Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150419120615/@comment-25464118-20150425055056

Hello hello, I'm Cörey, one of the administrators of Community Central.

Sajuuk came into our chat and my opinion on whether it is wise for a community to keep inactive bots. I told him that while it doesn't hurt anything, it's entirely up to the community considering they may one day decide to reactivate the bot. Keeping inactive bots won't harm anything and the only reasons I could think of to remove their flag was just in case it was needed again, or if the wiki just wanted to keep an updated list of users with rights on Special:ListUsers.

SuperSajuuk wrote: Since she won't let us have access to her bot, I proposed we should make SajuukBot a bot here on this wiki. I recently worked out how to use AutoWikiBrowser, so can do some menial tasks with it, if they are needed.

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.

If you guys would like I can volunteer my bot, User:CoreyBot to serve as the primary bot on TESWiki. He's a good little bot, he's got plenty of experience on Wikia, and he's house trained so no worries about him having an accident on the rug!

However, if you want a personalized (wiki-alized?) bot, feel free to come up with a name for it and I'll register an account for it. As it will be personalized it will only be used on this wiki so there's no worrying about not being able to keep it in case I was to go inactive, since I could easily just pass the login details to the wiki staff.

If you'd like to take my bot on a trial run, performing small day-to-day tasks for a month or so, let me know! If at the end of the trial you don't like the idea of an outsider maintaining a bot for the wiki, let me know and I can disable him, if not we can proceed from there.

Cheers! :)