The Bot Approvals Group (or BAG) oversees most areas and processes dealing with bots on Wikipedia. Individual BAG members are tasked to approve or deny the various bot tasks submitted by both new and old bot operators (however, only bureaucrats are technically capable of flagging bots). BAG members (listed below) are also trusted to understand Wikipedia's bot policy, and to offer sound bot-related advice to bot operators, admins, and editors alike. BAG members are often bot operators themselves, but this is not a formal requirement for BAG membership.
The BAG has an official IRC channel on freenode at #wikipedia-BAG. The channel is open to everyone, so feel free to join, ask questions and idle if you wish (BAG members are voiced). BetacommandBot3 also reports a recent changes feed of BRFA-related pages into the channel for your convenience.
Those interested in joining the group should make a nomination and post it to the talk page (with posts to relevant community noticeboards to invite community participation), explaining why they would be a good member of the team and outlining past bot-related experience. After seven days, an uninvolved bureaucrat will close the discussion.
Member List
See also
- {{BAG Tools}}
- {{Unapproved bot account}}
- {{BAG-notice}}
- {{BAG topicon}}
- How to close a BRFA
- Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/Successful membership candidacies
- Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/Unsuccessful membership candidacies
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