User:DumZiBoT/refLinks

References like these:

• <ref>[http://www.google.fr]</ref>^[1]
• <ref>http://www.google.fr</ref>^[2]

are converted into this:

• <ref>[http://www.google.fr Google<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>^[3]

They look like this:

• The title which is used as the url title is the HTML title from the linked page. (from the <title> tag)
• newlines, linefeeds, and tabs from titles are converted into a single space to avoid long titles. Extra spaces are also removed.
• Titles containing ], several consecutive } or ' are handled correctly, converting some of the preceding characters to their html entities (This title enclose brackets [here])
• When content-type is not text/html (medias, .doc, etc...), I can't automatically find a title, hence I only convert references to <ref>http://lien.org/doc.pdf</ref>.
• Lengthy titles are arbitrarily truncated to 250 characters. When this happens, "..." is appended to the title.

The search for pages containing invalid references is made from the last XML dump. DumZiBoT only fetches from the servers pages that needed 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.)

No. Read this talk page archive for further explanations.

Nowhere. Just wait: DumZiBoT goes through every page that need a fix whenever a new dump is available.

• User Talk:NicDumZ, and not elsewhere =)

No, DumZiBoT has not edited since June 2009.