[MediaWiki-l] Link backups? Archive links (webcitation, archive.org) with an extension?

2013-06-28 Thread adrelanos
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

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Link backups? Archive links (webcitation, archive.org) with an extension?

2013-06-28 Thread adrelanos
Benjamin Lees: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, adrelanos adrela...@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

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Link backups? Archive links (webcitation, archive.org) with an extension?

2013-06-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, adrelanos adrela...@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. Some

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Link backups? Archive links (webcitation, archive.org) with an extension?

2013-06-28 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
In French Wikipedia they use (or used) a feature to archive all external links in Wikiwix. Example: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_en_France#Notes_et_r.C3.A9f.C3.A9rences(see [archive] links) 2013/6/28 adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net Hi, you know, links break after time... Thats why

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Link backups? Archive links (webcitation, archive.org) with an extension?

2013-06-28 Thread 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