Board Thread:Help Desk/@comment-5754239-20140414031410/@comment-5754239-20140512232822

Here's a copy of the email I sent them and their reply: [My email address], May 09 12:48 AM: Hello! I'm Ironwestie, and I'm an administrator on the Hay Day Wiki. We've had some trouble on renaming a huge number of pages as well as fixing any redlinks. We're also trying not to spam the database with redirect pages. See, the majority of our pages were created with grammatically incorrect titles such as "White Sugar" instead of "White sugar". When we decided to rename these pages, I compiled a humongous list of all the pages we had to rename, which totals to about 100. Since The main purpose that the bot should serve is that it should automatically make lowercase the first letter of every word in the title in the Main namespace (except the first word, since the system already makes it uppercase). The community has decided that there should be a whitelist of sorts that the bot is not able to act on. These include proper names, titles, and other grammatically correct pages with capitalized titles.

The question I'm asking is: Is there an already existing bot that we could use and, if so, would this be the best way to do it? If no such bot exists, is there a proper procedure we must follow to develop it?

The discussion about this bot can be found at http://hayday.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:12508.

I would greatly appreciate any help the Wikia Staff could offer.

-- Thanks, Ironwestie George Marbulcanti (Kirkburn), May 09 06:58 PM: Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wikia. We don't directly provide bots for use, but we have no particular objections to their use for the betterment of individual wikias. You can read more about how bots work on wikia here: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Bots

AutoWikiBrowser, which is mentioned on that page, may be able to do what you need - and it has a fairly friendly interface.

I hope this helps, and do let me know if you have any further questions.

Best regards,

George Marbulcanti (Kirkburn) Wikia Community Support

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