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ValBot
Joined 5 February 2021
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A bot used for various wiki maintenance tasks, alongside [[Validate External Links]]. It runs on the [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot|Pywikibot framework]] and is currently managed by [[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]]. | A bot used for various wiki maintenance tasks, alongside [[Validate External Links]]. It runs on the [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot|Pywikibot framework]] and is currently managed by [[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]]. | ||
==Capabilities== | |||
ValBot can perform these tasks currently. Ask Iritscen for the scripts he uses to drive these processes. | |||
*Upgrading <nowiki>http://</nowiki> links to <nowiki>https://</nowiki> links. | |||
*Adding ending slashes to URLs when the server requests this. | |||
==Future abilities== | |||
*Expanding and testing the interwiki links. Currently there is no way to know if they've gone bad since MediaWiki does not test external links, thus a bad link to, say, Wikipedia will always appear blue as if it is valid. | |||
*Testing section links found in interwiki and intrawiki links. Intrawiki links will only appear red if the page itself does not exist; MediaWiki does not look at the section anchor to see if it exists. | |||
*Warning about externally-hosted images, as many of these have gone down with their file hosts over the years. | |||
[[Category:Userspace]] | [[Category:Userspace]] | ||