Please read through the policy below to familiarize yourself with our common practices and rules.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or complaints, please post them on the talk page.
On Memory Alpha, bots are used from time to time to do minor tasks via automation. To the outside, a bot looks like a normal user, but they have a special bot flag so they can become invisible when looking at the recent changes.
Bot policy[]
- Every bot needs a user page
- On this user page the bot's tasks must be explained
- The page must contain a link to the controller
- Bots shall not be used just because the controller doesn't want to do the edits
- At first the bot shall only be used in a limited way, so the controller and other users get used to its behavior
- All bots must be listed on this page and their activity may be questioned by other users
Leave messages for bots on the bot requests page.
Bots on Memory Alpha[]
| Name | Controller | Tasks | Edits | Framework | Notes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Botfleet Command | Mr. Starfleet Command | Link updating, recategorization, formatting, cleanup | 62,640 | MassEdit, custom JavaScript tool | Active | |
| Renebot54 | Renegade54 | Maintenance, cleanup | 2 | AutoWikiBrowser | Inactive | |
| Maintenance script | Fandom | Maintenance, spam removal | 0 | Inactive | ||
| SulfBot | sulfur | Link cleanup, random odd tasks here and there, cleanup | 246,353 | Pywikibot | Active | |
| PlasmarelaisBot | Plasmarelais | Interwiki links | 20,304 | Pywikibot | Inactive | |
| Wikia | Fandom | Welcome messages, account renaming | 42,442 | Deprecated: welcome messages now handled by the AutoCreateUserPages script; account renaming now handled by User:FANDOMbot. | Inactive | |
| DYKBot | Bp | Maintenance, episode data, picture of the day synchronization, IRC | 32,707 | Custom Perl and Python script, Pywikibot | Was originally a proposed method of maintaining the "Did You Know" section of the main page. | Inactive |
| delBeccio-bot | Alan | Maintenance, cleanup, other such monotony | 163,538 | AutoWikiBrowser | Active | |
| HighwindBot | Cid Highwind | Maintenance, cleanup, support for other bots | 53,252 | Inactive | ||
| DataMA | Florian K | Interwiki links | 594 | Pywikibot | Started as a development bot; went on to assist Morn in detecting interwiki links; was used on MA/de for categorization. | Inactive |
| Morn | Kobi | Interwiki links | 26,456 | Pywikibot | The first user-created bot used on Memory Alpha. | Inactive |
| MediaWiki default | System message maintenance | 3,037 | Inactive | |||
| Default | Fandom | None | 0 | Used on native Wikia wikis to import wiki starter-content; never used on MA | Inactive |