Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25965710-20150224134201/@comment-1038387-20150224140718

Yambub wrote: Hi, I'm trying to clean up Green Wiki. With help from staff thousands of pages were deleted, along with thousands of category pages. What's left is now full of dead links which are creating thousands of "wanted pages". In the site logs I saw a user called Rotlink who was deleting red links, and nothing else. I've written to the user but I think it's some kind of bot. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get such a thing to go through the site? And if not, is there a quick way to do such a mass deletion?

If you've got some time, there are probably problems I'm not properly aware of yet too, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

w:c:green:User:Rotlink

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It's not too difficult to set up a bot. If I can do it, anyone can. Download either AWB or PyWikipediaBot - the former is the easiest for non-coders, but lacks some of the more technical aspects.