Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-25737724-20150323221634/@comment-3361105-20150323222900

you do have to make a request with Wikia staff to have the bot privileges added - otherwise the inner workings of the site could be abused. Bots have access to the API, which is not good for every day users to have.

All I did for Tupka was add sysop status to it, so that it could move pages, and other admin-only type stuff.