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InternetArchiveBot should not edit content that is maintained by ListeriaBot; its edits will simply be over-written. The simplest way to test for this would be to check for the presence of {{ Wikidata list}} (or local equivalents, per Template:Wikidata list (Q19860885)). Any required updates should instead be made in Wikidata, from where the content is sourced. For an example where this is an issue, see species:Repositories/Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:00, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
{{
nobots}}
template on those pages. IABot respects those.—
CYBERPOWER (
Happy Easter)
15:55, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi! Your InternetArchiveBot mistakenly replaces genitive case of month names with nominative within dates ( Ukrainian: Ваш InternetArchiveBot помилково замінює родовий відмінок назв місяців у датах називним). For example, https://uk.wikipedia.org/?diff=24970760. -- Рассилон ( talk) 07:38, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
I don't know if this is still the case, but your bot sig is or was at one point missing two html end tags, which can have knock-on effects on any Talk page discussions following the sig of this bot. It (used to) look like this:
[[User:Cyberbot II|<sup style="color:green;font-family:Courier">cyberbot II]]<small><sub style="margin-left:-14.9ex;color:green;font-family:Comic Sans MS">[[User talk:Cyberbot II|<span style="color:green">Talk to my owner]]:Online</sub></small>
What it should look like (probably; depends how you want it) is this:
[[User:Cyberbot II|<sup style="color:green;font-family:Courier">cyberbot II</sup>]]<small><sub style="margin-left:-14.9ex;color:green;font-family:Comic Sans MS">[[User talk:Cyberbot II|<span style="color:green">Talk to my owner</span>]]:Online</sub></small>
Perhaps you've fixed this already, in which case it's moot.
You could also use {{Green|lorem ipsum}}
rather than <span style="color:green">lorem ipsum</span>}}
which you might find easier.
Furthermore, your subscript is already in green, so you don't really need to double up on it with the <span>, as it's still within scope of the <sub>, unless you want to force it to green no matter the link state (active, visited, unvisited) which is what happens now.
Cheers, Mathglot ( talk) 09:07, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm trying to get a little more information about IABot. One of the articles I work on was edited yesterday using IABot, the user added 151 Internet Archive links to all of the external links in the pages references. I reverted the edit because none of the 151 links were dead, they all still worked. The user said they "did this to combat link rot." Is this something you've seen lots of editors using the bot for, or a use that you were aware of? Is there a wider discussion about this sort of usage?-- Patrick, oѺ∞ 22:09, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, sorry for posting here, but in eswiki the bot's reporting system writes automatically in the local user talk page. Let me know if you have troubles with spanish language. -- Leoncastro ( talk) 20:06, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello. What should I do to add IABot to azwiki?-- NMW03 ( talk) 18:45, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Why you always have 75% energy left? Sincerely, Masum Reza ☎ 17:27, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Dear User:Cyberpower678, our talk at WikiConference North America has been published. See https://wikijabber.com/wikijab020-cyberpower678/ and meta:WikiJabber. Regards -- Sebastian Wallroth ( talk) 06:34, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to request for your bot to add the Template:WPEUR10k, to all articles that appears in the list of created articles at Wikipedia:The 2500 Challenge (Nordic) and Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. I think it would be very helpful so all the articles recieved the template tag. I suggest this as there are literally thousands of articles in need of the tag. I understand if you can not help with this, but I took a a chance shot. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 13:37, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, User:cyberpower678. I have some bot jobs that I would like ask you to do, so I came up from the Japanese Wikipedia (jawp). In February of this year, I and User:Dark Little Star-san ( ja:User:リトルスターさん in Japanese) requested the addition of archive links to the articles on the bot Request page in jawp. However, there is no user who can deal with it on jawp, so I would like to ask your IA-bot for help.
The articles requested here are all articles which are sourced from the three broken websites that release reviews of game titles, such as "Girls-Style", "Game-Style", and "Dengekihime.com". More specifically, the following links will help you find them. I'd appreciate if you could accept our request. Thank you.
Hi,
I heard your excellent interview on the WikiJabber podcast, and wanted to ask a few follow-up things! Here's the first: Can you maybe take a look at the discussion on meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#youtu.be? (In case the link doesn't work properly or if the discussion is archived: It's a proposal to remove the blacklisting of youtu.be, which I started on April 14.)
The reason I'm asking you about this is that you said that your bot has a feature to change known links to sites that went dead to a new pattern. The problem with youtu.be links is not that they are dead, but that their format and function as a redirect are undesirable, but other than that it looks like the same feature could be used to fix them. If the blacklisting is removed, could your bot be conveniently used to automatically and reliably change youtu.be links to youtube.com links (to the same video of course) soon after a page is published?
Thanks! -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 07:58, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Cyber. I want to thank you for giving me six months to muddle over my name! As I have discovered better names than before. I just came here because I am wondering if it is possible to usurp Comrades as my username. As it is currently taken by someone who registered back in 2012. It's not my final decision. I am just wondering if I can. Thank you. The Duke 19:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, colleague! Thank you for your work for improving Wikipedia. Please explain the strange situation.
On April 27 2019 InternetArchiveBot rewrote 99 archives in the article Израиль in Russian wikipedia. I and the other authors of this article are really curious - why it happened. We always thought that a bot should only add archives to the sources having no archives. If the archive exists and its address is written in "archiveurl" field of the "cite web" template, there is no need to write anything instead. "Израиль" is the Featured article, all its archives are made and checked thoroughly by the authors. The most curious thing is that not a single archive was added, whereas 99 ones were overwritten. The new archives were not better than the existing ones, some were worse. The serious drawback is that the addresses (url) of the new archives were some 3-4 times longer than the previous ones, which makes the article heavier for no reason.
If you are not responsible for this bot, please advice who can help us. Thank you for your attention. We, the authors of the article, will wait for your answer here. -- AllaRo ( talk) 18:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The reason why this is done is because this URL http://archive.is/UY6Rd is shortened and Wikipedia has a policy that URL shortening is disallowed for reasons given here URL_shortening#Shortcomings and because the Wikipedia blacklist filters can not detect a short URL. So the bots expand the URL to long format so the underlying URL is visible to the blacklist filters, bots, tools and users. The long and short URL operate exactly the same going to the same place. -- Green C 19:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Cyber. I want to thank you for giving me six months to muddle over my name! As I have discovered better names than before. I just came here because I am wondering if it is possible to usurp Comrades as my username. As it is currently taken by someone who registered back in 2012. It's not my final decision. I am just wondering if I can. Thank you. The Duke 19:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, colleague! Thank you for your work for improving Wikipedia. Please explain the strange situation.
On April 27 2019 InternetArchiveBot rewrote 99 archives in the article Израиль in Russian wikipedia. I and the other authors of this article are really curious - why it happened. We always thought that a bot should only add archives to the sources having no archives. If the archive exists and its address is written in "archiveurl" field of the "cite web" template, there is no need to write anything instead. "Израиль" is the Featured article, all its archives are made and checked thoroughly by the authors. The most curious thing is that not a single archive was added, whereas 99 ones were overwritten. The new archives were not better than the existing ones, some were worse. The serious drawback is that the addresses (url) of the new archives were some 3-4 times longer than the previous ones, which makes the article heavier for no reason.
If you are not responsible for this bot, please advice who can help us. Thank you for your attention. We, the authors of the article, will wait for your answer here. -- AllaRo ( talk) 18:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The reason why this is done is because this URL http://archive.is/UY6Rd is shortened and Wikipedia has a policy that URL shortening is disallowed for reasons given here URL_shortening#Shortcomings and because the Wikipedia blacklist filters can not detect a short URL. So the bots expand the URL to long format so the underlying URL is visible to the blacklist filters, bots, tools and users. The long and short URL operate exactly the same going to the same place. -- Green C 19:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 18:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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Your bot is removing https from arquivo.pt links. SLBedit ( talk) 23:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello
I hope that you will return to wiki-life. If/when you will return can you, please, answer to such question: what is needed to run IABot Management Interface for pl.wiki? PMG ( talk) 15:02, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
I use the internet archive bot extensively, but it seems to not be archiving pages from famitsu and maniac. For instance, in this instance famitsu is used on the page, but not archived. This edit saved the famitsu page, but not maniac. I've found that to reliably archive these pages I have to do it manually. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 16:06, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I saw that the book bot tried to audit the book for Never Let Me Down but there were some issues - it claims that most of the articles don't exist (when in fact they do - the book covers a Good Topic). I tried to make some manual edits but since the bot runs frequently, it over-wrote my changes. I was just hoping you could take a look and figure out why it's claiming there are errors. The .sig from the bot says to talk to you, but your comment on your talk page makes me think maybe that's no longer true? Anywhere, here's a link to the book page: Book:Never Let Me Down. If I've got it wrong, or need to talk to someone else, please let me know. Thanks! 87Fan ( talk) 21:21, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I'm an admin at the Albanian Wikipedia. Lately I've been dealing with the CS1 module and its categories for our community. It's not been compatible 100% with our community but it has helped us a lot by giving us a way to keep an eye on the references, the section most overlooked when creating or translating an article (at least on our community). Today I found the page for your bot and I was wondering if it could be implemented to our community too. It would be a great help and give us yet another tool to deal with the references' problems. I hope you can help us if you do return to the wiki community. :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:19, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello!
At several last days The InternetArchiveBot added doubles of the archived links,
example.
IAbot don't look existing "| archiveurl=" and "| archivedate=" and inserts new {{Wayback... with same URL.
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Grumbler eburg (
talk)
12:04, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
What's going on? You're on indefinite wikibreak! Does this mean you aren't going to return to Wikipedia? Sincerely, Masum Reza ☎ 16:53, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, User:cyberpower678. I informed you here once on April 28, but as my post was archived during your Wikibreak, I would like to request the following again.
I have some bot jobs that I would like ask you to do, so I came up from the Japanese Wikipedia (ja-wiki). In February of this year, I and User:Dark Little Star-san ( ja:User:リトルスターさん in Japanese) requested the addition of archive links to the articles on the bot request page in ja-wiki. However, there is no user who can deal with it, so I would like to ask your IABot for help.
The articles requested here are all articles which are sourced from the three broken websites that release reviews of game titles, namely "Girls-Style", "Game-Style", and "Dengekihime.com". More specifically, the following links will help you find them. I'd appreciate if you could accept our request. Thank you.
Hi Cyberpower678, I see that you are on wikibreak (enjoy!) but hope you are still reading this. I would like to report a bug but cannot log in into the suggested reporting tool, therefore I have to report it here. In this
InternetArchiveBot expanded an archive link (fine), but also unnecessarily added a |df=
parameter and changed the date format. However, since cs1/cs2 citation templates now support auto-date formatting, it is almost never necessary to add the |df=
parameter any more (it may even become deprecated over time), and when the bot inserts or updates dates in citations, it should follow the format defined by the optional |cs1-dates=
parameter of the {{
Use dmy dates}}/{{
Use mdy dates}} templates, if it is being used in an article. In this case, the date format for citations was set to "y", so the bot should have used the ymd format. but it changed the |archive-date=
from the correct "2019-04-22" to the incorrect "22 April 2019". Since the citation template will auto-format the date, this is normally only visible on source code level, but nevertheless, it should not happen. And in this case, the bot even added |df=
and thereby forced the citation to show up in the wrong date format. I guess, your bot already checks for the existance of {{
Use dmy dates}}/{{
Use mdy dates}}, but just didn't know about the |cs1-dates=
parameter yet. So, please update your bot to adhere to the |cs1-dates=
parameter's setting and no longer insert |df=
into citations, so that it no longer creates unnecessary inconsistencies. Thanks and greetings. --
Matthiaspaul (
talk)
11:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Use ymd dates}}
template, but I will not be implementing something that is specific to enwiki on a bot that runs globally. Sorry.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
16:39, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Use ymd dates}}
(which I personally would support, but which does not exist in the English WP as our MOS doesn't allow ymd dates in article bodies yet, only in references and tables) it should be almost as easy to look for a certain parameter of the {{
Use dmy dates}}
and {{
Use mdy dates}}
templates as well. I can't see how sensing for this would negatively affect IABot's behaviour in other language entities of Wikipedia.{{
use ymd dates}}
was recently confirmed for deletion at this
tfd.Hi, would you please add fawiki to IABot? Yamaha5 ( talk) 20:57, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi - I have a question about how to report an error committed by the InternetArchiveBot. The bot's talk page says to "report a false positive" if I found "a URL that is alive and the bot thinks it's dead", but the problem that I encountered is essentially the opposite - I found two dead urls that the the bot thinks are alive. Archived versions of these two urls are being used as sources in the article AJ Gil, but the InternetArchiveBot added "dead url = no" to each of them. I've reverted the bot, but am curious how to report this. Should I go through the "Report a false positive" tool? Or is there another way to report this type of error? Thanks. -- Jpcase ( talk) 14:00, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure what would qualify as "dead all around", but the web page that I need to use as a reference is no longer accessible through that link, so I need to use an archived version of the page. When you click on that link, it redirects to a completely different webpage. -- Jpcase ( talk) 14:10, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Job 3761 from May 15 seems to be partially completed, but progress is stalled and the queue is starting to back up. Just thought you'd want to know. — hike395 ( talk) 02:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Cyber. I'm reposting this because I didn't get a response last time. I hope you're all well now. But please take as much time as you need if need-be. I want to thank you for giving me six months to muddle over my name! As I have discovered better names than before. I just came here because I am wondering if it is possible to usurp Comrades as my username. As it is currently taken by someone who registered back in 2012. It's not my final decision. I am just wondering if I can. Thank you. The Duke 17:18, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, why is Cyberbot I updating adminstats several times a day? It used to be just once, soon after 04:30 (UTC). -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:35, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
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i know this may be strange but i am looking for penpals and cannot afford the penpal websites if you are interested sign up with me on jpay.com with the user number 1001070062 Xaricam ( talk) 22:17, 23 May 2019 (UTC) |
{{
help me-helped}}
What should we do here. I have no idea.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
23:28, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
I have marked the help request as solved. Despite WP:NOTFORUM I think I can handle this by encouraging actual wiki work and responding to questions on my talk page with WP:NOTFORUM in mind. That said, keeping the help request open for longer would probably really cost too much community time. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 10:20, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi! First, the bot's working correctly. I did remove an AfD tag by reverting my own edit (it was one I had just placed). I also requested speedy closure of the discussion on the AfD page. The article was just written today (I'm not sure how it's already on the main site). I've already reached out to the author to explain what's needed to bring the article up to an encyclopedic level and I've given them a link to the preferred process for writing new articles. Next time (if I act too hastily), I'll leave the request on the AfD page and leave the template I put up alone. I just didn't want to discourage the author. Orville1974 ( talk) 01:36, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm sorry to pester you again. It looks like the job queue is now stuck on 3785. If there's another place or mechanism to report/unstick the queue, please let me know --- this is an incredibly useful service, and I want you to feel unstressed. — hike395 ( talk) 16:36, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Your bot, InternetArchiveBot, running in Ukrainian Wikipedia, replaces cyrillic letters in URLs with their Percent-encoding analogues like here or here. All modern browsers handle URLs with cyrillic letters just as well as URLs with percent encoding. But URLs with percent encoding are much longer and less clear. They make a paragraph of source wiki-code, they are included in, absolutely unreadable, it is not clear what the link is about, and sometimes they can even break the page layout.
Please, set your bot to use cyrillic letters instead of percent-encoding.
Also, it should mark edits as minor, so that people having pages, which are edited by the bot, in their watchlists do not receive hundreds of e-mail notifications. -- Tohaomg ( talk) 17:25, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Please take look here. Between 16 april & today, bot added অকার্যকর সংযোগ (Dead link) 60 times in the same reference. I can see it started when v2.0beta14 came out. see also -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 18:26, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
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I imagine this is like the FAQ question "X does not match edit summary" but I thought I've noticed it a couple times over the past week. Is this any different? Am I misunderstanding what a reported dead link is? Thanks for any insight. Cheers! Elfabet ( talk) 17:30, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
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InternetArchiveBot should not edit content that is maintained by ListeriaBot; its edits will simply be over-written. The simplest way to test for this would be to check for the presence of {{ Wikidata list}} (or local equivalents, per Template:Wikidata list (Q19860885)). Any required updates should instead be made in Wikidata, from where the content is sourced. For an example where this is an issue, see species:Repositories/Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:00, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
{{
nobots}}
template on those pages. IABot respects those.—
CYBERPOWER (
Happy Easter)
15:55, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi! Your InternetArchiveBot mistakenly replaces genitive case of month names with nominative within dates ( Ukrainian: Ваш InternetArchiveBot помилково замінює родовий відмінок назв місяців у датах називним). For example, https://uk.wikipedia.org/?diff=24970760. -- Рассилон ( talk) 07:38, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
I don't know if this is still the case, but your bot sig is or was at one point missing two html end tags, which can have knock-on effects on any Talk page discussions following the sig of this bot. It (used to) look like this:
[[User:Cyberbot II|<sup style="color:green;font-family:Courier">cyberbot II]]<small><sub style="margin-left:-14.9ex;color:green;font-family:Comic Sans MS">[[User talk:Cyberbot II|<span style="color:green">Talk to my owner]]:Online</sub></small>
What it should look like (probably; depends how you want it) is this:
[[User:Cyberbot II|<sup style="color:green;font-family:Courier">cyberbot II</sup>]]<small><sub style="margin-left:-14.9ex;color:green;font-family:Comic Sans MS">[[User talk:Cyberbot II|<span style="color:green">Talk to my owner</span>]]:Online</sub></small>
Perhaps you've fixed this already, in which case it's moot.
You could also use {{Green|lorem ipsum}}
rather than <span style="color:green">lorem ipsum</span>}}
which you might find easier.
Furthermore, your subscript is already in green, so you don't really need to double up on it with the <span>, as it's still within scope of the <sub>, unless you want to force it to green no matter the link state (active, visited, unvisited) which is what happens now.
Cheers, Mathglot ( talk) 09:07, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm trying to get a little more information about IABot. One of the articles I work on was edited yesterday using IABot, the user added 151 Internet Archive links to all of the external links in the pages references. I reverted the edit because none of the 151 links were dead, they all still worked. The user said they "did this to combat link rot." Is this something you've seen lots of editors using the bot for, or a use that you were aware of? Is there a wider discussion about this sort of usage?-- Patrick, oѺ∞ 22:09, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, sorry for posting here, but in eswiki the bot's reporting system writes automatically in the local user talk page. Let me know if you have troubles with spanish language. -- Leoncastro ( talk) 20:06, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello. What should I do to add IABot to azwiki?-- NMW03 ( talk) 18:45, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Why you always have 75% energy left? Sincerely, Masum Reza ☎ 17:27, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Dear User:Cyberpower678, our talk at WikiConference North America has been published. See https://wikijabber.com/wikijab020-cyberpower678/ and meta:WikiJabber. Regards -- Sebastian Wallroth ( talk) 06:34, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to request for your bot to add the Template:WPEUR10k, to all articles that appears in the list of created articles at Wikipedia:The 2500 Challenge (Nordic) and Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. I think it would be very helpful so all the articles recieved the template tag. I suggest this as there are literally thousands of articles in need of the tag. I understand if you can not help with this, but I took a a chance shot. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 13:37, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, User:cyberpower678. I have some bot jobs that I would like ask you to do, so I came up from the Japanese Wikipedia (jawp). In February of this year, I and User:Dark Little Star-san ( ja:User:リトルスターさん in Japanese) requested the addition of archive links to the articles on the bot Request page in jawp. However, there is no user who can deal with it on jawp, so I would like to ask your IA-bot for help.
The articles requested here are all articles which are sourced from the three broken websites that release reviews of game titles, such as "Girls-Style", "Game-Style", and "Dengekihime.com". More specifically, the following links will help you find them. I'd appreciate if you could accept our request. Thank you.
Hi,
I heard your excellent interview on the WikiJabber podcast, and wanted to ask a few follow-up things! Here's the first: Can you maybe take a look at the discussion on meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#youtu.be? (In case the link doesn't work properly or if the discussion is archived: It's a proposal to remove the blacklisting of youtu.be, which I started on April 14.)
The reason I'm asking you about this is that you said that your bot has a feature to change known links to sites that went dead to a new pattern. The problem with youtu.be links is not that they are dead, but that their format and function as a redirect are undesirable, but other than that it looks like the same feature could be used to fix them. If the blacklisting is removed, could your bot be conveniently used to automatically and reliably change youtu.be links to youtube.com links (to the same video of course) soon after a page is published?
Thanks! -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 07:58, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Cyber. I want to thank you for giving me six months to muddle over my name! As I have discovered better names than before. I just came here because I am wondering if it is possible to usurp Comrades as my username. As it is currently taken by someone who registered back in 2012. It's not my final decision. I am just wondering if I can. Thank you. The Duke 19:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, colleague! Thank you for your work for improving Wikipedia. Please explain the strange situation.
On April 27 2019 InternetArchiveBot rewrote 99 archives in the article Израиль in Russian wikipedia. I and the other authors of this article are really curious - why it happened. We always thought that a bot should only add archives to the sources having no archives. If the archive exists and its address is written in "archiveurl" field of the "cite web" template, there is no need to write anything instead. "Израиль" is the Featured article, all its archives are made and checked thoroughly by the authors. The most curious thing is that not a single archive was added, whereas 99 ones were overwritten. The new archives were not better than the existing ones, some were worse. The serious drawback is that the addresses (url) of the new archives were some 3-4 times longer than the previous ones, which makes the article heavier for no reason.
If you are not responsible for this bot, please advice who can help us. Thank you for your attention. We, the authors of the article, will wait for your answer here. -- AllaRo ( talk) 18:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The reason why this is done is because this URL http://archive.is/UY6Rd is shortened and Wikipedia has a policy that URL shortening is disallowed for reasons given here URL_shortening#Shortcomings and because the Wikipedia blacklist filters can not detect a short URL. So the bots expand the URL to long format so the underlying URL is visible to the blacklist filters, bots, tools and users. The long and short URL operate exactly the same going to the same place. -- Green C 19:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Cyber. I want to thank you for giving me six months to muddle over my name! As I have discovered better names than before. I just came here because I am wondering if it is possible to usurp Comrades as my username. As it is currently taken by someone who registered back in 2012. It's not my final decision. I am just wondering if I can. Thank you. The Duke 19:41, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, colleague! Thank you for your work for improving Wikipedia. Please explain the strange situation.
On April 27 2019 InternetArchiveBot rewrote 99 archives in the article Израиль in Russian wikipedia. I and the other authors of this article are really curious - why it happened. We always thought that a bot should only add archives to the sources having no archives. If the archive exists and its address is written in "archiveurl" field of the "cite web" template, there is no need to write anything instead. "Израиль" is the Featured article, all its archives are made and checked thoroughly by the authors. The most curious thing is that not a single archive was added, whereas 99 ones were overwritten. The new archives were not better than the existing ones, some were worse. The serious drawback is that the addresses (url) of the new archives were some 3-4 times longer than the previous ones, which makes the article heavier for no reason.
If you are not responsible for this bot, please advice who can help us. Thank you for your attention. We, the authors of the article, will wait for your answer here. -- AllaRo ( talk) 18:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The reason why this is done is because this URL http://archive.is/UY6Rd is shortened and Wikipedia has a policy that URL shortening is disallowed for reasons given here URL_shortening#Shortcomings and because the Wikipedia blacklist filters can not detect a short URL. So the bots expand the URL to long format so the underlying URL is visible to the blacklist filters, bots, tools and users. The long and short URL operate exactly the same going to the same place. -- Green C 19:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 18:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
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Your bot is removing https from arquivo.pt links. SLBedit ( talk) 23:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello
I hope that you will return to wiki-life. If/when you will return can you, please, answer to such question: what is needed to run IABot Management Interface for pl.wiki? PMG ( talk) 15:02, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
I use the internet archive bot extensively, but it seems to not be archiving pages from famitsu and maniac. For instance, in this instance famitsu is used on the page, but not archived. This edit saved the famitsu page, but not maniac. I've found that to reliably archive these pages I have to do it manually. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 16:06, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I saw that the book bot tried to audit the book for Never Let Me Down but there were some issues - it claims that most of the articles don't exist (when in fact they do - the book covers a Good Topic). I tried to make some manual edits but since the bot runs frequently, it over-wrote my changes. I was just hoping you could take a look and figure out why it's claiming there are errors. The .sig from the bot says to talk to you, but your comment on your talk page makes me think maybe that's no longer true? Anywhere, here's a link to the book page: Book:Never Let Me Down. If I've got it wrong, or need to talk to someone else, please let me know. Thanks! 87Fan ( talk) 21:21, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I'm an admin at the Albanian Wikipedia. Lately I've been dealing with the CS1 module and its categories for our community. It's not been compatible 100% with our community but it has helped us a lot by giving us a way to keep an eye on the references, the section most overlooked when creating or translating an article (at least on our community). Today I found the page for your bot and I was wondering if it could be implemented to our community too. It would be a great help and give us yet another tool to deal with the references' problems. I hope you can help us if you do return to the wiki community. :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 11:19, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello!
At several last days The InternetArchiveBot added doubles of the archived links,
example.
IAbot don't look existing "| archiveurl=" and "| archivedate=" and inserts new {{Wayback... with same URL.
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Grumbler eburg (
talk)
12:04, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
What's going on? You're on indefinite wikibreak! Does this mean you aren't going to return to Wikipedia? Sincerely, Masum Reza ☎ 16:53, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, User:cyberpower678. I informed you here once on April 28, but as my post was archived during your Wikibreak, I would like to request the following again.
I have some bot jobs that I would like ask you to do, so I came up from the Japanese Wikipedia (ja-wiki). In February of this year, I and User:Dark Little Star-san ( ja:User:リトルスターさん in Japanese) requested the addition of archive links to the articles on the bot request page in ja-wiki. However, there is no user who can deal with it, so I would like to ask your IABot for help.
The articles requested here are all articles which are sourced from the three broken websites that release reviews of game titles, namely "Girls-Style", "Game-Style", and "Dengekihime.com". More specifically, the following links will help you find them. I'd appreciate if you could accept our request. Thank you.
Hi Cyberpower678, I see that you are on wikibreak (enjoy!) but hope you are still reading this. I would like to report a bug but cannot log in into the suggested reporting tool, therefore I have to report it here. In this
InternetArchiveBot expanded an archive link (fine), but also unnecessarily added a |df=
parameter and changed the date format. However, since cs1/cs2 citation templates now support auto-date formatting, it is almost never necessary to add the |df=
parameter any more (it may even become deprecated over time), and when the bot inserts or updates dates in citations, it should follow the format defined by the optional |cs1-dates=
parameter of the {{
Use dmy dates}}/{{
Use mdy dates}} templates, if it is being used in an article. In this case, the date format for citations was set to "y", so the bot should have used the ymd format. but it changed the |archive-date=
from the correct "2019-04-22" to the incorrect "22 April 2019". Since the citation template will auto-format the date, this is normally only visible on source code level, but nevertheless, it should not happen. And in this case, the bot even added |df=
and thereby forced the citation to show up in the wrong date format. I guess, your bot already checks for the existance of {{
Use dmy dates}}/{{
Use mdy dates}}, but just didn't know about the |cs1-dates=
parameter yet. So, please update your bot to adhere to the |cs1-dates=
parameter's setting and no longer insert |df=
into citations, so that it no longer creates unnecessary inconsistencies. Thanks and greetings. --
Matthiaspaul (
talk)
11:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Use ymd dates}}
template, but I will not be implementing something that is specific to enwiki on a bot that runs globally. Sorry.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
16:39, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Use ymd dates}}
(which I personally would support, but which does not exist in the English WP as our MOS doesn't allow ymd dates in article bodies yet, only in references and tables) it should be almost as easy to look for a certain parameter of the {{
Use dmy dates}}
and {{
Use mdy dates}}
templates as well. I can't see how sensing for this would negatively affect IABot's behaviour in other language entities of Wikipedia.{{
use ymd dates}}
was recently confirmed for deletion at this
tfd.Hi, would you please add fawiki to IABot? Yamaha5 ( talk) 20:57, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi - I have a question about how to report an error committed by the InternetArchiveBot. The bot's talk page says to "report a false positive" if I found "a URL that is alive and the bot thinks it's dead", but the problem that I encountered is essentially the opposite - I found two dead urls that the the bot thinks are alive. Archived versions of these two urls are being used as sources in the article AJ Gil, but the InternetArchiveBot added "dead url = no" to each of them. I've reverted the bot, but am curious how to report this. Should I go through the "Report a false positive" tool? Or is there another way to report this type of error? Thanks. -- Jpcase ( talk) 14:00, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure what would qualify as "dead all around", but the web page that I need to use as a reference is no longer accessible through that link, so I need to use an archived version of the page. When you click on that link, it redirects to a completely different webpage. -- Jpcase ( talk) 14:10, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Job 3761 from May 15 seems to be partially completed, but progress is stalled and the queue is starting to back up. Just thought you'd want to know. — hike395 ( talk) 02:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Cyber. I'm reposting this because I didn't get a response last time. I hope you're all well now. But please take as much time as you need if need-be. I want to thank you for giving me six months to muddle over my name! As I have discovered better names than before. I just came here because I am wondering if it is possible to usurp Comrades as my username. As it is currently taken by someone who registered back in 2012. It's not my final decision. I am just wondering if I can. Thank you. The Duke 17:18, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, why is Cyberbot I updating adminstats several times a day? It used to be just once, soon after 04:30 (UTC). -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:35, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
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What should we do here. I have no idea.—
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
23:28, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
I have marked the help request as solved. Despite WP:NOTFORUM I think I can handle this by encouraging actual wiki work and responding to questions on my talk page with WP:NOTFORUM in mind. That said, keeping the help request open for longer would probably really cost too much community time. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 10:20, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi! First, the bot's working correctly. I did remove an AfD tag by reverting my own edit (it was one I had just placed). I also requested speedy closure of the discussion on the AfD page. The article was just written today (I'm not sure how it's already on the main site). I've already reached out to the author to explain what's needed to bring the article up to an encyclopedic level and I've given them a link to the preferred process for writing new articles. Next time (if I act too hastily), I'll leave the request on the AfD page and leave the template I put up alone. I just didn't want to discourage the author. Orville1974 ( talk) 01:36, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm sorry to pester you again. It looks like the job queue is now stuck on 3785. If there's another place or mechanism to report/unstick the queue, please let me know --- this is an incredibly useful service, and I want you to feel unstressed. — hike395 ( talk) 16:36, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Your bot, InternetArchiveBot, running in Ukrainian Wikipedia, replaces cyrillic letters in URLs with their Percent-encoding analogues like here or here. All modern browsers handle URLs with cyrillic letters just as well as URLs with percent encoding. But URLs with percent encoding are much longer and less clear. They make a paragraph of source wiki-code, they are included in, absolutely unreadable, it is not clear what the link is about, and sometimes they can even break the page layout.
Please, set your bot to use cyrillic letters instead of percent-encoding.
Also, it should mark edits as minor, so that people having pages, which are edited by the bot, in their watchlists do not receive hundreds of e-mail notifications. -- Tohaomg ( talk) 17:25, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Please take look here. Between 16 april & today, bot added অকার্যকর সংযোগ (Dead link) 60 times in the same reference. I can see it started when v2.0beta14 came out. see also -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 18:26, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
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I imagine this is like the FAQ question "X does not match edit summary" but I thought I've noticed it a couple times over the past week. Is this any different? Am I misunderstanding what a reported dead link is? Thanks for any insight. Cheers! Elfabet ( talk) 17:30, 28 May 2019 (UTC)