And got a reply:
The bot relies on a IRC feed that reports links as they are added, so it would be useless outside Wikipedia without a rewrite. There is a link to its source code in its BRFA if you want to try to rewrite it (sorry I don't recall the link offhand). --ThaddeusB (talk) 03:06, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
adrelanos:
I asked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ThaddeusB#WebCiteBOT_source_code
Benjamin Lees:
Fair enough. :-) It was created by a GSoC student, so it's probably not going to be developed further unless someone picks it up.
The English Wikipedia has a bot that WebCites new URLs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WebCiteBOT I don't see the source posted, but maybe the author would be willing to share.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, adrelanos adrelanos@riseup.net wrote:
Benjamin Lees:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, adrelanos adrelanos@riseup.net
wrote:
(The ArchiveLinks extension [1] looks very well, serving exactly this purpose, but its really stresses, not to use in in production wiki.)
The "experimental" label isn't a good indicator of production-worthiness.
I think in the very case of the ArchiveLinks extension, it is.
File [1]: NOT STABLE DO NOT USE
Please read the readme file. (tl;dr: This is under devolopment and
should not be used by anyone)
https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ArchiveLinks/NO...
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