Help:MakeBot

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MakeBot is an extension which allows bureaucrats to grant and revoke bot status from user accounts. It was written by Rob Church for use on Wikimedia wikis, and was taken live on 22nd April 2006.

[edit] Use

Select User 

Enter a username in the field indicated and click Go

Grant Bot Status 

Enter a comment and click the Grant button

Revoke Bot Status 

Enter a comment and click the Revoke button

[edit] Restrictions

Bot flags can not be placed on accounts that have sysop or bureaucrat flags already set.

[edit] Logs

A log of all bot status changes is maintained at Special:Log/makebot.

[edit] Licencing and downloads

The extension is available under the GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later, and can be from SVN downloaded from Subversion, or accessed via the web-based viewer.

The software is provided as-is. Updates will be made according to the needs of Wikimedia wikis; or where critical vulnerabilities are discovered.

[edit] See also

m:MakeBot