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==Bots== What is a "Bot" (I assume it is an abreivation of Robot) used so frequently in the context of editing discussions on Wikipedia? [[User:Dainamo|Dainamo]] 18:13, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC) :A bot is a piece of code that runs through and does large scale jobs. Most of the ones nowadays are search-and-replace bots (for common spelling errors or disambiguation purposes). We have one bot (Ram-bot) that took all the US census data and wrote an article about every city in the US. [[User:Raul654|βRaul654]] 18:15, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC) ::Every incorporated city. I've spotted a few that are on the map but weren't in Wikipedia due to their unincorporated status. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|β]] 18:27, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC) :::See [[Wikipedia:Bots]] for some of the current bots. Their user pages, linked from that page, usually explain what they do. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 18:36, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
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