The Aruba Wiki:Bots

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A bot (a common nickname for software robot) is an automated tool that carries out repetitive and mundane tasks to maintain the pages of this wiki.


A bot has been authorized to perform the following function because of their associated user access rights.
    • Be treated as an automated process (bot)
    • Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
    • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
    • Not create a redirect from the old name when moving a page (suppressredirect)
    • Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
    • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
    • Use of the write API (writeapi)
    • skipcaptcha (skipcaptcha)