Operator: Tim1357 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 22:58, Monday August 8, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Fully Automatic & Unsupervised
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: I'm working on it
Function overview: Duplicate User:WebCiteBOT Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: N/A
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: The bot has two major functions: 1) A thread that listens to #wikipedia-en-spam on freenode. 2) A thread to archive the links.
Already approved bot task. We need a large scale technical trial. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete., with another Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. if the operators considers the first 50 to be successful. - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 18:48, 9 August 2011 (UTC) reply
As this is pre-emptive archiving, unless the link is dead, you should use |deadurl=no
. I see you are marking bot's edits with comments so they can be found later on, but I don't think you should be adding "|<!--DashBotWC-->" as a parameter (with a pipe), rather perhaps straight after the |archvieurl=
? Also, why is the bot changing whitespace around other citation's fields? If anything, it should try mimicking it, instead of changing whitespace to its own style. Also, does the bot respect the date format templates ({{
use dmy dates}}, {{
use mdy dates}}, {{
use ymd dates}}) or the date format used in the article? —
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20:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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I'd like to drop a note that I worked on an extension to do something similar for my Google Summer of Code project. Archive.org is willing to work with us and archive a feed on demand and I'm working on getting my extension to a point where it can be deployed to make that feed available. The extension has the ability to rewrite every external link on the wiki to link to what the archive would be if it exists, however I doubt that part is going to be deployed anytime in the near future as I don't think consensus for that would be easy to get. -- Kevin Brown ( talk) 22:30, 16 October 2011 (UTC) reply
Request Expired. I guess we're waiting on a reply from Webcite? If that ever happens, feel free to reopen this request. Or maybe Kevin Brown's GSOC project will make this unnecessary. Anomie ⚔ 16:10, 28 October 2011 (UTC) reply