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

David Gerard <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:15:18 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english
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On 3 February 2014 14:31, Delirium <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/27/14, 1:10 AM, David Gerard wrote:

>> What I need to do is (a) find all the links (b) add archiveurl=
>> (something on archive.org, which seems to have captured the whole
>> site) and archivedate= .

> This bot used to do something along those lines on en.wiki, but hasn't been active in some months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DASHBot/Dead_Links
> Perhaps it or something similar could be revived?



That looks like pretty much what I was after.

Though I ended up fixing a hundred-odd pages by hand for the case of
h-online.com :-)


- d.

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