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As of 2015, there is a Wikipedia bot and tool called WP:IABOT that automates fixing link rot. It runs continuously, checking all articles on Wikipedia if a link is dead, adding archives to Wayback Machine (if not yet there), and replacing dead links in the wikitext with an archived version. This bot runs automatically but it can also be ...
Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken ...
See also. Wikipedia:Link rot/Usurpations. < Wikipedia:Link rot. For other types of usurpation, see WP:USURP. Shortcut. WP:USURPURL. Usurped domains are used by spammers, squatters, malware, SEO, phishing or other fraudulent activity. Typically they are legitimate domains that expired and were hijacked.
Unfortunately my bot only works on English Wikipedia. I'll let you know what happens. -- Green C 15:13, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Unfortunately, this site has maximum security enabled, none of my tools can get through. It started happening in late January 2024. I don't know what to do because no bot is able to determine if a link is live or dead.
Contents. Wikipedia:Link rot/Templates. This page is intended to list all external link templates and include a sample transclusion to easily check for broken templates. In the future the process will hopefully be bot-assisted and significantly decrease link rot in templates.
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Dhtwiki ( talk) 04:35, 22 September 2023 (UTC) [ reply] The way I read what I wrote – archive links are automatically substituted for links that become dead – is that it reflects this on the opposite (non-talk) side: there is a Wikipedia bot ... that automates fixing link rot. It runs continuously, checking all articles on Wikipedia if a ...
The only case a bot can safely do is 2c (and case 3). That's no problem and can do. Will post some more diffs soon. -- Green C 19:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC) Muhandes: Please see Wikipedia:Link rot/cases/Billboard - do you have thoughts on how things might be improved or changed? Table B has a lot of repeating URLs like "hot-100" that seem like ...