as a patron I expect WARE to give me an intuitive overview of the state of the URLs in a reference from enwiki

[dpriskorn]

The implementation should differ according to the enwiki-type of reference:

1. a footnote or general reference line containing a known reference template* (see definition below) For this case WARE should:

   • list URLs for the book/chapter/thing and their status codes (if an error occurred in check-url it should show that somehow and expose all details somehow. It should tell the user if the URL in question is "alive" in a way that makes sense to the patron.
   • for each URL above also show whether a CORRESPONDING archive URL is available and "alive". Available here is defined as being in the same template in a different parameter e.g. archive-url

2. a footnote or general reference line containing a only a URL or archive-url template For this case WARE should:

   • list URLs and their status codes (if an error occurred in check-url it should show that somehow and expose all details somehow). It should tell the user if the URL in question is "alive" in a way that makes sense to the patron.
   • for each URL above also show whether a CORRESPONDING archive URL is available and "alive". Available is defined here as being in the same reference wikitext.

3. a footnote or general reference line containing no template For this case WARE should:

   • list detected URLs and their status codes (if an error occurred in check-url it should show that somehow and expose all details somehow). It should tell the user if the URL in question is "alive" in a way that makes sense to the patron.

Known enwiki reference templates:

• All current enwiki CS1 templates