Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 37
Operator: Legoktm (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search), Σ (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 16:50, Wednesday November 6, 2013 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Soon.
Function overview: Add links to the internet archive where there are dead links
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Have been working with IA over email, also see mw:Archived Pages.
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: A lot.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
- Finds an article from Category:Articles with dead external links.
- For each URL in a citation template, checks with IA to see if they have it archived.
- Add the |archiveurl= parameter. If the reference was tagged with
{{dead link}}
, then set |deadurl=yes. Otherwise add |deadurl=no. - ???
- Profit!
Discussion
[edit]Support for trial - I will support this bot. It seems useful.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
- No action with this discussion or bot it seems?--BabbaQ (talk) 23:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- Unclear whether it was superseded by Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cyberbot II 5. Some people mention a functioning "Internet Archive linkrot bot". Nemo 16:04, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
- I deactivated the category since this is not an active request. Cheers. — Earwig talk 03:50, 4 December 2015 (UTC)