 | This user account is a bot that uses Ruby, operated by Blevintron (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot has been approved for a limited trial run by a member of the Bot Approvals Group. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
Important info edit
- Did this bot do something wrong? Please tell me about the problem. In the mean time, be bold and revert it.
- Is this bot annoying you? Add {{bots |deny=BlevintronBot }} to your User: page or to your User_talk: page, and it won't contact you anymore.
- Do you want to keep this bot away from an article? Add {{bots |deny=BlevintronBot }} to that article.
What is this bot? edit
This bot tries to fix link rot. It looks for dead links and replaces them with archive links. If it can't find an archive link, it asks a human for help.
- The bot is open-source software. You can find the source code on github.
- The experiment: is the bot helpful, or annoying?
- The Request for approval (
submitted,trial,withdrawn, open...) - A public discussion at VP.
An old public discussion at the village pump idea lab. - Frequently asked questions
Other bots which address link rot edit
- DASHBot -- Replace 404 links with archived copy (+/- 1 month
6 months), or mark {{dead link}}. BRfA. - H3llBot -- (Task ADL) Replace 404 links with archived copy (+/- 6 months), or mark {{dead link}}. BRfA.
- AnomieBOT -- (Task ReplaceExternalLinks5) Replace 404 links with archived copy (any copy earlier?), or mark {{dead link}}. Only run on demand. BRfA.
- WebCiteBOT -- Try to prevent link rot. Submit new links from Wikipedia to webcitation.org for archiving, and updates the article with the archived copy. BRfA.