Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24494906-20151231153641

Hi everyone,

As part of our effort to restructure our image policy, we have to create ~200 category pages. For this purpose, I created the account User:PineappleBot (see Special:Contributions/PineappleBot for pages created by a test run). I request permission for this account to be given the bot flag.

What does this mean? It mainly prevents flooding Special:RecentChanges and Special:WikiActivity with edits made by the bot. Instead, they're hidden from these pages (you can still see them on Special:RecentChanges if you request to show bot edits explicitly). 