Hi pywikibot developers,
As recommended
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Development#Development
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Development#Development> I wanted
to write to say hello. I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley working on Internet
privacy.
I'm interested in using pywikibot to automatically make archives of certain external
URLs that are included in a private MediaWiki instance that we're using as a
repository of educational resources. I'd like to automatically check external URLs
that are provided by users/curators of our wiki and create permanent external archives
(through perma.cc <http://perma.cc/> or similar services) so that these annotated
resources can be useful even as URLs age and expire. To start with, I'm looking at the
weblinkchecker.py and seeing how I might modify or extend it. If some of this
functionality already exists or I should look elsewhere, I would be very interested in
pointers or recommendations. Similarly, if there are others who would find a
link-archiving script useful, I'd love to collaborate or understand other's use
cases.
Thanks,
Nick Doty
UC Berkeley, School of Information
https://npdoty.name <https://npdoty.name/>