Re: Tools for repointing reference dead links to archive.org?

On 27 January 2014 00:17, Kevin Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Funny you ask... there are not currently any solid ones afaik, but I've
> been talking with the Internet Archive about building out a bot and trying
> to achieve community consensus on ENWP to autoreplace deadlinks with
> archive.org ones.  The IA has been crawling all new external links on all
> Wikimedia projects at least once every couple of hours for months, and has
> a strong interest in killing off literally all of our dead links.  Unless
> something falls through, I should be bringing a more detailed plan up
> within maybe five or six weeks.


Yes, I knew you were cooking up something :-) I was just surprised it
wasn't the sort of task that people had already automated, or written
a nice toolserver bot for, or something.

The ones that use {{cite web}} and variants are pretty simple: you
just whack in archiveurl= and archivedate= (preferably as close as
possible to any cited accessdate=) ... then double-check by eye, of
course. It just gets very tedious and error-prone doing it by hand,
cut'n'pasting URLs into the middle of the computer guacamole we
lovingly euphemise as "wikitext". VE isn't a much happier method.


- d.

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