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Hi. Your bot here is replacing pages viewable through Google books, by Archive.com links that require registration and limited time for perusal (14 days). I am not sure this is an improvement, as Google books pages are viewable by almost anyone almost anytime, and allow for an easy reading of the references by going directly to the referenced page. Can you disable this kind of replacements, which I am afraid are not in the interest of the Wikipedia reader? पाटलिपुत्र Pat (talk) 15:47, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
=
Hi cyberpower, could you please reactivate my account on the ACC tool? The account might need it's CheckUser permission re authorised too. I'm expecting that I'll have some more time to spend on CU stuff now. Thanks, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 13:49, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
The action was taken as per deletion decision Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smooth Operator (bull) and after consensus. The author of the page is working with another author, for the creation of this article. For ref see ( Talk:List of Professional Bull Riders Champions#International champions). Amkgp ( talk) 19:52, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
About this edit, I replaced the wrong deletion template AfD with the MfD as it was a renomination. Now both templates are present. My apologies for the confusion. Can you fix it? Ms4263nyu ( talk) 14:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. For the third time, InternetArchiveBot removed perfectly good Google books links at James Longstreet. Can you please do something to prevent this from happening again? Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 17:13, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. Last week I modified the settings for IABot at gl.wiki, setting it to not leave any modification or error message in the talk pages as we do not really use them for much and they are really not needed for us. However after changing those it seems the bot has completely stopped running on our wiki. Is this a normal behaviour (maybe because it is really running but not finding anything that needs changes) or have I inadvertently "broken" it somehow? Could you please take a look if everything is ok on the bot for our site? Thank you! Banjo ( talk) 13:51, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
[1] - is it correct work? Can you not place links to this strange site? Yes, the link contained an error, but after the bot works, only the error remains, and the normal link is simply deleted. -- Туча ( talk) 14:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. You tried to help out with the Uncyclopedia dispute back in August, 2019. See Talk:Uncyclopedia/Archive 5#What I'm seeing here as an admin. Do you have any wisdom to share at WP:AN3#User:BFDIBebble_reported_by_User:Kevindongyt_(Result: )? Any claims as to which one is the one true Uncyclopedia should probably go to WP:Dispute resolution. At present I'm not impressed by the behavior of either side, but the full protection will cool things for now. EdJohnston ( talk) 04:43, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Hello! I saw somewhere that you might be working on the code for ReFill. Is that the case? I am looking for somewhere to make suggestions. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 02:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
I first reported this issue over 6 months ago. You said, "so I will need to find a moment to investigate this." Will you please do so? It won't go away until you fix it. Anomalocaris ( talk) 20:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Un-archived discussion with new comment:
Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.
{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
''
) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to){{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
''
) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to){{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
{{book report|''Stargate: The Ark of Truth|The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to){{book report|Stargate: The Ark of Truth|''The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
{{book report|''Stargate: Continuum|Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to){{book report|Stargate: Continuum|''Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
{{book report|''Stargate: Revolution|Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to){{book report|Stargate: Revolution|''Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
{{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
<small>
; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted){{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)</small>|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
{{book report|''Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted){{book report|Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|''Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To</big>'''|The basics of Wikipedia}}
{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To'''</big>|The basics of Wikipedia}}
And similar errors that I fixed that you haven't reverted yet in:
And similar errors that I haven't fixed at Lint errors: Missing end tag in the Book talk namespace. Please deal with these errors, or at least point how to generate the list of "source code" pages and how to edit them to make the problem go away. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 23:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Please find a moment to investigate this. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 09:52, 16 February 2020 (UTC) and again Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:27, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Is InternetArchiveBot a global bot? — Gomdoli4696 ( 토론 ) 23:23, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Colorful carnations for a good day! | |
I'm sorry to see current state of your stress-o-meter. Not sure if I can possibly do something to help, but please know that I'd like to! Have a nice day, and if you are not fond of carnations, let me know. Ата (talk) 11:11, 8 May 2020 (UTC) |
Hoi, waarom wordt een "dode" link klakkeloos vervangen door een gearchiveerde link? Soms, e.g. bij verenigingen, is het zo dat de verenigingswebsite is verplaats naar een ander adres. Wanneer dat het geval is, zou dat de vervanging moeten zijn. Zie hier. De website is gewijzigd van http://www.bornerbroek.nu/ naar https://rksvbornerbroek.nl/. Bij subpagina's op een domein valt er nog wel iets te zeggen voor de "archief" vervanging, maar bij hoofdpagina's (http(s)://domein/) vind ik het net iets te makkelijk. Een zo mogelijk nog mooier voorbeeld is dit. De site is niet bereikbaar (althans niet zomaar via https, fout in certificaat) en er wordt een gearchiveerde link uit 2018 neergezet die geen relevante info laat zien. Kan dat voor in ieder geval hoofdpagina's niet anders? Eerst desnoods in persoon controleren of er geen beter alternatief is. En ja, ik snap dat dit het nodige werk betekent dat niemand graag doet. Ciao -- Sb008 ( talk) 15:59, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, a user reported on zh.wiki that he noticed the bot replaces the archive link from Archive.is to Archive.org Wayback Machine. This is undesirable because the reason he uses Archive.is to begin with is because Archive.org's engine sometimes doesn't work well on some sites (missing images, etc.).-- fireattack ( talk) 16:37, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, InternetArchiveBot seems to have trouble with urls containing square brackets. Also the tool for reporting false positives has the same feature, so I cannot use it to report these (it truncates the url at the first square bracket). Two examples of functioning urls being reported as broken: [2] [3] Cheers, Micromesistius ( talk) 20:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the Village Pump Technical on when to use IABot to archive links. You are invited to join the conversation. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 04:25, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, hope you are doing well. This a notification that your bot inactive in arwiki since more than 6 months, so per bot policy we'll remove your "bot flag" after 3 days from this notification if the bot stays inactive. Thanks on advance -- Alaa :)..! 18:53, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Yes exactly, for example last edit IAB added archiveurl/archivedate/url-status, but this reference already archived, as:
And if you see the article revision you'll found that ref. 3 contains duplicated parameters -- Alaa :)..! 19:35, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
I've had to fix small tags twice today in that notice because it was making the entire AfD log for a day read in a much smaller font; please double-check your code. Thank you. Nate • ( chatter) 03:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, long time ago I sent an message about the aprroval of Vietnamese Wikipedia to deploy InternetArchiveBot there. I wonder if this deploying still in progess, or is there any trouble prevent our community to use this tool? Please let me know if you have update for this case, best regards! -- minhhuy ( talk) 10:33, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. We have a template in Russian Wikipedia - ru:Template:Russiancinema - that links to 2011.russiancinema.ru and is included in more than 1500 articles. The information contained there is quite unique and the site is no longer supported. Is it possible to use your bot to remove the template, but to place an archive link in its place with the preservation of the appearance as it was? We'd really appreciate it if you could do the job. NoFrost ( talk) 13:48, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, what happened with that interface? That was pretty useful. Mike like0708 ( talk) 17:15, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
As part of an edit request at
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection I've used a ==section header== inside <nowiki>...</nowiki>
, which
cyberbot I unfortunately couldn't handle:
Special:Diff/958022897, and turned into an actual section on the page. The issue is at the bottom of the diff. —
andrybak (
talk)
20:12, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. The InternetArchiveBot is repeatedly archiving this active link: https://www.sdhuesca.es/ in this page of the the Greek Wikipedia: ΣΝ Ουέσκα. The configuration interface of this boat is disabled and I can't do anything for that. Could you please fix this issue? Thanks in advance. Clicklander ( talk) 07:35, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Thanks for fixing IAbot- and thanks for creating it in the first place; it's been extremely helpful for my CCI work. Moneytrees🌴 Talk🌲 Help out at CCI! 03:03, 23 May 2020 (UTC) |
The message below has been posted earlier in Dutch. But, I would like to add some remarks first:
Now, a translated version of my original message in Dutch:
"Hi, why is a "dead" link, just like that, replaced by an "archived" link? Sometimes, e.g. with associations, it happens that the association website has been moved to a different address. If so, it should be replaced by the new address. See
here. The website has been changed from
http://www.bornerbroek.nu/ to
https://rksvbornerbroek.nl/. For subpages on a domain, something can be said, for the "archive" replacement, but with main pages (http (s): // domain /) I find it just a little too easy. An even better example is
this. The site is not accessible (at least not via https, certificate error) and the link is replaced by an archived link from 2018 which doesn't show any relevant information. Is there no other way for main pages? If necessary, first check in person whether there is a better alternative. And yes, I realize this means extra work which nobody likes. Ciao"
So much for my original message. Let me add another fine example:
Here a lot of links have been replaced. At the time of the check, the links might have been inaccessible, but they're certainly not permanently inaccessible. It seems, that if a website is temporary down (e.g. maintenance), links already get replaced. So I suggest not to replace any links unless they are inaccessible for a certain period (e.g. 5 or 10 days). Furthermore, if a link is inaccessible it should be tested the next time at a different time (at least a few hours earlier or later). The way the bot is operating now, it does sometimes more harm than good. --
Sb008 (
talk)
13:18, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
dnau}}
is a means to inhibit archiving by the bot.{{
cbignore}}
that can be appended to links. It's an invisible template, and is supported universally. This keeps the bot from processing the link. Scientifically, the acceptable margin is 5%, but for IABot I have aimed to be less than 1%. In that subset of the millions of links, less than 10% are actually external links outside of reference blocks and cite templates. So 10% of 1% is 0.001% of actual bad replacements. The rest of the edits are supplementing the references and cite templates, so nothing is actually being deleted. I hope this helps. —
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
14:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)Hi! We talked about IABot earlier.
What do we need to do to get it started? I posted at da:Wikipedia:Anmodning_om_botstatus#InternetArchiveBot but per the bot policy the bot needs to do some test edits to move on. Perpahs you can run the bot and do 50 edits so we can see how it works?
Or tell us what to do to move forward. -- MGA73 ( talk) 13:38, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
This banned editor is back again, posting his name on Picture frame (see this) Is the edit filter still working? Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:16, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
xyzzy|plugh
. And yes, one regular expression checking for many strings is much faster than many expressions each checking for one string. There's also the
condition limit to worry about.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
17:12, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Poor EEng, you removed a bit too much haha ( admin link) -- TheSandDoctor Talk 18:15, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, I see that you assigned EFM after Xaosflux assigned EFH. I don't see the requisite decision on WP:EFN as mentioned at Wikipedia:Edit_filter#User right. EFM is too sensitive of a right to be assigned on request without discussion. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 20:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
I must say, my plan to reduce Cyberpower to a state of complete humiliation is going like clockwork. If it will help allay anxieties, I certainly won't be doing anything but looking until I've learned a lot more and talked to you guys again. E Eng 01:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
So the unblock table task just took a 3 hour hiatus and now is missing User talk:Emaus and User talk:STAY AT HOME FOR THE NHS. Since this isn't the first time, I'll replace the table for the time being, and when things are fixed, feel free to restore the old one. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 02:06, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the InternetArchiveBot & Cyberbot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti ( talk) 07:42, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
I've been looking at [[ Uninterruptible power supplies for my new computer, and when I find things like the CyberPower 800VA / 480W UPS, it kinda reminds me of your username, lol. Graham 87 13:37, 29 May 2020 (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 65 | ← | Archive 69 | Archive 70 | Archive 71 | Archive 72 | Archive 73 | → | Archive 75 |
Hi. Your bot here is replacing pages viewable through Google books, by Archive.com links that require registration and limited time for perusal (14 days). I am not sure this is an improvement, as Google books pages are viewable by almost anyone almost anytime, and allow for an easy reading of the references by going directly to the referenced page. Can you disable this kind of replacements, which I am afraid are not in the interest of the Wikipedia reader? पाटलिपुत्र Pat (talk) 15:47, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
=
Hi cyberpower, could you please reactivate my account on the ACC tool? The account might need it's CheckUser permission re authorised too. I'm expecting that I'll have some more time to spend on CU stuff now. Thanks, Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 13:49, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
The action was taken as per deletion decision Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smooth Operator (bull) and after consensus. The author of the page is working with another author, for the creation of this article. For ref see ( Talk:List of Professional Bull Riders Champions#International champions). Amkgp ( talk) 19:52, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
About this edit, I replaced the wrong deletion template AfD with the MfD as it was a renomination. Now both templates are present. My apologies for the confusion. Can you fix it? Ms4263nyu ( talk) 14:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. For the third time, InternetArchiveBot removed perfectly good Google books links at James Longstreet. Can you please do something to prevent this from happening again? Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 17:13, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. Last week I modified the settings for IABot at gl.wiki, setting it to not leave any modification or error message in the talk pages as we do not really use them for much and they are really not needed for us. However after changing those it seems the bot has completely stopped running on our wiki. Is this a normal behaviour (maybe because it is really running but not finding anything that needs changes) or have I inadvertently "broken" it somehow? Could you please take a look if everything is ok on the bot for our site? Thank you! Banjo ( talk) 13:51, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
[1] - is it correct work? Can you not place links to this strange site? Yes, the link contained an error, but after the bot works, only the error remains, and the normal link is simply deleted. -- Туча ( talk) 14:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower678. You tried to help out with the Uncyclopedia dispute back in August, 2019. See Talk:Uncyclopedia/Archive 5#What I'm seeing here as an admin. Do you have any wisdom to share at WP:AN3#User:BFDIBebble_reported_by_User:Kevindongyt_(Result: )? Any claims as to which one is the one true Uncyclopedia should probably go to WP:Dispute resolution. At present I'm not impressed by the behavior of either side, but the full protection will cool things for now. EdJohnston ( talk) 04:43, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Hello! I saw somewhere that you might be working on the code for ReFill. Is that the case? I am looking for somewhere to make suggestions. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 02:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
I first reported this issue over 6 months ago. You said, "so I will need to find a moment to investigate this." Will you please do so? It won't go away until you fix it. Anomalocaris ( talk) 20:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Un-archived discussion with new comment:
Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) — Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.
{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
''
) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to){{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
''
) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to){{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
{{book report|''Stargate: The Ark of Truth|The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to){{book report|Stargate: The Ark of Truth|''The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
{{book report|''Stargate: Continuum|Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to){{book report|Stargate: Continuum|''Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
{{book report|''Stargate: Revolution|Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to){{book report|Stargate: Revolution|''Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}
{{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
<small>
; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted){{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)</small>|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
{{book report|''Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted){{book report|Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|''Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To</big>'''|The basics of Wikipedia}}
{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To'''</big>|The basics of Wikipedia}}
And similar errors that I fixed that you haven't reverted yet in:
And similar errors that I haven't fixed at Lint errors: Missing end tag in the Book talk namespace. Please deal with these errors, or at least point how to generate the list of "source code" pages and how to edit them to make the problem go away. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 23:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Please find a moment to investigate this. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 09:52, 16 February 2020 (UTC) and again Anomalocaris ( talk) 05:27, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Is InternetArchiveBot a global bot? — Gomdoli4696 ( 토론 ) 23:23, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Colorful carnations for a good day! | |
I'm sorry to see current state of your stress-o-meter. Not sure if I can possibly do something to help, but please know that I'd like to! Have a nice day, and if you are not fond of carnations, let me know. Ата (talk) 11:11, 8 May 2020 (UTC) |
Hoi, waarom wordt een "dode" link klakkeloos vervangen door een gearchiveerde link? Soms, e.g. bij verenigingen, is het zo dat de verenigingswebsite is verplaats naar een ander adres. Wanneer dat het geval is, zou dat de vervanging moeten zijn. Zie hier. De website is gewijzigd van http://www.bornerbroek.nu/ naar https://rksvbornerbroek.nl/. Bij subpagina's op een domein valt er nog wel iets te zeggen voor de "archief" vervanging, maar bij hoofdpagina's (http(s)://domein/) vind ik het net iets te makkelijk. Een zo mogelijk nog mooier voorbeeld is dit. De site is niet bereikbaar (althans niet zomaar via https, fout in certificaat) en er wordt een gearchiveerde link uit 2018 neergezet die geen relevante info laat zien. Kan dat voor in ieder geval hoofdpagina's niet anders? Eerst desnoods in persoon controleren of er geen beter alternatief is. En ja, ik snap dat dit het nodige werk betekent dat niemand graag doet. Ciao -- Sb008 ( talk) 15:59, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, a user reported on zh.wiki that he noticed the bot replaces the archive link from Archive.is to Archive.org Wayback Machine. This is undesirable because the reason he uses Archive.is to begin with is because Archive.org's engine sometimes doesn't work well on some sites (missing images, etc.).-- fireattack ( talk) 16:37, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, InternetArchiveBot seems to have trouble with urls containing square brackets. Also the tool for reporting false positives has the same feature, so I cannot use it to report these (it truncates the url at the first square bracket). Two examples of functioning urls being reported as broken: [2] [3] Cheers, Micromesistius ( talk) 20:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the Village Pump Technical on when to use IABot to archive links. You are invited to join the conversation. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 04:25, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, hope you are doing well. This a notification that your bot inactive in arwiki since more than 6 months, so per bot policy we'll remove your "bot flag" after 3 days from this notification if the bot stays inactive. Thanks on advance -- Alaa :)..! 18:53, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Yes exactly, for example last edit IAB added archiveurl/archivedate/url-status, but this reference already archived, as:
And if you see the article revision you'll found that ref. 3 contains duplicated parameters -- Alaa :)..! 19:35, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
I've had to fix small tags twice today in that notice because it was making the entire AfD log for a day read in a much smaller font; please double-check your code. Thank you. Nate • ( chatter) 03:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, long time ago I sent an message about the aprroval of Vietnamese Wikipedia to deploy InternetArchiveBot there. I wonder if this deploying still in progess, or is there any trouble prevent our community to use this tool? Please let me know if you have update for this case, best regards! -- minhhuy ( talk) 10:33, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. We have a template in Russian Wikipedia - ru:Template:Russiancinema - that links to 2011.russiancinema.ru and is included in more than 1500 articles. The information contained there is quite unique and the site is no longer supported. Is it possible to use your bot to remove the template, but to place an archive link in its place with the preservation of the appearance as it was? We'd really appreciate it if you could do the job. NoFrost ( talk) 13:48, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, what happened with that interface? That was pretty useful. Mike like0708 ( talk) 17:15, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
As part of an edit request at
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection I've used a ==section header== inside <nowiki>...</nowiki>
, which
cyberbot I unfortunately couldn't handle:
Special:Diff/958022897, and turned into an actual section on the page. The issue is at the bottom of the diff. —
andrybak (
talk)
20:12, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. The InternetArchiveBot is repeatedly archiving this active link: https://www.sdhuesca.es/ in this page of the the Greek Wikipedia: ΣΝ Ουέσκα. The configuration interface of this boat is disabled and I can't do anything for that. Could you please fix this issue? Thanks in advance. Clicklander ( talk) 07:35, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
Thanks for fixing IAbot- and thanks for creating it in the first place; it's been extremely helpful for my CCI work. Moneytrees🌴 Talk🌲 Help out at CCI! 03:03, 23 May 2020 (UTC) |
The message below has been posted earlier in Dutch. But, I would like to add some remarks first:
Now, a translated version of my original message in Dutch:
"Hi, why is a "dead" link, just like that, replaced by an "archived" link? Sometimes, e.g. with associations, it happens that the association website has been moved to a different address. If so, it should be replaced by the new address. See
here. The website has been changed from
http://www.bornerbroek.nu/ to
https://rksvbornerbroek.nl/. For subpages on a domain, something can be said, for the "archive" replacement, but with main pages (http (s): // domain /) I find it just a little too easy. An even better example is
this. The site is not accessible (at least not via https, certificate error) and the link is replaced by an archived link from 2018 which doesn't show any relevant information. Is there no other way for main pages? If necessary, first check in person whether there is a better alternative. And yes, I realize this means extra work which nobody likes. Ciao"
So much for my original message. Let me add another fine example:
Here a lot of links have been replaced. At the time of the check, the links might have been inaccessible, but they're certainly not permanently inaccessible. It seems, that if a website is temporary down (e.g. maintenance), links already get replaced. So I suggest not to replace any links unless they are inaccessible for a certain period (e.g. 5 or 10 days). Furthermore, if a link is inaccessible it should be tested the next time at a different time (at least a few hours earlier or later). The way the bot is operating now, it does sometimes more harm than good. --
Sb008 (
talk)
13:18, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
{{
dnau}}
is a means to inhibit archiving by the bot.{{
cbignore}}
that can be appended to links. It's an invisible template, and is supported universally. This keeps the bot from processing the link. Scientifically, the acceptable margin is 5%, but for IABot I have aimed to be less than 1%. In that subset of the millions of links, less than 10% are actually external links outside of reference blocks and cite templates. So 10% of 1% is 0.001% of actual bad replacements. The rest of the edits are supplementing the references and cite templates, so nothing is actually being deleted. I hope this helps. —
CYBERPOWER (
Chat)
14:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)Hi! We talked about IABot earlier.
What do we need to do to get it started? I posted at da:Wikipedia:Anmodning_om_botstatus#InternetArchiveBot but per the bot policy the bot needs to do some test edits to move on. Perpahs you can run the bot and do 50 edits so we can see how it works?
Or tell us what to do to move forward. -- MGA73 ( talk) 13:38, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
This banned editor is back again, posting his name on Picture frame (see this) Is the edit filter still working? Beyond My Ken ( talk) 00:16, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
xyzzy|plugh
. And yes, one regular expression checking for many strings is much faster than many expressions each checking for one string. There's also the
condition limit to worry about.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
17:12, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Poor EEng, you removed a bit too much haha ( admin link) -- TheSandDoctor Talk 18:15, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Cyberpower, I see that you assigned EFM after Xaosflux assigned EFH. I don't see the requisite decision on WP:EFN as mentioned at Wikipedia:Edit_filter#User right. EFM is too sensitive of a right to be assigned on request without discussion. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 20:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
I must say, my plan to reduce Cyberpower to a state of complete humiliation is going like clockwork. If it will help allay anxieties, I certainly won't be doing anything but looking until I've learned a lot more and talked to you guys again. E Eng 01:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
So the unblock table task just took a 3 hour hiatus and now is missing User talk:Emaus and User talk:STAY AT HOME FOR THE NHS. Since this isn't the first time, I'll replace the table for the time being, and when things are fixed, feel free to restore the old one. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 02:06, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, and greetings! As part of a Starter kit project for smaller wikis, there is a work-in-progress guide around Bots & Tools here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Tools. I'm reaching out with a few questions, as there is a mention of the InternetArchiveBot & Cyberbot on this page in the list of useful bots section:
Additionally, if you have a suggestion for any other bots or tools currently on the list which should not be there and those that are not there and should be there, I would love to know about them—looking forward to your input! Srishti ( talk) 07:42, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
I've been looking at [[ Uninterruptible power supplies for my new computer, and when I find things like the CyberPower 800VA / 480W UPS, it kinda reminds me of your username, lol. Graham 87 13:37, 29 May 2020 (UTC)