Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 37

Legobot 37
Operator: ,

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 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, then set |deadurl=yes. Otherwise add |deadurl=no.
 * Profit!
 * Profit!

Discussion
Support for trial - I will support this bot. It seems useful.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * No action with this discussion or bot it seems?--BabbaQ (talk) 23:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Unclear whether it was superseded by Bots/Requests for approval/Cyberbot II 5. Some people mention a functioning "Internet Archive linkrot bot". Nemo 16:04, 17 October 2015 (UTC)


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