User talk:GreenC/WaybackMedic 2

I deleted a bot edit

I just removed a {{dead url}} template added by WaybackMedic 2 in this edit.

What is the bot trying to achieve here? All it did in effect, was to append a {{dead link}} template and to remove empty archive params from the {{cite web}} reference. I went ahead and added it manually, and deleted the {{dead url}} template added by the bot.

Instead, why doesn't it just access archive.org if that's what this bot is about, find the archived url using the value of the url param in the template, and add it to the archiveurl param? That would make the bot really useful across the Project, adding archiveurls everywhere. French Wikipedia does something like this, but it happens when you hit the Save button, it doesn't wait for a bot. Mathglot (talk) 06:25, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There are two bots currently operating on wayback links, this one and User:InternetArchiveBot. This bot does modifications and deletions. IABot does additions. The underlying procedures are very different so when a situation like this comes up WaybackMedic hands it off to IABot by way of a dead link tag which IABot would eventually get to. Interesting about the French wiki, sounds like they have it built-in to MediaWiki as an extension. -- GreenC 11:10, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

todo

Official website: User_talk:Cyberpower678/Archive_38#official_website_template
Nested dead links: User_talk:Cyberpower678/Archive_38#Nested_templates
Cite webs in external links: Template_talk:Wayback#IABot_converting_this_to_cite_web