Extension:RPED

This is the Remote Page Existence Detection (RPED) extension.

What can this extension do?
Once equipped with a list of titles of pages existent on Wikipedia, this extension turns wikilinks to pages that don't exist on the local wiki different colors to reflect whether a page exists or not on Wikipedia.

Usage
Regular double-bracketed internal links will now link to Wikipedia when the article does not exist on the local wiki but exists on Wikipedia.

To use the API, first use Special:UserRights to grant RPED rights to the user who will be inserting/deleting page titles from. Then use commands such as this: http://libertapedia.org/w/api.php?action=rped&insert=Neal_McCluskey http://libertapedia.org/w/api.php?action=rped&delete=Neal_McCluskey

You can also use piped parameters to insert/delete more than one at a time, e.g.: http://libertapedia.org/w/api.php?action=rped&insert=Neal_McCluskey|competitive_government

There is an IRC bot,, that runs as a daemon. It inserts and deletes from the  as page creations, deletions, and restorations appear on irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia. To make it work, you will need to change the settings in  and edit   so that the api.php URL  is your wiki's api.php URL.

Recommended policy
Situations may arise in which you have an option between having an article that is a one-line stub, or getting rid of that article so that wikilinks to it will link instead to the (much larger) Wikipedia article. Because high-quality, comprehensive articles may evolve from what begins as a one-line stub, you may wish to leave the one-line article in place and use a template like the following (after you upload Wikipedia-logo.png to your wiki):

Installation
Add this to your LocalSettings.php file:

Then run  to create the   table.

Next, populate the  table. It is recommended that you download  from the most recent data dump at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ and use a script such as   or   to import it into your database. Don't forget to change the values of,  ,  , and   in the   source code, or the values of  ,  ,  , and   in the   source code.

's parameters are as follows:
 * -t will start at the page title you specify, e.g.
 * -l will start at the line number you specify, e.g.

's argument parser isn't in all that great a shape right now.

Alternatively, you can use. If you use this, make sure you make the necessary changes to  first. It works the same way as, except that if you want to start on a particular page title, you don't use -t; you just use the page title, e.g.:

Configuration parameters
If you are also using Extension:PureWikiDeletion, then add this line to : This will cause RPED to regard blanked pages as nonexistent pages.