Per T1555 the MW extension ExternalLinks is declined due to XSS flaws. Please can we have another way to easily maintain a wiki's external links?
Wikimedia uses the DeadlinkChecker library
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A nice thing to provide all wikis with, easily an achievable development goal. Therefore adding this as a goal for July-December this year thought I expect to get to it (if no one else does!) by the end of August at the latest.
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Various attempted solutions etc. seen around ...
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExternalLinks
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DeadlinkChecker
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fixing_dead_links
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/refLinks
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/weblinkchecker.py
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:InternetArchiveBot
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Is on my radar.
[Anyone who wants to take this task, as long as I've not said I've started it, feel free to reassign].
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Taking a break from other stuff, I'll see if I can bash this out as a fully fledged extension that will work on all MediaWiki installs.
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This has been deployed now and is accessible at Special:RottenLinks on all wikis.
Currently it's a list of all URLs with the HTTP header response.
Next steps for this new extension will be:
- adding an easy to view way of visually seeing if a HTTP code is good or bad
- add a way to filter out good HTTP codes
- a list of all pages the link exists on
Currently it's updated by a maintenance script. Should make it so the entries are updated when a new external link is added/removed.
Any other features/requests/suggestions can be put onto this task in a reply (remaining closed), emailed to me, put on wiki or preferably, under a new task on RottenLinks.