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Hey! I tried to talk twice earlier (January 19, 2019 and October 2nd, 2018) and I don't know if you ever responded or if the messages got deleted but I was wondering about this edit you did on October 2nd, 2018 to the page undefined (Click here to see edit) or just go to the page Undefined and look into the edit history and look on October 2nd. For whatever reason, you deleted the entire page and wrote "green". I was just wondering if you recall this or had a reason to do this, thanks for reading. -- Bluecrab2 ( talk) 05:20, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello there, can you please use User:InternetArchiveBot on Dean Ambrose per Talk:Dean Ambrose/GA1. I tried the tool multiple times but it fails to load for analysis, Thanks! THE NEW ImmortalWizard (chat) 14:29, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
The bot not update RfX tally. Hhkohh ( talk) 19:58, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot. When it changes something, it leaves a message on the talkpage. But why is there a link to the article in this message? I guess it is pretty obvious that when it is leaving a message on say the talkpage of Foobar it has edited the article Foobar, right? Muijz ( talk) 20:43, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
(The above message was archived, but my question was not answered.)
You might set your bot on the Flixter article, many of the URLs of which, since based on Facebook reporting, are reasonably expected to have died. Thanks. 2601:246:CA80:3CB5:1DFE:9D32:88DD:352 ( talk) 22:25, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Can you check on why Cyberbot is making User:Cyberbot I/AfD's requiring attention transclude itself? I'm trying to clear it out of Category:Template loop warnings. Thanks, wbm1058 ( talk) 23:04, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Although this turned out not to be the actual cause of the problem, why is is a good idea for Cyberbot I to overwrite all changes to User:Snotbot/AfD's requiring attention and User:Snotbot/Current AfD's? Over the six years since Snotbot was deactivated, users have periodically made edits to those pages, only to be reverted by the bot. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 04:34, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
There is the issue of unclosed formatting tags, ( DIFF and DIFF), which should be easy to find and fix in the code. If the intent is for the Snotbot version of the reports to be an alternative version that uses big fonts to be easier on old eyes, then that should be made more clear. Thanks, wbm1058 ( talk) 12:31, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, since I can't change domain data on the IABot interface I would like to request that all pages from https://japakomusic.com/ are marked as dead. Trying any link to any page from https://japakomusic.com redirects to http://japakomusic.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi which only contains "This Account has been suspended". This is supported by this tweet [1] which states that on 22 July 2018 the company decided to stop their activities. Thanks, Redalert2fan ( talk) 21:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, could you please add "Ukrainian Wikipedia" to the section here User:InternetArchiveBot called "Wikis currently supported". I noticed that the bot has been on Ukrainian Wikipedia since Aug 2018 (see [2] and has been active (I noticed today it did edits to one of the pages I follow edits hisotry of B&H article. Thanks!-- Piznajko ( talk) 18:26, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
was changed to...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825213156/www.gay.nl/article/1596//Hekma:_Ik_ben_geen_pedo!|archive-date=25 August 2007}}</ref>
If I had to guess, it's probably the double slash that confused the bot. I'll fix the article manually in a bit. -- 77.173.90.33 ( talk) 20:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)...archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825213156/https:///|archive-date=25 August 2007|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
It is unnecessary to archive Hungarian: an Essential Grammar. The link is active. Amator linguarum ( talk) 08:52, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
For example here, bot writes "accessdate=29 липень 2015", but it should be written in genitive case, like "29 липня 2015". I was not able to find where to fix localisation, but it probably should be paused while that localisation is fixed. -- Bunyk ( talk) 22:11, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I thought I should let you know the Internet Archive bot falsely labelled a link as dead for some reason [3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.208.217 ( talk) 11:07, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ Cyberpower678:, could you please add "Ukrainian Wikipedia" to the section here User:InternetArchiveBot called "Wikis currently supported". I noticed that the bot has been on Ukrainian Wikipedia since Aug 2018 (see [4] and has been active (I noticed today it did edits to one of the pages I follow edits hisotry of B&H article. Thanks!-- Piznajko ( talk) 03:26, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
RfPPbot started edit warring with me over leaving an unfinished discussion on the RfPP page. Perhaps we need a "do not archive" tag to prevent this behaviour. Samsara 07:29, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
I know you are busy and it's not a thing to ask to an administrator. Can you prepare a similar css for my user page like yours? I really like your style.
Sincerely,
Masum Reza
talk
04:04, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Sorry for adding the fourth episode air date. I should have checked the toonami schedule. About the other thing, Tokyo MX lists the show to air on Saturday 24:00 so it technically occurs on 12:00 am or 00:00 on Sunday. How about keeping it all dates Sunday and adding a note.
Sincerely,
Masum Reza
talk
03:37, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi! This is a follow-up from User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 62#Undefined. I made the script you described; it's at User:Enterprisey/statusChanger2.js. Besides making it in a drop down, I had it use the API instead, which should be a bit faster. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:25, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
IABot doesn't seem to be handling piped links in citation templates properly: see errors introduced here, which I have corrected here. Thanks. DrKay ( talk) 14:55, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
|4=
those are a known problem Cyberpower once explained why, I no longer remember, but my bot WaybackMedic does remove them within a few months so they are not piling up. Would be good if there was a way to prevent it, like an IABot function that checks for and removes them before saving the page, rather than saving the page and waiting for my bot to check for and remove them. --
Green
C
16:13, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering why anyone can edit my
User:Masumrezarock100/StandardLayout.js page. Only owners, interface admins and interface editors should be able to edit it as per
Wikipedia:Protection_policy#User_pages. I tested it when I logged out.
Sincerely,
Masum Reza
☎
15:05, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Hope all's well,
Not sure if you're aware but on IAbot I'm currently getting a "503 unavailable" error message,
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Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 17:46, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
New message: Please add Alexandrov Army Choir and Czechoslovak Ice Hockey team air crash (1948) to the article:
/info/en/?search=List_of_fatalities_from_aviation_accidents — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
46.254.64.168 (
talk)
16:26, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Could you have the bot say {{ admin backlog|bot=Cyberbot I}} instead of just {{ Admin backlog}} when adding an admin backlog template to WP:RFPP? Currently it says "please remove this notice when the backlog is cleared", when in fact the notice will be removed automatically. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 18:15, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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Greetings. A tip for you: You can directly speak English when communicating with users in Chinese Wikipedia. Many of us do have above-basic English ability (e.g. en-3 or en-4). Please do not use machine translation as it would render your words very difficult to understand in Chinese. Thank you. -- 無聊龍 ( talk) 06:14, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, could be possible that the InternetArchiveBot doesn't modify articles with template "{{En uso}}"? You can see that edition that could be avoided by the bot. That template is like Template:In use. Thanks, -- Elisardojm ( talk) 12:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
, {{
cbtalkonly}}
, and {{
cbnotalk}}
templates. They may need to be created on glwiki, but will automatically be adopted by the bot. Check out each of the respective templates to see what they instruct the bot to do.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
14:36, 11 March 2019 (UTC){{
cbtalkonly}}
to the galician template. Bye, --
Elisardojm (
talk)
11:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Hi, I block InternetArchiveBot due to duplicate warnings of dead links on references. I will unblock it when this problem will be solved. Thanks! -- Docosong ( talk) 20:58, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. Well done for your work as Lead Developer on the InternetArchiveBot. It looks like a great tool that I've heard has automatically fixed millions of dead links on Wikipedia :-)
I'm fairly new to editing Wikipedia, so am looking for a bit of help with automatically fixing dead links using the InternetArchiveBot please.
At /info/en/?search=User:InternetArchiveBot it says:-
"You can use this bot yourself by browsing the history of any page, and clicking on the "Fix dead links" link in the "External tools" section at the top of the page."
but when I click the Fix Dead Links link at:- https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Climate_engineering&action=history I go to:- https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=runbotsingle&pagesearch=Climate_engineering
which tell me:-
Permission error The action you are trying to perform requires the analyzepage permission.
This permission is obtainable with the following groups: basicuser, user, admin, root, bot
My account page at:- https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=user&id=57630957&wiki=enwiki tells me I'm not a member of any groups.
Could you please let me know if there is a way of becoming one of these groups, or whether I should have the permission to run the Bot?
I have tried to get help at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Teahouse#Problem_With_Permissions_When_Trying_To_Run_The_InternetArchiveBot_To_Fix_Dead_Links_Automatically but thought I'd come straight to you.
Thanks in advance.
Shalso ( talk) 23:28, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, I have a question about your Internet Archive bot. I'm seeing a lot of this kind of edit. There are three problems with it: first, changing the URL from the short to the long unnecessarily (and sometimes the URL changes from archive.is to archive.org); second, adding access dates when archive dates are already there; and third, adding "df=dmy-all", which doesn't seem to have any point.
The person who made that edit said it was a product of "fix dead links". Why would the bot change what was there, and can something be done about adding the extra fields? We have editors on that article who add "df=dmy-all" and others who remove it, leading to edit conflicts for no good reason. SarahSV (talk) 02:14, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Please see this at Wikimedia Commons and if possible reply here, I thought that Fæ would run his bot as he has already bot-archived several links but he's too busy, if you need any advice on how to run file pages ask him. As I don't watch this page please reply on Wikimedia Commons. -- Donald Trung ( talk) 14:17, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower. You say "I don't mean to be an ass" on the arbcom noticeboard, but I'm afraid you are coming across as one. We've got an individual there who's trying to deal with being hacked, and you're holding him up as an example of everything that is wrong with admin security. Can I suggest that you stop focusing on the individual, and more on the general case? There are many things that can be done to force improved security on the admin group - from re-logging in ever 30 days, to password entropy requirements, to 2FA, and more - however, they should come from above as requirements, rather than badgering each other for not holding ourselves to the same standard. When it comes down to it, very little damage was done to Wikipedia by the hack, but if we lose a decent admin/editor over it, then far more damage will be done. WormTT( talk) 13:41, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Pages on the PMSA website beginning http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/
have been deleted; I wanted to get IABot to swap them for archived versions, but can't figure out how to do so. Can you either point me at a guide, or add the task, please?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
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I'M HAVING A BIT OF TROUBLE READING YOUR USERPAGE. PLEASE CONSIDER UPDATING THE FORMATTING. MUCH LOVE. Benjamin ( talk) 04:59, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Tried several times on a couple different pages, but no joy. Maybe I'll try again a few hours from now... OK I tried once more and it worked for Marzia Bisognin but never for 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. I even tried moving the latter's Sources section into my sandbox in case the main article's large size was a factor. Is even the Sources section too big? Should I break it into chunks? ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 05:14, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Do you mind answering questions there on InternetArchiveBot? Thank You. -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 20:08, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
I'm loving the various sigs, not sure what it says that I recognize all of them. At least no one's calling you a vandal, though the humorless brigade has come for me on multiple fronts. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 18:23, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey. 1) your user talk is extremely hard to read, could you please not tilt it? Thanks. 2) do you know what's going on with User:Shevonsilva, User:Shevonsilva/Layout, and User:Shevonsilva/StatndardLayout? They all have your "no permission given" G7 template (which is also IMO an improper use of the G7 tag, not to mention a severe violation of AGF). I think it's because they don't have an if check for User:Cyberpower678/SaH being "AprilFoolsStandard"? ansh 666 06:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Why your bot added link? It's mistake! 83.219.146.115 ( talk) 09:31, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I disabled your bot at interface because I got many reports about making much wrong edits. So, I blocked him temporary. One of examples of edits which your bot made for links which works. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 23:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
I unblocked your bot now and enabled him again. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 02:09, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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How do you get your sig to change every time? Are you doing it manually, or is there some markup thats allowing you to do it? 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 23:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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substitutes their current signature. --
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I'm concerned about this edit by InternetArchiveBot, which appears to be a purely cosmetic change in formatting with a misleading edit summary: nothing was "rescued" as the two Wayback Machine links that were there worked perfectly well, and the bot added unnecessary quote marks (around a descriptive title and the name of a blog) and a full stop immediately before a comma. The changes in formatting are the result of {{ webarchive}} being changed to {{ cite web}}, which isn't necessary in the case of external links – cite web can be used for external links, but in cases like these webarchive is preferable. Perhaps the bot could be prevented from making changes like these in external links sections in future, or only with some sort of human oversight. All the best, – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 11:29, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
The unhelpful edits I described previously are still going on: see 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, United States House of Representatives elections in Washington etc. In each case the bot has made minor unnecessary cosmetic changes to external links and incorrectly claimed to be "rescuing sources". Could you clarify what changes you've made, if any, as a result of the previous discussion? – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 11:58, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm hoping you could help me. Ever since I changed my username, the template {{adminstats}} has stopped working for me on my userpage on cywiki. I deleted the subpage of the template which used my old name, in the hope that one would be created for my new name. Cheers, Adda'r Yw ( talk) 18:28, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
From User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 61#Cyberbot I overhaul
Hi, I'd like to request a few changes to Cyberbot I's RFPP clerking algorithms.
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_protection#Technical_roadmap. As soon as MusikAnimal's script has been updated, the bot can be updated as well. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 07:10, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
- This may take some time to implement.— CYBERPOWER ( Chat) 16:34, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
It's been almost three months. Any update on this? * Pppery * has returned 23:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyber, I have a a concern about this revdel (and this one [6]). We'd discussed it on the oversight list previously, and decided to reverse suppression and that it did not qualify for either suppression or revision deletion. The clean start policy specifically allows connecting accounts, and given that it is part of an ongoing arbitration case, the identity and revisions in question are likely something that non-admins should be able to see. TonyBallioni ( talk) 14:23, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
I have run this bot three times on Swanscombe Heritage Park and each time it says it has made changes but the article is unaltered. Is the bot not working now? Dudley Miles ( talk) 10:11, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hey! I tried to talk twice earlier (January 19, 2019 and October 2nd, 2018) and I don't know if you ever responded or if the messages got deleted but I was wondering about this edit you did on October 2nd, 2018 to the page undefined (Click here to see edit) or just go to the page Undefined and look into the edit history and look on October 2nd. For whatever reason, you deleted the entire page and wrote "green". I was just wondering if you recall this or had a reason to do this, thanks for reading. -- Bluecrab2 ( talk) 05:20, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello there, can you please use User:InternetArchiveBot on Dean Ambrose per Talk:Dean Ambrose/GA1. I tried the tool multiple times but it fails to load for analysis, Thanks! THE NEW ImmortalWizard (chat) 14:29, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
The bot not update RfX tally. Hhkohh ( talk) 19:58, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot. When it changes something, it leaves a message on the talkpage. But why is there a link to the article in this message? I guess it is pretty obvious that when it is leaving a message on say the talkpage of Foobar it has edited the article Foobar, right? Muijz ( talk) 20:43, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
(The above message was archived, but my question was not answered.)
You might set your bot on the Flixter article, many of the URLs of which, since based on Facebook reporting, are reasonably expected to have died. Thanks. 2601:246:CA80:3CB5:1DFE:9D32:88DD:352 ( talk) 22:25, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Can you check on why Cyberbot is making User:Cyberbot I/AfD's requiring attention transclude itself? I'm trying to clear it out of Category:Template loop warnings. Thanks, wbm1058 ( talk) 23:04, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Although this turned out not to be the actual cause of the problem, why is is a good idea for Cyberbot I to overwrite all changes to User:Snotbot/AfD's requiring attention and User:Snotbot/Current AfD's? Over the six years since Snotbot was deactivated, users have periodically made edits to those pages, only to be reverted by the bot. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 04:34, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
There is the issue of unclosed formatting tags, ( DIFF and DIFF), which should be easy to find and fix in the code. If the intent is for the Snotbot version of the reports to be an alternative version that uses big fonts to be easier on old eyes, then that should be made more clear. Thanks, wbm1058 ( talk) 12:31, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, since I can't change domain data on the IABot interface I would like to request that all pages from https://japakomusic.com/ are marked as dead. Trying any link to any page from https://japakomusic.com redirects to http://japakomusic.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi which only contains "This Account has been suspended". This is supported by this tweet [1] which states that on 22 July 2018 the company decided to stop their activities. Thanks, Redalert2fan ( talk) 21:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, could you please add "Ukrainian Wikipedia" to the section here User:InternetArchiveBot called "Wikis currently supported". I noticed that the bot has been on Ukrainian Wikipedia since Aug 2018 (see [2] and has been active (I noticed today it did edits to one of the pages I follow edits hisotry of B&H article. Thanks!-- Piznajko ( talk) 18:26, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
was changed to...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825213156/www.gay.nl/article/1596//Hekma:_Ik_ben_geen_pedo!|archive-date=25 August 2007}}</ref>
If I had to guess, it's probably the double slash that confused the bot. I'll fix the article manually in a bit. -- 77.173.90.33 ( talk) 20:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)...archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825213156/https:///|archive-date=25 August 2007|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
It is unnecessary to archive Hungarian: an Essential Grammar. The link is active. Amator linguarum ( talk) 08:52, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
For example here, bot writes "accessdate=29 липень 2015", but it should be written in genitive case, like "29 липня 2015". I was not able to find where to fix localisation, but it probably should be paused while that localisation is fixed. -- Bunyk ( talk) 22:11, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I thought I should let you know the Internet Archive bot falsely labelled a link as dead for some reason [3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.208.217 ( talk) 11:07, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ Cyberpower678:, could you please add "Ukrainian Wikipedia" to the section here User:InternetArchiveBot called "Wikis currently supported". I noticed that the bot has been on Ukrainian Wikipedia since Aug 2018 (see [4] and has been active (I noticed today it did edits to one of the pages I follow edits hisotry of B&H article. Thanks!-- Piznajko ( talk) 03:26, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
RfPPbot started edit warring with me over leaving an unfinished discussion on the RfPP page. Perhaps we need a "do not archive" tag to prevent this behaviour. Samsara 07:29, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
I know you are busy and it's not a thing to ask to an administrator. Can you prepare a similar css for my user page like yours? I really like your style.
Sincerely,
Masum Reza
talk
04:04, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Sorry for adding the fourth episode air date. I should have checked the toonami schedule. About the other thing, Tokyo MX lists the show to air on Saturday 24:00 so it technically occurs on 12:00 am or 00:00 on Sunday. How about keeping it all dates Sunday and adding a note.
Sincerely,
Masum Reza
talk
03:37, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi! This is a follow-up from User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 62#Undefined. I made the script you described; it's at User:Enterprisey/statusChanger2.js. Besides making it in a drop down, I had it use the API instead, which should be a bit faster. Enterprisey ( talk!) 05:25, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
IABot doesn't seem to be handling piped links in citation templates properly: see errors introduced here, which I have corrected here. Thanks. DrKay ( talk) 14:55, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
|4=
those are a known problem Cyberpower once explained why, I no longer remember, but my bot WaybackMedic does remove them within a few months so they are not piling up. Would be good if there was a way to prevent it, like an IABot function that checks for and removes them before saving the page, rather than saving the page and waiting for my bot to check for and remove them. --
Green
C
16:13, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering why anyone can edit my
User:Masumrezarock100/StandardLayout.js page. Only owners, interface admins and interface editors should be able to edit it as per
Wikipedia:Protection_policy#User_pages. I tested it when I logged out.
Sincerely,
Masum Reza
☎
15:05, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678, Hope all's well,
Not sure if you're aware but on IAbot I'm currently getting a "503 unavailable" error message,
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Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 17:46, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
New message: Please add Alexandrov Army Choir and Czechoslovak Ice Hockey team air crash (1948) to the article:
/info/en/?search=List_of_fatalities_from_aviation_accidents — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
46.254.64.168 (
talk)
16:26, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Could you have the bot say {{ admin backlog|bot=Cyberbot I}} instead of just {{ Admin backlog}} when adding an admin backlog template to WP:RFPP? Currently it says "please remove this notice when the backlog is cleared", when in fact the notice will be removed automatically. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 18:15, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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Greetings. A tip for you: You can directly speak English when communicating with users in Chinese Wikipedia. Many of us do have above-basic English ability (e.g. en-3 or en-4). Please do not use machine translation as it would render your words very difficult to understand in Chinese. Thank you. -- 無聊龍 ( talk) 06:14, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, could be possible that the InternetArchiveBot doesn't modify articles with template "{{En uso}}"? You can see that edition that could be avoided by the bot. That template is like Template:In use. Thanks, -- Elisardojm ( talk) 12:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
cbignore}}
, {{
cbtalkonly}}
, and {{
cbnotalk}}
templates. They may need to be created on glwiki, but will automatically be adopted by the bot. Check out each of the respective templates to see what they instruct the bot to do.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
14:36, 11 March 2019 (UTC){{
cbtalkonly}}
to the galician template. Bye, --
Elisardojm (
talk)
11:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Hi, I block InternetArchiveBot due to duplicate warnings of dead links on references. I will unblock it when this problem will be solved. Thanks! -- Docosong ( talk) 20:58, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. Well done for your work as Lead Developer on the InternetArchiveBot. It looks like a great tool that I've heard has automatically fixed millions of dead links on Wikipedia :-)
I'm fairly new to editing Wikipedia, so am looking for a bit of help with automatically fixing dead links using the InternetArchiveBot please.
At /info/en/?search=User:InternetArchiveBot it says:-
"You can use this bot yourself by browsing the history of any page, and clicking on the "Fix dead links" link in the "External tools" section at the top of the page."
but when I click the Fix Dead Links link at:- https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Climate_engineering&action=history I go to:- https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=runbotsingle&pagesearch=Climate_engineering
which tell me:-
Permission error The action you are trying to perform requires the analyzepage permission.
This permission is obtainable with the following groups: basicuser, user, admin, root, bot
My account page at:- https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=user&id=57630957&wiki=enwiki tells me I'm not a member of any groups.
Could you please let me know if there is a way of becoming one of these groups, or whether I should have the permission to run the Bot?
I have tried to get help at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Teahouse#Problem_With_Permissions_When_Trying_To_Run_The_InternetArchiveBot_To_Fix_Dead_Links_Automatically but thought I'd come straight to you.
Thanks in advance.
Shalso ( talk) 23:28, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, I have a question about your Internet Archive bot. I'm seeing a lot of this kind of edit. There are three problems with it: first, changing the URL from the short to the long unnecessarily (and sometimes the URL changes from archive.is to archive.org); second, adding access dates when archive dates are already there; and third, adding "df=dmy-all", which doesn't seem to have any point.
The person who made that edit said it was a product of "fix dead links". Why would the bot change what was there, and can something be done about adding the extra fields? We have editors on that article who add "df=dmy-all" and others who remove it, leading to edit conflicts for no good reason. SarahSV (talk) 02:14, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Please see this at Wikimedia Commons and if possible reply here, I thought that Fæ would run his bot as he has already bot-archived several links but he's too busy, if you need any advice on how to run file pages ask him. As I don't watch this page please reply on Wikimedia Commons. -- Donald Trung ( talk) 14:17, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower. You say "I don't mean to be an ass" on the arbcom noticeboard, but I'm afraid you are coming across as one. We've got an individual there who's trying to deal with being hacked, and you're holding him up as an example of everything that is wrong with admin security. Can I suggest that you stop focusing on the individual, and more on the general case? There are many things that can be done to force improved security on the admin group - from re-logging in ever 30 days, to password entropy requirements, to 2FA, and more - however, they should come from above as requirements, rather than badgering each other for not holding ourselves to the same standard. When it comes down to it, very little damage was done to Wikipedia by the hack, but if we lose a decent admin/editor over it, then far more damage will be done. WormTT( talk) 13:41, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Pages on the PMSA website beginning http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/
have been deleted; I wanted to get IABot to swap them for archived versions, but can't figure out how to do so. Can you either point me at a guide, or add the task, please?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
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I'M HAVING A BIT OF TROUBLE READING YOUR USERPAGE. PLEASE CONSIDER UPDATING THE FORMATTING. MUCH LOVE. Benjamin ( talk) 04:59, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Tried several times on a couple different pages, but no joy. Maybe I'll try again a few hours from now... OK I tried once more and it worked for Marzia Bisognin but never for 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. I even tried moving the latter's Sources section into my sandbox in case the main article's large size was a factor. Is even the Sources section too big? Should I break it into chunks? ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 05:14, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Do you mind answering questions there on InternetArchiveBot? Thank You. -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 20:08, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
I'm loving the various sigs, not sure what it says that I recognize all of them. At least no one's calling you a vandal, though the humorless brigade has come for me on multiple fronts. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 18:23, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey. 1) your user talk is extremely hard to read, could you please not tilt it? Thanks. 2) do you know what's going on with User:Shevonsilva, User:Shevonsilva/Layout, and User:Shevonsilva/StatndardLayout? They all have your "no permission given" G7 template (which is also IMO an improper use of the G7 tag, not to mention a severe violation of AGF). I think it's because they don't have an if check for User:Cyberpower678/SaH being "AprilFoolsStandard"? ansh 666 06:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Why your bot added link? It's mistake! 83.219.146.115 ( talk) 09:31, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I disabled your bot at interface because I got many reports about making much wrong edits. So, I blocked him temporary. One of examples of edits which your bot made for links which works. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 23:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
I unblocked your bot now and enabled him again. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 02:09, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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How do you get your sig to change every time? Are you doing it manually, or is there some markup thats allowing you to do it? 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 23:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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I'm concerned about this edit by InternetArchiveBot, which appears to be a purely cosmetic change in formatting with a misleading edit summary: nothing was "rescued" as the two Wayback Machine links that were there worked perfectly well, and the bot added unnecessary quote marks (around a descriptive title and the name of a blog) and a full stop immediately before a comma. The changes in formatting are the result of {{ webarchive}} being changed to {{ cite web}}, which isn't necessary in the case of external links – cite web can be used for external links, but in cases like these webarchive is preferable. Perhaps the bot could be prevented from making changes like these in external links sections in future, or only with some sort of human oversight. All the best, – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 11:29, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
The unhelpful edits I described previously are still going on: see 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, United States House of Representatives elections in Washington etc. In each case the bot has made minor unnecessary cosmetic changes to external links and incorrectly claimed to be "rescuing sources". Could you clarify what changes you've made, if any, as a result of the previous discussion? – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 11:58, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm hoping you could help me. Ever since I changed my username, the template {{adminstats}} has stopped working for me on my userpage on cywiki. I deleted the subpage of the template which used my old name, in the hope that one would be created for my new name. Cheers, Adda'r Yw ( talk) 18:28, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
From User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 61#Cyberbot I overhaul
Hi, I'd like to request a few changes to Cyberbot I's RFPP clerking algorithms.
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_page_protection#Technical_roadmap. As soon as MusikAnimal's script has been updated, the bot can be updated as well. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 07:10, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
- This may take some time to implement.— CYBERPOWER ( Chat) 16:34, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
It's been almost three months. Any update on this? * Pppery * has returned 23:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Cyber, I have a a concern about this revdel (and this one [6]). We'd discussed it on the oversight list previously, and decided to reverse suppression and that it did not qualify for either suppression or revision deletion. The clean start policy specifically allows connecting accounts, and given that it is part of an ongoing arbitration case, the identity and revisions in question are likely something that non-admins should be able to see. TonyBallioni ( talk) 14:23, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
I have run this bot three times on Swanscombe Heritage Park and each time it says it has made changes but the article is unaltered. Is the bot not working now? Dudley Miles ( talk) 10:11, 17 April 2019 (UTC)