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When tables generated by a search of U.S. Census Bureau are cited with a URL copied from the URL of the page where the search results are viewed, the URL is transient, and not permanently valid. There is a button on the table display page (or one page back) to request a "bookmark" URL which is a permanent link. If I remember correctly, this holds throughout The U.S. Census website for all results of searches which return tables.
The instance in the article Chicago is a cite at the end of the last sentence of the first paragraph in the body. The permanent "bookmark" URL [1] And the table title is 'Estimates of Resident Population Change and Rankings: July 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015 - United States -- Metropolitan Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico 2015 Population Estimates'.
Hope this helps in the never ending struggle to extract information despite the best efforts of ... —
Neonorange (
talk) 04:47, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 14:01, 30 May 2016 (UTC){{
cbignore}}
template and adds, on the article talk page, "The bot can't fix this, but you can." plus the instructions for manually fixing the cite to the message the bot leaves anyway.Just curious but why would the bot move a section down. Also did you know that the Arctic hares are turning brown. Always a good sign. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:02, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
I think perhaps you coded the bot that displays current unblock requests..please see this post I made: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_to_log_all_templated_talkpage_unblock_requests If you'd be willing to advise whether this is straightforward/realistic as far as coding it/making it happen.. 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 11:55, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Not sure why, but User:Cyberbot II seemed to get stuck in a loop adding spaces at Yakeen (1969 film), and leaving notices on the talk page. I only spotted it because it showed up on the list of most edited talk pages this week! the wub "?!" 12:07, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
As a test, I removed cbignore from a few links that had the SQL batch updates.
The link in reference for article Bharti Airtel:
Sequence of events:
API results:
No snapshot available.
All evidence points to a problem in CB code, unless there is still a problem with the link still existing in the cache database. -- Green C 16:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, it says 4 remaining, but I only see 1 remaining (a request for unprotection). Are there some that wouldn't be picked up on (like the extended confirmed template)? -- kelapstick( bainuu) 04:48, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678,
I wonder if it might be possible to adopt links to //timetravel.mementoweb.org/ vice //archive.org to get a more general (and robust) result? The major web archives seem to have moved to the Memento Protocol. {{
memento}}
might be of interest. Cheers,
LeadSongDog
come howl! 22:19, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
![]() |
The Civility Barnstar |
Hello Hmemberguy ( talk) 17:39, 12 June 2016 (UTC) |
Dear colleague,
I have two questions. When you will repair all templates
crumpled by your bot, and don't you think that half-done bots should not be launched?
Stas (
talk) 09:36, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Cyberbot I/Current AfDs appears to be not updating for a couple of weeks? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 00:52, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
This edit summary seems incorrect/misleading. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 13:26, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
The bot seems to be adding an empty archive URL with the date of January 1, 1970 when it can't find an archived copy. See here. – nyuszika7h ( talk) 21:43, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Hey CP, I think I brought this up before when the InternetArchiveBot project was first starting, but I wanted to reiterate that it would be really great if there was some flag (e.g., |archiveme=
) I could add to my citations such that I could have the citation bot archive/save it for me. Having this kind of task automated would save me hours a year, multiplied times many other Wikipedians... Consider it?
czar 20:20, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Related question: why is the bot "rescuing" links like that are valid links to archived versions? They do not need to be rescued... The Banner talk 12:31, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
|deadurl=no
is specified, is to make the archived URL the primary, all it does is adds a note "Archived from the original on [date]" (and a link to the original version, though I think Cyberbot has started using |deadurl=unfit
, so that link may not always be present).
nyuszika7h (
talk) 15:00, 17 June 2016 (UTC)Will
Cyberbot II ignore links which that have been tagged with {{dead link|fix-attempted=yes}}
, which is used to indicate that a user has attempted to find an archive and failed, or do I also need to include {{cbignore}}
? –
Compassionate727 (
T·
C) 19:22, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
{{cbignore}}
to prevent Cyberbot from making changes? —
Compassionate727 (
T·
C) 15:43, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
I don't think this is what you intended – User:Cyberpower678/FaQs#InternetArchiveBot*this simple FaQ – that should be a pipe character there. nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:22, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Also, minor thing, consider substing {{
plural}} – this should do the trick: {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>plural|1|one external link|1 external links}}
.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 08:25, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
one external link
(subtle difference) will work.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 14:56, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
<pre>
<nowiki>
(and then remove the bullet points as they won't show up as actual list items anyway), but it's not a big deal.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 15:11, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Dear colleague,
I have two questions. When you will restore all templates
crumpled by your bot, and don't you think that half-done bots should not be launched?
Stas (
talk) 09:36, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
(restored an unanswered message from archive.
Stas (
talk) 16:10, 17 June 2016 (UTC))
From the documentation for |dead-url=
:
|dead-url=unfit
or |dead-url=usurped
will not link to the original URL in the rendered citation; |url=
is still required.At Atmosphere of Pluto, Cyberbot II made these edits: here and here.
In all cases, the |url=
values that Cyberbot II declared to be unfit, are not in fact, unfit and are working correctly.
The unfit
and usurped
keywords were added to the cs1|2 templates to disable the URL link when it links to something clearly inappropriate. It appears from a quick look at the history of the article listed in this
insource search that Cyberbot II is unconditionally delaring the url of every cs1|2 template that it touches to be a link to inappropriate material. This is inappropriate behavior. Please fix it.
I will modify
Module:Citation/CS1 to add articles with |dead-url=unfit
and |dead-url=usurped
to a maintenance category so these templates are marked and can be inspected and repaired.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 10:46, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
|dead-url=unfit
should not be used unless it's known to be replaced by a spam/inappropriate website. However, since the bot's configuration has VERIFY_DEAD = 0
, it can't know the URL is actually alive, so the best it can do is |dead-url=yes
.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 11:53, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
here. I checked the
archive and realized the request was for cases where the |url=
parameter contains an archive.org link. Since the bot is not configured to verify whether the links are actually dead as it's not possible to 100% reliably determine that, this is not really a big deal. The bot leaves a message on the talk page and humans can correct it anyway.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 13:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
|archive-url=
and leaving behind the original url in |url=
. That is not in dispute. That the bot then declares any such changes to be 'unfit' is a determination that it should not be making without confirming that the original cite is in fact unfit. To do so goes against the template documentation that I quoted in my initial post. The |url=
values that the bot declared to be unfit at
Atmosphere of Pluto are not dead, and are not unfit according to the definition of unfit in the template documentation.|url=
values are unfit.|dead-url=unfit
and which will not mislead editors. Until such a keyword is proposed and adopted, Cyberbot II should discontinue adding |dead-url=unfit
to cs1|2 templates that it touches unless it knows that the url in |url=
is unfit.hidden
or will you accept some other keyword with a less nebulous meaning – Editor Green Cardamom's unknown
, for example?|url=
necessarily implies that the original url is dead. It may be. But, as the fixed cs1 templates at
Atmosphere of Pluto illustrate, relying on that 'implication' is problematic. Except that the original url returns an http error code, without a comparison of the original to the archive, the original cannot be known to be dead, live, or unfit.try to conform the bot to meet community expectations. Please do not rise in defense of an attack that I have not made.
This page has more than 5,000 revisions so it isn't possible for normal admins to delete it - it has to be done by a steward. I've filed a request for one to do so here. Hut 8.5 21:27, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Cyberpower678. I just completed getting
Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard to
WP:Good Article status and I would like to have all the citations archived to prevent future
WP:linkrot. Right now all the citations are live and they are all solid. Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
05:59, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
{{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
07:26, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Small break from Cyberbot II doing bad things for you here, for some reason the RFPP clerking task on Cyberbot I is down, can't restart it because it requires me to be within the cyberbot group in order to restart the instance. No logging because that went away (still need that back btw, very helpful for diagnosing issues) so just give it a poke, get it back into action. tutterMouse ( talk) 15:09, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Do you know where I can read more about this? Did they announce it somewhere or explain how it works?IA already runs a quiet bot that archives all newly added URLs to the site
To be clear, I meant to ask whether the bot could run when an editor adds a template or some flag specifically asks the bot to crawl the page/citation. If it's still outside your scope, what would you recommend as a next step towards getting such a bot? Should I copy the bot code, configure and propose it myself? As I mentioned in the previous thread, it would save a heck of a lot of time on citation expansions. (And byIf you mean you would like Cyberbot to automatically attach archive URLs to your citations, sorry, that will not be a feature that will be implemented, as that is a site wide config change
sitewide config changedo you mean that it would require something difficult or time-consuming on the programming end or on the permissions end?) czar 06:29, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
|deadurl=bot
.) Thanks for hearing me out
czar 02:54, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
About, this edit. The link is working fine.-- Vin09 (talk) 09:11, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
IABot repaired a dead link in this diff, but the URL was mangled. You can see the repair in this diff. I am reporting this here as requested in the FAQ. generic_hipster 17:32, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
That's good news re: it should fix itself after being fixed in the wiki database. Since this is a simple search/replace, I found it's trivial to fix these using AWB (replace) and an offline tool to regex the Wikipedia database dump (search) for articles containing the error. The first run was on a dump from September 1, 2015 and it found and fixed 142. The latest dump will be July 1, 2016 -- will see how many are left. -- Green C 14:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Your bot unnecessarily reformatted reference it rewrote here. Bots like yours should be as conservative as possible in avoiding unnecessary changes as a failure to do so erodes the utility of our revision control system. Geo Swan ( talk) 08:35, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
usemdy}}
unless {{
usedmy}}
is on the article. If there are other date tags, I can certainly add support for those.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 15:04, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
usemdy}}
and {{
usedmy}}
tags don't necessarily apply to ISO dates in 'accessdates' and 'archivedates' (in fact, they often don't). This isn't a huge thing, but it is worth pointing out... --
IJBall (
contribs •
talk) 15:12, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
In general, the date format used for publication dates within references should match that used within the article body. However, it is common practice for archive and access dates to use the alternative ymd format. This usage is valid and is specifically mentioned at MOSDATE. In those cases, the archive and access date formats should not be altered when fixing dates." nyuszika7h ( talk) 15:21, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
wayback}}
template works which operates on mdy by default unless the df parameter is set making it use dmy.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 15:23, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
|df=
parameter in
CS1. Trappist, a regular on the CS1 help page, also knows about functions that convert dates
czar 19:58, 24 June 2016 (UTC)Per discussion, I reverted the AfD close to relist, and the bot dropped a template on Ansh666's page before I even had a chance to relist the article. I've reverted the article page to before the warnings, and I am having an issue with the AfD relist, but the bot shouldn't have dropped the warning, unless there's a certain order to the process I missed. MSJapan ( talk) 23:54, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Please check Talk:Quilting and tell me what should happen now, if anything.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:13, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello, the bot just altered a source on the above and the new link (shown on the talk-page) goes to a generic page for all Channel 4 programmes. The programme concerned was in fact 12 years ago and is unlikely to still be found from the generic home-page. I have just checked the previous link here and it seems to be working. I'm not sure if it's OK to just go back to that link or if I've misunderstood something (not unusual). Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 19:27, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi,WM2 will be making changes to existing archive.org links across the entire EN project. Example of three kinds of changes: the first is the same as WM1; the second is a case where the archive.org link doesn't work but the primary URL still works; the third where the archive link works, but the url syntax is normalized (https, /web/ and web.archive.org, remove :80). I know CB needs to know about the first case via SQL queries - will it also need to know for the second and third case? -- Green C 19:36, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
url LIKE '%,'
should catch URLs ending with a comma.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 16:15, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
DELETE FROM externallinks_global WHERE `url` IN ( 'url1', 'url2', .... );
DELETE FROM externallinks_enwiki WHERE `url_id` IN (SELECT `url_id` FROM externallinks_global WHERE `url` IN ( 'url1', 'url2', ... ));
[2] deleted two other non URL based references when archiving one — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dresken ( talk • contribs) 10:39, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | ← | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | → | Archive 40 |
When tables generated by a search of U.S. Census Bureau are cited with a URL copied from the URL of the page where the search results are viewed, the URL is transient, and not permanently valid. There is a button on the table display page (or one page back) to request a "bookmark" URL which is a permanent link. If I remember correctly, this holds throughout The U.S. Census website for all results of searches which return tables.
The instance in the article Chicago is a cite at the end of the last sentence of the first paragraph in the body. The permanent "bookmark" URL [1] And the table title is 'Estimates of Resident Population Change and Rankings: July 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015 - United States -- Metropolitan Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico 2015 Population Estimates'.
Hope this helps in the never ending struggle to extract information despite the best efforts of ... —
Neonorange (
talk) 04:47, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 14:01, 30 May 2016 (UTC){{
cbignore}}
template and adds, on the article talk page, "The bot can't fix this, but you can." plus the instructions for manually fixing the cite to the message the bot leaves anyway.Just curious but why would the bot move a section down. Also did you know that the Arctic hares are turning brown. Always a good sign. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:02, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
I think perhaps you coded the bot that displays current unblock requests..please see this post I made: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_to_log_all_templated_talkpage_unblock_requests If you'd be willing to advise whether this is straightforward/realistic as far as coding it/making it happen.. 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 11:55, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Not sure why, but User:Cyberbot II seemed to get stuck in a loop adding spaces at Yakeen (1969 film), and leaving notices on the talk page. I only spotted it because it showed up on the list of most edited talk pages this week! the wub "?!" 12:07, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
As a test, I removed cbignore from a few links that had the SQL batch updates.
The link in reference for article Bharti Airtel:
Sequence of events:
API results:
No snapshot available.
All evidence points to a problem in CB code, unless there is still a problem with the link still existing in the cache database. -- Green C 16:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, it says 4 remaining, but I only see 1 remaining (a request for unprotection). Are there some that wouldn't be picked up on (like the extended confirmed template)? -- kelapstick( bainuu) 04:48, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678,
I wonder if it might be possible to adopt links to //timetravel.mementoweb.org/ vice //archive.org to get a more general (and robust) result? The major web archives seem to have moved to the Memento Protocol. {{
memento}}
might be of interest. Cheers,
LeadSongDog
come howl! 22:19, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
![]() |
The Civility Barnstar |
Hello Hmemberguy ( talk) 17:39, 12 June 2016 (UTC) |
Dear colleague,
I have two questions. When you will repair all templates
crumpled by your bot, and don't you think that half-done bots should not be launched?
Stas (
talk) 09:36, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Cyberbot I/Current AfDs appears to be not updating for a couple of weeks? -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 00:52, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
This edit summary seems incorrect/misleading. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 13:26, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
The bot seems to be adding an empty archive URL with the date of January 1, 1970 when it can't find an archived copy. See here. – nyuszika7h ( talk) 21:43, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Hey CP, I think I brought this up before when the InternetArchiveBot project was first starting, but I wanted to reiterate that it would be really great if there was some flag (e.g., |archiveme=
) I could add to my citations such that I could have the citation bot archive/save it for me. Having this kind of task automated would save me hours a year, multiplied times many other Wikipedians... Consider it?
czar 20:20, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Related question: why is the bot "rescuing" links like that are valid links to archived versions? They do not need to be rescued... The Banner talk 12:31, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
|deadurl=no
is specified, is to make the archived URL the primary, all it does is adds a note "Archived from the original on [date]" (and a link to the original version, though I think Cyberbot has started using |deadurl=unfit
, so that link may not always be present).
nyuszika7h (
talk) 15:00, 17 June 2016 (UTC)Will
Cyberbot II ignore links which that have been tagged with {{dead link|fix-attempted=yes}}
, which is used to indicate that a user has attempted to find an archive and failed, or do I also need to include {{cbignore}}
? –
Compassionate727 (
T·
C) 19:22, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
{{cbignore}}
to prevent Cyberbot from making changes? —
Compassionate727 (
T·
C) 15:43, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
I don't think this is what you intended – User:Cyberpower678/FaQs#InternetArchiveBot*this simple FaQ – that should be a pipe character there. nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:22, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Also, minor thing, consider substing {{
plural}} – this should do the trick: {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>plural|1|one external link|1 external links}}
.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 08:25, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
one external link
(subtle difference) will work.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 14:56, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
<pre>
<nowiki>
(and then remove the bullet points as they won't show up as actual list items anyway), but it's not a big deal.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 15:11, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Dear colleague,
I have two questions. When you will restore all templates
crumpled by your bot, and don't you think that half-done bots should not be launched?
Stas (
talk) 09:36, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
(restored an unanswered message from archive.
Stas (
talk) 16:10, 17 June 2016 (UTC))
From the documentation for |dead-url=
:
|dead-url=unfit
or |dead-url=usurped
will not link to the original URL in the rendered citation; |url=
is still required.At Atmosphere of Pluto, Cyberbot II made these edits: here and here.
In all cases, the |url=
values that Cyberbot II declared to be unfit, are not in fact, unfit and are working correctly.
The unfit
and usurped
keywords were added to the cs1|2 templates to disable the URL link when it links to something clearly inappropriate. It appears from a quick look at the history of the article listed in this
insource search that Cyberbot II is unconditionally delaring the url of every cs1|2 template that it touches to be a link to inappropriate material. This is inappropriate behavior. Please fix it.
I will modify
Module:Citation/CS1 to add articles with |dead-url=unfit
and |dead-url=usurped
to a maintenance category so these templates are marked and can be inspected and repaired.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 10:46, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
|dead-url=unfit
should not be used unless it's known to be replaced by a spam/inappropriate website. However, since the bot's configuration has VERIFY_DEAD = 0
, it can't know the URL is actually alive, so the best it can do is |dead-url=yes
.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 11:53, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
here. I checked the
archive and realized the request was for cases where the |url=
parameter contains an archive.org link. Since the bot is not configured to verify whether the links are actually dead as it's not possible to 100% reliably determine that, this is not really a big deal. The bot leaves a message on the talk page and humans can correct it anyway.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 13:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
|archive-url=
and leaving behind the original url in |url=
. That is not in dispute. That the bot then declares any such changes to be 'unfit' is a determination that it should not be making without confirming that the original cite is in fact unfit. To do so goes against the template documentation that I quoted in my initial post. The |url=
values that the bot declared to be unfit at
Atmosphere of Pluto are not dead, and are not unfit according to the definition of unfit in the template documentation.|url=
values are unfit.|dead-url=unfit
and which will not mislead editors. Until such a keyword is proposed and adopted, Cyberbot II should discontinue adding |dead-url=unfit
to cs1|2 templates that it touches unless it knows that the url in |url=
is unfit.hidden
or will you accept some other keyword with a less nebulous meaning – Editor Green Cardamom's unknown
, for example?|url=
necessarily implies that the original url is dead. It may be. But, as the fixed cs1 templates at
Atmosphere of Pluto illustrate, relying on that 'implication' is problematic. Except that the original url returns an http error code, without a comparison of the original to the archive, the original cannot be known to be dead, live, or unfit.try to conform the bot to meet community expectations. Please do not rise in defense of an attack that I have not made.
This page has more than 5,000 revisions so it isn't possible for normal admins to delete it - it has to be done by a steward. I've filed a request for one to do so here. Hut 8.5 21:27, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Cyberpower678. I just completed getting
Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard to
WP:Good Article status and I would like to have all the citations archived to prevent future
WP:linkrot. Right now all the citations are live and they are all solid. Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
05:59, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
{{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
07:26, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Small break from Cyberbot II doing bad things for you here, for some reason the RFPP clerking task on Cyberbot I is down, can't restart it because it requires me to be within the cyberbot group in order to restart the instance. No logging because that went away (still need that back btw, very helpful for diagnosing issues) so just give it a poke, get it back into action. tutterMouse ( talk) 15:09, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Do you know where I can read more about this? Did they announce it somewhere or explain how it works?IA already runs a quiet bot that archives all newly added URLs to the site
To be clear, I meant to ask whether the bot could run when an editor adds a template or some flag specifically asks the bot to crawl the page/citation. If it's still outside your scope, what would you recommend as a next step towards getting such a bot? Should I copy the bot code, configure and propose it myself? As I mentioned in the previous thread, it would save a heck of a lot of time on citation expansions. (And byIf you mean you would like Cyberbot to automatically attach archive URLs to your citations, sorry, that will not be a feature that will be implemented, as that is a site wide config change
sitewide config changedo you mean that it would require something difficult or time-consuming on the programming end or on the permissions end?) czar 06:29, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
|deadurl=bot
.) Thanks for hearing me out
czar 02:54, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
About, this edit. The link is working fine.-- Vin09 (talk) 09:11, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
IABot repaired a dead link in this diff, but the URL was mangled. You can see the repair in this diff. I am reporting this here as requested in the FAQ. generic_hipster 17:32, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
That's good news re: it should fix itself after being fixed in the wiki database. Since this is a simple search/replace, I found it's trivial to fix these using AWB (replace) and an offline tool to regex the Wikipedia database dump (search) for articles containing the error. The first run was on a dump from September 1, 2015 and it found and fixed 142. The latest dump will be July 1, 2016 -- will see how many are left. -- Green C 14:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Your bot unnecessarily reformatted reference it rewrote here. Bots like yours should be as conservative as possible in avoiding unnecessary changes as a failure to do so erodes the utility of our revision control system. Geo Swan ( talk) 08:35, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
usemdy}}
unless {{
usedmy}}
is on the article. If there are other date tags, I can certainly add support for those.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 15:04, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
usemdy}}
and {{
usedmy}}
tags don't necessarily apply to ISO dates in 'accessdates' and 'archivedates' (in fact, they often don't). This isn't a huge thing, but it is worth pointing out... --
IJBall (
contribs •
talk) 15:12, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
In general, the date format used for publication dates within references should match that used within the article body. However, it is common practice for archive and access dates to use the alternative ymd format. This usage is valid and is specifically mentioned at MOSDATE. In those cases, the archive and access date formats should not be altered when fixing dates." nyuszika7h ( talk) 15:21, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
wayback}}
template works which operates on mdy by default unless the df parameter is set making it use dmy.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 15:23, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
|df=
parameter in
CS1. Trappist, a regular on the CS1 help page, also knows about functions that convert dates
czar 19:58, 24 June 2016 (UTC)Per discussion, I reverted the AfD close to relist, and the bot dropped a template on Ansh666's page before I even had a chance to relist the article. I've reverted the article page to before the warnings, and I am having an issue with the AfD relist, but the bot shouldn't have dropped the warning, unless there's a certain order to the process I missed. MSJapan ( talk) 23:54, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Please check Talk:Quilting and tell me what should happen now, if anything.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:13, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello, the bot just altered a source on the above and the new link (shown on the talk-page) goes to a generic page for all Channel 4 programmes. The programme concerned was in fact 12 years ago and is unlikely to still be found from the generic home-page. I have just checked the previous link here and it seems to be working. I'm not sure if it's OK to just go back to that link or if I've misunderstood something (not unusual). Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 19:27, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi,WM2 will be making changes to existing archive.org links across the entire EN project. Example of three kinds of changes: the first is the same as WM1; the second is a case where the archive.org link doesn't work but the primary URL still works; the third where the archive link works, but the url syntax is normalized (https, /web/ and web.archive.org, remove :80). I know CB needs to know about the first case via SQL queries - will it also need to know for the second and third case? -- Green C 19:36, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
url LIKE '%,'
should catch URLs ending with a comma.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 16:15, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
DELETE FROM externallinks_global WHERE `url` IN ( 'url1', 'url2', .... );
DELETE FROM externallinks_enwiki WHERE `url_id` IN (SELECT `url_id` FROM externallinks_global WHERE `url` IN ( 'url1', 'url2', ... ));
[2] deleted two other non URL based references when archiving one — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dresken ( talk • contribs) 10:39, 30 June 2016 (UTC)