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	Thanks for the URL-rescuing bot! Simplypeachy (talk) 23:48, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

I am not being able to run the bot on pages using multi page option. It gives message "Success: Successfully queued the bot." but no changes being made on the pages. --Saqib (talk) 12:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

All the jobs you submitted appear to have been completed. I'm not sure what the problem is.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

As I said I am not being able to run the bot on pages using multi page option. I can do them one by one but not multiple pages simultaneously. Please ping when you reply. --Saqib (talk) 15:50, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Saqib: And as I said, you did, and the logs reflect that. See job 753, job 1358, job 1359, and job 1360.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:56, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

See the history pages of some of the pages, for instance Hamid-ul-Haq and Bao Akhtar Ali. I don't see any activity by the bot. --Saqib (talk) 15:57, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

If the bot doesn't have to make any changes there, it won't.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:26, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

See this diff which is from job 753.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:27, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

I know that if none of the reference is unrescued, the bot won't make any changes, but there were some unrescued references when I run the job yesterday but the bot does not made any change. The change you referred was done by me manually, and I just did it again. I hope you getting my point that rescuing the references in multiple pages is not working for me at all. Why don't you give it a try? --Saqib (talk) 16:31, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

I know very well how my bot works. What you don't get is that the bot will not alter links if it doesn't need to. If links are still alive, then they won't get touched. And that edit wasn't you using the single page tool. That was from you scheduling a bot job on that page. More specifically job 753.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Annalize Dead Links

[🇺🇸 COACH Z | #USNavy ⚓] 16:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC) Do you authorize access to annalize dead links?

Huh?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:58, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Odd behavior of InternetArchiveBot?

Hello, apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question - I only have a minute but will research other places/people to ask later, if need be. I've just noticed some odd behavior from InternetArchiveBot. Please see the recent edits at List of legislatures by number of members (mine and the bot's). Also, see this edit at Mirror's Edge. Unless I'm not understanding something, in both cases, the bot removed a ref tag which was totally necessary (thereby breaking formatting), and at Mirror's Edge, the bot seems to have put in an archive link for at least one perfectly good, live url. Is this a problem, or am I misinterpreting something? Thank you. Jessicapierce (talk) 20:46, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

I have rebooted the bot. Some kind of communication failure occurred with Wikipedia, and the bot didn't detect it for some reason.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:38, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado

Hi, Can you have a look at the most recent edit by InternetArchiveBot on the page National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado. The page has a large table, which the bot appears to have broken. Thanks, Jeffrey Beall (talk) 21:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC).

This has affected a significant number of National Register lists, I have disabled the bot. Magic♪piano 22:30, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

I have rebooted the bot. Some kind of rare communication failure with Wikipedia occurred and the bot went haywire.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:39, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Bot malfunctioning?

The bot is doing something weird, replacing the content of articles with a link to the Internet Archive. See [1], [2], [3], [4]. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:23, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

I have rebooted the bot. Some kind of rare communication failure occurred in one of the workers, and it went haywire. I have a user with a rollback script about to run it and clean up the mess.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:42, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Vasyl Stus poetry

Hallo,I made page Ukrainian poetry with translation of poetry Vasyl Stus ,I wish,I could craete reference to Your page about Vasyl Stus ,but I don't now how.Can You help me?With best wishes Ok.oksana Ok.oksana (talk) 18:38, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for processing my Username change!

Feels nice to be part of the First Name Cabal -- Thanks, Alfie. talk to me | contribs 23:08, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Deploying InternetArchiveBot on Vietnamese Wikipedia

Hello Cyberpower678. The Vietnamese Wikipedia community have agreed to your suggestion about deploying InternetArchiveBot on Vietnamese Wikipedia (see vi:Wikipedia:Thảo_luận/Lưu_48#Deploying InternetArchiveBot and/or its tools on viwiki. This is just a reminder message in the case you (maybe) forgot about it. Thank you very much! --minhhuy ^(talk) 16:56, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

@Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy: I apologize for the delay in getting back to you here. Thank you for the reminder. I have created a ticket to track the wiki during it's deployment. At this time, deployment is being held off until early-mid march, pending the release of IABot v2.0, which will make deploying bot's to wikis a whole lot easier as well as feature enhancements over the old version.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:18, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

RfPP bot made a boo boo

See [5]. I don't see any previous bot edits that did this, so I figure there must be some malformed report that's confusing the bot, but I can't find it. I've disabled the task for now. Please have a look when you get a chance. Fix it and I may award you a sandwich. Good day. — MusikAnimal ^talk 08:40, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

I've turned it back on again having done a couple of manual archives. It seems to be OK now, so yeah, I guess it was a malformed request. GedUK  09:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

I looked and looked, but I couldn't identify the cause. Definitely some request caused a parsing error the bot couldn't deal with, but I'm glad it's working now.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Bot adding unnecessary white space

See this diff. It seems unnecessary even to add one space, never mind up to eight, which makes the ref no longer match the formatting of other refs in the article.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 02:30, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

@JohnBlackburne: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. IABot uses a template format detection algorithm to keep the formatting consistent as best as it can. It will not work in all cases, such a certain multiline templates. In this case it will default to what I call, the multiline-pretty format. What it does is it lines up the template parameters making them very easy to read and edit.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:24, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Renaming templates

Hey, Cyber, would you be able to update the usurp templates (e.g. {{Usurp2}}) like you did {{Renameuser2}}? Also, usurps have to be manually marked done since AnomieBOT reads off the page directly and not the logs. Nihlus 23:10, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Sure. Give me a few minutes.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:37, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

@Nihlus:  Done—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:39, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Some of the links listed on the subject header page contain dead links which InternetArchiveBot fails to notice it as a dead link - screenshot

File:Dead link screenshot.png

This is what I've seen when clicking on it

On Philip's Wish for example, the only reference points to the screenshot and IABot does not add an archive URL to it, instead it leaves it unmodified (the same with others).

Iggy (Swan) 16:52, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

@Iggy the Swan: I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. According to IABot's DB entry, it's been classified as a subscription site which means it does not scan it because it thinks it's hitting a paywall. I can reset this status or set them all to dead, but that would set/reset the status for all of bbc.co.uk. Can you provide more input?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:22, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Try this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies, it shows the links beginning with http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies. Iggy (Swan) 08:27, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

@Iggy the Swan: I've manually set them all to dead on the DB. Hope that helps.—CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 14:46, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

IABot and Google Books

Hi, I am not sure why IABot bothers to archive links to Google Books but I've noticed a problem with it doing so in this edit. As you probably know, Google Books does not present the same view throughout the world and in this instance I can see this book just fine from the UK but it would appear possible that the person who ran IABot cannot from wherever they are based because the archived version shows the GBooks "you have reached the limit for this book ..." message. There may, of course, be some other explanation for the difference in views but it does seem to be a somewhat pointless exercise if this type of thing is common.

I suppose that, conversely, if it enabled someone to archive a valid GBooks view then it would allow access for people who do not have the ability to see that view. But it might thus also be a link to a hosted copyvio. - Sitush (talk) 09:39, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

I suspect this book is only accessible in the UK where as the Wayback Machine is based in the US. I can't see the book at all for example. What would you like me to do? Remove all recorded archives of books.google.whatever from it's memory?—CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 14:50, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes, it is certainly something to do with geographic location. Is there really any point in the bot attempting to archive GBooks links? I admit that everything can change at some time, including Google urls, but the GBooks url is really more of a convenience link than anything else (or so the people at FAC would say!) - if it does break at some point in the future then it is going to break for the entire gbooks domain and we have bots that could fix that just as happened when Google switched to https protocol. - Sitush (talk) 14:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

The first time I tried to access the book it didn't work (from a non-UK/US IP). Then waited a few minutes tried again and it worked. Then I tried saving it to archive.is and got this. Either GBooks is buggy or an intentional bot-challenge mechanism to prevent data scraping and archiving. I would suggest ignoring GBooks links regardless. Believe this can be done by whitelisting via the tool but there are many country domains. -- GreenC 19:26, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot : bad choices for news sites and blog entries

• most newer archived instances tend to be 404 and similar.
• better to chose oldest archived instance.
• Sofía Vergara :
• BAD (bot) "Page not found" :
• https://web.archive.org/web/20141018035720/http://www.diariolasamericas.com/news.php?nid=91194
• GOOD (oldest archived instance) :
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110718180118/http://www.diariolasamericas.com/noticia/91194/sofia-vergara-duelo-en-navidad

64.175.41.94 (talk) 09:02, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

IABot didn't edit the URL, it simply modified it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:26, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

This is a soft-404. There's not much IABot can do and requires manual intervention. What happens is IABot sends a request to the Wayback API asking for the best archive link for the URL http://www.diariolasamericas.com/news.php?nid=91194. The API returns the result and IABot adds to the system. The archive link in this case turns out to be a 404, but it's "soft" because the headers show it as a 200. So there is no way for IABot to know this is a bad page. -- GreenC 19:31, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot not generating an autoreport at Book:The Boat Races

Hi. I created the book Book:The Boat Races last April and since then I was expecting the bot to create an autoreport, but it never happened. I don't know if I missed something because this was never a problem with other books I created. Regards. © Tbhotch^™ (en-2.5). 00:29, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I got this in the logs.

[MSG] Generating report for Book:The Boat Races...

[ERROR] Encountered an error: Parsed a book with 0 articles. in /home/cyberpower678/bots/noombot/br/lib/class_BookReport.php on line 93

[ERROR] #0 /home/cyberpower678/bots/noombot/br/lib/class_BookReport.php(505): BookReport->generateReport()

[ERROR] #1 /home/cyberpower678/bots/noombot/br/br.php(61): BookReport->postReport()

[ERROR] #2 {main}

—CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 02:13, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I book reports

Greetings! When a book includes a transcluded template, such as any of the books contained in {{Wikipedia books on elements}}, Cyberbot I registers the template as an unassessed article. Is there any way to avoid this, either using wikicode or by updating the bot's code? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 19:13, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Can you provide an example? My maintenance of this specific bot task has been minimal.—CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 00:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Of course, see Book:Terbium for example. The book consists of two articles (1 C-Class and 1 List-Class) and transcludes {{Wikipedia books on elements}}; at Book talk:Terbium, three "articles" are being picked up: 1 C-Class, 1 List-Class, and 1 unassessed. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 02:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I assume you are referring to the "[[[[]]|[[]]]]" entry?—CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 02:10, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that's correct. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 02:44, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Cyberpower678. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Nihlus 10:19, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Shining a light on the darkness

DS is correct, he added the content after the 30 day limitation was up. This [6] however was made only 23 days after Gilmores last edit [7], and thus is a violation. Indeed after His IBAn was modified on the 22nd of January \he made a number of edits in violation of it [8] (9 days after the ban) [9] [10] (11 after the ban). and all less then 30 days after Gilmore had edits the article.Slatersteven (talk) 15:52, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

@Slatersteven: thanks, though these should be reported sooner next time. They're kind of stale now, and it would be silly to block at this point.—CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 01:03, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Permanent archiving of RFPP

Cyberbot I should, instead of archiving RFPP requests to the rolling archive, create daily archives in subpages of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection with the subpage name equal to the date of the archiving. Below is header wikitext that the bot can start an archive with:

{{talkarchive}}

[[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/{{subst:#time:Y-m-d|-1 day}}|< {{subst:#time:Y-m-d|-1 day}}]] | [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/{{subst:#time:Y-m-d}}|{{subst:#time:Y-m-d}}]] | [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/{{subst:#time:Y-m-d|+1 day}}|{{subst:#time:Y-m-d|+1 day}} >]]

=={{subst:#time:j F Y}}==

Corrections are welcome. Luis150902 (talk | contribs) 19:12, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Luis150902, I'm pretty sure such a move would require community consensus. You might want to try the Village Pump first. Primefac (talk) 19:17, 14 February 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker – please do not ping on reply)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Editnotices/Page/Pokémon X and Y

Template:Editnotices/Page/Pokémon X and Y has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Anarchyte (work | talk) 04:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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ANI Discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

See here. Tazerdadog (talk) 06:58, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Request

I was hoping to ask to have my TBAN modified for a probationary period as some of the work I'm doing on Antifa directly relates to Patriot Prayer and I do not wish to run a foul of any report happy editor. Would you be willing to consider something? Thanks C. W. Gilmore (talk) 01:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

• How long was that topic ban for? Drmies (talk) 01:57, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@ Drmies, I believe there was no specified time frame when the TBAN was placed. Also, I do not want to directly edit that article, just subjects near it, if possible without being dragged up to AN/I for violating the TBAN, I want to avoid that at all costs. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 02:17, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

You may file an appeal at AN to have it amended or lifted. The community needs to decided if it should be lifted or not.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 02:21, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes, and given your involvement, along with Drmies; I come asking your opinions before filing an appeal. With the current IBAN in place, the issues that happened in the past should not arise again; plus, I have learn a lot about taking issues to the Talking pages and building consensus over the past 5mos. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 02:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

I come to you first, for you and Drmies will have a great impact on the issue. If both of you oppose it, I will wait. Thanks C. W. Gilmore (talk) 02:27, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm impartial to it. I've distanced from the both of you and brought myself to a neutral party. I personally feel, if worded correctly, you can successfully appeal it given your active IBAN.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 02:31, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I will work on it over the next few weeks. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 02:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

I suppose I'm impartial/always positive. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 16:11, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, with that strong support, I think I should wait. Thanks for the honesty, anyway. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 16:29, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Keep in mind that I merely try to help users, but when enforcing administrative actions, it usually has a consensus backing it. As such, I do my best to stay neutral.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:34, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry Cyber, my quip was directed at that comment from Drmies. Anyway, I should wait given all that has recently happened ( I follow the 'block log'). Thanks again for your interactions and civility. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 16:43, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

One more question on the subject, could I request a probationary lifting of the TBAN, then have my actions reviewed for a permanent solution at the end of the probation period of say, 3 months? Thanks C. W. Gilmore (talk) 11:32, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

I don't know how people will respond to a probationary lift. I would either fully appeal it or not.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:18, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, that is good to know and it was just an idea for nothing will happen for a while, my name is still mud for many Admins, so I will wait. Thanks again. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 16:15, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Internet Archive Bot to Finnish Wikipedia

Hi! The community of Finnish Wikipedia would like to adopt the InternetArchiveBot. The discussion for approval is here [11]. What is the procedure to follow to get the bot running? Best, --Olimar (talk) 06:44, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

@Olimar: Currently IABot is awaiting deployment of v2.0. Due to my recent illness, the deployment has been delayed until March. Once IABot is deployed I will begin prepping it for deployment onto more Wikis including yours.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:20, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Great to hear about the new version. Let me know if you need any help with fiwiki integration. I wish you a speedy recovery. --Olimar (talk) 17:05, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. :-)—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:06, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I

Cyberbot I down again, the bot did not update RfA tally, please fix, thanks! Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 10:09, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

List of YouTubers - oldid 779272127

Hi. What was this about? (Looks like the ref got mangled here, but I can't figure out why InternetArchiveBot added an unrelated archive-url.) I've gone ahead and fixed the ref, but thought I should point out this odd behaviour on the bot's part. --Mathieu ottawa (talk) 01:20, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

This is an old bug.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I book reports (part 2)

Hello again! It appears this thread was archived prematurely, so I just wanted to raise the issue again. Thanks, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 20:45, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

It might be a while before I can figure this one out.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Alright, then... no rush, of course, as long as it's on your radar. Thanks! -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 18:58, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

FIBA BASKETBALL

FIBA ARCHIVE OFICIAL [[12]] the current edition is frontally wrong in Eurobasket 115.72.12.24 and Bozalegenda FIBA Basketball World Cup User:74Account

What?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:37, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

74Account means that both Eurobasket and FIBA Basketball World Cup are now in contrast to official sources by FIBA, [13] and [14], and the last edit comment by 115.72.12.24....hmm --Anaxagoras13 (talk) 19:51, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay, but why come to me? I have no knowledge of those articles.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Because to you Because you locked the cited articles with issues in disagreement with FIBA. Good weekend User:74Account —Preceding undated comment added 21:01, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

I protected them because of a ridiculous amount of edit warring happening on those articles. Please take content issues to the articles' talk pages. My job is to simply stop disruption on Wikipedia.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:04, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

I fully protected the same article for a week and got User talk:CambridgeBayWeather#EuroBasket. The first and only time I shut a discussion down. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:55, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

User talk pages are not appropriate for content disputes, especially if the user that talk belongs to has no knowledge of the content being discussed.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:59, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Second ANI discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Basketball results of Serbia 2. Note this is the second thread with the exact same title. Nil Einne (talk) 10:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

And... closed. Primefac (talk) 13:20, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I swear if they try to open a thread in inappropriate areas again, I'm thinking a WP:BOOMERANG would be appropriate.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot

I have noticed that the bot hasn't been working for the past two days - is there something wrong with it as I have never seen it stop working before. Iggy (Swan) 19:49, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

I deployed an update. It appears to have broken globally. :O—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:52, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot protests as an act of vandalism. I'd like to report a bug with the IABot management interface, but it is regrettable to create a new account as a permission for that. There is a burden on the correction of the "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ノート:中央新幹線#外部リンク修正" act done in September 2017, please also be aware that jawiki is treating a lot of inconvenience.--水瀬悠志 (talk) 17:11, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

@水瀬悠志: I responded there.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:35, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: However, we also protest against saying that the misrecognized broken link parameters do not change.And, there was a burden that made that fix manually.Also, there is no courtesy to what was modified.--水瀬悠志 (talk) 02:51, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

@水瀬悠志: I'm not sure I understand.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 02:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Should not be fixed again by removing the broken link of the link which is not broken link due to malfunction of jawiki's BOT done by InternetArchiveBot? That sincerity is not even there.Japanese, including English, will be a burden on Japanese at jawiki.--水瀬悠志 (talk) 03:29, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

@水瀬悠志:Are you asking me to undo all of the bot's edits, prior to the point the bot was fixed?—CYBERPOWER (Around) 03:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Basically, there are a few points missed here, possibly due to translation issues. I am reorganizing them below.

1. First of all, we all know there was a bug in Sep 2017 causing links that are not broken to be classified as broken.
2. Then it was fixed. User 水瀬悠志 complains that there are no notifications anywhere saying the bug is fixed.
3. Also, the wrong broken link tags due to the bug were not removed after the bug fix.
4. User 水瀬悠志 is also complaining that one should not be required to register an account (in IABot Management Interface) in order to report bugs.--ネイ (talk) 03:39, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   @ネイ: Thank you for clarifying.

   1. Yes, I addressed the bug as soon as it was reported to me and stated it at the bot approvals thread.
   2. Where am I supposed to put a notification stating that the bugs that have been reported are fixed? That's usually on Phabricator, which I will mention in 4.
   3. I can run a script that undos all of the edits of IABot. I was under the impression the amount of damage wasn't significant.
   4. What they are registering on is a site also operated by the WMF specifically designed for reporting technical problems for just about anything related to Wikipedia and or major components that run it, or on it. It's called Phabricator.

   I hope this helps.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 03:49, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   Thanks. In my opinion undoing all edits is too much work. Do you know how long the bug has been existing?--ネイ (talk) 04:00, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   @ネイ: The bot just came out of approval when the bug was reported. The bot was operating for less than a day, if I recall correctly. The bug was fixed and the bot has since not been in regular operation. The bot is in working order and is pending re-activation on jawiki. I estimate, less than 500 edits are actually bad.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 04:04, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   OK. For now please do not undo the edits yet. I will take it back to jawiki for discussion (and come back with questions of needed). Appreciate your help in spite of the language barrier!--ネイ (talk) 04:32, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   @ネイ: Ok, thank you. And thank you for breaking the barrier between our languages. :-) I would also like to point you to ja:Wikipedia:Bot/使用申請/InternetArchiveBot.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 04:36, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   For your information, my main concern on turning the bot back on is the language barrier - namely, bug reports in Japanese are not (or cannot be) processed. I am currently asking for allowing bug reports to IABot in Japanese to be written at ja:Wikipedia:バグの報告, same as bugs of MediaWiki. Will keep an eye on how the discussion goes.--ネイ (talk) 04:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   @ネイ: The good thing since IABot's been off is that a lot of bugs have been fixed since then. It's unlikely to present any bugs while in operation, however I do appreciate your efforts and will watch the discussion as well, as best as I can at least. :-) Good night.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 04:48, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   @ネイ: Is there a link to a discussion somewhere? I can't seem to find it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:59, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

   ja:Wikipedia:Bot/使用申請/InternetArchiveBot. Bot discussions in Japanese Wikipedia are, in general, slow...--ネイ (talk) 14:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

How do you get your status in your sig?

I would like to do this, and I was wondering how you do it! Thanks, qwerty6811 :-D (talk) 19:01, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

@Qwerty6811: See User:Cyberpower678/Signature -> User:Cyberpower678/SignatureStandard -> User:Cyberpower678/Statussig -> User:Cyberpower678/Statussig/sub.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:17, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Archive bot and Petscan

Hmmm, I was wondering could this bot be updated so it can be fed directly from petscan? Artix Kreiger (talk) 15:33, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I have submitted some jobs at 5,000 entries. I used petscan to grab them items, download, format, and add to bot queue of IAbot. Can the bot interface link with Petscan? Artix Kreiger (talk) 16:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

It can if it uses OAuth. Petscan would have to make changes on their end to integrate with the interface. Essentially it would compile the list as usually and make a request to https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/api.php, passing along OAuth information in the process to identify you as the OAuth user, which create a bot queue request. What is Petscan?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:52, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

WP:PETSCAN used to be CatScan which allows for some rather impressive category searching. Basically, allows you to find all of the pages in Categories X, Y, and Z (as well as template transclusion options). Primefac (talk) 16:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Petscan.wmflabs.org

Its a querying software for wiki. It basically searches categories and puts them out in multiple formats for you. For example, if you put in Automobiles in the categories and put a depth of 1, you would get all the pages in Category:Automobiles and its 1st-level categories. Artix Kreiger (talk) 16:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Alternatively, if they don't have OAuth and don't want to hassle installing it, they can just create a button that points to https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=runbotqueue&wiki=enwiki and by POSTing "pagelist=" where the value is a newline separated list of pages.

@Artix Kreiger: The tool also has a hidden ability. You can paste the name of a category page into that text field and it will automatically grab all of the category members and submit them into a bot job.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I - RfPP bot issue

Hi, RfPP bot (cyberbot I) seems to have a minor bug. Per this diff, the bot has added a "this page is currently protected" to a request for reduction in protection level. Minor, but could do with fixing. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 06:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

It usually says that if it's already protected with the requested protection.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:41, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

You've been nominated for merch giveaways!

I thought that you deserved something a bit extra for all of the amazing work you've done for the project. I've nominated you for a gift from the Wikimedia Foundation!

Awww, thanks. :-) I'd love a free t-shirt. My old Wikipedia t-shirt fell apart. :-(—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:41, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

GameZone

There is some discussion at AFD (Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GameZone) that the website Gamezone.com has recently shut down. Could you move the website to the dead list and have IABot add archive links onwiki? --Izno (talk) 01:20, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

As an aside, it would be nice if you could change the message returned when one does not have the permissions to perform this action on the IABot management website to point to the correct place to request this action. I believe that's here from IABot's talk page, but I could be wrong. :) --Izno (talk) 01:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

You could always click my name down on the bottom of the interface, next to the Copyright symbol. :p. I'll change it in a moment.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 01:52, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

No, it's not a PEBCAK problem. :P --Izno (talk) 01:55, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

AN Closure

What's the new standard?! The RFC is not-yet closed:)~ Winged Blades^Godric 04:20, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

There was an ANI discussion not too long ago as banning requests kept springing up. There was a consensus to de facto ban any prolific sock master provided the socking is clearly intentional. So I have simply been implementing that consensus.—CYBERPOWER (Message) 04:23, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

See this sub-thread—CYBERPOWER (Message)

There was no consensus, to change the policy, at-least at the AN thread.See this RFC which seems to be snowing.~ Winged Blades^Godric 04:28, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Well then you can say I'm implementing common sense, per WP:IAR until the new policy goes into effect. ;p—CYBERPOWER (Message) 04:30, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

~ Winged Blades^Godric 04:32, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
• Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
• A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

• Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

• WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
• 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
• Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
• The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
• You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

• HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you

I am grateful for your favorable closure of my WP:AN#Topic ban appeal. It is much appreciated. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 07:36, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

User:Cyberbot II/Run/Dead-links/fr

I expect it's on your watchlist but you may want to review the latest edit to User:Cyberbot II/Run/Dead-links/fr. Thanks, Certes (talk) 21:16, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Great cyber_power you have here

How can i recreate exciting posts on wikipedia to be popular just like you are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lemuel Nyenemulaa Joshua Erekeosima (talk • contribs) 13:41, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

I don't know if I would call myself popular. Go ask There'sNoTime. He seems to be very popular.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:02, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I issue

Just FYI, there was a glitch by Cyberbot I in this edit. It removed the wrong section headers. Not sure why, but just FYI. EvergreenFir (talk) 23:00, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

It's a known issue, but it's cause isn't yet known. Sorry.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:03, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Miseading edit summary

In future please do not make misleading edit summaries naming me, as you did here. Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 19:20, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

I didn't. I clicked undo.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:21, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Your edit was not a simple undo, as if it was it would have reintroduced your breakage of the section header. Please try not to make misleading statements in response to legitimate requests. DuncanHill (talk) 19:23, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

I simply clicked undo and removed the breakage. Your edit was partially undone. Nothing misleading.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:24, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

"(edit conflict) DuncanHill, it seems to me like you're making this out to be way more than it is. Sure, it was technically a "partial undo" but the edit summary came because Cyberpower clicked "undo". I'm sure we've all learned something about being specific in edit summaries. Primefac (talk) 19:25, 6 March 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

(ec)You could and should have indicated that it was a partial undo in your edit summary. You could have said "sorry for breaking the section header, this is what I was trying to do". Instead you incorrectly marked it as a straight undo, which it was not. DuncanHill (talk) 19:28, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, but to be fair all I did was click undo as it was easier to restore my intended edit that way. I didn't even touch the edit summary box.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:31, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

When I undid your edit I clicked undo and then edited the summary to indicate why I was doing so. All I ask is that you make the same effort. It's not hard, not technical, and takes seconds. DuncanHill (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Ok.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:35, 6 March 2018 (UTC)