Thread:Lol123lol/@comment-8-20151121134633/@comment-8-20151125023301

Great, always good to have technically knowledgeable people around :)

You don't need to request anything to make a bot, or to download the ones linked above. If you are just using them on a test wikia or similar, you can just go ahead.

If you are using it in an active community, you generally have to get permission from either the admins (or other admins, if you are one) or the communty as a whole. Some larger wikias have set procedures, smaller ones are more likely to have an informal system.

In either situation you will probably also want the account flagged (it's traditional to use a separate account for the bot, not your main account). The main effects of this flagging are to prevent the bot flooding recent changes, and to signify to others that it's a bot using the account. Flags only cover one wikia, but you don't generally need them for test wikias where you won't be bothering anyone if you flood.

To get an account flagged as being used by a bot, you can ask via Special:Contact. Please link to the discussion giving community permission to use the bot if applicable.

Wikipedia doesn't have anything to do with bots on Wikia, I just linked there for the useful info pages :)