User:DASHBot/Dead Links
In an effort to combat linkrot, DASHBot crawls Wikipedia articles looking for articles with acceptable archives in the Internet Archive.
How DASHBot works
[edit]DASHBot searches a page for {{Cite Web}} templates with urls with no archive. It then queries the Internet Archive for archives closest to the accessdate parameter (and within a window of ± one month).
Features in Development
[edit]- A database log of #wikipedia-en-spam, to infer the first usage date of a URL without an accessdate.
Done A History Searcher to infer an access date by combing articles' histories for the first usage dates of a URL.
- Integrating Webcitation.org as an alternative to the Internet Archive.
- Bare URL archiving.
- On-demand archiving.
- Live archiving (the bot would theoretically archive a page as soon as it is added).
Settings
[edit]Some of the Bot's settings can be changed here: /Settings.yaml. The bot reads the page every time it starts the archive operation.
Keeping DASHBot away from an article
[edit]Keeping DASHBot from editing an article is easy. Simply put the following template anywhere on the page:
{{Bots|deny=DASHBot}}
If there is already a {{Bots}} template on the page, you may edit it to display the following:
{{Bots|deny=<other_bot_name>,DASHBot}}
DASHBot needs to be turned off
[edit]Please edit (or get an administrator) to edit this page: /Shutoff. The bot will stop within 3 edits.