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Gopherbot is a MediWiki maintenance bot used on the Alpine Linux wiki by [[User:zcrayfish|zcrayfish]].<br> | Gopherbot is a MediWiki maintenance bot used on the Alpine Linux wiki by [[User:zcrayfish|zcrayfish]].<br> | ||
Please direct any questions or comments to [[User talk:zcrayfish|their talk page]], thanks! | Please direct any questions or comments to [[User talk:zcrayfish|their talk page]], thanks! | ||
=Bot tasks= | |||
* Checks for dead hyperlinks, and certain dead wikilinks as well. | |||
** After seeing a link fail to work for a minimum of a week, a comment will be added on the associated talk page. | |||
* On a semi-automated basis: Removes unwanted categories. | |||
= Dead link blacklist = | |||
Links from the following domains will NOT be checked, usually because the servers either do dumb things (every response is a 200?) or block the bot: | |||
* [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606#page-2 RFC2606 test domains] <small>(e.g. example.com, example.net, example.org, etc)</small> | |||
* berlinonline.de* <small>(incompatible)</small> | |||
* web.archive.org* <small>(rejects bots)</small> | |||
* archive.is* <small>(rejects bots, and is an EXTREMELY slow site in general)</small> | |||
* cloudflare.com* <small>(intermittently rejects bots... and humans too...)</small> | |||
* cyberciti.biz* <small>(rejects bots)</small> | |||
* linuxconfig.org* <small>(rejects bots)</small> | |||
* openvpn.net* <small>(rejects bots)</small> | |||
* gitlab.com/lramage94* <small>(requires login)</small> | |||
* www.voip-info.org* <small>(rejects bots)</small> | |||
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