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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>And what about server load?</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-And_what_about_server_load?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Could_you_use_{{Cite_web_}}_instead_of_the_standard_link_syntax?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Could_you_use_{{Cite_web_}}_instead_of_the_standard_link_syntax?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Could you use {{Cite web<span> </span>}} instead of the standard link syntax?</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Could_you_use_{{Cite_web_}}_instead_of_the_standard_link_syntax?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Where_do_I_request_DumZiBoT_to_go_through_a_specific_page?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From mediawiki.org</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><div class="subpages">< <bdi dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot" title="Manual:Pywikibot">Manual:Pywikibot</a></bdi></div></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>Copied from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DumZiBoT/refLinks" class="extiw" title="w:User:DumZiBoT/refLinks">w:User:DumZiBoT/refLinks</a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="What_is_DumZiBoT_doing?"><span id="What_is_DumZiBoT_doing.3F"></span>What is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DumZiBoT" class="extiw" title="w:User:DumZiBoT">DumZiBoT</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DumZiBoT" class="extiw" title="w:Special:Contributions/DumZiBoT">doing</a>?</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: What is DumZiBoT doing?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He is converting bare external links in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FOOT" class="extiw" title="w:WP:FOOT">references</a> into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Links_and_URLs" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page">named external links</a>. </p><p>Here are some examples of his work: <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Argument_from_ignorance&diff=prev&oldid=188799228">[2]</a>, <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linus_Torvalds&diff=prev&oldid=188799140">[3]</a>, <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithium&diff=prev&oldid=188799102">[4]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DumZiBoT" class="extiw" title="w:Special:Contributions/DumZiBoT">here</a> is what he is doing now. </p><p>He <i>usually</i> runs every time that a new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Database download">XML dump</a> is available. Processing a dump takes days : handling enwiki's March 15th dump took more than <b>120 hours</b>, 5 days of uninterrupted work. </p><p>His owner is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Talk:NicDumZ" class="extiw" title="w:User Talk:NicDumZ">NicDumZ</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_idea">The idea</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The idea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>References like these: </p> <ul><li><code><ref>[http://www.google.fr]</ref></code><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><code><ref>http://www.google.fr</ref></code><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>are converted into this: </p> <ul><li><code><ref>[http://www.google.fr Google]</ref></code><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>They look like this: </p> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.google.fr">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.google.fr">http://www.google.fr</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.fr">Google</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <ul><li>The title which is used as the url title is the HTML title from the linked page. (from the <title> tag)</li> <li>newlines, linefeeds, and tabs from titles are converted into a single space to avoid long titles. Extra spaces are also removed.</li> <li>Titles containing ], several consecutive } or ' are handled correctly, converting some of the preceding characters to their html entities (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://example.org">This title enclose brackets [here]</a>)</li> <li>When content-type is not <code>text/html</code> (medias, .doc, etc...), I can't automatically find a title, hence I only convert references to <code><ref>http://lien.org/doc.pdf</ref></code>.</li> <li>Lengthy titles are arbitrarily truncated to 250 characters. When this happens, "..." is appended to the title.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Features">Features</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Reads the titles from PDF files</li> <li>If a dead link is found, it is tagged using {{<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:dead_link" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:dead link">Dead link</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Dead_link" title="Template:Dead link"> </a></span>}}</li> <li>When no <references/> or {{<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:reflist" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:reflist">Reflist</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Reflist" title="Template:Reflist"> </a></span>}} is in the page, <references/> is appended.</li> <li>When duplicate references are found (i.e. references having the exact same content) only the first is kept, and a refname is added to the others ( <a class="external text" href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utilisateur:NicDumZ/Test6&diff=prev&oldid=31118383">example</a> )</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hey,_you_forgot_some_links!"><span id="Hey.2C_you_forgot_some_links.21"></span>Hey, you forgot some links!</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hey, you forgot some links!"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6870138">.mw-parser-output table.ambox{margin:0 10%;width:unset;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);border-left:10px solid var(--border-color-progressive,#36c);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output table.ambox+table.ambox,.mw-parser-output table.ambox+link+table.ambox,.mw-parser-output table.ambox+style+table.ambox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox th.mbox-text,.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-imageright{padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-notice{border-left-color:var(--border-color-progressive,#36c)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-speedy{background-color:var(--background-color-error-subtle,#fee7e6)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-delete,.mw-parser-output table.ambox-speedy{border-left-color:var(--background-color-error--active,#b32424)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-content{border-left-color:#f28500}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-style{border-left-color:#fc3}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-move{border-left-color:#9932cc}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-protection{border-left-color:var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;box-sizing:border-box;width:238px;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}</style><table class="ambox ambox-notice plainlinks metadata" role="presentation" style="background:#d9eaf6; border:1px solid #4682b4; border-left:10px solid #4682b4; color:#333333;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div style="width:52px"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Nuvola_apps_important.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Nuvola_apps_important.svg/50px-Nuvola_apps_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="42" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Nuvola_apps_important.svg/75px-Nuvola_apps_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Nuvola_apps_important.svg/100px-Nuvola_apps_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span"><b>If a link is unchanged after an edit by DumZiBoT, please check that you can access the linked page.</b><br /> <small>If you think that a particular link was ignored by DumZiBoT because it's <i>particular</i>, please <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NicDumZ" class="extiw" title="w:User talk:NicDumZ">poke me</a>.</small></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Some links may not be changed, even after DumZiBoT's run. These things may have occurred : </p> <ul><li>The HTML linked page has no title (rare, but happens).</li> <li>DumZiBoT got an HTTP error while trying to get the page (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_Client_Error" class="extiw" title="w:List of HTTP status codes">4xx Client Error</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#5xx_Client_Error" class="extiw" title="w:List of HTTP status codes">5xx Client Error</a>). The link may be invalid, the page may not be available anymore, or may be protected. These links should be repaired or removed, but chances are that the error is temporary. Also, some pages, such as Google cache links, and Google books pages, give bots a 401/403 error although they're available. You may wish to try the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser/Link_checker" class="extiw" title="w:User:Dispenser/Link checker">Link checker tool</a> to correct the problem.</li> <li>Either the link or the html title is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blacklist#Computing" class="extiw" title="w:blacklist">blacklisted</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blacklists">Blacklists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Blacklists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Link</i> <b>blacklist</b> : for now, only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR" class="extiw" title="w:JSTOR">w:JSTOR</a> links are ignored, since for non-registered users JSTOR gives the message: "JSTOR: Accessing JSTOR". Please <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NicDumZ" class="extiw" title="w:User talk:NicDumZ">contact me</a> if you think that a particular domain should get blacklisted</li> <li><i>Title</i> <b>blacklist</b> : Based on an original idea from <a href="/wiki/User:Dispenser" title="User:Dispenser">Dispenser</a>, I exclude links containing <i>register</i>, <i>sign up</i>, <i>404 not found</i>, and so on.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Meta-data">Meta-data</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Meta-data"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Why doesn't DumZiBoT include extra information, like access date, author, or publication, or use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Citation templates">citation templates</a>? Changing the citation style in an article <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Citation_templates" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Citing sources">cannot be done without gaining consensus</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SEWilcoBot" class="extiw" title="w:User:SEWilcoBot">SEWilcoBot</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RefBot" class="extiw" title="w:User:RefBot">RefBot</a> were blocked for changing the citation style in articles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="And_what_about_server_load?"><span id="And_what_about_server_load.3F"></span>And what about server load?</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: And what about server load?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>search</i> for pages containing invalid references is made from the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Database download">XML dump</a>. DumZiBoT only fetches from the servers pages that <i>needed</i> modifications at the time of the dump. (Some pages are downloaded but eventually do not need changes, because the references were fixed between the dump and the fetch.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Could_you_use_{{Cite_web_}}_instead_of_the_standard_link_syntax?"><span id="Could_you_use_.7B.7BCite_web_.7D.7D_instead_of_the_standard_link_syntax.3F"></span>Could you use {{<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Cite_web" class="new" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Cite web (page does not exist)">Cite web</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_web&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Cite web (page does not exist)"> </a></span>}} instead of the standard link syntax?</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Could you use {{Cite web }} instead of the standard link syntax?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>No</b>. Read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NicDumZ/Archive_1#DumZiBoT" class="extiw" title="w:User talk:NicDumZ/Archive 1">this talk page archive</a> for further explanations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Where_do_I_request_DumZiBoT_to_go_through_a_specific_page?"><span id="Where_do_I_request_DumZiBoT_to_go_through_a_specific_page.3F"></span>Where do I request DumZiBoT to go through a specific page?</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Where do I request DumZiBoT to go through a specific page?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nowhere. Just wait : DumZiBoT goes through every page that need a fix whenever a new dump is available. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Online_tool">Online tool</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Online tool"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>However</b>, thanks to <a href="/wiki/User:Dispenser" title="User:Dispenser">Dispenser</a>, you can manually run <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/reflinks-svn.py" class="extiw" title="w:tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/reflinks-svn.py">DumZiBot's script on a page</a> or a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks" class="extiw" title="w:tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks">modified script</a> which makes more assumptions about references and formatting. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Where_should_I_grumble_report_a_problem?"><span id="Where_should_I_grumble_report_a_problem.3F"></span>Where should I <s>grumble</s> report a problem?</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Where should I grumble report a problem?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Talk:NicDumZ" class="extiw" title="w:User Talk:NicDumZ">w:User Talk:NicDumZ</a>, and not elsewhere =)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Does_DumZiBoT_still_make_any_edits?"><span id="Does_DumZiBoT_still_make_any_edits.3F"></span>Does DumZiBoT still make any edits?</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Does DumZiBoT still make any edits?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>No, DumZiBoT <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/DumZiBoT&action=view">has not edited since June 2009</a>. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Utilisateur:DumZiBoT/liensRefs" class="extiw" title="w:fr:Utilisateur:DumZiBoT/liensRefs">w:fr:Utilisateur:DumZiBoT/liensRefs</a> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6651103">.mw-parser-output .nmbox{background:#f8f9fa;border:1px solid #AAA;box-sizing:border-box;margin:2px 0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .nmbox *{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .nmbox-header{background:#eaecf0;padding:4px 0.5em;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .nmbox .mbox-image{display:inline-block;padding-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .nmbox-text{border-top:1px solid #AAA;width:100%;padding:4px 0.5em}@media screen and (min-width:768px){.mw-parser-output .nmbox-header{display:table-cell;border-right:1px solid #AAA;width:1%}.mw-parser-output .nmbox-text{border-top:none;display:table-cell}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .nmbox-header,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .nmbox{background:transparent;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .nmbox-header,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .nmbox{background:transparent;color:inherit}}</style> <div class="nmbox noprint mw-content-ltr"><div class="nmbox-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Project:Language_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Project:Language policy">Languages:</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Project:Language_policy" title="Project:Language policy"> </a></span> </div> <div class="nmbox-text mbox-text"><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">English</a></b>  • <bdi lang="fr"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks/fr">français</a></span></bdi> • <bdi lang="it"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks/it">italiano</a></span></bdi><span class="autonym"></span><span class="autonym"></span> • <bdi lang="pl"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks/pl">polski</a></span></bdi></div> </div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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