RuneScape:User help

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Fixing links to redirects with a bot
Would it be possible to program a bot to look for pages that link to redirects and edit those links to instead link to the actual articles instead of the redirects? If so, I think we should do that. -- 04:15, July 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Also? Using a bot to turn external links that link to wiki pages into internal wiki links. For example, changing  into  . Unregistered users add these links pretty often. Come on, let's have a response here. -- 06:21, August 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think Evil had some AWB  files lying around that fixes the second thing.  06:25, August 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * I saw a bot fix the first thing once, not sure if that was a one time search or if a bot is continuously assigned to it. 10:50, August 11, 2011 (UTC)

"Back to page" link (again)
The "back to page" link is missing from non-mainspace pages. It isn't there when viewing the history or differences between revisions within my userspace. ): 05:39, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * It seems this and many other layout problems I've seen posted here don't affect the Monobook version (which has a far more efficient page layout anyway). I experience what you mentioned in the Wikia skin as well though. 17:51, August 17, 2011 (UTC)

Bots
Ohai.

I'm thinking about getting a bot (doing the application thingy), but I don't know if I know enough about bots in general to put it through. I'd like some help to find out...


 * How to program them
 * How to make a bot work in IRC (I.e., Evilbot)
 * Where else I can find general information on bots

All help would be appreciated :D 23:17, August 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * So you should clarify that you mean a wiki bot, because the other kind will get you banned. -- 03:11, August 24, 2011 (UTC)

It depends on what you want it to do. An easy IRC bot to work with is lizardbot. For wikibots, look it up on Meta. 03:25, August 24, 2011 (UTC)

Skin get?
Does wikia no longer support passing the get value skin, as in http://whatever/url?skin=wikia and http://whatever/url?skin=monobook ? Or am I misremembering the name? -- 08:53, August 27, 2011 (UTC)