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This page deals with the approval and cloaking of IRC bots on freenode. These can be identified with two types of cloaks: those in the form project/usernick/bot/botnick which represent bots that may or may not actually be for Wikimedia's use but are operated by their owner, and project/bot/botnick, for bots which have a practical use for Wikimedia and which have been approved by a group contact.

The procedure for requesting cloaks can be found here. If you already have a bot cloak of the usercloak/bot/* type, and (as is the case for most bots) it should under the new system be wikimedia/bot/*, go to the same page and follow the instructions in the "Changing cloaks" section.

There are a number of guidelines for the operation of IRC bots on freenode:

• A bot should not pose a nuisance, flood, or harass users.
• The ircname of the bot should preferably contain a URL to a wiki page or web page describing the bot.
• Bot behaviour remains the responsibility of their operators.

Some bots have the ability to ignore flood protection and send as many messages as they like. Examples are those bots feeding recent changes to the anti-vandalism channels. If you believe that your bot needs this ability, please contact Sean privately after the bot has been cloaked with a wikiproject/bot/botnick cloak. Please be aware that this ability is rarely given, and advice on efficiently coding a bot to work within the flood protection system is a better choice.

The following table lists all currently known bots. Please update if incorrect, and keep alphabetised by bot nick.

• IRC