User talk:InternetArchiveBot/Archives/2022

IAB's false positives on cy-wiki

IAB has incorrectly changed perfectly good references to an archive link eg here and wrongly says the link was 'dead'. So I've banned the IAB until a good reason is given for these edits. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 04:38, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: It looks like the site is interacting strangely with the bot. While a normal web browser can load the content fine, all requests from the bot are getting directed to an error page delivering a 404 Not Found error. This has caused the bot to think that the page legitimately doesn't exist. To correct this, the domain has been marked a paermalive so the bot no longer reports them as dead. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:03, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Many thanks. Can you give me links to these please. We need to know why this happened. How and by who was the erroneous redirect created. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 06:38, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: Those are questions you will likely not be able to answer. The only thing I can tell you, is that when the bot tries to call https://senedd.cymru/dod-o-hyd-i-aelod-o-r-senedd/ it gets a 302 response (a redirect) and is sent to https://senedd.cymru/error.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/dod-o-hyd-i-aelod-o-r-senedd/ which is a 404 (Not found) error. Understandably, this is why the bot thought it was dead. As to why the bot gets sent there when web browsers don't, is a big mystery. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:50, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Many thanks, once again. Until this (and numerous other errors eg residue) are ironed out, the bot will remain banned from cywiki, as per community request. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 09:04, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Llywelyn2000, can you please link to examples of the other errors you refer to so that we can work on fixing them and preventing them in the future? Harej (talk) 19:14, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 17:18, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

enwiki – AbuseFilter blocks single-page run to add archive links

I'm trying to analyze en:Gigi Ibrahim and add archive links where possible to prevent future link rot. When I try, the IAbot interface shows a red error banner that reads "Analysis error: abusefilter-disallowed: ⧼abusefilter-warning-proxy-link⧽". Please advise! (Please ping in response) Ezlev (talk) 23:31, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Ezlev, can you try running the tool on the Gigi Ibrahim article again? Harej (talk) 19:58, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Same issue, Harej, after a 107-second run (longer than it was when I initially tried, I think). Ezlev (talk) 20:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Ezlev, Cyberpower678 ran the bot on the article. The bot ran into conflicts with AbuseFilter involving the use of EBSCO links. Administrators can bypass this filter, so he ran the bot on that page. Harej (talk) 19:37, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 17:19, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Error permission

Hi, I've been using the bot smoothly for months, but now when I was trying to run it, it gave me "error permission" notice. I'll be grateful if anyone can help me out. (And please ping me when replying) --Yolo4A4Lo (talk) 08:54, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Yolo4A4Lo, can you confirm in the tool interface that "English Wikipedia" is selected in the dropdown box on the top right? Harej (talk) 19:51, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, it works again now. By chance, I'm trying to run the bot on en:Yuzuru Hanyu and have submitted it as a job, but the bot didn't archive any links despite it said the work has been done. I've never run it on article this big, so I'll appreciate your help. -- Yolo4A4Lo (talk) 00:33, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Yolo4A4Lo, that article has too many links on it, so the bot is unable to process the article through the single-page analysis tool. Further, batch jobs have no configuration options for security reasons, which is why the bot is not working in the preferred way. Harej (talk) 19:42, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 17:20, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

gambling/porn usurped

Sites have been usurped by a gambling site.

• ds-lands.com
• chemins-bretagne.com
• endicott-studio.com
• airdisaster.com
• defendwisconsin.org
• cliftoncathedral.org.uk
• fadwebsite.com
• jamesbdonovan.com
• gossmission.org
• iaaca.org
• kawaiisu.org
• worldaffairsjournal.org

 — billinghurst sDrewth 11:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

billinghurst: Added to the queue to be processed by WaybackMedic on Enwiki. InternetArchiveBot does not support usurped domains. WaybackMedic does, but only work on Enwiki. Thanks for the report! -- GreenC (talk) 18:47, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 17:20, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Bug report

[1]

We do not have enough information. Please describe how the edit should have been made differently. Harej (talk) 19:45, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 17:21, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

aawiki - Afar Wikipedia

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T299576

When you select in the list "aawiki - Afar Wikipedia" - non-existent Afar Wikipedia, a login and password request occurs, reports an incorrect entry, and so on endlessly. Non-existent sections should be removed from the list of language sections. Kalendar (talk) 10:38, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your report Kalendar. We are tracking it in Phabricator and will work on mitigating this bug. Harej (talk) 19:59, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Japanese wikipedia

Hi! The bot is now running on Danish Wikipedia and it seems to be working good there so I thought perhaps it could also be restarted on Japanese Wikipedia. So I asked the admin that blocked the bot and the reply was that if you "start working on fixing the issues again then I can consider". So my question is if any of you have time to work on it again? If yes I think the bot should start out slow and with a few edits so there is time to check the edits. Sadly I do not speak Japanese but I'm working with the blocking admin on moving files to Commons so I think it is possible to get some help translate. If you do not have time at the moment that is no problem. I'm sure Japanese Wikipedia can wait a few months more :-) --MGA73 (talk) 11:37, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, there were two issues that have prevented the bot from running on Japanese Wikipedia. The first issue had to do with respecting very strict rate limits; this has been resolved. The next issue is that there is an unusually high number of dead URL false positives due to access restrictions of Japanese websites, and it will take more work to get around this. Harej (talk) 19:07, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Harej! --MGA73 (talk) 14:47, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:36, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Wrong version

In edits like this the bot adds a archive link to the 2014 year edition of NGA List of Lights, Radio Aids and Fog Signals (Q13872896) when the source used is the 2017 year edition. In most cases a lighthouse that existed in 2017 probably existed in 2014 too, but the page numbers are wrong. /Esquilo (talk) 11:56, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Esquilo, thank you for your report. Unfortunately you have encountered an edge case in how the bot stores information about archive links, and this will not be fixed for some time. In the meantime, you can use the Manage Single URL interface to manually configure an archive URL. Harej (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer. I'd love to enter manual configurations for this URL, but unfortunately I do not have the permissions.

The action you are trying to perform requires the changeurldata permission.
This permission is obtainable with the following groups: user, admin, root, bot

/Esquilo (talk) 07:14, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, would you be able to make this configuration change? Harej (talk) 19:07, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Esquilo, the archive link has been updated in the database. Harej (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

I notice you have fixed it now. Thank you! /Esquilo (talk) 12:22, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Follow up on Albanian Wikipedia

[2]. Harej (talk) 01:46, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Follow up on Estonian Wikipedia

[3]. Harej (talk) 01:47, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:45, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Follow up on Russian Wikipedia

[4]. Harej (talk) 17:25, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:54, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Pollution by Bots

Can WP be changed so Bots do not pollute the discussion pages the way they do? It’s horrible. The discussion pages are filled up with automated verbage by Bots rather than discussion by editors. It is completely out of control. I wonder if my note here will generate more automated pollution by a Bot? Some years ago, it wasn’t like this. Back then discussion pages were for discussion. Now one struggles to spot the discussion amidst the Bot pollution. Frenchmalawi (talk) 03:28, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Frenchmalawi You (an admin of the relevant wiki) can change the settings somewhere at https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=wikiconfig and chose if bot should leave messages on talk page or not. Perhaps this partly Danish File:Konfigurer bot - IABot-interface.pdf can help you. "Nej" means no and "Ja" means yes. --MGA73 (talk) 14:51, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:46, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

IA Bot Down?

Folks - I use the IA Bot using this link -- https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=runbotsingle&action=analyzepage. However, I have been receiving an error since the last couple of days.

By way of additional detail I am getting a "Bad title: The page you entered is invalid or doesn't exist. Please check your spelling and try again." This used to work before.

Please can someone have a look. Thanks. Ktin (talk) 00:25, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

@Ktin: please make sure that you have the tool set to the right Wikipedia. It sounds like you may be on the wrong language. You can change your Wikipedia in the dropdown menu on the right of the top menu bar. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:56, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 15:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Analysis error: blocked

Hello IA Bot admins, I have been attempting to archive references for the article William H. Davis, and I have been receiving the following error: "Analysis error: blocked: You have been blocked from editing." Please let me know how best to resolve this issue. -- West Virginian (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

@West Virginian: I'm not this bot's operator, but it seems that this bot was caught in an auto-block. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 18:49, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh, thank you so much for your timely and informative response. I'll see if I can contact an operator in the meantime. Thanks again! -- West Virginian (talk) 18:56, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

@West Virginian: please have a look at task T274050 and follow the instructions there. Any information you provide there will be helpful. This is an old bug. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:58, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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IABot

Hi, I am editing a lot from my Iphone right now. I can not analyze pages for dead links with the IABot using my Iphone, everytime I try there is an orange box with information about ”Language unavailable”. So I can not archive dead links etc. It has been like this for a month or so. Very strange. When I do it on a computer it works fine.--BabbaQ (talk) 11:57, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: can you provide a screenshot of this? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:55, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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dawiki questions

(moved from en:User talk:Cyberpower678)

Hi! According to this bot queue for this wiki is disabled. Is it globally or did someone disable it for dawiki? Also I would like to hear if bot tries to save urls to http://web.archive.org/ if the url is not yes archived? --MGA73 (talk) 13:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps you could also help me with this question: Dawiki uses da:Template:Dødt link and it is the same as {{Dead link}}. But in edits like da:Special:Diff/10600392 it seems that the bot does not know its the same template (also it removed the url). I do not know if its a but or us setting up the config wrong. --MGA73 (talk) 16:50, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello again. This http://www.ft.dk/BAGGRUND/Biografier/Anders_Moeller.htm is dead but it is whitelisted so I can't change it. --MGA73 (talk) 17:45, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps edit InternetArchiveBot/Status now bot is running at dawiki :-) --MGA73 (talk) 17:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

I have updated the configuration for the Dødt link. It was slightly misconfigured. As set the URL to dead. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:05, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much User:Cyberpower678. Perhaps you can tell me

1. if bot queue can be enabled again for dawiki?
2. if bot tries to save urls to http://web.archive.org/ if the url is not yes archived?

--MGA73 (talk) 11:25, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, the bot queue is disabled because a rate limit was configured for Danish Wikipedia, and when a rate limit is set, this disables the queue so that users do not cause the bot to make more edits than it should. To enable the bot queue, you should set the rate limit to 0. This will not make the bot edit too quickly as it runs pretty slowly by default. Harej (talk) 19:21, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Harej. That makes sense. Do you know if bot will ask archive.org to save urls if they are not allready archived? --MGA73 (talk) 20:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, since we are making archives of all external links, on all wikis, as they are posted, we do not specifically submit links to the Wayback Machine on-demand. Harej (talk) 18:57, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Thank you! --MGA73 (talk) 15:29, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

dawiki and url-status=dead

This diff was first reported by MGA73 at my enwiki talk page. It added |url-status=dead but should have left a {{dead link}} or an archive URL. I don't know if this is a bug, template or site cfg problem. It sometimes works as seen here. -- GreenC (talk) 15:08, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you GreenC! Yes I found anouther one today da:Special:Diff/11057515. So sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Sadly I can't see why. --MGA73 (talk) 16:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

@MGA73: This was a configuration issue, and has been fixed. The bot's behavior should change not too long from now. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:36, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Thank you! --MGA73 (talk) 15:29, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

SqWiki - Problems

1. Please take a look at this article, the references. The bot is acting really strange on it for a while now.
2. After IABot had its global manic episode, the number of articles in this category (CS1 - Extra parameters) jumped from some tens to 3000. Now that the bot is fixed, can it be programmed to remove the parameters it added in error? Bots (Bot operators) are usually supposed to clean up the damages in these cases. We'd prefer keeping the hyphenated versions. - Klein Muçi (talk) 02:47, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

   @Klein Muçi: For the first instance, I have a working theory of what is triggering this bug and made an edit that should work around it. The bug appears to be triggered by using protocol relative URLs. I have changed them to protocol specific URLs. If you don't mind approving the revision. As for the second case, I will work on getting the references cleaned up. Please allow a few weeks for this to happen. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:20, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

   @Cyberpower678, no problem. I accepted those and gave you autochecked rights so you can do further tests if so needed. Thank you! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 23:03, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

False positive

Hi. Please white list https://stadnamn.npolar.no/. Take a look at this example. I have reported as false positive but still IABot is marking them as dead links. Thank You--Skivsamlare (talk) 17:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

@Skivsamlare: I've whitelisted the domain. The domain behaves in a way the bot can't handle correctly. It's some kind of anti-bot mechanism. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:34, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Live links not stored in web.archive.org

I was told that the bot does not ask web.archive.org to save a website so I guess users have to save them manually. The tricky part is to find those links. Is there any way to make a list/dump of links to live pages not yet stored in web.archive.org?

I can imagine that it would be more than a few links so we could use an easy way to save the links to web.archive.org. The trick is that there may be links leading to spam, porn, junk etc. So I was thinking that users have to click the link and if it is relevant then they clik save and if it is spam they should remove it from Wikipedia. Can you think of an easy way save good links or do we have to go to http://web.archive.org/save and paste the link manually? --MGA73 (talk) 09:09, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, the reason the bot does not ask web.archive.org because the Wayback Machine, on its own initiative, is already archiving all links posted to wiki. If there is an urgent need to archive a website I recommend submitting a bulk request through the Google Sheets upload. Harej (talk) 19:31, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Harej Thanks a lot! That sounds very good. The problem is to find pages not yet archived. But if Wayback Machine is already archiving links it should not be many links and/or only very recent links. --MGA73 (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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Why whitelist www.dr.dk?

Links like http://www.dr.dk/P1/Sproglaboratoriet/Udsendelser/2012/08/30131510.htm is dead but it is whitelisted so I can't change it. Is it because the bot can't access www.dr.dk or what is the reason for the whitelist? Unless bot won't work correct I think we should remove the whitelist. If whitelist can't be removed and we need to fix all pages manually perhaps you could change my userrights so I can fix it? --MGA73 (talk) 18:42, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, the domain has been taken off the list. Harej (talk) 19:36, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Harej Thanks a lot. If there are any problems I will come back begging for a whitelist ;-) --MGA73 (talk) 15:19, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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German Wikipedia

I am aware that the Bot is currently disabled for de:WP (which is very, very sad). The user page (de:Benutzer:InternetArchiveBot) says it's possible to run it manually, which I tried yesterday. But so far, 24 hrs later, my bot job (ID 9565) has not been executed. Is that because the bot's busy or is that because the information was wrong and not even a manual run works? Thanks and kind regards, Grueslayer (talk) 15:15, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Not a developer but someone whos paying attention to the situation.. there is severe backlogs right now. You are better off just doing all the tasks manually as there, as of current, is a 40 job backlog. NeoJade (talk) 18:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

But that's actually good news for me, as it indicates the bot job will eventually run, and I'm not exactly in a hurry. Any idea about how long a backlog of 40 jobs takes the bot? Kind regards, Grueslayer (talk) 19:10, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

(For the record: Five days in my case. Fine with me! Kind regards, Grueslayer (talk) 11:59, 1 March 2022 (UTC))

Grueslayer, thank you for confirming your job did run. We have investigated the issue on German Wikipedia and we believe we have fixed the outstanding problem there, so we are now testing the bot on German Wikipedia. Pinging Cirdan who I think will appreciate the news. Harej (talk) 19:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

It this a bug?

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T302915

IAbot seems to replace the original title of webpage with "存档副本"(these Chinese characters mean "archived duplicates") like this at line 40 when the URLs don't end with "/". Though it's correct, it's still a pity IAbot removes the original title. Could you fix it? Thanks.--迴廊彼端 (talk) 03:53, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

迴廊彼端, yes, this is a bug. We are tracking it at task T302915. Harej (talk) 19:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Harej, thank you and your partners for maintaining IABot. --迴廊彼端 (talk) 02:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

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67-Page job been stuck on queued for a day

A job I ran, 9649, as well as 9640 and 9642, all were queued for a day. I killed the last two after a day aswell, but 9649 has been stuck for a day. Is it because User:Whoop whoop pull up is running a gazillion jobs at once and so mine is getting queued to be done after his, or is the thing glitched? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lallint (talk) 12:57, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

@Lallint: THe jobs will take a while to do. THat might be what's happening, there are lots of jobs in the queue that haven't happened yet so just be patient. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 02:59, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I got indef blocked Lallint (talk) 16:27, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

So I can´t even check if it worked Lallint (talk) 16:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Lallint, we can confirm that the task is complete. Harej (talk) 19:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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Pre-emptively archive large pages

Hello! So I just attempted to run the bot on Nintendo Switch and it told me it was too large and to instead submit a job. However, I'm running the bot to archive all the links pre-emptively so that if they do go dead there will be an archive. Is there any way to pre-emptively archive links on large pages such as Nintendo Switch? ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 03:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

While the safeties in the bot prevent operation on large pages, what you can do is split the page in half, run the split pages on your sandbox, and then later combine the split text back into one page. This is due to the limitations imposed by the infrastructure the bot tools run on. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:07, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Alright sounds good. Thanks! ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:09, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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Cite error

If a reference has a refname, and has all reference details maintained at each use of the refname, then InternetArchiveBot causes a cite error by only adding archive details to the first instance. Sorry that a terrible way to explain it.
This edit and this one might make it clearer. In the first edit the refname Censo2014 is used twice, but the bot only adds details to the first instance. Before the edit both instances matched and so didn't generate a cite error, but by changing only one they no longer match and generate a cite error. The second edit is just another example of the same. Is there anything that can be done about this? I'm guessing it's outside the scope of the bot. ActivelyDisinterested (talk) 14:19, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this is a known issue, and it's own that has proven very difficult to fix. I cannot provide an ETA on a fix at this time.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:53, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:08, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

amantelingerie.com usurped

amantelingerie.com usurped by gambling site. Blacklisted  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Domain has been marked permadead. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:09, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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Edit conflict

I don't know if this is a bot problem or a Wikipedia problem, but I've just lost all the information from an edit I'd spent an hour on, and couldn't get any of my previews to reload. An edit conflict like that hasn't happened to me for years. - Demokra (talk) 01:01, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello Demokra, edit conflicts are managed by Wikipedia's software, so this is unfortunately beyond our control. Harej (talk) 18:08, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

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IABot keeps telling me that I am blocked

This bot used to work fine for me, and I've used it in the past with great success. However, in the past few months I've noticed that, no matter what I do, the pages I attempt to analyze with the bot take a very long time to resolve. When the bot finally does resolve, I'm greeted with a wide red banner saying "Analysis error: blocked: You have been blocked from editing." I've read that users can show up as blocked even if they are not, but then why would the tool load the page in the first place? I would love to be able to use this tool again, but this problem has kept me from using it for quite a while. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Paper Luigi (talk) 00:20, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

The root of this problem, was discovered, just minutes ago. This will be fixed very soon. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:22, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Please keep me updated. Paper Luigi (talk) 00:25, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Give it a try now. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:27, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Hey, it works now. Thanks! Paper Luigi (talk) 00:33, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

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Bot say that I am blocked

Could someone fixing it there is a problem, the BOT say that Analysis error: blocked: You have been blocked from editing. HurricaneEdgar 02:37, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

HurricaneEdgar you are experiencing this bug. Harej (talk) 17:52, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

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Russian Wikipedia links

Hi, thanks a lot for archiving links in articles in {{cite web}} templates, but please stop archiving working urls in 'Ссылки' (Links) section! Your bot uses incorrect formatting, for example the link is: * [https://www.workingurl.com Profile of football player] at Website.com{{ref-en}} and your bot modifies it as * [https://www.workingurl.com Profile of football player]{{Wayback|url=www.workingurl.com |date=20210604174049 }} at Website.com{{ref-en}}. We got 'Profile of football player Archive copy... Wayback machine... on website'. It is not readable, it breaks the order of words in a sentence and also there is no need to archive working urls in Links section. For example [5] Corwin of Amber (talk) 03:56, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Also have a lot of examples in articles i edit. It's not only in russian version. In azeri version is the same.

---- Xcite (talk) 06:29, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

I have confined the bot to only work in references. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 08:33, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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Adding additional archive-date on Telugu wikipedia

Check this example link for erroneous addition of additional archive-dates --Arjunaraoc (talk) 00:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

This is actively being investigated. I just want to make a note here that this request isn't being ignored. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 01:58, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

This should now be fixed. Please let me know if it continues to happen. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 05:20, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

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Ukrainian Wikipedia manually formatted citations

Hello. Thank you for the Internet Archive Bot! It works great in most cases. However, I have a concern which is similar to the Russian Wikipedia links discussion above. In some cases, the template which is inserted by the bot does not make sense because it is inserted in the middle of a citation which is manually formatted in plain wiki markup without resorting to a citation template. For example, the citation may be: The Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine "On Approval of Composition of Public Council under Ministry of Justice of Ukraine" dated 4 February 2009 No. 184/5. If the name of the document is linked, the bot would insert the template before the words dated 4 February 2009 No. 184/5 resulting in an incoherent citation. Some citations follow local citation rules which does not expect a link to the Internet Archive right after the title of the cited source. Sometimes, the link to the Internet Archive may be even already present right after such manually formatted citation, so we get duplicate links to the Internet Archive: one provided by the authors and another provided by the bot. I could remove or move the template which was inserted by the bot, but it will probably re-insert it on its next run. One of the possible remedies to that could be moving the URL outside the citation, so that to allow the bot to add a template after the citation without interfering with it. But that would be against common Wikipedia citation guidelines. What might be the recommended approach to this? Can I somehow protect the citation by showing the Internet Archive bot a place where it can insert its template safely (which is typically after the citation)?--Роман Рябенко (talk) 13:09, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

You should be able to safely move the templates to the correct spot, without the bot re-adding the template to it's default spot. With that being said, I can have the bot confine it's operations to only references. What would you like to proceed with? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 08:41, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Роман Рябенко, making sure you have seen this. Harej (talk) 18:47, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for pinning me. I missed this somehow.

I was writing under an assumption that the bot is looking for a URL and inserts its template right next to the link. So, if I move the template to a different place in the footnote, I expected the bot to re-insert the template in the same spot. If my assumption was wrong, I should be able to fix this by hand where necessary. It would probably be nice to add it to the FAQ.

The bot had being working for some time and I know only one more contributor to Ukrainian-language Wikipedia who was confused about the same issue. Let's continue with the bot running. Роман Рябенко (talk) 16:50, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

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trwiki arşivleme sorunu

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T307126

Bot arşivleme yaparken tarih kısmında "Mayıs" yazması gereken yerlere "Mayısısıs" yazıyor. Bir örneği şurada görülebilir: https://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krembo&type=revision&diff=27494875&oldid=24254237&diffmode=source LostMyMind (talk) 11:56, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

LostMyMind, thank you for your report. We are tracking the issue here. Harej (talk) 18:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

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SqWiki - Redundant parameters

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T307612

Has there been any kind of solution to clean up the redundancy IA Bot caused some months ago globally? This category for us used to have around 10 times less entries before that episode happened. We're still hoping for some kind of help considering our human resources are very limited. - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:08, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Regrettably, I began working on the solution, but it ended up slipping my mind when other matters arose. Thank you for reminding me. I will get right on it to get your issue resolved.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 06:29, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678, thank you! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 10:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

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Galician Wikipedia links

Hi InternetArchiveBot. In your latest editions of the Galician wikipedia I have observed that there are problems in the archived links, which create redundant elements in {{cite web}} templates. Could you check it please? Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (talk) 08:28, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Can you please provide an example? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 08:34, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Breogan2008 making sure you have seen this. Harej (talk) 18:47, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

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Please take a look at ZH WP

Nothing can be analyzed now. Please kindly check it. Thanks. Naiveandsilly (talk) 16:16, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Can you please provide more details? Most common issues for what you are experiencing is that you may have inadvertently loaded a different wiki. Please check the upper right menu bar and make sure your wiki is selected in the dropdown menu. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 02:00, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Probably related to the below sections? Mako001 (talk) 05:40, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Naiveandsilly, making sure you have seen this. Harej (talk) 18:16, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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Wishlist item: avoid causing named reference multiple cite errors

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T302917

As seen in this diff, when run on pages containing named references that are defined multiple times with identical content, IAbot only adds an archive link to the first appearance of each particular reference. This provokes angry bold red errors e.g. "Cite error: The named reference ":0" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page)." My workaround is to manually deduplicate the reference content, replacing later appearances with <ref name="foo" />. It would be nice, however, if IAbot by itself simply copied the same change to all duplicates, or ran some sort of reference content deduplication as seen in AutoWikiBrowser. I apologize if this would be difficult to implement; I just think it would be a nice feature to have. – Anon423 (talk) 06:29, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Anon423: This is actively being worked on. You can track the progress of this in the linked Phabricator ticket.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:25, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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Errors in your edits in Italian wikipedia

Hi there. I checked some of the last editions of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Italian wikipedia. The links you added are all referred to a wrong edition of the tournament. As an example have a look at my edit of the it:Australian Open 2014 here. Would you please use your bot to fix the other editions from 2010 to 2021? Thanks. --Carlo58s (talk) 09:55, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Your request is very unclear. Can you please elaborate?2A02:810D:13C0:35DC:3DBA:EC5C:4A52:4E35 06:25, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Carlo58s making sure you have seen this. Harej (talk) 18:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Harej Please take a look, with this edit] I remove the links posted by InternetArchiveBot because they were archived in 2009 or 2010 for a tournament played in 2014. And with my edit I replace them with correct links. --Carlo58s (talk) 18:50, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Carlo58s: I'm sorry, but, unfortunately, IABot has a limitation where it can only handle one snapshot of a URL, and one access time of a URL. If the access times of these URLs are updated to 2014 and subsequent snapshots are updated in the bot's DB, then the older snapshots will be removed. Addressing this requires a complete restructure of how the bot models its data internally. This is something that IABot 3 will seek to address down the road. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:30, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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www.webcitation.org

InternetArchiveBot adds archive links to the https://www.webcitation.org site, but the site appears to be down.--Yellow Horror (talk) 13:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

It's a bit of a tricky situation. We are considering invalidating the entire archive and replacing them with other working versions. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 06:28, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Pinging Yellow Horror.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:22, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

• It still adds unusable links to webcitation.org: example.--Yellow Horror (talk) 18:10, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

  @Yellow Horror: We are still waiting to see if WebCite will come back up or not. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:37, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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www.dr.dk again

Hi! In User_talk:InternetArchiveBot/Archive/2022#Why_whitelist_www.dr.dk? User:Harej said the domain has been taken off the list. When I check it today in https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=manageurldomain it tells me it is (still) whitelisted/permanent live. Also www.ft.dk is whitelisted and I can't change the status. I'm now an admin at da.wiki so I thought I could change the status. Do I need further user rights? --MGA73 (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@MGA73: Domain level whitelisting and delisting requires root level access. I can give you the specific permissions so you can modify the domain states as needed. Would you like to proceed? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:03, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Yes please. As I understand it a reason to whitelist a domain could be if the bot marks a lot of good links as dead. --MGA73 (talk) 09:51, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

@MGA73: I have given you the permissions on dawiki. Give it a try. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:41, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Seems to work fine. Thank you! --MGA73 (talk) 19:03, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Bot stalled (choking on job 9878?)

Batch job #9878 appears to have some sort of problem. It's currently listed as "Running", and the list of articles in the batch has just one entry; however, the progress bar, weirdly, shows it as having completed running on 2/1 articles (corresponding to what appears to be listed as a progress percentage of 200%, although this is mostly cut off by the right end of the progress bar). The progress bar is also red (indicating a stalled job).

Possibly coincidentally, or possibly not, the last batch job listed as completed is job #9872, which finished just a couple hours shy of twelve days ago. Of the five batch jobs currently listed as running (#9873, #9874, #9875, #9877, and the aforementioned #9878), only #9878 shows any work done (the anomalous results described in the first paragraph); #9873, #9874, #9875, and #9877 all appear to be stuck at straight zeros for pages modified and links analyzed/rescued/tagged. All five of these jobs have been in the pipeline since 6-7 April.

Could someone please take a look at this problem, figure out what's gone wrong, and unjam the bot? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 18:04, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Please visit phab:T308097 to learn more.--Q28 (talk) 09:53, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

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Stalled on job 9878

Hello, anyone here? https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=viewjob&id=9878 It has been stalled at Job 9878 for a few weeks now. Can this job be remotely killed? @Itcouldbepossible: Please could you try to kill this job and see if the bot restarts? Mako001 (talk) 05:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678 @Itcouldbepossible, redoing pings Mako001 (talk) 05:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Also pinging @Harej: Mako001 (talk) 12:02, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

@Mako001 Thanks for the ping. Yes, I remember about the job that I created. I thought I had made something wrong while creating the job, that was why the bot wasn't working. But it turns out that nothing was wrong from my side. Anyway, I killed the job. It was actually a test job created by me to know how the IA bot works. But how did you know about the job I created? Also pinging Whoop whoop pull up since he was also the one to bring up the issue. Can you please tell me how you figured out that I bot was stuck. My second question is, the list that of article that I created has only 1 article. I have seen users like Abductive and BrownHairedGirl work on these for long periods of time. They don't get their bot job stuck. Then why did my 1 article job work get hanged? Itcouldbepossible (talk) 13:21, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

That's she to you, and I found it by running through the queued jobs one-by-one until I found the one that'd stalled. Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 14:05, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure why it got stuck, but at a guess it might be due to the sheer size of the individual article and number of refs, which might have caused some sort of overflow? I don't think that you actually did anything that might have resulted in this little incident, besides being the unlucky one to discover the bug. I'd suggest leaving this open, as this is probably going to need some investigation on why the bot had a brain fart. Mako001 (talk) 15:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it is still stuck. Mako001 (talk) 15:18, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Should this section and the one above be merged? They discuss the same issue. Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 21:59, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

This is actively being investigated. Sorry it’s taking so long. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:51, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanx! While you're at it, any clue why individual-page runs are still working just fine even though batch jobs are jammed up? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 22:00, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

@Whoop whoop pull up: Yes, those are completely separate processes. One runs on-demand, and the other uses a batch of workers to process the jobs. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:20, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Any idea of an ETA for when IABot'll be up and running again? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 20:01, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Whoop whoop pull up, the issue has now been resolved. Harej (talk) 18:16, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Duplication in nowp

Please see this diff, showing that an archive url is added to a reference that already has an archive url (both web.archive.org). Different parameter names are used (arkiv-dato vs. arkivdato, arkiv-url vs. arkiv_url and død-lenke vs. dødlenke). - 4ing (talk) 20:35, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

@4ing: Can you confirm this is still happening in v2.0.8.7? A fix was released to address that. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:44, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

No, it seems that this occured in early April. I find approx. 120 occurences that haven't been fixed. - 4ing (talk) 16:40, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

@4ing: Check this no:Special:Diff/22598700. It adds "|død-lenke=no" == DeadURL or "nei". We had similar problems on da.wiki and we decided to import a new copy from en.wiki. --MGA73 (talk) 17:09, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Also "haven't fixed" do you mean that the problem still exist or do you mean that bot "haven't failed" (meaning it is now working correct)? --MGA73 (talk) 17:11, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Not fixed as in not rolled-back. - 4ing (talk) 17:56, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks 4ing. Are those all old errors or are any of those in v2.0.8.7? The problem with "DeadURL" is new. --MGA73 (talk) 19:15, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

There are 112 articles with the |død-lenke=no" == DeadURL or "nei error e.g. 2021-06-07 (v2.0.8) and 2022-05-15 (v2.0.8.7). In addition, there are also 112 articles with duplicate archive links. They seem to be dated from 2022-03-31 to 2020-04-16 (v2.0.8.7 from 2022-04-06). - 4ing (talk) 21:20, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

I've now deleted the two errors in the affected articles. - 4ing (talk) 21:09, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

@4ing: Sounds good. I think the important question now is if the bot makes any new errors like that or if the problem has been fixed. --MGA73 (talk) 09:41, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

@MGA73: The |død-lenke=no" == DeadURL or "nei error is persistent, with 5 new occurences since May 19. - 4ing (talk) 10:32, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

@4ing: We had the same problem on dawiki but when we changed da:Modul:Citation/CS1 that problem was solved. So I think it is a problem in the module and not with the bot. We can perhaps discuss on nowiki? --MGA73 (talk) 10:46, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

@MGA73: If this is a problem with no:Modul:Citation/CS1, I'm probably not the right person to discuss a solution. I assume User:Tholme should be able to help. - 4ing (talk) 07:18, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Bot broke imagemap

Hi there! Thanks for this useful tool! Unfortunately, in this commit it has inserted {{wayback}} template inside imagemap an broke it. Could you please advise, how this can be fixed? I can't use {{cbignore}} template after link, because it also breaks imagemap. Rdr3141 (talk) 08:18, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

@Rdr3141: Please see https://github.com/internetarchive/internetarchivebot/pull/65. Imagemap will be excluded in a future update to IABot. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:33, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:42, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

IABot rights

Question:

How do I get the iabot rights (to run jobs and such)? Thanks! Rusty4321 (talk) 23:03, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Rusty4321, you should have sufficient privileges, but you need to make sure "English Wikipedia" is selected from the wiki dropdown. Harej (talk) 18:38, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I thought I had enwiki selected but I guess I didn't. Rusty4321 (talk) 23:33, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:43, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Problem

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T295459

Hi, Iabot is not working on a specific page.–Owais Al Qarni (talk) 02:23, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Owais Al Qarni, please let us know which page and which wiki. Harej (talk) 18:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Harej: Bengali wiki, like bn:উবায়দুল হক.--Owais Al Qarni (talk) 18:43, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Harej:, use https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=runbotsingle&wiki=bnwiki&pagesearch=%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%95, with Also add archive to all non-invalid references & see.--Owais Al Qarni (talk) 18:47, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Now fixed.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:46, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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Progress bar broken?

For some currently-running jobs, the job-progress indicator shows a completion percentage greater than 100%, and much greater than the degree of progress indicated by looking at the list of articles to be run through; examples include 9894 (4938/4882 - 101.15% - at time of writing) and 9902 (487/416 - 117.07% - at time of writing). What's causing this? Is it indicative of a bigger problem (and, if so, is this another potential bot-jammer)? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 19:30, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Whoop whoop pull up: Progress bar is now fixed. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 03:28, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 03:29, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Archive to archive

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T310212

Please check the bot (on pl wiki). [6] [7] etc. Adding archive to templates with archive.is/org links in url does not look correct (archive links can be in url). Elfhelm (talk) 17:04, 6 April 2022 (UTC) (Blocked for 3 days on pl).

Hi, Please check the bot (on ar wiki) too. Thanks.--جار الله (talk) 08:23, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi - same problem still on pl wiki [8] (blocked for 1 months). Please check the bot to stop changing templates using url with archive.org / archive.is (today, ph, fo) links. Thanks! Elfhelm (talk) 17:49, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

This is actively being investigated. I just want to make a note here that this request isn't being ignored. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 01:59, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Elfhelm, to give you an update, we had developed a solution to this problem that had introduced new bugs. Unfortunately, this means it will take more time to fix. If you would like to follow along on our progress, we are documenting it here in Phabricator. In the meantime I am going to close this thread. Harej (talk) 18:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Harej Thx. I've been watching T310212 in Phabricator and (if solved :)) I will unblock the bot on pl wiki. Elfhelm (talk) 18:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

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Russian template "Книга"

There are parameters "archiveurl" and "archivedate" in the template ru:Шаблон:Книга of Russian Wikipedia. So, no need of additional "Wayback" template as in this diff.--Yellow Horror (talk) 13:28, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

@Yellow Horror: there was an underlying issue causing this problem which has since been fixed, but you also need to update the Template Data on that template itself, so the bot knows to use the parameters. I checked and there is no mention about these parameters in the template data or the Citoid data.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:44, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:21, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Live vs dead, bad edit summary

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steele_dossier&diff=next&oldid=1090179441&diffmode=source

Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.8) (Jurta - 9892)

But they are dead and, contrary to the edit summary, are marked as dead. Otherwise, do not add archive links for live links at Steele dossier, just as at Donald Trump. -- Valjean (talk) 23:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Valjean, what that edit summary means is that the bot is not marking any additional links as dead, which is a correct description of the edit being made here. Harej (talk) 18:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Still adds non-working links to www.webcitation.org

Diff.--Yellow Horror (talk) 09:07, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Yellow Horror, we are aware of issues with webcitation.org and are discussing options to replace its usage. Harej (talk) 18:29, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:25, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Who runs this bot?

??? WebWyyzrd (talk) 06:15, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

WebWyyzrd, this bot is run by myself and Cyberpower678 on behalf of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization in the United States. Harej (talk) 19:21, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:25, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Metacritic

There is a citation template that was created in February 2020 on the English Wikipedia for citing Metacritic pages. However, this bot does not seem to recognize it and ignores citations that use that template when analyzing articles, even when the option for adding archive links to citations that aren't dead is checked. Could you configure this bot to allow it to recognize this template and add archive links to citations that have this template when the option is checked? Lazman321 (talk) 00:26, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Lazman321, we will not be able to support this template any time soon, as the full URL is not visible to the bot. Harej (talk) 18:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:26, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Errors in your robot's edits in Chinese Wikipedia

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T309728

Recently, your robot didn't add a dead-url=no parameter when add archive to a live link, as a result, the original link is treated as a dead link by default.

For example: [9]

--Kcx36 (talk) 12:47, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

@Kcx36: Thank you for the report. I'm investigating a different, but related issue. I will look into this while I am at it. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:52, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Any updates? -222.166.104.40 03:35, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

You may follow the linked Phabricator ticket on the right for updates. We appreciate your patience. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:52, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

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The bot wrongly claims a link is dead

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T309730

Hi, I'm shown a permission error, but I wanted to report that this bot wrongfully reported a dead link in [change] and [change]. Jero~nlwiki (talk) 07:19, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

It wrongly reports almost any references last 2 or 3 months. Xcite (talk) 09:48, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Jero~nlwiki and Xcite, thank you for your report. We are currently tracking the issue on Phabricator. Harej (talk) 18:12, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:09, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Issue

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T310735

In this edit the IABot marked 15 citations as dead, but the urls are alive and need a subscription to access as already noted with |url-access=subscription . I tried to report this through a link above but ran into a permissions error. Kaltenmeyer (talk) 21:32, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your report Kaltenmeyer. We are tracking the issue here. Harej (talk) 18:20, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:10, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Listing non-archived links

Is there a possibility to exclude non-archivable links from being continously "saved" by the bot?

There are several websites that, even though technically have their webpages archived by Internet Archive, just create an archived blank or error page. Here, for example, the bot archives a webpage from www.makorrishon.co.il, while all the pages from this website are saved by WayBack Machine as blank (I do not have a sufficient technical expertise to understand the exact reason, I think it happens due to the fact that the website runs some sort of protection initially opening its pages as blank pages and uploading the contect only following a refresh).

Another example is www.nli.org.il website upolading historic newspapers, WayBack Machine does not manage to archive those pages, maybe because of the script used by the page, it just indexes the pages with error notification, and the bot "saves" those error pages. However, the bot still comes to "save" those links only to provide an archived error page.

Reverting bot's "saves" in such cases does not prevent the bot from returning to the article to "save" the non-archived links yet again. It is not about a specific page, it is about either adjusting the way WayBack Machine approaches these sites (in order to prevent wasting resources on indexing unarchivable pages) or creating a list of web resources the bot will not aim to "save".

Thanks and keep up your (generally) good work. -- Prokurator11 (talk) 08:07, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Prokurator11, unfortunately, these kinds of false archives are hard to detect. In individual instances you can add {{cbignore}} immediately after the URL and the bot will ignore it. Harej (talk) 18:33, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:11, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Lint errors: Links in links

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T309448

Greetings, it is detected in some articles "Links in links" in Simple English Wikipedia. This has occurred in some references. Thanks.--Anibal Maysonet (talk) 03:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Anibal Maysonet for your report. We are tracking the issue on Phabricator. Harej (talk) 18:46, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

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?#

https://ru.wikipedia.org/?diff=123806229 missing "?" Also it's js, maybe such links don't work at all Jaguar K (talk) 15:20, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

@Jaguar K: The removal of "?" shouldn't pose an issue for the original URLs, but the non-standard use of "#" in the URL does, unfortunately, render the archives useless. It might be worthwhile using archive.today links instead. Harej (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

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An unsuccessful edit by the bot

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T312283

this edit changed six links giving them the title "Arkiverade kopian". Possibly because a misspelling in the parameter "title" instead of "titel" in the original link. Please look into this. Thanks! And thanks for providing an important service! --Bensin (talk) 19:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Bensin, thank you for your report. We could not find an immediate solution to this problem so we are tracking it in Phabricator. Harej (talk) 18:46, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 22:38, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Title

Links with no title https://ru.wikipedia.org/?diff=123806229 have "|title=Архивированная копия". Maybe it's possible to insert real page's title? If not, I think will be better e.g. "|title=Источник" Jaguar K (talk) 15:25, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Jaguar K, at this time, it is not possible for the bot to directly pull the page title. If I can ask, is there a reason why "Источник" is better? I am not sure that would be clearer. Harej (talk) 18:31, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Ruwiki have diffenrence from en/meta cite web template, and "title" is title of source page (always), see markup in references section. Jaguar K (talk) 19:26, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

@Jaguar K: I changed the setting to use "Источник" instead. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:13, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Cannot archive non-dead link in en:United States

The bot does not work when I use the single-page function, but in bot job mode it cannot archive non-dead link either. What should I do so that the single-page function works again? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 09:41, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

@CactiStaccingCrane: unfortunately, your report is too vague for me to understand the issue. What exactly is it not doing, that it should be doing? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:22, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Bot errors

Hello! Check your bot. In BeWiki, it marks working links as dead. Odri Tiffani (talk) 16:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

This report is too non-specific. I recommend using this tool to report incorrectly marked dead links, as that is the easiest and quickest way to fix the bot, as all reports auto-correct the bot. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:26, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Bot attempting to rescue a dead URL using a broken archive

Sometimes, Wayback Machine records as page as having been archived, but fails to actually capture all of the content of the page. On en:List of Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS (North America), there is a citation to a page on Nintendo.com that used to list all of the Virtual Console games. This particular page has many recorded archives in Wayback Machine, but they don't actually include the page content. Unfortunately, the page no longer includes the content that was the basis of the citation, and it is permanently dead. This bot tries to rescue the dead link using Wayback Machine, despite that page not having the claimed content. Is there any way to tag this URL as un-rescueable? SnorlaxMonster (talk) 06:50, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

@SnorlaxMonster: you can use this tool to manipulate the information the bot uses to make that determination. There you can change the archive URL with a usable archive, or remove it entirely, prompting the bot to mark it un-rescueable. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:32, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Access to citetemplates config

@Harej: I still cannot access citation templates config page https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=systemconfig&systempage=citetemplates without getting "Permission error".

Asked for the permission here: Citation templates configuration page for etwiki Kaniivel (talk) 22:05, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

@Kaniivel: sorry about that, when you responded to the section, you forgot to remove the section resolved template, which caused us to miss your response, and a bot to archive it. I have unarchived the section. I have asked you a follow up question on the now un-archived section. Feel free to respond here, or there.  :-) —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:36, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Cyrillization of archivedate in uk-wiki

An example ("archivedate=2022-04-09" turns into "archivedate=9 квітня 2022"). Such changes are harmful. They do not affect visible text (Cite web template automatically shows 2022-04-09 as 9 квітня 2022), but make the code non-machine-readable (which, for example, impedes transferring of references to other language versions). Sneeuwschaap (talk) 02:49, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

@Sneeuwschaap: I have added ISO support to the list of recognized date formats and made it the default for ukwiki. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:52, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Sneeuwschaap (talk) 20:10, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Citation templates configuration page for etwiki

Hi Cyberpower678, can I get the access to the templates configuration page? You already gave the access to user Pikne (https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia_arutelu:Saatkond/Arhiiv_7) and he has configured the settings (which is well). I would just like to double check. Kaniivel (talk) 21:06, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Kaniivel, please read InternetArchiveBot/Documentation/Configuring citation maps and let us know when you have done so. Harej (talk) 18:51, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Harej, I have read the page that you indicated. Kaniivel (talk) 10:28, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

@Kaniivel: do you have any questions? Is there anything you don't understand about the document? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:12, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Not everything is 100% clear, but think I can just test things as I go. This is what I usually do with similar manuals in my daily job as a software developer. Kaniivel (talk) 16:23, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't think the model of testing as you go is a particularly good one here, as changes you make are applied to production. It's probably better to ask if you are uncertain about any changes you are trying to make. I have gone ahead and granted you access to configuration page on etwiki. Please remember that a mistake can have adverse consequences on IABot for etwiki. Please check to make sure you have access to the page and let me know if you have any issues or questions.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:58, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

@Kaniivel: Ping for above response.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:03, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

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permanent dead link en:Ariane 6

The Bot marked a link as permanent dead, but the link is still working. Barny22 (talk) 17:42, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Pinging user GreenC as this is a result of his bot setting this URL to a permadead state. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 07:18, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Caused by a known bug now fixed. This particular URL was fixed on July 22nd: [10] -- GreenC (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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re-block on fawiki

Hi. I blocked this bot on Persian Wikipedia because the parameter issues are still present. see this thread for ongoing discussions and this diff for example. Jeeputer (talk) 12:48, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

@Jeeputer: The block on fawiki was completely unnecessary as another user had already shut it off 10 hours before. In general, blocking the bot is not necessary as it is better to turn it off by following the instructions on the user page. I request the bot be unblocked. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 12:58, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

@Jeeputer: Making sure you saw this. Can you please unblock the bot as it is already disabled?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:03, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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url-status=unfit

Recently IABot started to use the value "unfit" for the url-status parameter on nlwiki (named 'dodeurl' locally), but the citation templates have not been adapted for this change, causing dead links to be shown instead of archived ones. Was there an announcement to the community about this change? If so, when and where? If not, please don't use "unfit" until we got the chance to adapt our templates. Also, where are the possible url-status values documented? bdijkstra (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

@Bdijkstra: Please have a look at nl:Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration which, according to it, supports that value. It's supposed tell the template to hide the original URL and only render the archive URL to the readers. If it's not doing that, you will need to fix the module to support that value, or remove the value, as well as "usurped" and "bot: unknown" from the configuration to keep the bot from using them. The bot adapts it's behavior based on what's present in the module configuration. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:10, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

The Dutch implementation isn't based on Module:Citation, but fixed them anyway. Mbch331 (talk) 14:24, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Where is it documented what these values mean? bdijkstra (talk) 14:57, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

@Bdijkstra: Please see en:Template:Cite_web#URL since the module was imported from enwiki. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:00, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I should have asked my question more clearly, I meant to ask it in the context of the behaviour of IABot. In other words: does IABot distinguish between 'dead', 'usurped for the purposes of spam or advertising' and 'otherwise unsuitable'? bdijkstra (talk) 15:52, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

@Bdijkstra: Since they are functionally different, the answer is yes. Keywords like 'dead', 'yes', 'y', 'true', 'ja' are treated as a dead, while keywords like 'live','no','n',etc... treats the original URL as alive. Keywords like 'unfit', 'usurped', 'bot: unknown' treats the original URL with uncertainty, but assumed dead. It also tells the bot the original URL is hidden from view and should remain that way. Does this help? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:29, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Not really. I'm (still) talking about IABot writing template parameters to a page. I'd like to know how it chooses a value like 'dead' or 'unfit'. I understand it picks them from the CS1 module, but how does it decide the meaning of the options (what if we add a Dutch translation of 'unfit') and why it suddenly started using 'unfit' instead of 'ja'. bdijkstra (talk) 17:25, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

@Bdijstra: IABot generally uses the dead value. It will use unfit, or bot: unknown in cases where the archive URL was present in the URL field and the bot is moving it to the correct archive URL field. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:27, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, that answers my question. bdijkstra (talk) 11:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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The problem change

This change hr:Special:Diff/5999396 is the problem change because en:WP:NOTDATABASE. The item line with URI would be removed. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 18:35, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Dušan Kreheľ, thank you for your report. I am not sure what you mean. It is true Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate database, but how is that relevant to the edit the bot made? Harej (talk) 18:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

@Harej: As English page variant: The dead link in the section Nitra#External_links are deleted, but Your bot does archiving. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 19:32, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

The bot runs on a policy of making non-destructive edits. Deleting URLs is a destructive action. It should be left to the human to decide whether or not it should be deleted. Until that time, the bot will supplement the URL with a working archive of the URL, as the objective of the bot is to make dead links still readily accessible via archives, as much as possible. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 08:46, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: If you are afraid of destruction, in that case just comment the item or the bot don't change it.

Your bot change is wrong, but it's not a tragedy. It's a unprofessional change (for the reader). Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 12:17, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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Misfunction causing broken references

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T309448

I noticed that in this edit, the bot has broken the reference by adding the Wayback template directly after the URL, when it should have done it like this. There are other examples as well: 1, 2, 3, 4. Could you fix the bot so it doesn't repeat this error, and if possible also fix the existing broken references that the bot has caused? Thanks, TommiWalle (talk) 21:37, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

The bot has continued to make problematic edits: [11][12][13][14]. I have disabled the bot in fiwiki until this problem is resolved. --TommiWalle (talk) 17:26, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

TommiWalle, thank you for your report. We are tracking the issue on Phabricator; it seems to affect multiple wikis. Once this is resolved we can look into doing more tests on Finnish Wikipedia. Harej (talk) 18:09, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:46, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Reference do Internetového archivu

Dobrý den, zprvu se omlouvám, že píši česky, bohužel neumím anglicky. Na české Wikipedii jsem narazil na tyto dvě editace bota: wikipedia:cs:Speciální:Rozdíl/21534531 a wikipedia:cs:Speciální:Rozdíl/21534536. Šlo o reference přímo do Internetového archivu, tedy nebylo vhodné, aby je bot opravoval (periodikum = Wayback Machine, vydavatel = Internet Archive, datum vydání = datum archivace v Internetovém archivu). Marek Genius (talk) 16:59, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

@Marek Genius: I don't see a problem with this edit. The bot is enforcing the proper usage of the template by moving the archive URL to the correct spot on the template.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:11, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Dobrý den. Jde o to, že tyto reference citovaly přímo Internet Archive, nikoliv původní dokument. Šablona tedy měla následující podobu:

• {{Citace elektronického periodika | titul = "nějaký název" | periodikum = Wayback Machine | odkaz_na_periodikum = Wayback Machine | vydavatel = Internet Archive | odkaz_na_vydavatele = Internet Archive | url = https://web.archive.org/web/"nějaké datum"/"nějaké URL" | datum_vydání = "nějaké datum archivace pomocí Internet Archive"}}</nowiki>

Kdežto reference na původní dokument by vypadala takto:

• {{Citace elektronického periodika | titul = "nějaký název" | periodikum = "název časopisu, nikoliv Wayback Machine" | odkaz_na_periodikum = "název časopisu" | vydavatel = "vydavatel časopisu, nikoliv Internet Archive" | odkaz_na_vydavatele = "vydavatel časopisu" | url = "nějaké URL" | datum_vydání = "datum vydání časopisu, nikoliv datum archivace"}}.

Podobné problémy jsem objevil také na stránce wikipedia:cs:Speciální:Rozdíl/21554492, wikipedia:cs:Speciální:Rozdíl/21549774, wikipedia:cs:Speciální:Rozdíl/21549765 nebo wikipedia:cs:Speciální:Rozdíl/21581216. Marek Genius (talk) 23:57, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Prostě by asi měla existovat nějaká výjimka pro případy, kdy parametr periodikum nebo parametr vydavatel je vyplněno jako Wayback Machine nebo Internet Archive. Marek Genius (talk) 06:04, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

@Marek Genius: Some points of information, the Wayback Machine is not a periodical and Internet Archive is not a publisher of said periodicals. You need to be citing the original name of the periodical and its original publisher. The Wayback Machine is only a repository of past copies of websites. If the original URL is dead, it should still be cited. IABot is simply enforcing that. Unfortunately, I still don't see any reason to add an exception for this.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:08, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Warning, You changes violates US law (more precisely, plagiarism, [good] name of the author of the original work). Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 08:13, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. Please don't make unqualified remarks. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 08:40, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: I looked at the errors in more detail. It's not your fault. Sorry. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 15:20, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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About the bots contribution

Hi, I want to report that I notice that one action of the bot in the article "Gioan Baotixita Nguyễn Bá Tòng" at viwiki [15] is not right. The bot switch the archive links to the original link that no longer exist. Is this a problem that could be fixed? ThiênĐế98 (talk) 02:40, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

@ThiênĐế98: Actually this is intended behavior. The original URL needs to be placed in the URL field. The archive URL needs to be placed in the archive URL field. The bot in turn has also set the url-status to "bot: unknown" to hide the original URL from public view. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 08:43, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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Duplicate archive links on nowiki

Please see diff [16] (line 48) for problem with duplicate archive links from problem in July. I also got a new diff from 15. august with the same problem.[17] I'm working on updating the CS1-modules with support for both no:Template:cite web, and no:Template:kilde www, but I'm not quite finished yet. Hopefully this will make it easier to make the bot work as it should? I have redisabled the bot. Tholme (talk) 23:29, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

@Tholme: If you add the English variants of those aliases to the existing CS1 configuration, it should fix your problem. IABot should be able to deduce the non-CS1 template parameters correctly. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:07, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 18:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

False archive link with '#'

Thanks for you wonderful work. I noticed there is an issue when the original link has '#'. For example, in your edit [18], for the line 131, the page https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/#/detail/194944231 (which was created in August 2022) got the archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20190520044718/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/#/detail/194944231 which redirects to an archived blank page in May 2019. 生米一粒 (talk) 09:07, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

生米一粒, thank you for your report. Unfortunately there is not much we can do here, since this is a non-standard use of "#" in the URL. Harej (talk) 20:13, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Harej, Thank you for the information. 生米一粒 (talk) 13:33, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 22:01, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Emoticon "://3" misdetected as an URL

Hi! In this edit, it looks like the bot thought that ://3 was an URL and added the {{Dead link}} template to it. 91.129.105.153 15:25, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello 91.129.105.153, this edit should prevent the problem from happening again in the future. Harej (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

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False positive flag ignored

On 2022-03-14, I reported the https://cz.linkedin.com/in/pavlahorakova URL as a false positive, as IABot kept marking is as dead in cs:Pavla Horáková. Nevertheless, the bot marked the URL as dead again on 2022-06-05. Mormegil (cs) 07:52, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Mormegil, this should now be fixed. Harej (talk) 20:43, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:32, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Operation on English Wikivoyage

Hello. An operator of this bot may wish to join a discussion that I have started in Wikivoyage:Travellers' pub. In many cases links are provided on Wikivoyage so that readers can get up to date information on travel resources. In some cases, I think that it may be more useful for readers to get the dead link rather than an archived page. If the bus company has stopped running the 21 bus, it is more useful to see their error message and from there look for a suitable service, rather than seeing the bus that I could have used last year. AlasdairW (talk) 22:41, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

I've indef blocked that bot as an unauthorized script. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 10:54, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

@SHB2000: The bot is an approved global bot. Please point me to your local policy that supersedes such an approval.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 11:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Per Bot policy/Implementation, enwikivoyage allows global bots.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 11:38, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

This discussion has continued on Wikivoyage where it has come to an amicable resolution. I am going to close this thread. Harej (talk) 18:15, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

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access-dates

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T317239

Where is it getting this access date from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=.nu&diff=next&oldid=1095476830 Also, it should not be adding access-dates that are newer than the archive, and doubly so for dead pages. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:26, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

AManWithNoPlan, the access date is drawn from the revision history if it was not already explicitly stated in the citation template. Harej (talk) 20:37, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Which is not when the URL was added to the page, but when the Bot itself added the archive in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=.nu&type=revision&diff=1085506480&oldid=1080006781 Also, the bot does not take into account copy/paste etc. I suggest that the bot never add an access date that is later then the archive - especially for dead links. This access date is completely wrong. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:03, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

AManWithNoPlan, before the bot added the archive link, the URL existed in the article with an HTTPS scheme. The bot added a link to an archive with an HTTP scheme. Then, someone removed the original URL, which prompted the bot to convert the webarchive template to a cite web template, and the new access date is based on the archive date of the HTTP version. We are tracking the underlying bug on Phabricator. Harej (talk) 20:27, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:17, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

archiving login page of subscription site

Hi. I've tried to fix this but I don't have any permissions to do so. The bot is archiving the login pages of British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site. See [19] for an example. Secretlondon (talk) 22:06, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Secretlondon, thank you for your report. We have purged the archives for that particular domain, so they will not be used again. For pages you ran the bot on yourself, you will need to remove those links manually. Harej (talk) 20:48, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Apparently there are some free to view pages, but I don't know the details. It is possible we might want to archive some pages from that site, but obviously not the login page. Secretlondon (talk) 16:50, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

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Template:Wayback in Russian Wikipedia

The bot is having problems (or maybe actually causing problems) with the ru:template:Wayback in Russian Wikipedia. Just one illustration: here it adds a bunch of templates to the external links that already have archived copies; and then here in the same article it converts the template it created earlier the same day into quasi-links with a title "Источник" ("Source"). Another similar example can be found here Pretty sure it needs a look by a specialist. I am unaware of such problems in other Wikipedia languages but they deserve a check as well since the template exists in multiple Wikipedias. Deinocheirus (talk) 23:41, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

• P.S. I now see that 2 previous topics, also created today, address the same issue. --Deinocheirus (talk) 23:43, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
  • Deinocheirus))) Я сюда каждый месяц пишу, только ничего не меняется. Например, бот продолжает уничтожать чужие архивы. Причём часто заменяет дохлыми (в списке верхушка айсберга). Ботоводов надо переучивать, никакой ответственности. 185.16.138.123 02:46, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
  • У бота конечно феноменальные способности по захламлению историй. И таких тысяч пять уже точно. А сообщество терпит и дела ему нет. 185.16.138.123 03:00, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
    • Deinocheirus, we have mass-reverted edits like this going back to September 8 and will be deploying a patch later today to fix this bug. The bot will be re-enabled once this fix is in effect. Harej (talk) 20:35, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
      • Thanks! --Deinocheirus (talk) 22:07, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

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Bot marking links as dead when they actually aren't

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T316155

Hi, it was reported on the Finnish Wikipedia that the bot is marking links to hs.fi as dead when they actually aren't dead ([20]. Hs.fi just redirects to a page where you can buy the digi version of the newspaper and read the article, and those who have an account can open the original link without problems. So those should not be marked as dead. Stryn (talk) 05:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Stryn, thank you for the report. We are tracking the issue here. Harej (talk) 20:20, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, a similar case occurred in the esperanto wikipedia, with this link to a picture: http://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/EC/ecx/consult.aspx?image=090025539061142, that takes a few seconds to be loaded in a firefox browser. I reverted the change manually but the bot again reintroduced the error a few months later, see: [[21]] Shall I wait until the issue is fixed at the bot level before reverting again? --Vinkomarkov (talk) 08:20, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Vinkomarkov, we tried loading the link so it did not load at all, and this corroborates what the bot is reporting. Do you know if there are any restrictions to accessing this content? Harej (talk) 20:19, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Harej,

I rechecked and actually the connection procedure for this website is designed for human beings, presumably to avoid the data being pumped by robots for commercial purposes.

The data is publicaly accessible through the main page of the website. Here you can either create a free account, or enter unlogged but with limited functionalities trough the « Entrer » button (what I did) :

[22]https://sallevirtuelle.cotesdarmor.fr/SA/sax/connexion.aspx

Then you have to accept the usage condition, in french. Among others, they mention that the page should be cited in the following format :

Archives départementales des Côtes-d'Armor, reference number, date or last update.

Hopefully after this two steps the link would be working.

Vinkomarkov (talk) 20:00, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Vinkomarkov, as it turns out, the website in question is geo-restricted. I was not able to access any content on that domain until I used a French proxy. Because of this, we have marked the cotesdarmor.fr domain as "permalive," so the bot will not touch those links. Harej (talk) 20:19, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Harej! I just corrected the link in the Esperanto version, indicating it is available only from France (supposing experimented user will get that they can use a french proxy, if interested).--Vinkomarkov (talk) 17:16, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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Pages that bot cannot save correctly

InternetArchiveBot archives pages that it cannot save correctly. For example, www.etomesto.ru (site with old maps) (1 edit , [23] edit). Could you stop it or use archive.today (only for this site)?
P.S. Was bug reporting tool (FAQ) turned off? Proeksad (talk) 13:42, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

GreenC, we should switch this domain to use archive.today. Harej (talk) 20:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

This site has too much interactive no archive works very well even Webrecorder. It's now cfg so no archives will be added, automatically, but users can still add archives. --GreenC (talk) 21:48, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks, then you won't archive www.etomesto.ru (and also loadmap.net too, edit, edit; maybe some more)? Invalid archives this bot does not remove? see, OK @Harej--Proeksad (talk) 21:20, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Proeksad, we have expunged the archives for loadmap.net as well. Harej (talk) 20:28, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:02, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Rearchiving archived link

Bot tried to rearchive already archived link. Well very well (talk) 17:51, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Well very well, we have mass-reverted edits like this going back to September 8 and will be deploying a patch later today to fix this bug. The bot will be re-enabled once this fix is in effect. Harej (talk) 20:33, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:02, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Bug

[24]. And see old diff. 185.16.138.123 22:34, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

We have mass-reverted edits like this going back to September 8 and will be deploying a patch later today to fix this bug. The bot will be re-enabled once this fix is in effect. Harej (talk) 20:34, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:02, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Redirects for dead link tag not resolved

Here IAB readds the dead link tag: et:Special:Diff/6193906. It appears that the bot no longer recognizes redirected template title. This didn't happen before as far as I can remember and the docs also say that it "automatically resolves the redirects". Similarly, here it adds an archive link, and doesn't remove the (redirected) dead link tag: et:Special:Diff/6193923.

Additionally, that's probably a different issue, but a few months ago I tried this in dead link template syntax: {permadead:jah;;yes:ei;;no}. The docs suggest that permadead variable should work in dead link template syntax the same way it works in citation template syntax, but the result was this: et:Special:Diff/6129156 (local language "jah" and English "yes" not split at double semi-colon). Pikne 16:19, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Pikne, this is probably part of a global operational issue with the bot, rather than something specific to Estonian Wikipedia. We have taken the bot down while we investigate this. Harej (talk) 20:23, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:04, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Request to remove all edits of the bot in vepwiki for the last 24 hours

Reason: The bot replaced all links with archived links instead of adding archived links, and none of the linked sites now work. The bot acted as an epic vandal. -- Koiravva (talk) 15:54, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Koiravva, all edits on Veps Wikipedia have been reverted. Harej (talk) 00:44, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:04, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Any estimate as for how long the bot'll be down?

Is there any ETA available on how long it'll take till IABot's back up and running? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 18:26, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Whoop whoop pull up, we do not have an ETA at this time, but we think it should take at least one week to address. User-submitted jobs through the management interface are still available. Harej (talk) 20:25, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Whoop whoop pull up, we just brought the bot back up and believe it is working now. Harej (talk) 22:17, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

nokiarevolution.com (usurped)

To note that the domain nokiarevolution.com has been usurped by spambots  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:00, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

billinghurst, domain has been marked permadead. Harej (talk) 20:17, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

"Add archives to all non-dead references" for bot jobs

Will there be an option to "add archives to all non-dead references" when submitting a bot job to run on multiple pages (this page)? aside from that, thank you for developing this wonderful bot! Theknine2 (talk) 10:04, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Theknine2, that is not an option at this time. It may be an option in a future version. Harej (talk) 20:19, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

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Resend confirmation email?

I can’t find the confirmation email. I also do not see a way to resend it. How would I do so? Awkwafaba (talk) 12:28, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Awkwafaba, you can check your spam filter for the email, but if it is not there, you can remove the email address you added and then re-add it, and that should re-send the confirmation email. Harej (talk) 20:20, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

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ruleml.org

Domain has been closed down/abandoned, maybe moved? Not at this url anyway  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

billinghurst, the ruleml.org domain and most of the subdomains have been marked as permadead. (2016.ruleml.org somehow still works). Harej (talk) 20:25, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Non-default parameter mapping for a citation template disappeared

A few months ago I entered parameter mapping for localized "Netiviide" citation template in etwiki via IAB web interface. Since September 27th, after recent bot hiatus, this mapping was gone. So bot instead used default mapping from CS1 module config where parameters are not localized by default. I now re-entered the mapping. Is it expected that manually entered parameter mappings are automatically "refreshed" from time to time? If so, then how to avoid this in future? Pikne 21:04, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Pikne, this was not intended behavior but part of a broader system issue. This has now been fixed. Harej (talk) 21:04, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 22:59, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

webpage with restricted access is marked as dead

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T319241

webpage is marked as dead. what should i do if i encounter with similar issues. —Jindam vani (talk) 06:12, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your report, Jindam vani. We were able to identify a bug and we are tracking it on Phabricator. If you find other occurrences of this or other bugs, please feel free to report here. Harej (talk) 18:08, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:13, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Cannot find the edit summary string in TranslateWiki

Hello,

I looked at the Translatewiki strings for Internet Archive Bot, but I couldn’t find the edit summary string, something like (Rescuing X sources and tagging Y as dead.) #IABot (vZ). Can you please tell me where it is? Huñvreüs (talk) 12:13, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Huñvreüs, you can find that string (and more) in the management interface. Harej (talk) 20:40, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

@Harej: I have no idea what to do with this interface. Can you please just tell me how I can translate that string? Huñvreüs (talk) 06:23, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Or if you can update the translation yourself, here is a Breton version: ‎(O saveteiñ X mammenn hag o tikedenniñ Y evel marv.) #IABot (sZ). Huñvreüs (talk) 10:58, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

It should be updated now.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:45, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Huñvreüs (talk) 08:22, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

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IABot unable to archive twitter links using the template "cite tweet"

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T274704

I have noticed that the IABot seems to be unable to add archive urls to references using the "en:Template:Cite_tweet" or "en:Template:Cite_twitter" (both the same) reference templates. It seems to be capable of adding archive urls to twitter references in the standard "cite web" template. I was wondering if this is something the developers could consider implementing? I recognize twitter is not a great source (en:WP:TWITTER) but that does not stop authors from using it. Thanks. - Caddyshack01 (talk) 15:17, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Caddyshack01, we are aware of the issue and hope to address it at some point. The issue is that from the bot's point of view, there isn't a URL in the wiki syntax so it does not think one is there. Harej (talk) 20:38, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:33, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Link marked as dead easily repaired

I'm not sure if this is something that can be automatically corrected. At la:Varietates capsicorum, visited by IA Bot just now, I have easily restored a link marked as dead. It was to an article in PNAS. The old link was this. The new, functioning link is this: easily created by removing the element "/full". Andrew Dalby (talk) 09:03, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Andrew Dalby, thank you for the report, that is good to know. For what it's worth, that type of correction is typically out of scope for the bot. Harej (talk) 20:41, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

OK, I suspected that. No problem, I can search for similar references and correct them if needed. Andrew Dalby (talk) 13:00, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 19:33, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Tracking

Hi. Is there a way to change locally the message used on article talk pages that informs about broken link? Because I'd really like to add a tracking category. IKhitron (talk) 01:52, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@IKhitron: Yes, you can go to https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=wikiconfig and make the changes there. Make sure you are editing the configuration for the correct wiki. You can see this in the upper right of the menu bar.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:46, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Well, I get a permission error. IKhitron (talk) 21:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@IKhitron: are you an administrator of the wiki you are trying to configure?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:56, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Interface administrator. IKhitron (talk) 18:06, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, you need to be a member of the sysop group to access the page. You can ask someone to do it for you.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:11, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Weird. IA should do these things. And admin shouldn't, if they aren't IA. Very well, I will. Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 22:58, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

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Management interface down?

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T319803

For the past few hours, my attempts to access the management interface have run into nothing but "503 Service Unavailable" errors; is the management interface down for anyone else? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 18:14, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@Whoop whoop pull up: Wikimedia Cloud services is trying to migrate all Toolforge users to a new Webserver backend. This backend is apparently not ready for mainstream use. I have reverted to the previous backend for the time being.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:42, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: IABot seems to still inaccessible at this time. Did the old backend come up when you reverted, or has it since gone down again? Sideswipe9th (talk) 22:39, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Still down for me as well. Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 23:54, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Update - the management interface is working again, at least for now. Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 02:21, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

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Cite error in fiwiki

Hello. This edit caused a cite error, because bot removed content from reference. Why bot removed content from reference? Huusmik (talk) 14:23, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

@Huusmik: I don't exactly know what that particular edit triggered such an odd reference error, but the simply de-duped the reference. If you search for ref name="minregion.gov.ua-17.7.2020" in the page source, you will see an identical reference already exists.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:55, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 15:11, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Eurosport

Along with I'm sure a lot of websites, access to Eurosport.com is Geoblocked. When the bot runs on the page, it does archive the website, but the archived site is always in the form https://web.archive.org/web/20220109112515/https://www.eurosport.com/geoblocking.shtml. Is there any way to block the bot from triying to archive this link? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:10, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Lee Vilenski, the archives have been removed from the bot's database, so it should no longer use them. Harej (talk) 20:52, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Bot placing templates inside each other causing cite error

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T321365

This edit was made by the IABot causing a references error, due to the parameter "arkivurl" being split into two pieces between the Wayback template. This edit has been made by the bot on about 100 other pages with the Astragalus species family name. ExplainsTrains (talk) 09:34, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

ExplainsTrains, thank you for the report. We are keeping track of this bug on Phabricator. Harej (talk) 22:05, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

https://archive.ph/ useful too

Hello! Can InternetArchiveBot be set to search also at https://archive.ph/ ? Pages that the IAB has flagged as dead sources, I found them there, archived. Accipiter Gentilis Q. (talk) 06:05, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Accipiter Gentilis Q., I can confirm InternetArchiveBot uses archive.today/archive.is (archive.ph is an alternate domain) as one of its archive providers. Harej (talk) 17:19, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

@Harej: I understand that archive.ph will not be able to be used, just like archive.today/archive.is are used?Accipiter Gentilis Q. (talk) 21:05, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Accipiter Gentilis Q., archive.ph, archive.today, and archive.is are identical. They are the same service. Harej (talk) 21:09, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

@Harej: so, let's use https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecaterina_Teodoroiu_(film_din_1978) on Romanian Wikipedia... As you can see here, IAB did not find the archived reference and marked the link as broken, even though it was archived at arhive.ph: https://archive.ph/uPFTU Accipiter Gentilis Q. (talk) 21:28, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

wp.atj : Bot keep on changing URLs

Hello ! For now, there is no need to link to the Internet Archives; there are no dead links. Thank you. Brochon99 (talk) 13:52, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello Brochon99. Now that the bot's work is done on that wiki I have disabled the bot. Harej (talk) 17:14, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Feature improvements: Site blacklist/Archive preferences

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T320969

Some websites may contain restrictions, such as geoblocking or hard paywalls, which can get saved with the site snapshot. The end result is that the archive becomes completely unusable.

One example of websites producing useless IA archives is the Wall Street Journal. Pages with paywalls are saved on Internet Archive with the same restricted access; I noticed in Theranos on enwiki that all WSJ pages saved by the Internet Archive are useless, so I replaced them all with archive.today in revision 1101180173. The archive URLs were all replaced again with Internet Archive's in revision 1116061085; since IA snapshots of WSJ are useless, I'm going to revert this again. (Update: Done.)

Would it be better to have certain source websites blacklisted? If other archive sources are useful, they can also be included with the bot (and preferences/recommendations on sources set on some source websites, such as preferring archive.today on WSJ articles). Ntx61 (talk) 14:55, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

@Ntx61: the bug about it changing archive.today to web.archive.org is task T320969. You can also add {{cbignore}} after links to prevent IABot from changing them --Nintendofan885 (talk) 12:15, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:06, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

30,000 શિખર ચંદ્રક

	30,000 શિખર ચંદ્રક
	બોટ હોવા છતાં ગુજરાતી વિકિપીડિયાને 30,000 લેખોના સીમાચિહ્નરૂપ શિખર પર પહોંચાડવામાં આપના અવિરત યોગદાન બદલ હૃદયપૂર્વક આભાર. --Nizil Shah (talk) 14:31, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Title in cite web

Hello! Please, don't use {{!}} in title: [25]. HTML have wonderful mnemonic — &#124; Reason: ru:К:Википедия:Cite web (некорректное использование). 185.16.137.132 03:38, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, but the global consensus and preference is to use {{!}} which is hard-coded into the bot. It cannot be specifically changed for ruwiki, especially since it isn't actually causing an error.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:27, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:27, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Error

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T319241

Hello. The bot keeps archiving this link on lt:Jungtinės Karalystės monarchija. Trying to report the false positive requires user rights I don't have. –Adamvs (talk) 10:53, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

@Adamvs: Hi, this is due to the site using Cloudflare which IABot currently has issues getting past. You can subscribe to this Phabricator task for updates. You can also add {{cbignore}} after links to prevent IABot from changing them for now. --Nintendofan885 (talk) 23:04, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: --Nintendofan885 (talk) 11:24, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

How to fix kvr.kpd.lt domain data?

Links from this domain are alive, but bot considers them dead (due to Cloudflare protection?) and its archive copies at web.archive.org are broken and useless (possibly due to dynamic content). Previously global state for this domain was set to "Subscription site" per IAB interface, but bot nonetheless added archives and marked links as dead (diff). I managed to delete the archives, and in hope that Cloudflare protection is no longer a problem, as hinted in phab:T316155#8309651, I changed global status to "Alive". However, bot still considers links dead and adds dead link tags (diff). Should we set global status to "Permalive" then? I apparently can't set this myself. Pikne 08:08, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Pikne: I set the domain to permalive for now. -- GreenC (talk) 16:16, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:45, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Many working links are being marked as dead

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T319241

Examples:

• https://nn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ubikvitin&type=revision&diff=3439536&oldid=3056934&diffmode=source
• https://nn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Streptomyces_clavuligerus&curid=328465&diff=3438914&oldid=2932508&diffmode=source
• https://nn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhesusape-rhadinovirus&curid=341534&diff=3437788&oldid=2982963&diffmode=source

I don't see anything wrong here. --Njardarlogar (talk) 12:08, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

@Njardarlogar: Please subscribe to the linked Phabricator ticket to track this issue.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:16, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

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Error

I ran the bot for Damal (film) several times. But it can't archive some source. Mehediabedin (talk) 11:30, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

I agree. The bot appears to be running (it terminates successfully but unusually quickly) but never appears to do anything (nothing archived, nothing rescued, not adding archive URLs). I've been running it on a number of articles where I have added new citations but it doesn't archive anything. OK, sometimes a URL might already be archived, etc, but I use it enough to be suspicious of it never doing anything on any article for the past couple of days, not even adding archive-urls for the non-dead citations. Kerry Raymond (talk) 08:40, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Please see this thread above.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:18, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:46, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

add the page to maintenance category

We want to add all the discussion page that the bot add the message to a maintenance category. I didn't found in systemconfig/wikiconfig a way to do this. I can add it to the message but i wonder if it has an other way to do this. - yona B. (D) 08:36, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

@יונה בנדלאק: You can't retroactively change messages already left by the bot, but if the message it left behind had a template being transcluded, you can just change the template to add all messages to a category.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:55, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:54, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Strange edit

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T322798

Hi there! I don't get the meaning of this edit. The URL is still dead, as far as I can see. Hmm... --Edcolins (talk) 20:13, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Yea, that looks like a bug. I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be an archive URL added there.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:02, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:54, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Interface disabled

What does this mean? The maintainers have disabled this interface. This is either for maintenance reasons or a security issue has been discovered. I can't archive on the IABot Management Interface. Site HurricaneEdgar 10:43, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

@HurricaneEdgar: Please see response in thread directly above.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:01, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 20:54, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

:slwiki operation

Hi, can you please limit the bot to external links in references on :slwiki? Occasionally there are inline external links and adding {{Webarchive}} to them makes the text nearly undecipherable. Thanks. — Yerpo ^Eh? 15:47, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Yerpo, I have changed the bot configuration to only edit links within references. Note that it may take some time for the change to go into effect (typically several minutes, but worst case around one day). Harej (talk) 19:35, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. — Yerpo ^Eh? 19:37, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

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Unblocked at jawiki

Hi,I'm VZP10224 (talk · contribs · CA) at Amin of jawiki. Your account at jawiki via discussion of ja:Wikipedia:投稿ブロック依頼/InternetArchiveBot 解除. VZP10224 (talk) 13:24, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

VZP10224, acknowledged. Thank you. Harej (talk) 18:19, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

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Strange error when I try to submit a bot job

I've been trying to start a batch job, but, whenever I try to submit it, it's been throwing up a page of text saying ERROR 1114: The table 'externallinks_botqueuepages' is full SQL: INSERT INTO externallinks_botqueuepages (`queue_id`, `page_title`) VALUES followed by all the individual page names in the batch job, each one prefixed with the batch-job number; after a second or two, it loads the job-successfully-submitted page, but the submitted job is completely empty, with all the actual pages I'd tried to submit missing (example of such an empty job). Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 20:59, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

@Whoop whoop pull up: The DB ran out of disk space. The DB at Internet Archive that offloads the large non-private data had an error and blocked the connection the the offloading script. Until the DB's excess data has been offloaded, the UI will remain disabled.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:01, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

@Whoop whoop pull up: Added this to the Phabricator ticket regarding the current bot's failures to archive refs contained within CS1 templates, as this might be connected to that unresolved issue at large. Nathan Obral (talk) 18:11, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

@Whoop whoop pull up: and @Nathan Obral:, we have since figured out they were separate issues. The issue reported in this section has been resolved now that the database is no longer out of disk space. Harej (talk) 20:40, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:23, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Error

Se ha producido un error en esta edición [26], los dos enlaces si estaban rotos. 83.54.141.144 11:59, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

The bot was cleaning up the citation template, since archive links use a dedicated archive link parameter rather than web link. Harej (talk) 21:41, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:41, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Marking the domain " grfx.cstv.com/ " as dead

Hello, I am wondering if the domain " grfx.cstv.com/ " could be marked as dead. I cannot do it myself as I am not an admin on any wiki and it would be very difficult to change individual pages as there are over 300 pages with at least one link to that domain on the English wiki that are not yet archived. CheesedToMeetYou (talk) 00:32, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

CheesedToMeetYou, the domain is marked as dead and there is an ongoing bot task to fix affected articles. Harej (talk) 21:45, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:45, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

503 Service Unavailable

Hi, every time I click on the Analyze a Page link, it gives a 503 service unavailable. This also happens with any link that starts with https://iabot.toolforge.org/. Any way to fix this? This is my first time using this bot, if it helps. ARandomName123 (talk) 20:58, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Getting the same error on my end. Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 23:12, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

The management interface experienced some downtime but this has been resolved. Harej (talk) 21:49, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:49, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

"Analyze a page" not working

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T321740

Hi, the website is up but "Analyze a page" isn't working. Entering a article into the textbox and running it, would return 0 references archived despite that article entered into the textbox still has references that yet to be archive or completely not archived before. Also unable to search for URL found in the article entered into "Analyze a page" textbox earlier in "Modify URL Data" because it seem like the tool didn't actually "saved" what references there are on the article into the IABot database when "Analyze a page" was running earlier. When this tool was working previously, running a article through "Analyze a page" without checking "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)" checkbox would still "saved" what references there are on the article into the IABot database regardless of whether Wayback Machine was down or its service is overloaded which in turn means the URL found in the article could still be searched on "Modify URL Data" Paper9oll (talk) 12:46, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

I came across the same problem. For example, on the en:OMNY page (where there are multiple un-archived references), the website displays the message "Successfully analyzed the page" but also reports that no links have been analyzed at all. This happens even when the "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)" option is checked. Normally, if there are any reference URLs on the article, the tool reports that at least one link has been analyzed, even if no links have been archived, rescued, or tagged. Epicgenius (talk) 13:37, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

I have also found the same problem. --Marshelec (talk) 20:51, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

I also have encountered a similar issue: the bot times out after four seconds and fails to archive any refs in the same manner described above. This has been ongoing for the past 3-4 days and is not limited to any specific page. Any assistance would be appreciated. Nathan Obral (talk) 03:55, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Same problem. Example: en:Border checkpoint has these refs

  <ref>{{cite web|url=https://infographics.channelnewsasia.com/interactive/causewayjam/index.html|title=Clearing the Causeway |date=2018-06-09|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref>
  <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/a-look-at-woodlands-checkpoint-singapores-first-and-last-line-of-defence|title=A Look at Woodlands Checkpoint|last=Lim|first=Yan Liang|date=2013-10-13|work=The Straits Times|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>

but they are not being picked up. Hongsy (talk) 14:05, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Encountering the same issue too. Errors occurs with any article. Theknine2 (talk) 06:17, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Just wanted to add that this is still occurring. I tried to archive en:Daruma-ji and en:Brookwood High School (Georgia) with "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)" checked and it will run for ~3.7 seconds (it varies but it's always within 0.1 of 3.7 according to the "Run duration") and doesn't modify anything. - Aoidh (talk) 01:57, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

• Please subscribe to the linked Phabricator ticket to track this issue.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:13, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
• The bot interface has been re-enabled but refs using CS1 templates still fail to archive and thus the bot times out after 4–8 seconds with no changes (Epicgenius noticed with this execution of the bot). The below mention about InternetArchive's databases being either full or with a cache problem might potentially have something to do with this; at least, it would be a credible lead. I have mentioned this and the aforementioned notice by Epicgenius in the Phabricator ticket. Nathan Obral (talk) 18:20, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

In this execution of the bot I just did, some of the bare URL refs which were archived did get converted to a CS1 template, while others had the Webarchive template appended. So there's that. Nathan Obral (talk) 18:58, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

• It’s been a full month since the bot stopped working properly and failing to archive refs in CS1 templates. Multiple users have significant backlogs of pages to archive and it is affecting page reviews. The bot is technically broken and not working in the way I, or other users, are expecting it to. I do not want to have to manually archive over 1,000 refs on my own end. An update or even an acknowledgment of the problem itself would be appreciated. Nathan Obral (talk) 14:49, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Paper9oll, Epicgenius, Marshelec, Nathan Obral, Hongsy, Theknine2, Aoidh, first, thank you for your reports. As Cyberpower678 stated above the issue is being tracked on Phabricator, but I would like to follow up here as well. After some investigation we discovered a bug that was causing our database of citation templates to overfill with irrelevant templates, and this oversized database caused the "analyze a page" feature to break. This will be an ongoing outage as we need to first figure out what caused the database of citation templates to overfill to begin with. Harej (talk) 20:33, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

@Harej As you know, that the IABOT is not working right now, you should place a warning message on the pages where users start a run, e.g. https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=runbotsingle&action=analyzepage! That would save users like me a lot of time it takes to find this discussion about a known error. Thanks --Wikipeter-HH (talk) 14:09, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the update - just here to report that I am encountering this bug as well over the last few days. Ganesha811 (talk) 21:51, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Likewise. 4TheWynne (talk) 03:42, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikipeter-HH, Ganesha811, the bug causing this has now been resolved. Harej (talk) 17:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

4TheWynne, the bug causing this has now been resolved. Harej (talk) 17:47, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Harej I still see wrong results from the bot, e.g. de:Panamerikanische Spiele 1983/Teilnehmer (Uruguay) in dewiki has two dead links, which are not being picked up

The bot is working fine. I just checked.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:56, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 04:37, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Breaks existing code style

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T322797

In some cases (not clear which and why) the bot completely messes the spacings in "vertically formatted" templates. See, for example this edit — the first two occurrences are treated correctly, but after that (from "Строка 72:"/"Строка 75:") it starts adding and deleting quite random number of spaces, making a complete mess. (A wild guess: maybe it tries to count raw bytes instead of Unicode symbols?) — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 16:13, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

@Mikhail Ryazanov: That's exactly what is happening here. This is a lingering artifact of the bot's older code before it was meant to be deployed to non-english wikis. I have tracked the issue in a Phabricator ticket. Please subscribe to it to stay informed.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:52, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: OK, besides proposing a solution in that Phabricator ticket discussion, now I've also created a pull request at GitHub. Could you please test whether this helps and at last solve this issue? — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 16:16, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, Harej, it's not "resolved". Cyberpower678 has only created a Phabricator ticket about this bug. I've commented there, proposing a possible correction, but nothing has actually been done so far to solve the problem. — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 02:18, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 04:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

archive.ph

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T320969

Hola. El bot pone como no válidas a las URL que ya estan guardadas en la pàgina https://archive.ph/

Podrías tener-lo en cuenta y que ya no los cambie?

Gracias. Tomeu87 (talk) 01:48, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Please report in English if possible, I'm not sure I'm following your request.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:03, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello. The bot makes invalid the URLs that are already saved on the page https://archive.ph/ Could you take it into account and not change them anymore? Thank you--Tomeu87 (talk) 15:04, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

@Tomeu87: Hi. If you mean changing archive.ph/archive.today to web.archive.org, this is tracked at T320969. If not, please link some diffs to incorrect edits. Thanks --Nintendofan885 (talk) 17:46, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Dear bot owners, stop, please, replacing archive.ph links. Do you think that all the editors who added them did not know what they do? These archives are often more complete than web.archive.org archives, by the way. Sneeuwschaap (talk) 04:30, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

• Replacing archive.today links and marking it as unfit ([27]) is very wired and unacceptable. --Tim Wu (talk) 12:30, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello Tomeu87, Sneeuwschaap, Tim Wu, thank you for your reports. What caused this to happen is that certain archive links can't be validated by our bot. We are now working around this by having the bot leave those archives alone. Harej (talk) 18:04, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 04:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Replacement of archive.today into Internet Archive

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T320969

Hi operator of InternetArchiveBot. Can you please explain why you change a working link of archive.today into Internet Archive? (overhere) Looks like it is unnecessary and the website of Internet Archive is even slower. Ymnes (talk) 08:29, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

• We have the same problem here (the link works like charm). --Elektrolyt (talk) 10:39, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Ymnes, Elektrolyt, thank you for your reports. What was causing this is that the bot is unable to validate certain archive URLs, so we have implemented a workaround to leave those archive links alone. Harej (talk) 18:10, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

OK, clear, thans for your answer. Ymnes (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 04:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Not working at all

Hey, the bot won't archive any links? What's up with it?HAL333 (talk) 22:57, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

The bot does not archive any links at all, when manually activated by editors. As stated above. Please fix this problem.--BabbaQ (talk) 02:13, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

HAL333, BabbaQ, the bug causing this has now been fixed. Harej (talk) 18:31, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

It worked. Thanks!HAL333 (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 04:39, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

IABot problem

The IAbot tool does not archive any links, when you try to do it manually. Only the bot itself can right now archive links by following routine lists I guess. Hopefully the problem can be solved. Because right now it does not work for editors who wants to archive links with the bot. BabbaQ (talk) 02:18, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Seconding this issue; it runs for a few seconds then quickly returns a "successful" run with 0 archived links. RunningTiger123 (talk) 21:35, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Same here. Ebbedlila (talk) 15:51, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

BabbaQ, RunningTiger123, Ebbedlila, thank you for your reports. There was a bug causing the management interface to not work, but this should now be resolved. Harej (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 04:40, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Links

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T321941

Hello, the bot remove all links after the template reflist, the ref name say error. Anibal Maysonet (talk) 06:32, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:57, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Edit adds an archive link which is itself broken

Hi, this edit has "rescued" the dead link but whatever the page is, the Internet Archive has not managed to actually capture it, so it's just blank white. Is there any way to tell the bot not to bother? As far as I can tell none of the attempted captures are good because this website was doing some weird thing, so the link is irretrievably dead. CharredShorthand (talk) 07:32, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

CharredShorthand, since the archive is not usable, we have removed it from our database. Harej (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:09, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

archiving of books.google.com

Why the bot inserts archives of books.google.com, if they are empty? Sneeuwschaap (talk) 22:38, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Sneeuwschaap, do you have a diff of the bot adding this link? Harej (talk) 21:48, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes. Sneeuwschaap (talk) 21:51, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Sneeuwschaap, this archive should be cleared out by now. Harej (talk) 21:16, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:10, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

False positives

I wanted to report these links which have been falsely marked as dead by the bot:

https://www.spieletipps.de/game/oblivion/

https://www.spieletipps.de/artikel/881/3/

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/22330/manuals/obliv_goty_pc_man-v2.pdf

https://www.pcgames.de/The-Elder-Scrolls-4-Oblivion-Spiel-37433/Tests/Oblivion-dt-464741/

https://www.spieletipps.de/artikel/287/1/ https://www.spieletipps.de/game/knights-of-the-nine/

https://www.spieletipps.de/game/elder-scrolls-4-isles/

https://www.spieletipps.de/artikel/3070/1/ https://www.gamersglobal.de/test/nehrim

https://www.spieletipps.de/artikel/3103/1/ https://www.spieletipps.de/artikel/10098/1/

https://www.pcgames.de/The-Elder-Scrolls-4-Oblivion-Spiel-37433/News/Wie-sich-Uebersetzungsfehler-auswirken-Screens-459380/

https://www.spieletipps.de/artikel/881/4/

...but your report bot denied the request, because they were "detected as live". Yes, of course they were. Because I changed the information in the article MANUALLY BY HAND. That doesn't resolve the problem of the bot not recognizing those links as ONLINE and falsely marking them as OFFLINE. (...)

So I wanted to report this to you. Maybe you can find out, why the bot failed to detect these links as ONLINE. FormerRussianRouletteChampion (talk) 14:29, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

FormerRussianRouletteChampion, we suspect that the bot transiently regarded these links as dead, but we can verify the bot now sees them as alive. Harej (talk) 21:58, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:11, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Mistakes of work in ru-wiki

In this diff. The bot:

• inserts archiveurl to cite news template with already existing archive-url (in the links "Russia's attack on Ukraine came after months of denials it would attack"; "Putin using false 'Nazi' narrative to justify Russia's attack on Ukraine, experts say");
• again replaces archive.ph with web.archive.org (in the link "Главы ДНР и ЛНР попросили Путина помочь в «отражении агрессии» Украины");
• inserts everywhere access-date, which is an informational garbage in most cases.

-- Sneeuwschaap (talk) 20:16, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Sneeuwschaap, regarding the "cite news" template, the issue is that the template is not configured to recognize "archive-url" or "archive-date" (with the hyphens). Because of this the bot did not recognize them as valid parameters. The best way to fix this would be to update the "Cite news" (English title) template on Russian Wikipedia to support "archive-url" and "archive-date" in addition to "archiveurl" and "archivedate". (I lack editing permissions on that template so I can't do it myself.) Be sure to update the TemplateData as well.

Regarding archive.ph, the issue there was that we could not validate archives from that archive provider, but we have worked around this by simply ignoring those URLs when they don't validate.

Regarding the access date, this information is necessary to keep track of so that we know which archive (at which timestamp) to use. Harej (talk) 22:01, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:11, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Run in Arabic Wikipedia

How to activate this bot to run in Arabic Wikipedia arwiki? حبيشان (talk) 19:39, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

حبيشان, the bot is actively running in the background on Arabic Wikipedia. To run the bot on a specific page you can use the analyze a page tool. You can also run the bot on multiple pages with the bot queue. Harej (talk) 18:30, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:12, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

converting webarchive references to cite web

this diff converting webarchive references to cite web. bot also creating Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown maintenance issue. is this correct? —Jindam vani (talk) 02:46, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Jindam vani, that is correct. Harej (talk) 22:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:12, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

how view quickly changes made by iabot for submitted jobs

right now i am viewing job after it is completed. all the article links are in same colour and format. it is an issue for me. is there any quick way to view diffs changes made by iabot? —Jindam vani (talk) 02:55, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Jindam vani, in any article, you can view the page history to see edits the bot has done and to compare between revisions. Harej (talk) 22:04, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:13, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

"queue bot to run on multiple pages" skipping analysis several references

harej : job 11769 & job 11768 skipped several references. please look into it. <_>Jindam vani (talk) 16:10, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Jindam vani, if a bot skips references then that would mean there is no archive available for that URL. If there is an archive URL available and the bot is not adding it please let me know. Harej (talk) 18:34, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 21:13, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

False Positive on PDF Link on en Wikipedia

I attempted to report a false positive through the toolforge link but was told I do not have the correct user permissions to do so. The link https://www.co.door.wi.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2517/SAH-HO-Order-May-14-2020 is not dead, but was marked dead in March 2022 by IABot on COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin. Jiltedsquirrel (talk) 02:47, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Jiltedsquirrel, can you confirm that the selected wiki in the top-right corner of the management interface is English Wikipedia? Harej (talk) 21:34, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Harej (talk) 04:37, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the wonderful work you have done

Wow 🙏😍😍 Lethulake (talk) 05:19, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

@Lethulake: you are so very welcome. :-) —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:41, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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