Time filed: 05:04, Thursday December 1, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/ReplaceExternalLinks5.pm
Function overview: Replace dead or dying external links with links to archival websites, as needed.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 44#Semi-emergency request - bot to engage website archiving of links
Edit period(s): As needed
Estimated number of pages affected: 1277 for the first run
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: Occasionally a site widely used as a reference goes away. When this happens, it is useful for a bot to replace the links with links to archive.org, webcitation.org, or the like, and to tag the remaining links with {{ dead link}} or a similar template. AnomieBOT will do exactly this.
This is heavily based on the code approved in AnomieBOT 44. For the initial run for Gamepro links, {{ dead link}} will not initially be added. I may have the bot add it after the site actually goes down on December 5. Anomie ⚔ 05:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC) reply
Trustworthy op, edits seem fine. Approved. -- Chris 17:20, 4 December 2011 (UTC) reply
Time filed: 05:04, Thursday December 1, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/ReplaceExternalLinks5.pm
Function overview: Replace dead or dying external links with links to archival websites, as needed.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 44#Semi-emergency request - bot to engage website archiving of links
Edit period(s): As needed
Estimated number of pages affected: 1277 for the first run
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: Occasionally a site widely used as a reference goes away. When this happens, it is useful for a bot to replace the links with links to archive.org, webcitation.org, or the like, and to tag the remaining links with {{ dead link}} or a similar template. AnomieBOT will do exactly this.
This is heavily based on the code approved in AnomieBOT 44. For the initial run for Gamepro links, {{ dead link}} will not initially be added. I may have the bot add it after the site actually goes down on December 5. Anomie ⚔ 05:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC) reply
Trustworthy op, edits seem fine. Approved. -- Chris 17:20, 4 December 2011 (UTC) reply