"Maximilian Doerr" <[email protected]> wrote: > […]
> Consequently, InternetArchiveBot cannot ascertain if the site is alive or > not because of this ban, and while I am working on a solution for these > cases, it's really best if the bot can be able to make these decisions on > its own rather than deferring to a whitelist of sorts. Ceterum censeo: Bots checking external web links should be merged, and ideally made a production-grade thingy by WMF. (MediaWiki extension for reuse by other sites?) In the past, interwiki bots were en vogue which meant that for each wiki there were a number of them doing the exact same thing, and now this pattern has shifted to link checking bots. To apply [[Cunningham's Law]]: From the looks of it, Inter- netArchiveBot seems to be the most useful bot checking ex- ternal web links, and I think it is most productive to aim efforts in that direction. Tim _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
