https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55020

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55020 Summary: webcitearchiver.py Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/324/ Reported by: n-fran Created on: 2013-01-23 15:58:51 Subject: webcitearchiver.py Original description: References to the Internet-resources often become dead and information on external sites is often moved. Therefore, it is very need a bot that would create archive copies of web pages on the WebCite or similar web-resources. The principle of its operation is:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%...

In Russian Wikipedia is User:WebCite Archiver, in the English Wikipedia has a User:WebCiteBOT. In addition, the English Wikipedia has a User:lowercase sigmabot III, written in python. The source code here:

https://github.com/legoktm/webcite-bot

But setting up and using lowercase sigmabot III are available only for experienced python programmers. We would like a version of the bot, which could be understood as a novice programmers and non-programmers. Also, as with all scripts pywikipediabot, the treatment of which requires no special skills. Thanks.