Computer programs called bots have often been used to perform simple and repetitive tasks , such as correcting common misspellings and stylistic issues , or to start articles such as geography entries in a standard format from statistical data . One controversial contributor creating articles with his bot was reported to create up to 10,000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia on certain days . Additionally , there are bots designed to automatically notify editors when they make common editing errors ( such as unmatched quotes or unmatched parentheses ) . Edits falsely identified by bots as the work of a banned editor can be restored by other editors . An anti-vandal bot is programmed to detect and revert vandalism quickly . Bots are able to indicate edits from particular accounts or IP address ranges , as occurred at the time of the shooting down of the MH17 jet incident in July 2014 when it was reported edits were made via IPs controlled by the Russian government . Bots on Wikipedia must be approved before activation
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