User:Rick Block/10th/2

Early bot history

• Pre-bots (and other "editing assistance" tools) everyone actually
  1. hit the "edit" button in a web browser
  2. manually made a change in a browser edit window
  3. hit the "submit" button
• Can you imagine renaming a category containing 100 articles this way? How about a category containing 1000 articles?

This is precisely how it used to be done!

• Bots fundamentally do what a human user would, i.e. (after logging in) fetch a page, make a change, and submit the change.

• rambot was the first bot I was aware of. Of course, there's now a page on the history of Wikipedia bots.

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