Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27328974-20180906195135

Hello, this is Copetan.

This wiki is almost 3 years old, and it has grown quite a bit since back when I was first active. There are currently almost 4,000 content pages in the wiki, and that's a small portion compared to the whopping total if 72,174 pages, which includes things like the talk pages, forum pages, etc., and all of these pages have been edited almost 150,000 times.

This wiki has 1 Bureaucrat, 9 Administrators, 3 Discussions Moderators, and 1 Content Moderator. Staff has been trying their best at increasing the quality of the content in this wiki, but it has been becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these pages, so many inferior-quality pages are going unfixed, much to the woe of the community.

Other wikis use bots to assist in general wiki housekeeping, but up to now, Joke Battles Wiki hasn't been using any bots, leaving all the hard work to the staff or the rest of the community. This is why I propose that this wiki should have its own bot to help with all the grunt work.

What is a bot, you may ask? A bot is tool that makes automatic or semi-automatic edits on a wiki on a users behalf (You can find more info at Help:Bots).

A bot would be extremely helpful for the general clean-up of pages on this wiki, that way everybody who accesses this wiki can enjoy a larger number of high-quality pages, our community could grow, and everybody would be happy. But, in order to have a bot, we need to have general community approval of this bot, so FANDOM staff can add the bot flag to the account the bot is associated with, that way bot edits don't flood the Recent Changes page with grammatical corrections (it's an example).

With all that said, what do you think? 