Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeadLinkBOT 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

DeadLinkBOT 2

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: ThaddeusB (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Overview: Keep Wikipedia:Dead external links up to date

Edit period(s): at most once per database dump

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Wikipedia:Dead external links is horribly out of date and hard to use. As such, it is currently listed as being an inactive Wikipedia project. I am planning on reviving the project by having my bot scan the database dump and check every link.

The dead links it finds will be uploaded to sub pages of Wikipedia:Dead external links in an easy to read/use format. Its hard to says exactly how many pages will be needed to divide the content into easy to use chunks, but I'd estimate it'd be a couple hundred. These pages would then be bot updated as needed, but no more often than once per database dump and probably less. No other pages will be read or modified for this task. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:53, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

• Read from a dump and write to a single Wikiproject page? Looks pretty uncontroversial to me. – Quadell ^(talk) 21:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. – Quadell ^(talk) 19:43, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.