Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 37

Legobot 37 edit

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.
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Profit!

Support for trial - I will support this bot. It seems useful.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No action with this discussion or bot it seems?--BabbaQ (talk) 23:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear whether it was superseded by Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cyberbot II 5.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)[reply]

I deactivated the category since this is not an active request. Cheers. — Earwig ^talk 03:50, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]