Thread:Harrypotterathogwarts/@comment-26953830-20150909142218/@comment-24808864-20150909192700

Read the profile of the Default Bot, Harry. That one was set up (long ago) to automatically initialize the wiki.

As far as other bots, the key point is permission. I am not well acquainted with bots, but the bots we have here were voted on by the community on a forum, and then somehow set up or approved/created or something by a source related to Wikia. There is a process you can find in the Wikia Community for setting up bots. I do not know the exact link so hopefully someone else can respond here and provide the source.

I hope this helps to clarify. Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions, and I hope someone can provide links to either the forums or the Wikia Community pages that can explain the process to Harry.