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Handling refbegin/refend in iabot

Hiya, wanted to follow-up on T177457 since it was marked as done in February but appears to not be deployed? Really looking forward to it. czar 19:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

It should already be doing this. Please give me an example of a failure to handle this.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 14:48, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678, hm. It hasn't worked on any article I've ever tried. For example, I just retried Avery Singer, the last article I mentioned at T177457. czar 19:17, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Bump czar 04:00, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Czar, Sorry. There is a fix applied in v2.0.1 that will address this bug.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:59, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678, great! When is that set to deploy? czar 00:30, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Czar, sorry for the late response. There's a big update coupled with 2.0.1, and it's a lot of code changes that need to be tested. It might be a while still.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2020) 23:40, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

IABot batch jobs stalled since 2019-12-27 18:21:32

I reported this last week, but have had no response. I also asked on Discord and IRC. It seems that batch jobs are stalled. I went through the queues and the last successful one was 4976 and 4977 and later have had zero progress since last decade. Can you feed the hamsters so that the queues resume? Thanks. --Nessie (talk) 19:47, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

I noticed this problem earlier, and I gave it a kick. Very likely related to constant system failures currently going over at the CloudVPS.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2020) 23:46, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:22, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

About your bot

Hi Cyberpower678,

Your bot, InternetArchiveBot sometimes archives the FishBase site. This site and the following: WoRMS, Plants of the World Online and IUCN are changing ones; they update their informations when it's necessary. So when the bot archives an older version of this sites, the informations in them remain unchanged. I don't know how a bot works, but if you can than please do something about this matter. Regards. DenesFeri (talk) 09:30, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

DenesFeri, Your information is too vague. Please clarify.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2020) 23:46, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm from the Hungarian Wikipedia. In the Hungarian Wikipedia InternetArchiveBot sometimes archived the older versions of the FishBase site - site that I use as primary refrence to articles about fishes. FishBase renew/reedit their informations if there are new dicoveries or reclassificasions. If InternetArchiveBot archive the FishBase page, I can't find out if there's something new on that page, I see only the older version. DenesFeri (talk) 08:38, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

IABot oddities for resolver.kb.nl

Hi,

I am not sure if you had already been notified, but we turned off InternetArchiveBot on the Dutch Wikipedia yesterday, because it appears to be marking a lot (if not all) of urls under the resolver.kb.nl domain as "dead". (there are currently 22.7k of those urls mentioned on 4.5k articles) It is unclear to me why it does that, because the domain exists and seems to be redirecting to the correct url just fine. I don't think the redirection is particularly recent either (at least, I am not able to find any news item about it, and the redirect domain, delpher.nl, is > 5 years old). The domain itself is currently marked as a "subscription site", even tho there are no subscriptions I am aware of. The "How to" page mentioned in the description of the "Modify Domain Data" page seems to be gone too, so I can't look up what it does either.

The weird thing is that it seems to handle urls almost randomly. this url is marked as alive, while this url in the same broader repository is marked as dead. An url as this is marked as dying, but something in the same broader repository is marked as alive.

Are you able to see why it marks those urls as "dead" now? Example edits are this, this, this, this and this. Sumurai8 (talk) 16:28, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

This message was archived without a response, so I have re-added it. Sumurai8 (talk) 20:56, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Sumurai8, you could also contact the operators of resolver.kb.nl to check whether they have rate limits which could be throttling IAbot, in which case it would be easiest for them to relax the limits and/or add an exception. Nemo 07:21, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Sumurai8, I've gone ahead and whitelisted the entire domain. It shouldn't give you anymore problems now. Feel free to re-activate.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2020) 23:44, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I have re-enabled the bot for nl.wikipedia. Sumurai8 (talk) 17:46, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot links to the wrong version of an archived document.

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15202714&curid=16853258&diff=1093361114&oldid=1003232747 In this edit the bot links to the 2014 edition of NGA List of Lights even though d:Property:P577 explicitly points out the 2018 edtion as the source. The data is (probably) in the 2014 edition as well, but on another page. /Esquilo (talk) 21:08, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot setup and requirements

Daw5423, You will need to define a couple of archive templates. Enwiki uses {{Webarchive}}. If you gave me the syntax of your templates, I'll turn it into syntax you need to give the bot to define it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:48, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Needed to install Scribunto extension. My test wiki is a blank wiki, which doesn't have pre-installed templates. I used Special:Export and Special:Import to import the pages Template:Webarchive, Module:Webarchive, Module:Webarchive/data from Wikipedia. How do I define it for the bot? daw5423 (talk) 20:24, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Šejla Kamerić confirming changes on the page

Hello Cyberpower678! I am quite new here, so I have a question regarding wikipage on Sejla Kameric - since you were the last to confirm changes. I work with the artist herself and we are trying to edit the page, we made quite some changes, however, they dont appear to the public just yet, they need to be confirmed. Could you be so kind and help me with this to be public as soon as possible? Do you need anything else from me for this purpose? Many thanks and I wish you a lovely day! Best, Ziva — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zivazava (talk • contribs) 14:24, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Changes to it:Ecoregioni d'acqua dolce

Your bot have modified all dead link to https://www.feow.org/ in it:Ecoregioni d'acqua dolce transforming them in links to web.archive.org. Indeed should be better to use as source of correct linking this list in which are reported new working link: for example www.feow.org/ecoregions/details/Oman_Mountains is now https://www.feow.org/ecoregions/details/443. Could you operate the bot in order to fix correct links? Otherwise we will rollback the automatic changes and fix urls manually. --Esculapio (talk) 11:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

This edit

Why did you remove a question from the teahouse? was this just rollback collateral? ^{[Username Needed]} 18:16, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Steward counter

With steward confirmations coming up, it would be great to have Quentinv57's steward counter working. Is there a possibility of this? I don't know how long it has been out of action (known issue?). Global sysop stats would also be helpful for steward elections. ~riley (talk) 20:50, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

IABot batch jobs stalled again

Similar to the last time it seems IABot batch queues are stuck on job 5020 since 2020-01-11 15:06:51. Could you give the bot a hug and a kiss to get them working again please? --Nessie (📥) 16:21, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

The only item in 5020 is March 12, and if I try to runbotsingle it, it says "Analysis error: The article you are trying to analyze may be too large for this tool. Please submit a bot job instead." I assume this is what @Wham2001: did. --Nessie (📥) 17:42, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

@NessieVL: precisely so; I did wonder how long it was likely to take to start running. I've killed the job, which will hopefully unstick the queue, though it would be nice to have the sources in the page archived somehow. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

@Wham2001 and Pancho507: next up is 5021 which is just 2019–20 Hong Kong protests which is again too big to run singly. I imagine it should still be able to process these, but maybe the hamsters need to be fed. If you want to archive each source by itself, you can add this bookmarket:

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href));

--Nessie (📥) 20:09, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Looks like the hamster found some food and the backlog was cleared. I pushed our luck and requeued March 12, and it looks like it worked.

Nelken

from unprotect requests:

• Nelken (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotect from creation: Protecting admin retired. See the request Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy#Nelken Staszek Lem (talk) 20:51, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

• Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to have already been unprotected. Please confirm.—^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 21:04, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
  • No it is not. It appears this bot does not recognize pages protected from creation. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:45, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

tewiki deployment before end of 2019

My previous message which was archived without action

Hi User:Cyberpower678, I am yet to see your action on my feedback for InternetArchivebot deployment on tewiki, despite assurance on your talk page on 5 Dec 2019. I am keen to complete this before end of 2019. Can you please help by giving this higher prioirty. Thanks--Arjunaraoc (talk) 03:52, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: --Arjunaraoc (talk) 03:35, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Arjunaraoc, I responded there. Ping me when you respond.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:00, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678:, Thanks for your response. See my clarification--Arjunaraoc (talk) 05:21, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678:, I have verified and found the revised configuration to be working well for Telugu Wikipedia, without any check date errors. Please go ahead and deploy. Thanks for all your support. --Arjunaraoc (talk) 22:26, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: --Arjunaraoc (talk) 20:32, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Bump @Cyberpower678: --Arjunaraoc (talk) 01:29, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: , Can you give at least Expected date of completion for this task. No response or long delays in your response, has been frustrating.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 21:02, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Arjunaraoc, I'm so sorry. I've got so much on my plate these days. I'm heading back to college and such, and other things. I'll get tewiki running in a few minutes.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2020) 23:41, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, Thanks for your response. I tried on tewiki page and it is working.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 07:25, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot for azwiki

Hi, Cyberpower678. I have installed citation modules and templates from English Wikipedia. Everything works the same with enwiki. Is this possible to activate the bot for Azerbaijani Wikipedia? What is required and which steps should we take? Cheers! --Toghrul Rahimli (talk) 06:52, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

SUL info tools is giving an error response

Hi, you are listed as one of the maintainers of SULinfo tool so I am contacting you. It is returning 503 service unavailable response. Could you take a look? Masum Reza^📞 19:04, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Odd False Positive with Cyberbot at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wugapodes

Hello! At the time that I'm writing this, for some reason, Cyberbot is flagging Wugapodes's RfA as having a duplicate !vote. As far as I can tell, there isn't one, and the only thing that I can think of that might've caused the false positive might have been it misreading J947's comment in the oppose section as a !vote in addition to their support earlier, which would be odd if that's the case, considering that RfA comments aren't usually counted. Either way, I thought I'd give you a heads up on this really odd false positive. OhKayeSierra (talk) 06:31, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

It seems that I was originally mistaken. OhKayeSierra (talk) 07:57, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot ignores accessdate aliases

Hi. IABot seems to be ignoring the local "accessdate" alias on bs.wiki ("pristupdatum"), which in turn causes it to add another date under a new "accessdate" parameter instead of replacing the existing value in "pristupdatum" – see this diff. That, then, fills up the "Pages with citations having redundant parameters" CS1 maintenance category. I noticed last night that it has done this to every page in these two categories. I'm in the process of at least partially fixing that by doing a regex search and replace, but I won't be able to keep doing that in the future. Can you please fix this ASAP? – Srdjan m (talk) 13:38, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot Bug Wrong Volume

Dear Cyberpower678. Sorry to bother you. I am not sure I am at the right place. InternetArchiveBot edited the page James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde on 03:57 20 January 2020 replacing a reference to Google Books with a reference to Internet Archive, but the resulting Internet Archive reference refers to the wrong volume of the work. The Google Book URL was https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1bhAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA812. The bot replaced this with https://archive.org/details/catalogueofprint04facu/page/812, which points to the right work but the wrong volume: 4 instead of 1. The right URL in Internet Archive would be https://archive.org/details/catalogueofprint01facu/page/812, pointing to page 812 in Volume 1. Dear programmer: please try to sort this out. Internet Archive bot must not introduce errors into Wikipedia. For the rest I am a big fan of Internet Archive and Internet Archive bot! With many thanks Johannes Schade (talk) 07:44, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

I added |volume=1 to the citation. The bot tries to get the correct volume information through different means. -- GreenC 14:39, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Reporting duplicates

Currently, duplicates are reported in the tally but it is not possible to see who cast it. Since the bot is aware of the editors casting a vote between every update, is it possible to list the duplicated votes somewhere for readability? If there are a lot of the votes, dupes are quickly lost. --qedk (t 桜 c) 13:47, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Template query

Hey Cyber, long time no type :p {I'm formally Mlpearc from ACC) I would like to customize your template User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report here User:FlightTime/RfX Report. My question is will the bot update my version ? or (if it's not a bother or complicated) can you add my version so that the bot will update it. I see your notice about Xtools above so if this question/request is in that area just let me know and I'll just forget about it. Cheers and thanx, - FlightTime (open channel) 17:28, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

You know what, nevermind (got a little ahead of myself). I'm not able to customize it the way I wanted to anyway. Sorry for the bother. Take care, - FlightTime (open channel) 17:34, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@FlightTime: I did not know that! I remember seeing a prolific editor called Mlpearc in my early wikidays, nice to see you around still. --qedk (t 桜 c) 13:48, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

@QEDK: LOL, yep still here, I changed my username about three years ago. - FlightTime (open channel) 15:59, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Yippee!

Hello C. I want to thank you for getting Refill 2 working again! It seems to be running more smoothly than it did just before it went down last week. Whenever Refill 2 or Reflinks are down it feels like having one arm tied behind my back when fixing bare urls. Thanks again and best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 16:43, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

InteractiveArchiveBot wrong and harmful edits

hi.

please see he:Special:Diff/27120508. the bot changed a good link (please try it) into a link to internet archive. admittedly, the archive link actually works, but the original one works much better (didn't actually measure, but it feels about 10x faster. luckily, this is a plain .pdf file, so no degradation of the content itself). it may be a one-off, but if this points to some systemic issue in the logic governing the bot's operation, you may want to look at it and figure out why did the bot made this mistake.

this is mainly an "fyi". if you want to discuss further, please ping me - i am not watching this page, and i am not normally on this wiki anyway.

peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 16:21, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

IABot redundant page number links

Hi Cyberpower678, about the question I asked here, sorry I didn't see your reply before it got archived:

Hi Cyberpower678, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot: why does it make two links to the same place? For example in this edit: [2], in both citations it makes the page number into a blue link pointing to the same url as the title. It seems redundant, what is the point? And why does it add external-link urls to page numbers like that anyway? It seems like non-standard usage of the cite template. Was there a discussion about this somewhere that I could read? Thanks... --IamNotU (talk) 03:13, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes there was and it received almost unanimous support. The bot is approved to function in this manner.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:50, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Could you please tell me where that discussion was? I'd like to read it. Thanks... --IamNotU (talk) 23:14, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Cyberbot Error (Inarticulate)

I appear to be having trouble understanding the instructions, as provided.

I received this message:

User_talk:PhanChavez#Issuing_level_1_warning_about_removing_AfD_template_from_articles_before_the_discussion_is_complete._(Peachy_2.0_(alpha_8))

That may be my mistake.

The AfD in question received a Procedural Closure by User:Robert McClenon several days ago. This information was specifically cited on the talk page, per the directions in the main article, for Group of Five conferences, [this diff]

Those instructions were followed before removing the delete message from the main page (an effective reversion back to the redirect link in question). The citation was placed on the talk page, with documentation. After that step, the delete notice on the main page was removed.

All directions and instructions were followed, unless there is something ambiguous about the series of events which must take place. (IMO: Sounds like this is automated? But, inconsistently? I should have waited for, what indeterminate period of time before undefined next or further steps? So a user gets a warning where more articulate links or instructions are unavailable?)

At this point, any reversions would cause added conflict and confusion to an issue which already has several conflicts and issues, and, following the direction of a Teahouse (link) host, User:Cordless_Larry, also mirrored in the previous Procedural Closure by User:Robert McClenon, where WP:BB action was taken with the guidance of WP:RFD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhanChavez (talk • contribs) 04:59, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Cyberbot Error #2

Was issued a Level 1 warning for this edit, however it's stated on the talk page that it's been closed and result was keep. EricAhlqvistScott (talk) 05:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Cyberbot I RFPP archival failure

Cyberbot I removed threads from the RFPP page for archiving in this edit, but appears to have failed to add them to the rolling archive page. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:30, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

reFill

Hi. I understand you have recently taken over maintainance of reFill. Firstly thank you for for that, and also thank you for restoring it recently after it went down.

I don't know if this is the appropriate place, so apologies if not, but I'd like to ask for a couple of changes to the tool. Firstly, in edits such as these by Jmertel23 [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], reFill is introducing "deadurl=y", which is no longer supported by cite templates and has been replaced by "url-status=dead". I should imagine this should have a fairly simple fix. Probably more complex to resolve: in all the above examples a bare url from https://archive.li/ is being filled. "archive-url" is being filled but not "archive-date" giving an "|archive-url= requires |archive-date=" error.

If my memory serves me right, earlier versions of reFill had a warning along the lines of "editors are responsible for all edits they make, please check results". Is it possible to reinstate the warning? Thanks --John B123 (talk) 23:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

The first issue is tracked in the Github issue tracker. --Izno (talk) 00:19, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

@John B123: - thank you for tagging me in this - I completely missed seeing these errors! I will certainly make sure not to let them slip through in the future. Jmertel23 (talk) 14:09, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

@Jmertel23: It's easily done as most of the time the tool works really well without producing errors. --John B123 (talk) 17:12, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

IAbot returning broken links again

[6] MBH (talk) 17:35, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

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About your application for InternetArchiveBot in Turkish Wikipedia

Hello Cyberpower678, I wanted to inform you that our bureaucrat Vikiçizer left you a message in the Turkish Wikipedia about your application. This is just a reminder if you haven't seen the notification. Please check your User talk page in Turkish Wikipedia. Have a nice day :)--Yagizhan49 (talk) 17:35, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

reFill using incorrect template in language citations

Hey Cyberpower678, on MarnetteD's talk page, he pointed me that you've taken over reFill management. In an edit he did, reFill used an incorrect language template in the citation. It added |language={{de icon}} instead of using the language name. See the documentation at both Template:Link language and Template:Cite web#Foreign language and translated title. Pinging also @Trappist the monk: to this. --Gonnym (talk) 09:03, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The language icon templates are being deleted and even were they not, the rendered wiki text of the icon templates is unrecognizable as a language name or as a language code to Module:Citation/CS1:

{{de icon}} → <span class="languageicon">(in German)</span>

When adding |language= to a cs1|2 template, the best choice is to use the language codes that MediaWiki supports; this allows cs1|2 templates to be exported to other-language wikis without the need for editors there to do language-name translation.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:09, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The edit summary for the edit in question says that it used Reflinks, which is different from reFill. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:14, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

My mistake, I was sure I was saw refill. Thanks for pointing that out. --Gonnym (talk) 16:43, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

IABot isn't active in Turkish Wikipedia

Hello cyberpower, I saw that InternetArchiveBot has been approved recently in the Turkish Wikipedia but it has only 31 edits so far. Isn't it supposed to make automated changes regularly?

And also, When I visit this page, I see this error :

"Sorry but access to the bot queue for this wiki is disabled. It may be because the bot isn't approved for use on this wiki. Please use the Single Page Analysis tool instead."

I'll be waiting for your reply, have a nice day! :)--Yagizhan49 (talk) 12:42, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Scope of InternetArchive Bot's purpose

I noticed that InternetArchive bot has been replacing links to stable sources, such as Google Books, that also already have archived links to Internet Archive, with just links to Internet Archive. I don't object to this at the moment, but have to wonder why. Can you explain the rationale of this and whether there was a consensus reached regarding this? Ergo Sum 20:24, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Ergo Sum, I asked a similar question, as have others, you can find them in the archives of this page. I found where a change had been approved: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 159#Expanding InternetArchiveBot to handle book references. My question was about having two redundant/duplicate links in the same citation. This seems to have gained consensus in that discussion, but I'm not sure how aware people were that this has traditionally been avoided. As for your question, I don't see anywhere where there was a consensus to replace working Google Books URLs with Archive.org ones. I think there should be more discussion about these issues, but I'm not sure where the best place is. I was planning to bring up my question on the talk page for the "cite book" template, as it's about a non-standard usage of that template. Not sure if the question about replacing links should be in the same place or not. --IamNotU (talk) 21:55, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

@IamNotU: Thanks for the background. Yes, this seems to be a major wiki-wide change that should have been discussed before being implemented. Ergo Sum 22:03, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

I wrote an essay WP:GOOGLEBOOKS. There is general consensus for using Internet Archive for books, for non-profit over profit, and stable reliable sites. -- GreenC 16:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

False positive edits by InternetArchiveBot

Hi, the bot keeps tagging http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp as being dead, which is not correct. This has been reported before quite some time ago and the tool does not accept another report, so I came here, hope you don't mind. It would be great if you could have a look at this. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 10:47, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Randykitty, I just logged into the tool [8] and set it to live. Did you already try that? -- GreenC 16:44, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

I confess to my ignorance here. I don't really understand what you did, or how, although it looks like you set the status of the URL from "dead" to "live", so I assume that the bot will not tag this URL as dead any more. If that's correct, then the problem should be fixed. Many thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 18:07, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

IA Bot down?

I am currently unable to access IA Bot either through the "fix links" link on an article history page, the link on its userpage or the link on the wmflabs list of tools - the page claims to be loading, but never gets as far as displaying anything or timing out. This state has lasted about 30 minutes at least, but it was working a few hours ago. Thryduulf (talk) 01:02, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Nevermind, it seems to be working again now. Thryduulf (talk) 02:07, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

IABot and archive.today

It often tends to replace any link from archive.today with one from Wayback Machine. The problem is, Wayback Machine doesn't always perfectly archive links, and when archive.today does, using IABot on the article causes the properly formed archive.today link to be replaced with the malformed/improperly archived Wayback Machine link. Have you previously gotten any complaint regarding this? If yes, is anything being done about it? --Kailash29792 (talk) 03:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Could you provide an example diff? -- GreenC 17:05, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

@Kailash29792: -- GreenC 17:06, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

GreenC, behold. Kailash29792 (talk) 07:06, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Phab T245276. -- GreenC 15:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

How to?

How do I download/install IABot so I can use it? When I read this ("You can use this bot yourself by browsing the history of any page, and clicking on the "Fix dead links" link in the "External tools" section at the top of the page."), I don't recognize it. There is no "External tools" section visible. Will I see that after I download/install the bot? -- BullRangifer (talk) 15:29, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

@BullRangifer: you don't need to download/install IABot. The links are near the top of the history page, right under the "Filter revisions" box and above the horizontal line and compare revisions button. See the screenshot I've just taken. Thryduulf (talk) 23:08, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for that clarification. I didn't realize it was talking about the history window. -- BullRangifer (talk) 02:41, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Do you think changing the wording to "You can use this bot yourself by browsing the viewing the revision history of any page, and clicking on the "Fix dead links" link in the "External tools" section at the top of the page.")" would be clearer? Thryduulf (talk) 09:51, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Thryduulf, That is a very good proposal, that I support. There was a time in past where I had wondered why does IABot uses this cryptic language, but I did not pursue that thought thinking that the devs must have some reason. DBigXrayᗙ 09:58, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

@BullRangifer and DBigXray: given the lack of objection, including from Cyberpower678, I've made that change. Thryduulf (talk) 10:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the change and the note. DBigXrayᗙ 10:33, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. That is a bit clearer. Even clearer would be "To use the bot, open the 'history' tab and then use the 'Fix dead links' tab that appears in the horizontal row of 'External tools'." -- BullRangifer (talk) 15:47, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot's handling of "bare" dead urls

(Example) My initial concern was that the longer url stretches the infobox horizontally, but then I had deeper thoughts:

Generally speaking, a "piped" url <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/SOMETIMESTAMP/http://original.url/somepage.html http://original.url/somepage.html]</ref> would be a visually superior replacement when something like <ref>http://original.url/somepage.html</ref> has gone dead. But only because fetching the page title and/or converting to {{cite web}} or whatever is probably way beyond the scope of this bot.

However urls in the |website= parameter of an infobox (or anything marked as {{official website}} in the external links section) are kind of a special case, because here (unlike the ref example above) the url does not point to key information—it is the key information. We don't care about this website's content, as we aren't using it to support any particular statement. The only statement being made is what this person/corporation/band/etc.'s current web address is. When those go dead, it would be reasonable to conclude that:

A. The subject of an article no longer has a website, or:

B. His/her/its/their website has moved to some address.

In either case a dead url becomes factually inaccurate in this context, and showing what it looked like several years ago would be useless. I think it would be preferable for the bot to delete these outright, rather than worrying about how to format their archive.org urls. ―cobaltcigs 09:46, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Book talk missing title and missing end tag for italics, small, bold errors

Un-archived discussion with new comment:

Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.

• Book talk:Destiny's Child

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for italics ('') and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

• Book talk:Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for italics ('') and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

• Book talk:Stargate SG1

{{book report|''Stargate: The Ark of Truth|The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)

{{book report|Stargate: The Ark of Truth|''The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

{{book report|''Stargate: Continuum|Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)

{{book report|Stargate: Continuum|''Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

{{book report|''Stargate: Revolution|Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)

{{book report|Stargate: Revolution|''Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

• Book talk:Szidi Tobias

{{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for <small>; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)

{{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)</small>|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]

• Book talk:Richard Wagner

{{book report|''Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)

{{book report|Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|''Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

• Book talk:Wiki How To

{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To</big>'''|The basics of Wikipedia}}

causing misnested tags; should be (and I fixed it)

{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To'''</big>|The basics of Wikipedia}}

And similar errors that I fixed that you haven't reverted yet in:

• Book talk:Korn
• Book talk:Anthrax
• Book talk:Miami Hurricanes
• Book talk:Stephen King
• Book talk:Brandy Norwood
• Book talk:William Holden
• Book talk:Video game series
• Book talk:Nicktoons
• Book talk:Resident Evil series
• Book talk:Military conflicts of the Three Kingdoms era
• Book talk:Boeing Passenger Jets
• Book talk:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units
• Book talk:Christianity
• Book talk:Diabetes mellitus type 1

And similar errors that I haven't fixed at Lint errors: Missing end tag in the Book talk namespace. Please deal with these errors, or at least point how to generate the list of "source code" pages and how to edit them to make the problem go away. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Anomalocaris, I'm not deleting discussions, they just get archived by a bot. I took a quick look at this issue, but nothing sticks out this time, so I will need to find a moment to investigate this.—CYBERPOWER (Trick or Treat) 22:47, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Well, it's been a month, so I'm reminding you to find a moment to investigate this. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:50, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Anomalocaris, thank you for the reminder.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Please find a moment to investigate this. —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:52, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Dying domain

Hello there! Sorry to bother you, I just want to ask your kind attention in connection with phab:T242241. The site is going to die on 1st of March. I would be very thankful for your help. Regards, Bencemac (talk) 09:57, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

I tried counting and enwiki Special link search returned 60,000 then stopped working. The number links is very large. Unfortunately, IABot can only easily fix when entire domains are dead. In this case https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/* is dead but https://www.sports-reference.com/ is still live so it is a mix. The olympics URLs will need to be set to global live state = "dead" on a per-URL basis (in the IABot database). I have a program that can do this. Then we tell IABot to run on all articles with the domain and it should add the archives for those with live state dead. @Bencemac:, ca you copy this thread to WP:URLREQ so there is a record of the request and I will pick it up from there. -- GreenC 19:01, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Done, thank you! Bencemac (talk) 18:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Important

Hai this Maj Karthik Iam from Indian army I would I upload my details in Wikipedia like our army Officer's type Can you please send me the link — Preceding unsigned comment added by Majorsskarthikvarma (talk • contribs) 16:18, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

IAB edits switching Google Books to Archive.org

I've seen many edits similar to this one, in which links to Google books are replaced with links to the same texts on Archive.org. This edit has an edit summary stating "Bluelink 4 books for verifiability. [goog])". Why are these edits necessary? Aren't the links to Google books verifiable as they are? Alansohn (talk) 15:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@GreenC: this if for you.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:00, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

See WP:GOOGLEBOOKS -- GreenC 17:39, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

I came here with a similar question, witnessing this edit. I have the feeling this is a clear case If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In the edit I linked to, the Google Books edition is easier to browse and read, from my desktop device at least, because one can scroll the book, unlike the Archive.org version. If I want a scroll version on Archive.org, I have to download a pdf, which often takes ages. And in this case the Archive.org edition is the same book, scanned by Google, and while they represent it in color, which is nice, I have an uneasy feeling about these botmoves, especially since it is based on an essay only. I suggest you don't replace Google-links, but add the archive link between brackets, or something like that. This doesn't seem right, please reconsider. Greetings. Eissink (talk) 16:14, 20 February 2020 (UTC).

LintErrors

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cyberpower678/RfX_Report&diff=942411956&oldid=942411952 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter/missing-end-tag --Sunpriat 14:43, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

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IABot Management Interface question

Hi. I am trying to use IABot Management Interface to add archive links to all references to the page Second Amendment sanctuary. However when I try to run it on that page, and I enable the "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)" option, I get an error telling me the page is too big and to submit a bot job instead. I did that, however there was no option to add archives to all non-dead references and the bot did not do that, it only added archives to dead links and did not add archives to non-dead links. How can I accomplish this task in the bot job interface? Thanks!Terrorist96 (talk) 18:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

IABot Management Interface question

Hi. I am trying to use IABot Management Interface to add archive links to all references to the page Second Amendment sanctuary. However when I try to run it on that page, and I enable the "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)" option, I get an error telling me the page is too big and to submit a bot job instead. I did that, however there was no option to add archives to all non-dead references and the bot did not do that, it only added archives to dead links and did not add archives to non-dead links. How can I accomplish this task in the bot job interface? Thanks!Terrorist96 (talk) 18:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

IABot in trwiki

Hello cyberpower, I can't use the bot queue in the Turkish Wikipedia. The bot already got bot status a month ago but it still seems to be disabled in the management console. Please enable the bot for trwiki. Thanks--Yagizhan49 (talk) 17:17, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

IABot in trwiki

Hello cyberpower, I can't use the bot queue in the Turkish Wikipedia. The bot already got bot status a month ago but it still seems to be disabled in the management console. Please enable the bot for trwiki. Thanks--Yagizhan49 (talk) 17:17, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

IABot in da.wiki

Hi! We are discussing the bot on da:Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden/Brug archive.org and we had an old discussion in da:Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden/Automatisk bot-kildearkivering (it died because noone knew how to proceed). How do we get the bot to work on da.wiki? Do we need someone to operate it locally or how does it work? --MGA73 (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot

The bot seems to be making errors. On a number of refs I've added to articles, it keeps linking page numbers to sources. These refs all already linked in the URL field. Look at my edit history for this morning for examples. I started to use the bug report for this but apparently I need to create an account before I can do so. TiB chat 10:11, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

This is intentional not a bug. When clicking on the page number if opens directly to that page. There are a couple ways to go about it but this is the way it does it. I suggest maintaining the page number link as the most important. In the future there may be a feature where you hover over the page number and the full image of the book page pops up, but it would only work if there was a page number URL. -- GreenC 21:24, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Changing links to Google Books to links to Internet Archive

Just asking: Why are you changing working links to Google Books to links to the Internet Archive? (For example, [9]) Is there something wrong with links to Google Books? The links to Google Books seem to work fine, yet for some reason you changed them. I do not find the edit summary "Bluelink 4 books for verifiability" adequate explanation for the edits. --Robert.Allen (talk) 22:16, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

I created a page WP:GBWP to help educate on the problems with Google Books, and thus why we are trying to move to more reliable sources, when possible. It is only a fraction of the Google Books links that are converted, less than 10%. -- GreenC 00:10, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Would it be helpful to add a link to WP:GBWP to the edit summary? --Robert.Allen (talk) 11:36, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

You are probably right. Once the current batch completes I'll look into it. -- GreenC 13:09, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Cyberbot II signature

Hey Cyberpower, I just noticed that a large percentage of the HTML5 linting errors on English Wikipedia come from Cyberbot II's signature which has misnested tags. If Cyberbot II is still in use, any chance you could fix the signature so that it's HTML5-valid? Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 00:03, 10 March 2020 (UTC)