Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150419120615/@comment-25464118-20150425124755

SuperSajuuk wrote: Cörey wrote: AutoWikiBrowser, AWB, is known for it's ease of use not so much for it's power. While it can do small things like fixing typos on a set of pages, or finding and replacing strings, it is not suited for more advanced tasks like maintaining the list of redirects, keeping chat logs, deleting/replacing categories, etc. The bot was never intended to perform all tasks. It would be used primarily for fixing links (for those pages with a lot of links) and updating templates on pages. Logging chat is outside my capacity and frankly, is not something I feel we really need right now, because there are no rule violations occurring on a regular basis within the chat. A logger wouldn't really log anything either, because very little actually occurs in chat.

Things like deletions, redirect maintaining and so on, would be managed by the sysops using a different script, not the bot.

There are still some benefits to allowing me to maintain the bot, one of which being the ability for privileged users to control the bot via Special:Chat, which means that y'all wouldn't have to ping me whenever something needed to be done, you could effectively do it yourself. :)