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Some commands are actually sent to IRC bots; these are treated by the IRC protocol as ordinary messages, not as /-commands. Conventions used here: Angle brackets ("<" and ">") are used here to indicate a placeholder for some value, and are not a literal part of a command. Square brackets ("[" and "]") are used to indicate that a value is optional.
An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".
An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...
A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media.The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations with partial human control (hybrid) via algorithm.
Once the bot has been approved and given its bot flag permission, one can add "bot=True" to the API call - see mw:API:Edit#Parameters in order to hide the bot's edits in Special:RecentChanges. In Python, using either mwclient or wikitools, then adding bot=True to the edit/save command will set the edit as a bot edit - e.g. PageObject.edit(text ...
Wikipedia bots are Internet bots (computer programs) that perform simple, repetitive tasks on Wikipedia. One prominent example of an internet bot used in Wikipedia is Lsjbot , which has generated millions of short articles across various language editions of Wikipedia.
Do that at the bot operator's talk page; discuss urgent/major bot issues. Do that according to instructions at WP:BOTISSUE; discuss general questions about the MediaWiki software and syntax. We have the village pump's technical section for that; request approval for your new bot. Here is where you should do it; request new functionality for bots.