Forum:Should we use a Bot for large Scale Edits?

Recently with addition of the Information of the new data book Masked we have alot of page moves and name changes that need to take place. In light of that a bot would be perfect for those purposes.

A bot is a piece of software that makes automated edits on a wiki, or that helps human users to make semi-automated edits. Bots are most often used in short runs to make repetitive edits to many pages, such as moving a group of pages to a new category, fixing links to disambiguation pages, or to search for misspelled words and replace them with correct ones.

So the question is should we get a bot? --Salubri (Talk)  20:13, September 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * 1)  I am in support of this obviously. --Salubri  (Talk)  20:32, September 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * 2)  For the page moves, most certainly. This would make things much easier on all of us. The bot could do the menial task of replacing every instance of the old name with the new while we all focused on more important stuff that a bot cannot do.--God  (Pray)  20:16, September 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * 3)  Absolutely. I cant even begin to describe how awful it was moving Nnoitra's page and correcting the 100+ articles that linked to it. Completely killed off my interest in doing any more of them for a good while. I looked at using AWB, but haven't the faintest idea what I'm doing and so gave up on that. Anyone who has any experience in using one or setting one up should get in contact with us.  20:36, September 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * 4)  I know little about how bots work, but the idea of automating large scale moves is very appealing. Often, it is the simplest edits like the ones mentioned that are the most time consuming. As Godisme said, this would considerably decrease our workload. Mohrpheus (talk) 00:57, September 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * 5)  I agree with this idea as well, sometimes it can take a while to correct silly things when there are other things to be looked at!! SunXia (talk) 18:58, September 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * 6)  Not much more that I can add that hasn't already been said. A bot would be extremely helpful in all these name changes and it would take off a lot of stress on the admins. So yes, I'm in support of this. TheDevilHand888 (talk) 19:02, September 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * 7)  This seems to be the most practical solution to the problem of time consumption. GinIchimaru (talk) 19:31, September 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * 1)  I have no objection. Hopefully the bot is bug free and won't cause more harm than good.  WD   Talk to me  20:20, September 25, 2010 (UTC)