Help:Creating a bot: Difference between revisions

==Why would I need to create a bot?==

Bots can automate tasks and perform them much faster than humans. If you have a simple task that you need to perform lots of times (an example might be to add a [[Wikipedia:Template messages|template]] to all pages in a category with 1000 pages), then this is a task better suited to a bot than a human.

 

==Considerations before creating a bot==