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== How difficult is it to program a bot? Are there open source bots which could be useful that we could use out of the box? == | == How difficult is it to program a bot? Are there open source bots which could be useful that we could use out of the box? == | ||
In total, there seem to be 59 bots on Wikipedia that have their source code published. [[ | Programming a bot is out of reach for me, as I have no experience in this. Also, for our needs it seems to me that would be too much of a hassle, and I recommend first using the Google Docs extension. | ||
In total, there seem to be 59 bots on Wikipedia that have their source code published. [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia_bots_with_source_code_published|Link]]] That's out of the 2088 bots [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia_bots|Link]]]. | |||
After looking at [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Bot_activity_monitor#Current_status_report|this]]], the only bot I was able to find is [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:User:WP_1.0_bot|WP1.0 bot]]]. I think it's not showing up in the first link from this chapter, where it lists bots with source code published, because of it being outdated. | After looking at [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Bot_activity_monitor#Current_status_report|this]]], the only bot I was able to find is [<nowiki/>[[wikipedia:User:WP_1.0_bot|WP1.0 bot]]]. I think it's not showing up in the first link from this chapter, where it lists bots with source code published, because of it being outdated. | ||