Just some complementary information, extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots (very interesting for those that didn't know much about the role of bots in the wikipedia).
Over 60 million edit operations have been performed by bots on the English Wikipedia.
Some bot examples are: Yobot, that categorizes individuals in categories by birth date, profession and other criteria, SineBot, that signs comments left on talk pages, MiszaBot, that archives talk pages, Xqbot, that solves double redirects, ...
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Just some complementary information, extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots (very interesting for those that didn't know much about the role of bots in the wikipedia).
Over 60 million edit operations have been performed by bots on the English Wikipedia.
Some bot examples are: Yobot, that categorizes individuals in categories by birth date, profession and other criteria, SineBot, that signs comments left on talk pages, MiszaBot, that archives talk pages, Xqbot, that solves double redirects, ...
Some bots, like RussBot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RussBot) have big red Emergency bot shutoff button.