Template:Bots

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This is a template for pages to specify whether or not they want visits from any bots, most bots or specific bots. This can be used to easily and explicitly opt-in or opt-out of unsolicited bot posts to user pages or to cause maintenance bots to avoid certain pages. Explicitly opting-in has the advantage of possibly receiving useful changes or targeted posts that might otherwise be skipped by the bot assuming a default "opt-out" behavior. These templates should be used mainly on the "User" and "User talk" namespaces and should be used carefully in other spaces.

Implementation

• Pywikipediabot supports bots and nobots since r4096. The templates may be ignored using a parameter.
• Since version 3.2.0.0 AutoWikiBrowser fully supports {{bots}} and {{nobots}}. Additionally, pseudo-username AWB can be specified to ban all AWB-based bots from the page. However, AWB has an option to ignore these templates.
• wikiapi supports bots and nobots.

The template automatically sets the following categories: Pages with template:bots

Usage

{{Bots |allow= |deny= }}

Syntax

{{nobots}}                Ban all bots (shortcut)
{{bots}}                  Allow all bots (shortcut)

{{bots|allow=<botlist>}}  Ban all the bots not in the list
{{bots|deny=<botlist>}}   Ban all the bots in the list

Where <botlist> is a comma-delimited string of bot usernames:
  {{bots|allow=Category-bot,Werdnabot}}

<botlist> can also be "none" or "all" as in the following examples:
  {{bots|allow=all}}      Allow all bots
  {{bots|allow=none}}     Ban all bots

  {{bots|deny=all}}       Ban all bots
  {{bots|deny=none}}      Allow all bots

Bots are not bound to observe the nobots tag, it will depend on their functionality, their owners and their terms of approval.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
allow	allowed bots		empty	optional
deny	blocked bots		empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the User talk namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: no user group specified

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.

Bot block template to prevent a page being edited by all bots or a specific set of bots.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
allow	allow	Comma separated list of bots that are allowed to edit the page.	String	optional
deny	deny	Comma separated list of bots that are banned from editing the page.	String	optional