Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Larger suggestions/Improve speed at which InternetArchiveBot archives links
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This is an archived version of this page, as edited by HoHo3143 (talk | contribs) at 22:28, 23 January 2023 (Created page with "{{Community Wishlist Survey/Proposal header|1={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}||3}}}} <!-- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE --> * '''Problem''': citations suffer linkrot and arent archived quickly enough * '''Proposed solution''': have an automatic bot that archives links straight away that is built into the automatic citations bit * '''Who would benefit''': everyone who uses citations * '''More comments''': I already know that it is..."). It may differ significantly from the current version .
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Linking of a better and quicker citation tool with Wikipedia
- Problem: citations suffer linkrot and arent archived quickly enough
- Proposed solution: have an automatic bot that archives links straight away that is built into the automatic citations bit
- Who would benefit: everyone who uses citations
- More comments: I already know that it is done automatically eventually, however, I feel that it is too slow
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: HoHo3143 (talk) 22:28, 23 January 2023 (UTC) [reply ]