Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Uzielbot 2

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Not done @Uziel302: This request seems to be abandoned, please reopen it if that is not the case. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:23, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Uzielbot 2 edit

Uzielbot 2 (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Uziel302 (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: mark broken links as deprecated

Code: https://github.com/Uziel302/wikidatauploadjson/blob/master/deprecatebrokenlinks

Function details: a simple wbeditentity calls to mark broken official links as deprecated. I did few examples on my bot account, all the edits proposed are of the same nature. I detect broken links based on http header (no response/400/404 are considered broken). --Uziel302 (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

no response/400/404 may have multiple reasons, including temporary maintenance, content that only accessible when sign-in, content only accessible in some countries, internet censorship, etc.--GZWDer (talk) 06:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GZWDer, which of these edge cases are not relevant in manual checking? How is it possible to really detect broken links? And if no such option exists, should we ban "reason for deprecation: broken link"? Uziel302 (talk) 17:23, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This means you should not flag them as broken links without checking them multiple times.--GZWDer (talk) 17:26, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GZWDer, no problem, how many is multiple? Uziel302 (talk) 21:45, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am the main Bots writer in Hebrew Wikipedia, wrote over 500 Bots along the years. I can testify the broken links are a big problem and we need to resolve it from the source. I discussed it with Uziel302 prior to him writing here and I am convinced the method suggested here is the preferred method. Lets move forward to cleanup these broken links so they do not bother us any more. בורה בורה (talk) 09:18, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@GZWDer: Would you react to the question? Is there a benchmark to consider a link broken? Repetitave checks with a minimla number of checks and a minimal time span? Lymantria (talk) 08:30, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it should them to deprecated. You could add "end cause" *404". --- Jura 13:23, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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