German Wikipedia Broken Weblinks Bot

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[jonasjacek]

UA: German Wikipedia Broken Weblinks Bot; contact: [e-mail]
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: No
Host: Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
NetRange: 208.80.152.0 - 208.80.155.255
CIDR: 208.80.152.0/22

Legit Wikimedia Foundation. Found this bot on an international, English language website with no links on Wikipedia as far as I know (referrer logs).

Interesting: Wikimedia Tool Labs is the web server for the Tool Labs project, the home of community-maintained external tools supporting Wikimedia projects and their users. Lot's of different bots there but not the 'German Wikipedia Broken Weblinks Bot'. However, user 'gifti' (Giftpflanze (toxic plant)) can be found on the maintainer list.

Unsure how to treat this bot.

[keyplyr]

Thanks for the info. I see it periodically and so far I've allowed it.

I really haven't given it much thought since IP validated when I first looked.

Let us know if you see any mischief :)

[Dimitri]

This is off-topic, but I don't find it fair that Wikipedia is using the "nofollow" attribute. They exploit the content of our site, credit us as discreetly as possible, with tiny prints for the source, and use the "nofollow" to be sure we are not rewarded for having been a valuable source ... I am done ranting ...

[keyplyr]

You can have your content & citation easily removed. But I agree they go too far, all under the justification of non-profit.

Copyright infringement is just that; which is probably where further discussion should go :)

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