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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.

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[edit] Bots with a flag

Bots that are in this list should also appear in List of users with a bot flag.

[edit] 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
A4bot Interwiki bot. A4 2007-02-10 __-Active
Addbot See this page for task list Addshore 2008-05-29 __-Active
Alaibot WP:SFD renaming; stub tag replacement, and merger Alai 2006-07-13 __-Active
AMABot Updates various AMA pages and does some IRC-based stuff for the AMA's IRC channel. Martinp23 2007-02-10 __-Inactive
AP.BOT Recategorising, template subst'ing, fixing user pages regarding the migration Andypandy.UK 2006-10-26 __-Active
AzaBot Spambot for WP:ACID AzaToth 2005-12-07 __-Active
BJBot List orphaned fair use images for deletion. Bjweeks 2007-02-06 __-Active
BOTijo Emijrp 2007-12-16 __-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
Broadbot Interwiki Broadbeer talk 2007-01-31 __-Active
BrownBot WP:FILMS distributions, template substitution. Cbrown1023 talk 2007-04-14 __-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
Computer Multiple tasks (see bot userpage) White Cat 2005-09-07 __-Active
CopyToWiktionaryBot Daily sweep to transwiki (full history) to en.wiktionary.org User:Connel MacKenzie 2006-10-08 __-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
darioBot Interwiki bot, and tag unsourced images dario vet 4 April 2007 __-Active
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
DumbBOT Completes WP:AFD noms, remove protection templates from non-protected pages, creates various reports such as WP:PRODSUM Tizio 2007-04-27 __-Active
EmxBot Interwiki, replacing, substing templates, various tasks. Emx 2007-03-26 __-Active
Fetofsbot Orphans images. Fetofs 2006-02-21 __-Inactive
Fetofsbot2 Semi-automated disambiguation, double redirect, substing and other general fixes. Fetofs 2006-02-21 __-Inactive
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 __-Inactive
Guanabot Various tasks Guanaco unknown __-Active
Grammarbot unknown r3m0t 2005-03-04 __-Inactive
HagermanBot Leaves the {{unsigned}} template on talk pages when a user forgets to sign. Hagerman 2006-12-03 __-Active
Janna unknown Anthony DiPierro unknown __-Discontinued
JdforresterBot Page/Category renaming and fixing the result. 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 __-Inactive
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
Mr.Z-bot Mr.Z-man 2008-04-20 __-Active
Mulder416sBot Whatever I feel like doing with python or AWB, mostly manual edits. Mulder416 2006-03-24 __-Active
MacBot Edits stubs, disambiguation pages and SpongeBob articles. MacintoshApple 2006-11-16 __-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
Ocobot Finds dead external links. Ocolon 2007-03-24 __-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 __-Active
PDFbot Updates file size on external links transcluding {{PDFlink}} and corrects usage of said template. Dispenser 2007-03-06 __-Active
Pearle Open source, various tasks. Beland unknown __-Active
PockBot Produces for a given category a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcats), as well as the status of those articles PocklingtonDan 2006-12-08 __-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
RoryBot Bypassing deprecated redirects (e.g. article-to-project space). Rory096 2006-05-26 __-Inactive
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
SelketBot Adds {{SharedIP}} to talk pages of shared IP address users. Selket 2007-02-14 __-Active
SmackBot Makes simple or complex repetitive text changes. MoS, requests. Rich Farmbrough 2006-02-01 __-Active
Snowbot Replacing or deleting categories for CFD and UCFD; replacing or removing stubs for SFD; WikiProject tagging; Templates subst:'ing. Using AWB and m:pywikipedia. Snowolf 2007-02-25 __-Active
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
TheJoshBot Converts infoboxes from one template to another. Current Status TheJosh 2006-11-29 __-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
ZsinjBot Templete substitution Zsinj 2006-03-28 __-Inactive
Tawkerbot basically spamming people w/ Wikipedia Weekly delivery notices among some other random things that I feel like doing :) Tawker 2006-02-23 __-Active

[edit] Maintenance-related Bots

Bots listed here are used in the assistance of page maintenance.
Name Purpose Owner Date added Status
AFD Bot (was VFD Bot) Various AfD tasks. AllyUnion 2005-03-05 __-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
Computer Double redirects, Commonsdelinking, Category renaming White Cat 2005-09-07 __-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 Complement to Sandbot. Essjay 2006-07-22 __-Discontinued
EssjayBot_III Archives user talk pages. Essjay 2006-11-10 __-Discontinued
EssjayBot IV Archives article talk pages (by request). Essjay 2006-11-23 __-Discontinued
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
MedcabBot Updates Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases periodically. Xyrael 2007-02-07 __-Active
NekoDaemon CFD Bot. AllyUnion 2005-04-18 __-Inactive
NolBot Changing of depreciated templates/infoboxes to the current version. Nol888 17 March 2007 __-Active
Pfft Bot Occasionally moves images to commons semi-automatically. Phroziac 2005-12-28 __-Inactive
RBot Automatic substing of user warnings R 2007-3-18 __-Active
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
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
UnCatBot Go through Special:UncategorizedPages and tag all articles that are not in a category with the uncategorized template. nn123645 2008-01-01 __-Active

[edit] Disambiguation Bots

Bots 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 __-Inactive
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

[edit] Interwiki Bots

Bots listed below are used solely for interwiki linking.
Name Notes Owner Date added Status
alnoktaBOT With Arabic Wikipedia as the start wiki, en,de,fr,es. alnokta 2007-01-01 __-Active
Chobot With Korean Wikipedia. ChongDae 2005-06-20 __-Active
Computer Interwikilinks many wikis. See this page for a full list White Cat 2005-09-07 __-Active
DorganBot With Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, French, Deutch, Dutch wikipedia. Dorgan 2006-12-23 __-Active
Escarbot Multi-logon bot. fr:Vargenau 2006-11-01 __-Active
FlaBot Interwiki-Link-Checker de:Flacus 2005-05-01 __-Active
H92Bot Interwiki to new articles on no,nn,da,sv,de,fr,he — H92 (t · c · no) 2007-04-27 __-Active
JhsBot Mainly with Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia. Jon Harald Søby 2007-01-30 __-Active
Jumbuck none. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2004-10-14 __-Inactive
KhanBot none. Harald Khan 2008-04-15 __-Active
Kisbesbot none. Kisbes 2008-05-20 __-Active
KocjoBot With Slovene Wikipedia as the start wiki; + en, de, hr, sr. Klemen Kocjancic 2007-12-22 __-Active
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
MenoBot Multi-logon bot. Meno25 2007-11-24 __-Active
Numbo3-bot Multi-logon bot. Numbo3 2008-05-16 __-Active
PipepBot Multi-logon bot. Pipep 2007-07-31 __-Active
Rei-bot Multi-logon bot. Rei-artur 2007-01-21 __-Active
Riccardobot With Italian Wikipedia. Riccardov 2006-09-23 __-Inactive
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 __-Active
SamatBot The bot works in huwiki, enwiki and dewiki from the Hungarian Wikipedia. Samat 2008-05-09 __-Active
SashatoBot none. Sasa Stefanovic 2006-01-16 __-Active
SpBot interwiki links Euku 2008-06-06 __-Active
Synthebot Multi-logon bot, mainly with Interlingua Wikipedia Julian Mendez 2007-03-29 __-Active
TXiKiBoT Multi-logon bot. eu:TXiKi 2007-02 __-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
Wybot Multilogin bot,interwiki bot WonYong 2006-09-16 __-Active
YurikBot Multilogin bot, ~90 languages. Yurik 2005-03-14 __-Active
Zwobot Multi-logon bot. Head 2005-07-14 __-Active
Jotterbot Multilogin bot, Malayalam Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia Jyothis 2007-11-06 __-Active

[edit] Bots running with administrator rights

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
  1. Detects page moves occuring more often than a certain rate threshold, issues an indefinite block and posts a notice at ANI.
  2. Detects page moves to certain bad faith targets as vandalism. Reverts the move and deletes the redirect.
  3. Indefinitely blocks newly created accounts with names containing certain banned words and phrases, or that use certain special characters. Block summary is "user..."
  4. Detects certain behaviors as vandalism and automatically uses rollback.
  5. Decides that some of the automatically detected vandalism warrants a block summarized as "vandalism". Users triggering this are blocked indefinitely. Ordinary IPs are blocked for 24 hours and AOL IPs for 15 minutes.
 Curps (operator uses same account as bot) 2005-09-26 __-Discontinued

[edit] 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
BlueRobot Interwikis BlueRbt 2006-07-24 __-Discontinued
catapult Various tasks freakofnurture 2006-02-13 __-Active
CbmBOT Updates the statistics table on Cleanup by month daily. Dvandersluis 2006-08-04 __-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 __-Discontinued
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 __-Discontinued
MediationBot1 Various tasks as needed by the Mediation Committee, including RFM case management and Committee member notifications. Mediation Committee 2006-07-12 __-Active
Mgmbot Fixing links to moved template MacGyverMagic 2007-10-27 __-Active
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
SecuniBot Updates security statistics on Comparison of operating systems. K. Sperling 2005-07-25 __-Active
SEWilcoBot Various tasks. SEWilco 2005-06-19 __-Inactive
Shadowbot Automated spam removal / warnings Shadow1 2006-12-23 __-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. Does NOT run under direct manual control nor does it edit throttle, Runs w/o bot flag for greater visibility of it's actions. 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
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 specific or likely edits by banned IP-revolving users and general AOL/shared IP Recent changes patrol. Watches for bad page-moves too. Voice of All 2006-27-07 __-Active
HansimBot interwiki HansimBot 2007-01-19 __-Active
kwjbot interwiki,fixing double redirect,welcoming new user, clean sandbox kwj2772 2008-02-02 __-Active

[edit] Interwiki bots

[edit] 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.

[edit] Bots In Test Phase

  • User:BoxCrawler is being tested and its framework checks this page, historical or otherwise