 2006-10-26 | -Active |
| Beastie Bot | Species: Conservation Status and IUCN References | Pengo | 2006-06-06 | -Inactive |
| Bluebot | Recategorising, template subst'ing, numerous formatting tasks. | Bluemoose | 2005-11-12 | -Active |
| CanisRufus | disambiguation, CFD tasks. | RedWolf | 2004-09-19 | -Active |
| CmdrObot | Human-assisted. Spelling, punctuation, capitalisation fixes, compacting external URLs, miscellaneous tasks. | Cmdrjameson | 2006-03-14 | -Active |
| CricketBot | Human-assisted, corrects common errors in cricket articles. | Stephen Turner | 2005-12-13 | -Active |
| Cydebot | Template and category maintenance per TFD, SFD, and CFD. | Cyde Weys | 2006-04-30 | -Active |
| CyeZBot | Multi-login, adds interwiki links, various tasks. | CyeZ | unknown | -Inactive |
| DcoetzeeBot | Disambiguation, redirect bypassing, category moving. | Deco | 2005-09-06 | -Inactive |
| DisambigBot | Disambiguation | Robchurch | 2006-08-28 | -Inactive |
| D6 | disambiguation, categories, various tasks. | Docu | unknown | -Active |
| Drinibot | Creating capitalization redirects, substing templates | Drini | 2006-04-20 | -Active |
| Fetofsbot | Orphans images. | Fetofs | 2006-02-21 | -Inactive |
| Fetofsbot2 | Semi-automated disambiguation, double redirect, substing and other general fixes. | Fetofs | 2006-02-21 | -Active |
| Fluxbot | Mostly processes CFDS; GUS; Fixing non susbt'd templates. | xaosflux | 2006-06-12 | -Active |
| Ganeshbot | Creates stubs of Indian cities, adding project banners, handling requests, general fixes using AWB | Ganeshk | 2006-03-24 | -Active |
| Gdrbot | Bypasses redirects, disambiguation, recategorisation, DYKbot, Nomialbot, Yearbot, various tasks. | Gdr | 2005-05-18 | -Active |
| Guanabot | Various tasks | Guanaco | unknown | -Active |
| Grammarbot | unknown | r3m0t | 2005-03-04 | -Inactive |
| Janna | unknown | Anthony DiPierro | unknown | __-Discontinued |
| JdforresterBot | Moves pages and fixes the resultant redirects. | Jdforrester | 2005-04-12 | -Active |
| KaiserbBot | Disambiguation, re-categorisation, and redirect bypassing. | Kaiserb | 2005-12-20 | -Inactive |
| KevinBot | Changes race and ethnicity links in Rambot articles, various tasks. | Kevin Rector | unknown | -Inactive |
| Ligulembot | Human-assisted, exchanges template calls | Ligulem | 2006-09-11 | -Active |
| LinkBot | Suggests possible wikilinks. | Nickj | unknown | -Inactive |
| LupinBot | Uploaders images. | Lupin | 2005-05-07 | -Inactive |
| MBot | unknown | Mbecker | 2005-04-18 | -Inactive |
| MessedRobot | Fixing double redirects, replaces uses of redundant images, recategorization | Messedrocker | unknown | -Active |
| MetsBot | Various template and category tasks, also diacritical mark correction. | Mets501 | 2006-09-23 | -Active |
| MiszaBot | 1. Delivers the Esperanza Newsletter. 2. Archives my talk page. | Misza13 | 2006-03-19 | -Active |
| Mulder416sBot | Whatever I feel like doing with python or AWB, mostly manual edits. | Mulder416 | 2006-03-24 | -Active |
| N-Bot | Replaces links to redirects to lists (of fictional characters, for instance) with links to the appropriate list section. | Nickptar | 2005-08-06 | -Active |
| Nobot | Maintains municipality and county articles under WikiProject Norway. | Egil | unknown | -Inactive |
| NohatBot | Various tasks. | Nohat | unknown | -Inactive |
| OrphanBot | Removes unsourced or unknown-license images from articles. | Carnildo | 2006-01-13 | -Active |
| Pathosbot | Template conversion, subst'ing, various tasks. | Pathoschild | 2006-03-13 | __-Discontinued |
| Pearle | Open source, various tasks. | Beland | unknown | -Active |
| Rambot | Adds and maintains county and city articles, human-assisted spelling. | Ram-Man | 2002-10-05 | -Active |
| Robbot | Human-assisted disambiguation, adds interwiki links. | Andre Engels | unknown | -Inactive |
| RobotG | Implements CFD consensus; implements {{category redirect}}s. | RobertG | 2006-07-14 | -Active |
| Rschen7754bot | Various highway-related tasks. | Rschen7754 | 2005-11-06 | -Active |
| RussBot | Fixes double-redirects, disambiguation, updates disambig maintenance page. | RussBlau | 2005-11-05 | -Active |
| Sethbot | Creates redirects to American place names. | Seth Illys | unknown | -Inactive |
| snobot | Uploads images, fixes redirects. | snoyes | unknown | -Inactive |
| StefanBot | Adds fishbase and ITIS references to fish articles and adds conservation status to taxoboxes. | Stefan | 2005-12-31 | -Active |
| Topjabot | unknown | Gerritholl | unknown | -Inactive |
| Tsca.bot | Bypasses redirects. | Tsca | unknown | -Active |
| UgenBot | Human-assisted disambiguation, fixes interwiki links | ugen64 | unknown | -Inactive |
| VandalCountBot | Updates vandalism statistics. | Lightdarkness | 2006-01-24 | -Inactive |
| WatchlistBot | Manage project watchlists (see user page for details) | Ingrid | 2006-03-19 | -Active |
| Werdnabot | Archives User talk pages, bypasses double-redirects, maintains .NET Bot Framework. | Werdna | 2006-06-04 | -Active |
| Whobot | CFD bot for moving articles | Who | 2005-10-13 | -Inactive |
| WinBot | Unicodifying, Template substitution | Winhunter | 2006-07-14 | -Active |
| Wybot | interwiki bot | WonYong | 2006-09-16 | -Active |
| Tawkerbot | subst'ing / blanking stale ip talk pages (per discussion). | Tawker | 2006-02-23 | -Active |
Maintenance-related BotsBots listed here are used in the assistance of page maintenance. | ||||
| Name | Purpose | Owner | Date added | Status |
| AFD Bot | Taking over VFD Bot's job due to name change. | AllyUnion | 2005-09-01 | -Inactive |
| Alphachimpbot | Filing articles from cleanup into month specific categories, subst's user talk templates. Runs 1-2 times/day. | Alphachimp | 2006-07-07 | -Active |
| Bot523 | Removing categories from closed AfD debates. | ais523 | 2006-10-06 | -Active |
| DFBot | Maintains the RFA summary and AFD summary. | Dragons flight | 2006-04-25 | -Active |
| Dlyons493Bot | Routine maintenance of the 342 articles on French arrondissements. Run manually occasionally as needed. | Dlyons493 | 2005-12-01 | -Active |
| EssjayBot | Stood in for Sandbot while it was inactive. Now cooperating with it. | Essjay | 2006-07-22 | -Active |
| JoeBot | Finds commonly misspelled words and corrects them, user-assisted at all times. Pays special attention not to change regional spellings. | JoeSmack | 2006-02-27 | -Active |
| LDBot | Has taken over automated tasks of AFD. | lightdarkness | 2006-02-24 | -Active |
| Mairibot | Using pywikipedia for SFD renames. | Mairi | 2005-11-05 | -Inactive |
| NekoDaemon | CFD Bot. | AllyUnion | 2005-04-18 | -Inactive |
| Pfft Bot | Occasionally moves images to commons semi-automatically. | Phroziac | 2005-12-28 | -Inactive |
| Sandbot | A bot that uses the pywikipedia framework so it can clean up the main sandbox and main sandbox talk page every 6 hours; Also cleans all tutorial sandboxes and tutorial sandbox talk pages every Monday. Work for additional sandboxes may be requested with the Bot owner. | AllyUnion | 2005-03-05 | -Active |
| Syrcatbot | Attended bot using AWB to assist in recategorization / category emptying at CFD. | Syrthiss | 2006-02-05 | -Inactive |
| TPO-bot | Manually run bot to assist with SFD. | TheParanoidOne | 2005-12-27 | -Active |
| VFD Bot | Various VFD tasks. | AllyUnion | 2005-03-05 | __-Discontinued |
| VoABot | Updating the full, semi, move, and the other protected pages lists at Wikipedia:List of protected pages. Cleans up Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Notifies admins who protect certain pages without a summary. | Voice of All | 2006-05-16 | -Active |
| Zorglbot | Wikipedia:Copyright problems automated tasks. | Schutz | 2006-05-18 | -Active |
Disambiguation BotsBots listed below are used solely for disambiguation. | ||||
| Name | Purpose | Owner | Date added | Status |
| ABot | Disambiguation. | ABCD | 2005-08-06 | -Inactive |
| Commander Keane bot | disambiguation. | Commander Keane | 2005-10-15 | -Active |
| DisambigBot | Disambiguation. | Rob Church | 2005-08-27 | -Inactive |
| Margosbot | Interwiki links (from Polish Wikipedia). | Margospl | 2005-05-05 | -Inactive |
| WouterBot | Disambiguation. | WouterVH | 2005-05-04 | -Inactive |
| Pfft Bot | Disambiguation. | Phroziac | 2005-12-28 | -Inactive |
Interwiki BotsBots listed below are used solely for interwiki linking. | ||||
| Name | Notes | Owner | Date added | Status |
| Chobot | With Korean Wikipedia. | ChongDae | 2005-06-20 | -Active |
| FlaBot | Interwiki-Link-Checker | de:Flacus | 2005-05-01 | -Active |
| Jumbuck | none. | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason | 2004-10-14 | -Inactive |
| M7bot | With Italian Wikipedia. | M7 | 2005-09-07 | -Inactive |
| MalafayaBot | With Georgian Wikipedia. | Malafaya | 2005-11-04 | -Inactive |
| Maksim-bot | With Esperanto Wikipedia. | Maksim-e | 2005-12-17 | waiting for approval |
| RoboDick | Multilogon bot. | nl:Dutchy-Dick | 2006-02-01 | -Inactive |
| RobotE | none. | Ellywa | 2005-10-20 | -Inactive |
| RobotJcb | Multi-logon bot. | Jcbos | 2005-10-16 | -Inactive |
| SashatoBot | none. | Sasa Stefanovic | 2006-01-16 | -Active |
| Ugur Basak Bot | Multilogin bot, with Turkish Wikipedia. | Ugur Basak | 2006-02-08 | -Active |
| Vina-iwbot | Multilogin bot, Chinese Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia and Korean Wikipedia | Vina | 2006-06-17 | -Active |
| YurikBot | Multilogin bot, ~90 languages. | Yurik | 2005-03-14 | -Active |
| ZwoBot | none. | Head | 2005-07-14 | -Active |
Bots running with administrator rights
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Bots listed here operated on accounts with administrator rights. There are no bots currently authorized to run with sysop rights. | ||||
| Name | Purpose | Owner | Date added | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curps |
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Curps (operator uses same account as bot) | 2005-09-26 | __-Discontinued |
Bots running without a flag
These bots are run manually, under direct user control, without a bot flag so that they appear in Special:Recentchanges. Bots listed here should only be making edits 30-60 seconds apart until fully approved. Discussion related to these bots should be directed to the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Bots or to the owner of that bot.
| Name | Purpose | Owner | Date added | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 androids | Maintains templates related to WikiProject Baseball players. | Android79 | 2006-01-05 | __-Discontinued |
| Afkbot | Interwikis | Korean alpha for knowledge | 2006-02-15 | -Inactive |
| Andrewbot | Runs pywikipedia redirect.py. | Andrew_pmk | 2005-08-16 | -Inactive |
| AngBot | Deletes articles created by mass page-creation vandalism. | Angela | unknown | __-Discontinued |
| Atomobot | Various tasks. | Atomique | 2006-03-18 | -Active |
| AzaBot | Template subst, touching for merging and/or deleting of templates, search and replace. | AzaToth | 2005-12-07 | -Inactive |
| BlueRobot | Interwikis | BlueRbt | 2006-07-24 | __-Discontinued |
| catapult | Various tasks | freakofnurture | 2006-02-13 | -Active |
| Crypticbot | Lists orphaned AFD pages and automated archival. | Cryptic | 2005-10-29 | __-Discontinued |
| Curpsbot-unicodify | Converts some HTML and URL-encoded entities into Unicode characters. | Curps | 2005-08-22 | -Inactive |
| Diderobot | Fixes spelling and syntax, various other tasks. | Sam Hocevar | 2005-04-21 | -Inactive |
| Erwin85Bot | Disambiguation, redirects, etc. | Erwin85 | 2006-06-24 | -Inactive |
| EssjayBot II | Archiving of project and project talk pages. | Essjay | 2006-07-26 | -Active |
| Eubot | Updates statistics on Dutch municipalities. | Eugene van der Pijll | 2005-04-08 | -Inactive |
| FairuseBot | Removal of disputed fair-use images from articles | Carnildo | 2006-04-01 | -Active |
| G-Bot | Semi-automated typo correction, disambiguates links, various other tasks. | Gflores | 2006-01-12 | -Active |
| Gnome (Bot) | Stub sorting in support of Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels Is waiting for permission for debug. Info on Wikipedia talk:Bots | Eagle (talk) (desk) | 2006-03-05 | -Inactive |
| Guanabot2 | RC patrol edits. | Guanaco | 2005-03-13 | -Inactive |
| IsraBot | Uploads stubs on Israeli cities. | AdamRaizen | unknown | __-Discontinued |
| Kakashi Bot | Responds to bot requests. | AllyUnion | 2005-02-25 | -Inactive |
| Kurando-san | Human-assisted archival. | AllyUnion | 2005-03-30 | -Active |
| Matt Crypto (bot) | Maintains List of cryptography topics, various other tasks. | Matt Crypto | 2005-02-24 | -Active |
| MediationBot | Various tasks as needed by the Mediation Committee, including RFM case management and Committee member notifications. | Essjay (Chairman) |
2006-07-12 | -Active |
| Mgmbot | Semi-automates 'Did you know?' updates. | MacGyverMagic | 2005-06-26 | -Inactive |
| NetBot | unspecified. | Anthere | 2005-03-01 | -Active |
| NotificationBot | Semi-automates talk messages. | AllyUnion | 2005-09-15 | -Inactive |
| Perebot | Interwiki | Peremen | 2006-08-21 | -Active |
| Pfft Bot | Solves disambiguations and moves images to commons. | Phroziac | 2005-12-28 | -Active |
| PhD-Econobot | Disambiguates links to Native Americans. | Nat Kraus | 2005-10-11 | -Inactive |
| RefBot | Processes references and citations. | SEWilco | 2005-12-23 | -Inactive |
| Roomba | Copyright-related media tagging. | Gmaxwell | 2005-11-06 | -Active |
| RoryBot | Bypassing deprecated redirects (e.g. article-to-project space). | Rory096 | 2006-05-26 | -Active |
| SecuniBot | Updates security statistics on Comparison of operating systems. | K. Sperling | 2005-07-25 | -Active |
| SEWilcoBot | Various tasks. | SEWilco | 2005-06-19 | -Inactive |
| SmackBot | Makes simple or complex repetitive text changes. MoS, requests. | Rich Farmbrough | 2006-02-01 | -Active |
| SuggestBot | Recommends articles to edit based on articles people have edited previously. | ForteTuba | 2006-01-03 | -Active |
| Tawkerbot2, Tawkerbot4, AntiVandalBot, Xenophon (bot), Werdnabot2, SgtDrini | Automatic vandalism revision / warnings. See its user page for info / FAQ's | Tawker | 2006-03-05 | -Active |
| User:Tractor | Open-community IRC bot under development for Wikipedia:New contributors' help page | unknown | unknown | -Active |
| WdefconBot | Monitoring and maintenance of {{Wdefcon}} through the #vandalism-en-wp IRC channel. | Misza13 | 2006-07-16 | -Active |
| Wherebot | Examines the text of new articles to determine if they may be copyright violations and lists them on Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations. | Where | 2006-07-29 | -Active |
| WOPR | Adjusts WP:DEFCON based on RC output. | Cool Cat | 2005-10-10 | -Inactive |
| none | Checks open proxies (details). | fvw | 2005-09-30 | __-Discontinued |
| none | Semi-automates 'Did you know?' updates (details). | Gdr | 2005-05-29 | -Inactive |
| none | unspecified. | Alterego | 2005-06-26 | __-Discontinued |
| none | Various tasks (details). | IByte | 2005-07-16 | -Inactive |
| none | Runs pywikipedia editarticle.py. | Shawn K. Quinn | 2005-07-19 | -Inactive |
| none | unspecified (pywikipedia). | Bmicomp | 2005-07-20 | -Inactive |
| none | Semi-automates AFDs. | ceejayoz | 2005-10-25 | -Inactive |
| VoABot II | Automatic revision of certain edits by banned IP-revolving users and general AOL/shared IP Recent changes patrol. | Voice of All | 2006-27-07 | -Active |
| ZsinjBot | Templete substitution | Zsinj | 2006-03-28 | -Active |
Interwiki bots
- After a rough start related to its character set configuration the Jumbuck seems to be doing fine updating interwiki links. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 11:44, 2004 Oct 14 (UTC)
- User:Roboto de Ajvol, apiece inserting ru interwiki. ajvol 15:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
- NTBot - to place backlinks from the portuguese wikipedia Nuno Tavares 3 July 2005 20:32 (UTC)
- E2mb0t - backlinks from the Portuguese wikipedia and general stuff. --E2mb0t 03:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
- Dake - interwiki links from .fr version, restricted to articles about cryptography, I will check all edits Dake 16:27, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
- NongBot - backlinks from Thai Wikipedia.
- YurikBot does interwikis - Yurik 11:48, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- User:MoriBot occasionally used for interwiki links Moribunt 17:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
- User:Lt-wiki-bot is running interwiki across en.wiki & lt.wiki. Knutux 06:58, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- User:MTSbot LT interwiki Bot. 17:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- Note, this entry was added by 24.30.99.132 (talk · contribs), not MTS or MTSbot. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 06:33, Feb. 8, 2006
- GrinBot updating en→hu interlang links, test running for a week, waiting for complaints :) --grin ✎ 10:40, 2005 September 1 (UTC)
- User:KnightRider is doing interwiki links from es wikipedia to en. --KnightRider 18:45, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
- User:Eskimbot does interwikis, from the French Wikipedia. Eskimo ☼ 11:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
- User:SundarBot adds interwikis from the Tamil Wikipedia. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 07:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
- User:Bota47 does interwikis, from the Czech Wikipedia --Li-sung 16:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Other registered bots
- User:The Anomebot was created for automated submissions by User:The Anome. The initial intent was to upload approximately 5000 map diagrams created by User:Wapcaplet. This has now been done, and new uses are now being thought of for the Anomebot.