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An IRC bot performing a simple task. An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
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.
An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...
The bot has *not* "modified comments, nowiki tags, [or skiped] citations that embed links in < >" and even if it did it wouldn't be harmful; the link is out-of-date whether it is clickable or not. Every change the bot makes is logged with easily clickable diffs at User:DeadLinkBOT/Logs and every change is being manually review by me to iron out ...
External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the Perfect 10 case, held that, when Google provided links to images, Google did not violate the provisions of the copyright law prohibiting unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copies of a work: "Because Google's computers do not store the photographic images, Google does not have a ...
Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia links bind the project to sister projects such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikipedia in other languages, and external links bind Wikipedia to the World Wide Web.
It has several custom extensions installed to add social features like blogs, chat, badges, forums, and multimedia, [67] but also remove features like advanced user options [68] [69] or skins. The personal choice [ 70 ] of using the Monobook skin instead of the default custom skin was removed on May 25, 2018, alluding to GDPR compliance.