Template:Bot

This user account is a bot operated by [[:User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[:User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]]). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. tasks • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • global contribs • flag bot

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:Bot/doc.

Mark the user page of a bot, linking with bot operator

The template automatically sets the following categories: Depending on parameters:

• Category:Inactive Commons bots
• Category:Globally active Commons bots
• Category:Commons bots
• Category:Commons AWB bots
• Category:Commons DotNetWikiBot bots
• Category:Commons pywikibot bots
• Category:Commons perlwikipedia bots
• Category:Commons peachy bots
• Category:Commons wiki.java bots
• Category:Commons upload bots
• Category:Commons maintenance bots
• Category:Commons movetocommons bots
• Category:Commons archive bots
• Category:Commons bots with public source code
• Category:Commons user accounts with bot flag
• Category:Commons admin bots
• Category:Commons bots with autopatrolled flag
• Category:Commons bots with license reviewer flag

Usage

{{Bot |1= |site= |type= |task= |text= |status= |source= |flag= |admin= |autopatrol= |licensereviewer= |toolforge= }}

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
1	User name of bot operator		empty	required
site	interwiki prefix for bot operator's home wiki, if not Commons.		empty	optional
type	options: AWB, pywikibot, perlwikipediabot, peachy, DotNetWikiBot, wiki.java		empty	optional
task	options: upload, maintenance, movetocommons, interwiki, archive		empty	optional
text	optional description		empty	optional
status	set to inactive if the bot is inactive, or globally-active if active on other Wikimedia projects but not Commons.		empty	optional
source	set to yes if the bot has its source public		empty	optional
flag	set to yes if the bot has the bot flag, or the name of the bot request page if it doesn't match the bot's current username.		empty	optional
toolserver	set to yes if the bot ran on the Toolserver. The Toolserver was shut down in 2014, so this parameter should not be used for active bots.		empty	deprecated
admin	set to yes if the bot has the admin flag		empty	optional
autopatrol	set to yes if the bot has the autopatrolled flag		empty	optional
licensereviewer	set to yes if the bot has the license reviewer flag		empty	optional
toolforge toollabs	set to yes or the name of the tool if the bot runs on Wikimedia Toolforge		empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the User namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: Bots

Relies on:

• {{Toolserverbot}}
• {{Toolforge bot}}

Localization

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:Bot/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:Bot/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.