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Hi, I would like to know how have you changed the appearance of your user (User:cyberpower678) on the user page, for instance. -- 2212ca ( talk) 12:27, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
DISPLAYTITLE}}
will do it for you.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 12:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)Thank you! Can I use it on my Hebrew page? -- 2212ca ( talk) 12:48, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
I mistakenly pressed a wrong criterion in reason for deletion of Doomscrewed while using TWINKLE.Moments later I realized the eror and deleted it and again put up a correct one.What's the problem? Aru@baska ❯❯❯ Vanguard 15:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
I see your bot has been rescuing citations that have been orphaned by the recent move of the entries on the Air Force Historical Research Agency to a new platform, because I received alerts for pages on my Watchlist. I believe there may be more on articles I don't watch, though. Since InternetArchiveBot likes a human to look after its work after the fact, is there a location where its recent changes are listed? I know that some of its dead link markings are incorrect, probab ly because they are to searchable databases, and to use them, agreements with TOS are required. -- Lineagegeek ( talk) 22:00, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Dead link: http://findfederalagency.com/administrative-office-united-states-courts
This is to notify you of the above dead link, as stated in you bots revision of the above Article.
Birdymckee ( talk)Birdymckee Birdymckee ( talk)5 October, 2016 (0218 hrs.) —Preceding undated comment added 09:18, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
I checked these and was just wondering why the bot grabbed them? Reverted for the moment as the links are to the most up-to-date listings in the charts. Apologies if I overlooked something really obvious. Karst ( talk) 09:36, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for addressing dead links with the wayback machine. In two recent edits I have seen, this one replaces the dead link with the archive.org copy, while this one leaves the (still dead) link in place and supplements it using a specific archive link, using {{ wayback}}. Is there a rationale for the difference? David Brooks ( talk) 14:32, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
For this edit (note also edit summary), IABot left this Talk page notification. Note the claimed number of links rescued vs. actual changes in the diff; and the second link (www.heathamhouse.org.uk) in the notification. Also, is explicit mention of "0 dead links" (vs. omitting it when not relevant) the intended behaviour? -- Xover ( talk) 17:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
It's been a long time since I've seen the bot do an error. The bot messed up on Adaptive hypermedia and Adrian Gunnell. I've fixed the both. Both articles have the same issue that caused the bot to do the same oops on both. Bgwhite ( talk) 05:11, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
<ref>
tag that wasn't needed.
Bgwhite (
talk) 19:13, 5 October 2016 (UTC)Here's] another fun-filled error Bgwhite ( talk) 06:34, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi had a question. If a URL doesn't contain a protocol will IABot process it? For example in an infobox |website=www.example.com
vs. |website=
http://www.example.com
.. will IABot attempt to rescue in both cases or just the later? --
Green
C 15:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
official}}
problem but different. --
Green
C 13:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC)See [1]. The bot removed existing archive urls with the edit summary "Rescuing 8 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v1.2.4)" - Evad37 [ talk 14:18, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Note I've started a TfD for {{
cite archives}}
at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2016_October_7#Template:Cite_additional_archived_pages. Rationale given there. --
Green
C 15:05, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
I am feeling a bit frustrated about
IABs edits. First your bot should not be editing {{
Query web archive}} nor replacing the url
value with an archive link (see
diff showing added Wayback links). Second your bot can not seem to tell when a link is dead or unfit (see
diff marking the dead ADV Films link as live (ie. |deadurl=no
) and
diff 2 the PopCultureShock.com links that now redirect to what appears to be a spam site). If you can't fix this soon please stop your bot until you can. Regards. –
Allen4
names (
contributions) 20:32, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
|dead-url=
, if omitted or empty, is the same as |dead-url=yes
. The templates assume that without |dead-url=
, the value in |url=
is dead so the template uses the value assigned to |archive-url=
to link the value in |title=
. Setting |dead-url=no
links |title=
with |url=
.url
value be a
canonical link element in any case. –
Allen4
names (
contributions) 21:15, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[2]. Saw perhaps 50 like this reported in Category:Pages with wayback template errors. I manually fixed them, and assumed they were an old bug. But still happening as of 1.2.4 -- Green C 17:40, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
For the Phab Subscribers field, is there a list-name that includes everyone, or otherwise a recommended list of people to include? For tags do you want InternetArchiveBot v1.2 or v1.3? -- Green C 23:25, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
For your well-programmed bot which has fixed countless sources and improved reliability everywhere Jjjjjjdddddd ( talk) 00:50, 10 October 2016 (UTC) |
This very useful sortable listing of current AfDs, made by Cyberbot I, has not been updated since 29 August. May we have it back please? : Noyster (talk), 16:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
This by Cyberbot II, with Edit summary 'Rescuing 1 sources, flagging 0 as dead, and archiving 0 sources. #IABot' doesn't seem to have provided anything of incremental use for the citation. The wayback machine url goes nowhere; to 404; and looks identical to the dead link url; and the date looks scrambled at best too. Background: I had reestablished the dead link template already, today, when I looked back at an earlier edit and came upon this Cyberbot edit; finding in the process that I was the one who did the last dead link template a year ago. Thanks in advance. Swliv ( talk) 01:15, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Several times in the last few days, InternetArchiveBot has archived links to this non-dead PDF. The website that the file is on does not appear to have problems (note that the bot does not modify other links to the same domain). See edits here, here, and here. I would appreciate if you could fix whatever bug is causing these unnecessary edits. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 05:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Please could you tell me why the IAB is changing the short "WebCite" URLs with the long version? Also why is it changing date formats to be inconsistent? What is the empty parameter "df =" it is adding? Why is it altering the layout of refs? It was brought to my attention by this edit. SagaciousPhil - Chat 06:01, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Struck as sarcasm to me. I have no issues with questions and am happy to answer them.— cyberpower Chat:Online 16:03, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Evidently my mind reading powers are not up to scratch then?
Hi. I think this is a misunderstanding. SORTKEY does not allow "&" as a character. It is replaced by "and" in all other pages. This does not affect the title displayed. It was only to do with the categorisarion order. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:49, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
When the Bot is archiving references it creates "Check |url= value" error messages (see Category:Pages with URL errors). Is it possible to modify the Bot to prevent this from happening, for example by having it add just the deadlink, archiveurl and archivedate parameters rather than the whole cite web template. EdwardUK ( talk) 17:48, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I think the bot should skip adding archive urls to http://www.iucnredlist.org in citations to the IUCN Redlist from species pages (such as here: Ameerega pulchripecta). The IUCN front page contains only links to some news, nothing that is relevant for the citation. The relevant link is the link to the species page, e.g. [4] in this case. However, this is also getting redundant as IUCN has started to use DOI's. So in this particular case, adding the archive url only adds unnecessary burden. Otherwise, keep up the good work! — Micromesistius ( talk) 14:22, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot, in this edit [5], added a "deadurl=yes" parameter within a <ref> tag, but the URL in this reference ( [6]) works perfectly well. Maybe it was down at the moment the bot check it? or perhaps the bot can't handle URLs with question marks in them? Anyway, the bot also added an archiveurl value that seems totally gratuitous, unless your goal is to duplicate every single link on Wikipedia with an archiveurl pointing to the URL on the date it was added. I've reverted the change, but I thought you might like to know. — Lawrence King ( talk) 00:27, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Various sources in articles about films set in the MCU have been archived using WebCite, but don't seem to be loading. I request you to look into this. Kailash29792 ( talk) 07:43, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, I have just read your message that you no longer consider yourself active in xTools on this talk page. May I point you to the fact that on [7] (at the bottom) you are still listed as the first contact person and even in bold, somehow indicating that you are the one to be contacted first. I am not complaining, just trying to be helpful to you and others when I suggest you to change your name to non-bold (or remove it, if you prefer). -- 85.181.49.137 ( talk) 12:43, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Hey Max, I know there was consensus for InternetArchiveBot to use long form archive URLs (rather than hash URLs) for services like archive.is and webcitation. But I wasn't aware of any consensus for InternetArchiveBot to replace existing short archive URLs with long ones (like this). Was this accidental or on purpose? IMO, it doesn't seem like a useful thing for the bot to be doing. If a citation already has both a url and an archiveurl, shouldn't we just skip it? Kaldari ( talk) 01:40, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
I have just fixed some of the references flagged up at Alice Cooper. It included three links that the bot could not retrieve. I replaced one and managed to fix two manually. I tagged this in brackets and italics after it, to show other editors that I have done this. I am just wondering if a formatted option with a tick box or radio button next to it would be an option. Just a suggestion. Karst ( talk) 10:44, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
A recent edit by InternetArchiveBot broke the info box link to nobelprize.org on Nobel Prize in Literature. I've fixed this, but is something you want to look at to see why the bot made this edit? — C45207 | Talk 21:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
In an infobox, the |website=
should ideally display a printer-friendly host name like "www.nobelprize.org" (see {{
official URL}}
created for this). However there is no current mechanism or consensus for dealing with dead links in the |website=
field. There are opinions, like Codename Lisa's comment
here who says it should not have any archive added and left alone even if dead. I suggested doing something like this: {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/../.. |title=www.nobelprize.org }}
to preserve a printer-friendly host display. And there are editors who don't agree (or know) that a printer-friendly URL is the right solution. Probably the least disruptive solution is simply skip processing |website=
entirely until there is consensus (my recommendation). The second least disruptive would be preserve the original URL and text as given with a trailing {{wayback}}
that has no title arg. The third would be replace the url and text with a {{wayback}}
using |title=www.nobelprize.org
option above. --
Green
C 17:03, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
URL}}
and {{
official URL}}
. --
Green
C 18:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)Hi! Does your bot have a whitelist for non-dead urls? If so, would you kindly add this url to it? Or could you kindly specifically exclude that url (which is used in hundreds of articles) from its activities in some way? The url works fine, so there's no need for it to be tagged as dead (as the bot did, for example, here). Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 19:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
I've reported this before and it is still not fixed. When an article has:
IAbot turns it into:
Examples are Area 25 (Nevada National Security Site) and Area 27 (Nevada National Security Site). Bgwhite ( talk) 05:30, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
I see this around 5 times a day. in Arguments for and against drug prohibition, IAbot turns this:
Into:
1) Without the closing comment tag, everything after the opening comment tag is blank. In this case, both the archive link and the second URL outside the cite template do not show up in the article.
2) IAbot leaves |archivedate=
blank.
Bgwhite (
talk) 05:58, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
In Talk:Hat/Archives/2022/March#External_links_modified your bot has failed to identify the dead link correctly and has replaced a working link instead. I have manually checked and corrected all links now, so currently there is (as far as I can say) no problem with this article any more. But you might wish to check what was going wrong to further improve the bot, which is very useful in the majority of cases. -- 78.53.236.134 ( talk) 10:31, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
It appears as though Cyberbot II is having an edit war with itselfon The Gents (British band). On another note, whenever the aforementioned bot tags a link as dead, AnomieBOT adds the date a few minutes later; perhaps this is something your bot could do itself? -- Highly Я!d¡cüłoʉ$ chat? oops… 01:22, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed the bot marked a dead link with this edit. The EOL link works fine. Some plant database sites present temporary issues such as site down. I'm wondering if the bot distinguishes these from a true 404. Thanks, Declangi ( talk) 21:01, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit the link was indicated it was dead where the link is not dead. The organisation split into 2 last year and the details need updating but the original link still finds the correct page. I have updated to use the {{ IoE}} template which gives the updated organisation details. I think you will find that all of the links to this domain work OK and do not need archiving. Keith D ( talk) 16:48, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
In this edit IABot changed a reference to http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dict-e/p-44.html to an archive link despite the site working fine for me. I've been noticing this happen a lot lately, I think the bot's "dead link" detection code has a flaw of some kind. — RP88 ( talk) 03:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Just a quick question – does InternetArchiveBot support {{
Album chart}}? A lot of old links to capif.org.ar will need archiving because they redesigned their site, moved from rankings.aspx
to rankings
, and rankings before September 2016 are not available at the new location.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 11:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Actually it only needs to support the manual referencing mode of the template for now, as the automatically generated links point to an even older version of the site. nyuszika7h ( talk) 11:52, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
In this edit, I think InternetArchiveBot incorrectly flagged a live link as a dead link. I will attempt to correct that edit, but I would be grateful if you could double-check InternetArchiveBot's dead link detection. Thanks! zazpot ( talk) 18:30, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Your bot added |archive-url=
for live urls, see
Talk:Avishai_Cohen_(bassist)#External_links_modified. Thanks for your work otherwise! −
Pintoch (
talk) 16:31, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
|dead-url=no
at the same time. If the bot did not do that in this case, it is possible that the page was not accessible temporarily. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 19:29, 22 October 2016 (UTC)Hi! Does your bot have a whitelist for non-dead urls? If so, would you kindly add this url to it? Or could you kindly specifically exclude that url (which is used in hundreds of articles) from its activities in some way? The url works fine, so there's no need for it to be tagged as dead (as the bot did, for example, here). Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk)
I'm fairly sure I've raised this before, but the InternetArchiveBot is still flagging live links to www.ipu.org as dead. Can you put the website on whatever list it uses to override reports as it's getting a bit tiresome having to revert it. Thanks, Number 5 7 11:40, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Does InternetArchiveBot check WebCite for possible archives when attempting a rescue? Spinning Spark 13:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2016_October_24#Web_archive_templates -- Green C 16:53, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Check this one, please. Here's a similar one.– Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
I recieved a warning that I removed an AfD template, from Cymbal (app), I closed an AfD, was reverted by Light2021 and I have still recieved the error. Thanks Nordic Nightfury 14:05, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot destroyed a reference.( diff) It made a link to an archived version of the domain name, but ignored the actual reference and produced a confused tangle of a reference. Hopefully this behaviour has been fixed now.-- Auric talk 12:46, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot is tagging links as dead when they're not. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England#Dead links: National Heritage List for England. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 18:55, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
In this edit IABot marked links to http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/goos/xbtscience/reports/2013.pdf and http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/goos/meetings/2008/XBT/index.php as dead despite both links working fine for me. This is the third time I've reported a bug of this nature to you, each time regarding a different site. Since you didn't respond to my previous notes, I don't know if you are looking into this issue. While I am sure the vast majority of the bots edits are fine, the fact that I've noticed errors from the bot in my watchlist three times, despite my relatively small watch list suggests that these errors are more frequent than they probably should be. Please investigate your bot's "dead link" detection code, it really looks like it has a flaw of some kind. — RP88 ( talk) 11:09, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
It appears as though Cyberbot II is having an edit war with itself on The Gents (British band). On another note, whenever the aforementioned bot tags a link as dead, AnomieBOT adds the date a few minutes later; perhaps this is something your bot could do itself? Thanks, Highly Я!d¡cüłoʉ$ chat? oops… 20:25, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
I wonder if there is a way to detect these instead of sending things to the web.archive. Example. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi! Does your bot have a whitelist for non-dead urls? If so, would you kindly add this url to it? Or could you kindly specifically exclude that url (which is used in hundreds of articles) from its activities in some way? The url works fine, so there's no need for it to be tagged as dead (as the bot did, for example, here). Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk)
Hi CP, the
Checklinks tool by Dispenser mirrors some of the functionality of IABot, except it's user run-on-demand. It adds {{dead link}}
, replaces with archive links (including other archives besides Wayback). However it has problems that need to be fixed and is breaking the {{wayack}}
template and other stuff. I spoke with Dispenser and he says it needs a major rewrite and he doesn't have time and the source is closed (may contain some copyright code). Usage is not heavy thankfully but still creates problems with {{wayback}}
. The intersection between Checklinks and {{wayback}}
increases daily due to IABot adding so many. Do you think it would it be relatively easy to adapt a version of IABot to a single-article run-on-demand triggered by something? That could replace Checklinks.
Checklinks recent changes. --
Green
C 00:36, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Here, I found that the Seattle Times had moved the content to a new URL, so I just reversed the IAB edit and put in the new URL. I assume that's fine, but how should I record that on the talk page? Neither true, false, nor failed results in the correct text. Can you give advice in the FAQ? David Brooks ( talk) 20:51, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
You never commented on my bug reports and the problems are still happening. I filled the reports a week ago. My bug reports were archived. The bot is still destroying references. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:55, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
[8], [9]. etc. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:01, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a pretty new editor around a month. But long time tech writer outside of here. I am hoping you can help me, please? Anyway, want to start doing some write in a topic you add two archive links to, the Bodacious_(bull). In the talk page, back in March 2016, you left a note. No one paid much attention to it, other to move the links from external to internal. The checked parameter was never added. And for some reason the Title parameter is missed and there's an error on both links because of it. I checked the archive links and they are both working and the source material is good (I know alot about bullriding). I got the title to work once, but from then on nothing I tried will work. I went to the citation template topic and it really looks like I'm using it correctly. I can't spend all day on this. Also not sure where the checked parameter goes but I feel it can be added with the True value. Thanks for any response. Dawnleelynn ( talk) 17:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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Archive 35 | ← | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 | Archive 41 | → | Archive 45 |
Hi, I would like to know how have you changed the appearance of your user (User:cyberpower678) on the user page, for instance. -- 2212ca ( talk) 12:27, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
DISPLAYTITLE}}
will do it for you.—
cyberpower
Chat:Online 12:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)Thank you! Can I use it on my Hebrew page? -- 2212ca ( talk) 12:48, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
I mistakenly pressed a wrong criterion in reason for deletion of Doomscrewed while using TWINKLE.Moments later I realized the eror and deleted it and again put up a correct one.What's the problem? Aru@baska ❯❯❯ Vanguard 15:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
I see your bot has been rescuing citations that have been orphaned by the recent move of the entries on the Air Force Historical Research Agency to a new platform, because I received alerts for pages on my Watchlist. I believe there may be more on articles I don't watch, though. Since InternetArchiveBot likes a human to look after its work after the fact, is there a location where its recent changes are listed? I know that some of its dead link markings are incorrect, probab ly because they are to searchable databases, and to use them, agreements with TOS are required. -- Lineagegeek ( talk) 22:00, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Dead link: http://findfederalagency.com/administrative-office-united-states-courts
This is to notify you of the above dead link, as stated in you bots revision of the above Article.
Birdymckee ( talk)Birdymckee Birdymckee ( talk)5 October, 2016 (0218 hrs.) —Preceding undated comment added 09:18, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
I checked these and was just wondering why the bot grabbed them? Reverted for the moment as the links are to the most up-to-date listings in the charts. Apologies if I overlooked something really obvious. Karst ( talk) 09:36, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for addressing dead links with the wayback machine. In two recent edits I have seen, this one replaces the dead link with the archive.org copy, while this one leaves the (still dead) link in place and supplements it using a specific archive link, using {{ wayback}}. Is there a rationale for the difference? David Brooks ( talk) 14:32, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
For this edit (note also edit summary), IABot left this Talk page notification. Note the claimed number of links rescued vs. actual changes in the diff; and the second link (www.heathamhouse.org.uk) in the notification. Also, is explicit mention of "0 dead links" (vs. omitting it when not relevant) the intended behaviour? -- Xover ( talk) 17:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
It's been a long time since I've seen the bot do an error. The bot messed up on Adaptive hypermedia and Adrian Gunnell. I've fixed the both. Both articles have the same issue that caused the bot to do the same oops on both. Bgwhite ( talk) 05:11, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
<ref>
tag that wasn't needed.
Bgwhite (
talk) 19:13, 5 October 2016 (UTC)Here's] another fun-filled error Bgwhite ( talk) 06:34, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi had a question. If a URL doesn't contain a protocol will IABot process it? For example in an infobox |website=www.example.com
vs. |website=
http://www.example.com
.. will IABot attempt to rescue in both cases or just the later? --
Green
C 15:21, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
official}}
problem but different. --
Green
C 13:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC)See [1]. The bot removed existing archive urls with the edit summary "Rescuing 8 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v1.2.4)" - Evad37 [ talk 14:18, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Note I've started a TfD for {{
cite archives}}
at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2016_October_7#Template:Cite_additional_archived_pages. Rationale given there. --
Green
C 15:05, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
I am feeling a bit frustrated about
IABs edits. First your bot should not be editing {{
Query web archive}} nor replacing the url
value with an archive link (see
diff showing added Wayback links). Second your bot can not seem to tell when a link is dead or unfit (see
diff marking the dead ADV Films link as live (ie. |deadurl=no
) and
diff 2 the PopCultureShock.com links that now redirect to what appears to be a spam site). If you can't fix this soon please stop your bot until you can. Regards. –
Allen4
names (
contributions) 20:32, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
|dead-url=
, if omitted or empty, is the same as |dead-url=yes
. The templates assume that without |dead-url=
, the value in |url=
is dead so the template uses the value assigned to |archive-url=
to link the value in |title=
. Setting |dead-url=no
links |title=
with |url=
.url
value be a
canonical link element in any case. –
Allen4
names (
contributions) 21:15, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[2]. Saw perhaps 50 like this reported in Category:Pages with wayback template errors. I manually fixed them, and assumed they were an old bug. But still happening as of 1.2.4 -- Green C 17:40, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
For the Phab Subscribers field, is there a list-name that includes everyone, or otherwise a recommended list of people to include? For tags do you want InternetArchiveBot v1.2 or v1.3? -- Green C 23:25, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
For your well-programmed bot which has fixed countless sources and improved reliability everywhere Jjjjjjdddddd ( talk) 00:50, 10 October 2016 (UTC) |
This very useful sortable listing of current AfDs, made by Cyberbot I, has not been updated since 29 August. May we have it back please? : Noyster (talk), 16:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
This by Cyberbot II, with Edit summary 'Rescuing 1 sources, flagging 0 as dead, and archiving 0 sources. #IABot' doesn't seem to have provided anything of incremental use for the citation. The wayback machine url goes nowhere; to 404; and looks identical to the dead link url; and the date looks scrambled at best too. Background: I had reestablished the dead link template already, today, when I looked back at an earlier edit and came upon this Cyberbot edit; finding in the process that I was the one who did the last dead link template a year ago. Thanks in advance. Swliv ( talk) 01:15, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Several times in the last few days, InternetArchiveBot has archived links to this non-dead PDF. The website that the file is on does not appear to have problems (note that the bot does not modify other links to the same domain). See edits here, here, and here. I would appreciate if you could fix whatever bug is causing these unnecessary edits. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 05:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Please could you tell me why the IAB is changing the short "WebCite" URLs with the long version? Also why is it changing date formats to be inconsistent? What is the empty parameter "df =" it is adding? Why is it altering the layout of refs? It was brought to my attention by this edit. SagaciousPhil - Chat 06:01, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Struck as sarcasm to me. I have no issues with questions and am happy to answer them.— cyberpower Chat:Online 16:03, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Evidently my mind reading powers are not up to scratch then?
Hi. I think this is a misunderstanding. SORTKEY does not allow "&" as a character. It is replaced by "and" in all other pages. This does not affect the title displayed. It was only to do with the categorisarion order. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:49, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
When the Bot is archiving references it creates "Check |url= value" error messages (see Category:Pages with URL errors). Is it possible to modify the Bot to prevent this from happening, for example by having it add just the deadlink, archiveurl and archivedate parameters rather than the whole cite web template. EdwardUK ( talk) 17:48, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I think the bot should skip adding archive urls to http://www.iucnredlist.org in citations to the IUCN Redlist from species pages (such as here: Ameerega pulchripecta). The IUCN front page contains only links to some news, nothing that is relevant for the citation. The relevant link is the link to the species page, e.g. [4] in this case. However, this is also getting redundant as IUCN has started to use DOI's. So in this particular case, adding the archive url only adds unnecessary burden. Otherwise, keep up the good work! — Micromesistius ( talk) 14:22, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot, in this edit [5], added a "deadurl=yes" parameter within a <ref> tag, but the URL in this reference ( [6]) works perfectly well. Maybe it was down at the moment the bot check it? or perhaps the bot can't handle URLs with question marks in them? Anyway, the bot also added an archiveurl value that seems totally gratuitous, unless your goal is to duplicate every single link on Wikipedia with an archiveurl pointing to the URL on the date it was added. I've reverted the change, but I thought you might like to know. — Lawrence King ( talk) 00:27, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Various sources in articles about films set in the MCU have been archived using WebCite, but don't seem to be loading. I request you to look into this. Kailash29792 ( talk) 07:43, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Cyberpower678, I have just read your message that you no longer consider yourself active in xTools on this talk page. May I point you to the fact that on [7] (at the bottom) you are still listed as the first contact person and even in bold, somehow indicating that you are the one to be contacted first. I am not complaining, just trying to be helpful to you and others when I suggest you to change your name to non-bold (or remove it, if you prefer). -- 85.181.49.137 ( talk) 12:43, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Hey Max, I know there was consensus for InternetArchiveBot to use long form archive URLs (rather than hash URLs) for services like archive.is and webcitation. But I wasn't aware of any consensus for InternetArchiveBot to replace existing short archive URLs with long ones (like this). Was this accidental or on purpose? IMO, it doesn't seem like a useful thing for the bot to be doing. If a citation already has both a url and an archiveurl, shouldn't we just skip it? Kaldari ( talk) 01:40, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
I have just fixed some of the references flagged up at Alice Cooper. It included three links that the bot could not retrieve. I replaced one and managed to fix two manually. I tagged this in brackets and italics after it, to show other editors that I have done this. I am just wondering if a formatted option with a tick box or radio button next to it would be an option. Just a suggestion. Karst ( talk) 10:44, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
A recent edit by InternetArchiveBot broke the info box link to nobelprize.org on Nobel Prize in Literature. I've fixed this, but is something you want to look at to see why the bot made this edit? — C45207 | Talk 21:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
In an infobox, the |website=
should ideally display a printer-friendly host name like "www.nobelprize.org" (see {{
official URL}}
created for this). However there is no current mechanism or consensus for dealing with dead links in the |website=
field. There are opinions, like Codename Lisa's comment
here who says it should not have any archive added and left alone even if dead. I suggested doing something like this: {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/../.. |title=www.nobelprize.org }}
to preserve a printer-friendly host display. And there are editors who don't agree (or know) that a printer-friendly URL is the right solution. Probably the least disruptive solution is simply skip processing |website=
entirely until there is consensus (my recommendation). The second least disruptive would be preserve the original URL and text as given with a trailing {{wayback}}
that has no title arg. The third would be replace the url and text with a {{wayback}}
using |title=www.nobelprize.org
option above. --
Green
C 17:03, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
URL}}
and {{
official URL}}
. --
Green
C 18:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)Hi! Does your bot have a whitelist for non-dead urls? If so, would you kindly add this url to it? Or could you kindly specifically exclude that url (which is used in hundreds of articles) from its activities in some way? The url works fine, so there's no need for it to be tagged as dead (as the bot did, for example, here). Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 19:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
I've reported this before and it is still not fixed. When an article has:
IAbot turns it into:
Examples are Area 25 (Nevada National Security Site) and Area 27 (Nevada National Security Site). Bgwhite ( talk) 05:30, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
I see this around 5 times a day. in Arguments for and against drug prohibition, IAbot turns this:
Into:
1) Without the closing comment tag, everything after the opening comment tag is blank. In this case, both the archive link and the second URL outside the cite template do not show up in the article.
2) IAbot leaves |archivedate=
blank.
Bgwhite (
talk) 05:58, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
In Talk:Hat/Archives/2022/March#External_links_modified your bot has failed to identify the dead link correctly and has replaced a working link instead. I have manually checked and corrected all links now, so currently there is (as far as I can say) no problem with this article any more. But you might wish to check what was going wrong to further improve the bot, which is very useful in the majority of cases. -- 78.53.236.134 ( talk) 10:31, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
It appears as though Cyberbot II is having an edit war with itselfon The Gents (British band). On another note, whenever the aforementioned bot tags a link as dead, AnomieBOT adds the date a few minutes later; perhaps this is something your bot could do itself? -- Highly Я!d¡cüłoʉ$ chat? oops… 01:22, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed the bot marked a dead link with this edit. The EOL link works fine. Some plant database sites present temporary issues such as site down. I'm wondering if the bot distinguishes these from a true 404. Thanks, Declangi ( talk) 21:01, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit the link was indicated it was dead where the link is not dead. The organisation split into 2 last year and the details need updating but the original link still finds the correct page. I have updated to use the {{ IoE}} template which gives the updated organisation details. I think you will find that all of the links to this domain work OK and do not need archiving. Keith D ( talk) 16:48, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
In this edit IABot changed a reference to http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dict-e/p-44.html to an archive link despite the site working fine for me. I've been noticing this happen a lot lately, I think the bot's "dead link" detection code has a flaw of some kind. — RP88 ( talk) 03:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Just a quick question – does InternetArchiveBot support {{
Album chart}}? A lot of old links to capif.org.ar will need archiving because they redesigned their site, moved from rankings.aspx
to rankings
, and rankings before September 2016 are not available at the new location.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 11:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Actually it only needs to support the manual referencing mode of the template for now, as the automatically generated links point to an even older version of the site. nyuszika7h ( talk) 11:52, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
In this edit, I think InternetArchiveBot incorrectly flagged a live link as a dead link. I will attempt to correct that edit, but I would be grateful if you could double-check InternetArchiveBot's dead link detection. Thanks! zazpot ( talk) 18:30, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Your bot added |archive-url=
for live urls, see
Talk:Avishai_Cohen_(bassist)#External_links_modified. Thanks for your work otherwise! −
Pintoch (
talk) 16:31, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
|dead-url=no
at the same time. If the bot did not do that in this case, it is possible that the page was not accessible temporarily. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 19:29, 22 October 2016 (UTC)Hi! Does your bot have a whitelist for non-dead urls? If so, would you kindly add this url to it? Or could you kindly specifically exclude that url (which is used in hundreds of articles) from its activities in some way? The url works fine, so there's no need for it to be tagged as dead (as the bot did, for example, here). Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk)
I'm fairly sure I've raised this before, but the InternetArchiveBot is still flagging live links to www.ipu.org as dead. Can you put the website on whatever list it uses to override reports as it's getting a bit tiresome having to revert it. Thanks, Number 5 7 11:40, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Does InternetArchiveBot check WebCite for possible archives when attempting a rescue? Spinning Spark 13:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2016_October_24#Web_archive_templates -- Green C 16:53, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Check this one, please. Here's a similar one.– Jonesey95 ( talk) 02:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
I recieved a warning that I removed an AfD template, from Cymbal (app), I closed an AfD, was reverted by Light2021 and I have still recieved the error. Thanks Nordic Nightfury 14:05, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot destroyed a reference.( diff) It made a link to an archived version of the domain name, but ignored the actual reference and produced a confused tangle of a reference. Hopefully this behaviour has been fixed now.-- Auric talk 12:46, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot is tagging links as dead when they're not. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England#Dead links: National Heritage List for England. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 18:55, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
In this edit IABot marked links to http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/goos/xbtscience/reports/2013.pdf and http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/goos/meetings/2008/XBT/index.php as dead despite both links working fine for me. This is the third time I've reported a bug of this nature to you, each time regarding a different site. Since you didn't respond to my previous notes, I don't know if you are looking into this issue. While I am sure the vast majority of the bots edits are fine, the fact that I've noticed errors from the bot in my watchlist three times, despite my relatively small watch list suggests that these errors are more frequent than they probably should be. Please investigate your bot's "dead link" detection code, it really looks like it has a flaw of some kind. — RP88 ( talk) 11:09, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
It appears as though Cyberbot II is having an edit war with itself on The Gents (British band). On another note, whenever the aforementioned bot tags a link as dead, AnomieBOT adds the date a few minutes later; perhaps this is something your bot could do itself? Thanks, Highly Я!d¡cüłoʉ$ chat? oops… 20:25, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
I wonder if there is a way to detect these instead of sending things to the web.archive. Example. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi! Does your bot have a whitelist for non-dead urls? If so, would you kindly add this url to it? Or could you kindly specifically exclude that url (which is used in hundreds of articles) from its activities in some way? The url works fine, so there's no need for it to be tagged as dead (as the bot did, for example, here). Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk)
Hi CP, the
Checklinks tool by Dispenser mirrors some of the functionality of IABot, except it's user run-on-demand. It adds {{dead link}}
, replaces with archive links (including other archives besides Wayback). However it has problems that need to be fixed and is breaking the {{wayack}}
template and other stuff. I spoke with Dispenser and he says it needs a major rewrite and he doesn't have time and the source is closed (may contain some copyright code). Usage is not heavy thankfully but still creates problems with {{wayback}}
. The intersection between Checklinks and {{wayback}}
increases daily due to IABot adding so many. Do you think it would it be relatively easy to adapt a version of IABot to a single-article run-on-demand triggered by something? That could replace Checklinks.
Checklinks recent changes. --
Green
C 00:36, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Here, I found that the Seattle Times had moved the content to a new URL, so I just reversed the IAB edit and put in the new URL. I assume that's fine, but how should I record that on the talk page? Neither true, false, nor failed results in the correct text. Can you give advice in the FAQ? David Brooks ( talk) 20:51, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
You never commented on my bug reports and the problems are still happening. I filled the reports a week ago. My bug reports were archived. The bot is still destroying references. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:55, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
[8], [9]. etc. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:01, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a pretty new editor around a month. But long time tech writer outside of here. I am hoping you can help me, please? Anyway, want to start doing some write in a topic you add two archive links to, the Bodacious_(bull). In the talk page, back in March 2016, you left a note. No one paid much attention to it, other to move the links from external to internal. The checked parameter was never added. And for some reason the Title parameter is missed and there's an error on both links because of it. I checked the archive links and they are both working and the source material is good (I know alot about bullriding). I got the title to work once, but from then on nothing I tried will work. I went to the citation template topic and it really looks like I'm using it correctly. I can't spend all day on this. Also not sure where the checked parameter goes but I feel it can be added with the True value. Thanks for any response. Dawnleelynn ( talk) 17:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)