In an effort to combat linkrot, DASHBot crawls Wikipedia articles looking for articles with acceptable archives in the Internet Archive.
DASHBot searches a page for ((Cite Web)) templates with urls with no archive. It then queries the Internet Archive for archives closest to the accessdate
parameter (and within a window of ± one month).
Some of the Bot's settings can be changed here: /Settings.yaml. The bot reads the page every time it starts the archive operation.
Keeping DASHBot from editing an article is easy. Simply put the following template anywhere on the page:
((Bots|deny=DASHBot))
If there is already a ((Bots)) template on the page, you may edit it to display the following:
((Bots|deny=<other_bot_name>,DASHBot))
Please edit (or get an administrator) to edit this page: /Shutoff. The bot will stop within 3 edits.