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An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
Graham Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun wrote: "I'd probably had my fill of WorldBox after around 4 hours, but it was a happy four hours." [7] Joseph Knoop of PC Gamer wrote: "It's funny how much WorldBox shares with big strategy games, despite not presenting an ultimate goal to the player, and almost always ending with a boredom-killing nuclear bomb.
As of 2021, there are around 430,000 total bots active in estimated 30% of all servers. Discord provides official bot APIs which allow custom elements such as dropdowns and buttons. In spring 2022, Discord released an official "app directory" where server owners can add bots to their servers in-Discord.
Discord is a freemium and proprietary chat room program available for web browsers, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Editors can chat by text like WP:IRC, but also by voice calls, unlike IRC. In 2016, an unofficial Wikimedia Discord server was founded. It is moderated by several trusted Wikimedians, and members should follow the ...
A chatbot is a software application or web interface that is designed to mimic human conversation through text or voice interactions. [1] [2] [3] Modern chatbots are typically online and use generative artificial intelligence systems that are capable of maintaining a conversation with a user in natural language and simulating the way a human would behave as a conversational partner.
Pie chart that only shows edits for the 10,000 most active Wikipedians (with bots), one slice per thousand editors (as of 8 January 2014). Edit distribution of bots (as of 8 January 2014). This data is as of 04:01, 13 January 2025 (UTC). Noted unflagged bots are included. Bots in black (unlinked) have not been used for editing in the last 30 days.
However, this feature is often disabled as to not attract too much attention. When a user wants to download a packet or file from a bot, the user would type something such as "xdcc send #<pack number>" to the bot. The bot will either start sending the user the packet or the bot will place the user in a queue, and force the user to wait their turn.
The Bots and Nobots templates tell bots and other automated editing tools and scripts that they either should or should not edit a page that has the template. The templates can be used to block most bots (all bots that have implemented this functionality) or specific bots by name or function.