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- 🟢 InternetArchiveBot is currently running on 300+ Wikimedia wikis.
- 🟢 We have moved the management interface to a new server. Please start using iabot.wmcloud.org instead of iabot.toolforge.org. Please let us know if anything broke during this process.
- 🟡 Testing is stalled on Alemannisch Wikipedia (als), Asturian Wikipedia (ast), and Japanese Wikipedia (ja).
- 🔴 Bot is approved but disabled indefinitely pending software improvements on French Wikipedia (fr), MediaWiki.org, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia (nn), Polish Wikipedia (pl), and Portuguese Wikipedia (pt).
Last updated: 20:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
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Inaccessible link[edit]
IABot “fixed” a link that it reported as inaccessible here: https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chora_%28Patmos%29&diff=66511300&oldid=66454976
However, the link works fine with http on my end. Now I do agree that https is safer (although in this case it was hardly an improvement), but that's no reason to treat a link as “inaccessible”. Mondo (talk) 18:15, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hello Mondo. The bot did not necessarily declare the link inaccessible, though the edit summary would indicate that because the bot's edit summaries are very imprecise. The bot upgrades HTTP links to HTTPS where possible, separately from its process of fixing dead links. Harej (talk) 18:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hello Harej, in that case, it's against the guidelines of the Dutch Wikipedia. We have the guideline “bij twijfel niet inhalen”, which is similar to the one on EN:WP called If it ain't broke, don't fix it, except that ours is much more detailed. The link was not broken and https hardly made a difference with this specific link, therefore it was against the guideline. I have reverted IABot and added the article to the deny list, but I hope this can be fixed, because this will happen again on other pages. Mondo (talk) 18:23, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- So I'm guessing you won't do anything about this. This is not the first time you're not open for communucation. In that case, I'll be requesting a temporary halt of the bot on NL:WP, partly because of what the bot did here against our guidelines and partly because of your constant lack of communication. Mondo (talk) 10:00, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hello Harej, in that case, it's against the guidelines of the Dutch Wikipedia. We have the guideline “bij twijfel niet inhalen”, which is similar to the one on EN:WP called If it ain't broke, don't fix it, except that ours is much more detailed. The link was not broken and https hardly made a difference with this specific link, therefore it was against the guideline. I have reverted IABot and added the article to the deny list, but I hope this can be fixed, because this will happen again on other pages. Mondo (talk) 18:23, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Adding spam links in edits[edit]
Hey! I recently saw this edit being made to a page. This edit appears to have been done via IABot and adds links to spam, advertisment/tracking sites as part of the edit (consent.cookiebot.com) as part of the edit. Would it be possible to look into how this edit came about, and make sure that going forward the bot/tool does not add spam links to pages. Sohom (talk) 19:25, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
- Two more similar edits adding the same spam link this edit on hr.wikipedia and this edit on ru.wikipedia. Sohom (talk) 19:30, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
XML in articles[edit]
Please see:
- https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plastic-Wood&diff=prev&oldid=136845168
- https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Podenco&diff=prev&oldid=136845439
- https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Risentimento&diff=prev&oldid=136852815
- https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ryuho&diff=136857047&oldid=132623948
- https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tencteri&diff=prev&oldid=136875629
- https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimetilammina-N-ossido&diff=136881565&oldid=136816634
- Please look at diffs and if necessary stop the bot, at least on it.wiki. --M/ (talk) 20:25, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- This is fixed within the bot. Overall it probably impacted about 200 pages across all wikis. Those pages have also been repaired, or were already repaired by users. -- GreenC (talk) GreenC (talk) 17:31, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you. --M/ (talk) 14:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
deadlink and url-status in ruwiki[edit]
Hi! Now ruwiki supports a url-status in CS1 templates, but we didn't replace old params (deadlink/deadurl/dead-url) in articles, and the bot does smth strange. Maybe bot should replace deadlink with url-status? dima_st_bk 17:54, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Dima st bk: Привет. Посмотри, что у него там в настройках: [1], скорее всего просто алиасы не прописаны. С
access-date
иaccessdate
,archive-date
иarchivedate
,archive-url
иarchiveurl
та же самая история. Документация: InternetArchiveBot/Documentation/Configuring archive templates#Aliases. Alex NB IT (talk) 15:58, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
ppidonline.com dead[edit]
Reported to talk:spam blacklist, and investigation shows that it is a domain up for sale. 200+ uses, so I will leave it for IAbot to manage prior to consideration for the blaacklist. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:49, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Adding support for a template[edit]
On the English Wikipedia, en:Template:cite court supports the url, archive-url, and the url-status parameters. It does not currently support archive-date. Would it be possible to add support for the "cite court" template into InternetArchiveBot? I've tested on references with live and dead URLs here: en:User:Rjjiii/sandbox8 and it does not currently affect them. Thanks, Rjjiii (talk) 18:35, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Inquire about editing articles[edit]
I would like permission to further edit articles written by a bot you using ip. Thank you. 223.205.205.142 02:31, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Unable to use InternetArchiveBot[edit]
I used to be able to use it but now I don't have permissions. When I click "Run Bot" I get a permission error requiring me to get it from the following groups: basicuser, user, admin, root, bot. How do I fix this? Thank you. Morogris (talk) 19:22, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Same here. I've used it before and am getting the same error. Flod logic (talk) 10:28, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- Aha, make sure you pick enwiki, etc. from the dropdown at the top. It defaults to mediawiki. Flod logic (talk) 10:34, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Adding strange, non-functional archive links to en:2024 Haneda Airport runway collision[edit]
Please see this diff. I'm not sure what's going on, but InternetArchiveBot keeps adding incorrect archive links pointing to a googleads.g.doubleclick.net page that doesn't seem to exist rather than to the kyodonews.net link that's actually present in the reference. (It's also edit-warring with Citation Bot, which correctly removes the bad archive links.) This appears to be a bot problem rather than an Internet Archive problem, as the proper link does exist in the Internet Archive. Jay8g (talk) 00:20, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Why bot encodes decoded links?[edit]
It's wrong for links containing non-ASCII characters, because it makes links less readable: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Рыбий_клей&diff=prev&oldid=133979619 MBH (talk) 19:32, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Vorrei iscrivere mia madre al corso online di inglese[edit]
Mia madre piaceva tantissimo studiare ma purtroppo ai suoi tempi i genitori non la mandarono all'estero perché serviva in casa x accudire i suoi fratelli più piccoli quindi vorrei che realizzazze il suo sogno di diventare professoressa vi chiedo con il cuore in mano di aiutarla! come a sempre fatto lei per Me e i miei fratelli vi prego di farmi sapere spero siate di buon cuore anche voi buona giornata... 158.148.173.10 04:12, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
IABot not functioning normally and times out[edit]
I have experienced problems with the IABot not functioning as normal, and timing out. I hope this can be investigated and resolved. Marshelec (talk) 06:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Same issues encountered here, I have been experiencing 504 Gateway Timeout Error for 95% of my run since 2–3 days ago even though the IABot just needed to archive 1–3 sources for my every run, looks to me on surface that it's iterating through every single sources regardless if it has been archived. Paper9oll (talk) 07:25, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
- A ticket has already been raised for this problem, by another user. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355010 I note that the author/creator of IABot is a subscriber to the ticket, so has almost certainly been notified or seen the problem report. Marshelec (talk) 19:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
The bot marked the same link as dead twice.[edit]
Se edits #1 and #2. The link works when I check it. Hubba (talk) 01:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Useless bot edits[edit]
Hi! What is the point of these two changes?
- it:Special:Diff/135572845. The links are working both before (archive.is) and after (archive.today), leading to the same archive page : If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Moreover, the bot is doing the opposite of another robot IrishBot (.avgas) : it:Special:Diff/133347863.
- it:Special:Diff/136872396. Proposed archive page is an error message : "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. This page is unavailable for archiving. The server returned code: because page does not exist".
Ideawipik (talk) 02:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hi I was wondering the same, that is why the bot keeps replacing .is links with .today ones, even if the only one working are .is.
- I've corrected the same page twice now, so i was wandering how to make it stop. Astubudustu (talk) 10:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
cbignore[edit]
Why didn't cbignore work? Proeksad (talk) 20:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Archive.ph → Archive.today[edit]
https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patreon&diff=next&oldid=66920330
and
https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prog_(tijdschrift)&diff=next&oldid=66920158
But archive.ph is the same service and the link with ph works fine. This is again a clear violation of the Dutch version of “if it ain't broke, don't fix it” guideline, just like the most recent time we spoke. Mondo (talk) 20:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
The bot keep adding archive link where it isn't required.[edit]
The bot always try to add this link but it isn't needed. It happened like 3 times and I had to cancel the change every time.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211012034604/https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?hidebots=1&translations=filter&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&limit=50&days=3&title=Special%3ARecentChanges&testwiki=wp%2Fryu&urlversion=2 Patronus95 (talk) 12:51, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
stalled out job?[edit]
https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php?page=viewjob&id=17011 didn't noticed this had stalled out 2 days ago Akaibu (talk) 18:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Bot's edits: [2], [3], [4]. Some URLs it tagged as dead but are actually working: [5], [6], [7]. 85.76.13.79 18:33, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
- The site has a "Are you human?" check box and that is probably the cause. I set the domain to Subscription for now. It will stop the bot from changing it to dead. It also means that bot won't be fixing dead links, for this domain. -- GreenC (talk) 15:01, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
urldatachangestate[edit]
Hi!
I'm translating InternetArchiveBot user interface into Hebrew, and I have a question.
The message urldatachangestate says "from <b>{{logfrom}}</b> to <b>{{logto}}</b>". I guess that "{{logfrom}}" and "{{logto}}" are something like "live", "dead", etc., but can you please explain more specifically what are the possible values?
And are they always in English, or can they be translated?
I'll update the documentation for translators after you reply.
Thanks! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 03:00, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Issue with Billboard short links[edit]
I've run into this a bit when going through the url=value CS1 pages. So, this bot was just run on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Martin_(British_singer). If you look at the comparison between 9 January 2024 and 2 March 2024 (04:13), you'll see that one of the changes made was to the shortened Billboard link used by previous editors. I'm fixing it with the long links, but it seems IABot wants to change the symbols used to shorten URLs on Wikipedia into the code used in URLs? I've been fixing these for a while, but they aren't the only issues I come across in the CS1 pages, so it's the first time I've noticed which bot is doing this particular function.
I though someone should know. OIM20 (talk) 09:51, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Bot citing dead link on talk pages[edit]
On talk pages where the bot leaves a description of its edits (example), it links to a dead page where we are supposed to report errors. Ubh (talk) 15:36, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
IABot for Gagauz language[edit]
Can you please authorize me to use IABot for Gagauz language to on the gagwiki (Gagauz Wikipedia)? I can currently use it for English (enwiki) and Russian (ruwiki), but not the Gagauz one.
When I try to use the bot on a gagwiki (Gagauz Wikipedia) page, I get "Permission error" and "The action you are trying to perform requires the analyzepage permission." and "This permission is obtainable with the following groups: basicuser, user, admin, root, bot".
My Wikipedia userpage is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxim_Masiutin Maxim Masiutin (talk) 03:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Month names on ary[edit]
Hello! Is there a way that InternetArchiveBot can use Moroccan Darja month names instead of English ones, on arywiki? If there's a configuration page where I can translate the month names, please let me know. Thanks! Ideophagous (talk) 09:53, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Bot (innocently) allowing itself to look rude and arrogant/condescending/entitled[edit]
In case this has already been fixed, I apologize for being behind.
I have no way of knowing whether it has, and/or have not found a place where I would have had.
I guess something might be in the docs, but it has not been obvious or easy to find for me, sorry.
tldr: This could IMHO be fixed without any fuss and for good with a flick of the wrist by just adding a few words at the start of the first paragraph of the bot's message, making it begin with "Internet Archive Bot [Link] here." /tldr
I came across a place ([here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aerospace_engineering] and in fact many more) where there is a section, created by this bot, titled "External links modified", followed by an IMHO appropriate greeting, "Hello fellow Wikipedians", followed by a number of very appropriate factual statements, BUT THEN followed by,
"When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions..."
It seems to me that for a reader who, to this point of reading the section (and onwards), is not aware (as content may well be read from top to bottom rather commonly) that they are reading a message generated by a bot, being told rather bluntly that
- "When you have finished reviewing my changes",
- may appear to that reader to have been written by an author with a rather entitled personality and/or behavior, such as to assume that the reader "will" or "has to" review that authors's changes, as though the author were (feeling) entitled to the reader doing so.
- It seems to me that this means running a risk of causing a casual reader to
- be upset
by what they may well perceive as "this kind of language and behaviour towards" [themselves and the "fellow Wikipedians"], - respond badly, such as
- feeling treated condescendingly and/or
- now feeling specifically disinclined to "review ... the changes"
- be upset
- thus producing a disservice to
- the objective of having the changes reviewed by a person
- peace, quiet and style on WP
- "... you may follow the instructions ..."
- It seems to me that this looks and feels like more of the same, and even more strongly so.
- (I know the wording may sound innocent by itself, but it seems to me that it's the context that makes the difference.)
- Remark: That part of the wording was not found on the page given above (seems something had been improved in the meantime) (but on a page I don't wish to link to.)
JFTR, that is for sure how I just felt when I had read that passage to that point without realizing I was reading something written by a Bot.
About followup (after a fix has been done) on older pages that still reflect the previous presence of the problem: Would it be historical misrepresentation or maybe just a nice idea to have the Bot occasionally fix (update) the wording it left there when it did, maybe in its free time :) ?
$02c FWIW, HTH -- 93.232.230.13 13:17, 13 March 2024 (UTC)