Re: [WikiEN-l] Tools for repointing reference dead links to archive.org?

2014-02-03 Thread Delirium

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?

-Mark

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Tools for repointing reference dead links to archive.org?

2014-02-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 February 2014 14:31, Delirium delir...@hackish.org 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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