HOW TO BOT OLD SCHOOL RUNESCAPE MANUAL
Per discussion, any bot account that has not performed an edit for 6 months or longer will have its bot flag removed.Īll bots must run on separate accounts from their creators, as it is important to distinguish between automatic and manual edits.
Bureaucrats can flag bots they will look for a community consensus to flag the bot before doing so. The bot flag only has the technical effect of allowing the bot's edits to be hidden from the recent changes page, but to the community it indicates that the bot has been tested and approved. Once testing is complete, it should be noted on the thread, if it is still open. The testing should ensure that the bot performs as expected. This testing should occur on a separate bot account instead of the creator's account, and is oftentimes performed on a 'test wiki'. Additionally, the community can be sure that the operator is serious about running the bot.Īfter the bot is coded, it should go through testing of all its features in a variety of scenarios. It is important to write the specification before work on the bot is started, because it defines the bot's goals before it's annoying to change them. Any other information the community would be interested in when evaluating the proposal.Access to the bot will almost never be open to everyone, since again there is a potential for abuse of its features. Most often, only the owner will be able to control the bot other than through blocking it, but sometimes it is possible to allow others to access the bot. If the bot is designed to run periodically, it should be specified how often it runs. All bots will run either continuously, periodically, or one time. The latter is important because otherwise, the community may end up waiting and waiting for a bot that will never be able to carry out its intended tasks. A detailed description of what the bot will do and how the bot will do it.If the general consensus is that it would be useful for the bot to perform the discussed tasks, then the prospective bot operator should write a detailed specification that explains how the bot will run on the Yew Grove. These discussions are often held with another user privately, for feedback and suggestions. The process of creating a bot should usually begin with an idea for a bot being discussed by the community. They are just a tool for performing repetitive tasks with less work involved.Ĭommunity members that are interested in creating a wiki bot should read creating a bot on Wikipedia, as it provides useful background information that applies here. However, human editors will always be needed, as bots aren't capable of adding content to the wiki.
Examples include correcting American spelling of words to British and tagging pages with maintenance templates (such as Template:Jpeg). There are many tasks that bots can perform more efficiently and with less work than humans. However, given that there is a potential for bots to malfunction or vandalise, the community must carefully regulate their operation to prevent them from damaging the wiki. Unlike bots that perform tasks in RuneScape, bots here are allowed and encouraged. A bot is a computer program that automates certain tasks, which in this case is editing this wiki.