(The ArchiveLinks extension [1] looks very well, serving exactly this purpose, but its really stresses, not to use in in production wiki.)

Hi, you know, links break after time... Thats why many wikis use services such as webcitation. Is there some non-experimental extension, which automatically creates backups of links using either webcitation, archive.org or similar services? Or some doing some other kind of backup, such as screenshot the page or storeing the page? (The ArchiveLinks extension [1] looks very well, serving exactly this purpose, but its really stresses, not to use in in production wiki.) Cheers, adrelanos [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArchiveLinks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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(a)riseup.net> wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

And got a reply: 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(a)riseup.net> wrote: >> >>> Benjamin Lees: >>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, adrelanos <adrelanos(a)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/N… >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l