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Last updated: 03:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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In archiving the References in Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire, Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire, and very likely in a lot of other places, the bot is adding the text "Archived 2019年02月02日 at the Wayback Machine" to every single line of the tables. I really don't think this improves the look of the tables, or their usability. Is there any way the archiving could be done without adding this extraneous text? KJP1 (talk) 06:24, 20 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

I don't see those pages. They are red links for me. Can you point to the correct wiki you are referring to? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:13, 1 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia: w:Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire, w:Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire. VirusDontKill (talk) 21:36, 1 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Hmmm, very unusual. It shouldn't be expanding links out like that when outside of a reference. I'll take a closer look.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 12:38, 13 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

There's this message:

Refer to the "URL lookup How To" for information on the specific states.

Where is this "URL lookup How To"? I couldn't find it anywhere else in the code. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 23:43, 6 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Amire80: Right here.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 12:49, 13 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Thanks. The title there is "Modify URL Data", which is quite different. And both titles are not entirely clear. The two messages should be consistent and descriptive.

Perhaps that page's title can be changed from "URL lookup How To" to "URL updating instructions"? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:18, 13 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Sure, sounds good. :-) —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:55, 13 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Thanks: https://github.com/internetarchive/internetarchivebot/pull/162 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:41, 13 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Okay, so I had a brain fart here. I don't think it's good to change the title of the tool itself. Maybe change the dropdown menu entry instead? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 12:41, 15 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

So:

• Keep "Modify URL Data" as the page title.
• Change dropdown item to "Modify URL Data".
• Change 'Refer to the "URL lookup How To" for information on the specific states.' to 'Refer to "Modify URL Data" for information on the specific states.'

Right? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:49, 18 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Right. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:19, 10 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

OK, I gave it some more thought, and it actually looks best not to change the menu and not to change the page title either because they are clear and consistent in their context. However, the documentation that refers to them must be changed to mention the actual titles by which they can be found. I updated https://github.com/internetarchive/internetarchivebot/pull/162 according to this line of thinking. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:01, 10 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

It looks like the bot no longer runs at two wikis where the URL has changed:

• Scruffy Wiki (now Scruff Wiki) - URL has moved to https://scruff.miraheze.org
• Simple Electronics Wiki - URL has moved to https://amps.wiki.gd (or https://simpleelectronicswiki.miraheze.org)

Rob Kam (talk) 10:23, 14 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

So it seems I'm unable to do anything due to my travels. I keep hitting IP blocks on Miraheze globally which is impacting SUL account creation too.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 09:16, 15 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

On English Wiktionary, on page استكرى, the bot converted this:

#* {{quote-journal|ar|work=Al-Watan|title=ar: الرئيسية / الدين الحياة / فتاوى وأحكام|date=2018年02月09日|url=http://alwatan.com/details/242996 
|passage=في رجل باع بيته بالإقالة لمدة عشر سنوات، على أن يستكري البائع البيت من المشتري باثنين وعشرين ريالا شهريا، وبعد مضي سنتين جاء المشتري وقال تزيد في الكراء أو ترد علي الدراهم؟، فما رأيكم فهل ذلك سائغ؟}}

to this:

#* {{quote-journal|1=ar|work=Al-Watan|title=ar: الرئيسية / الدين الحياة / فتاوى وأحكام|date=2018年02月09日|url=http://alwatan.com/details/242996|passage=في رجل باع بيته بالإقالة لمدة عشر سنوات، على أن يستكري البائع البيت من المشتري باثنين وعشرين ريالا شهريا، وبعد مضي سنتين جاء المشتري وقال تزيد في الكراء أو ترد علي الدراهم؟، فما رأيكم فهل ذلك سائغ؟|accessdate=6 September 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413233443/http://alwatan.com/details/242996|archivedate=13 April 2018}}

Note in particular that unnamed param 1= is now given an explicit 1= in front of it for no clear reason. Although this technically doesn't break the template, it messes up the formatting of the wikitext. Benwing2 (talk) 03:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

I'm not sure how that messes up the formatting of the wikitext. Can you elaborate more?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:40, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Is it possible to request archiving a certain group of links, like from this source page nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Suriname/Bronnen? Ymnes (talk) 18:22, 27 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Ymnes: You mean saving them to the Wayback Machine, or having the bot edit the pages that have those links? Both should be possible, let me know which one you are intending to do.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:41, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

The MediaWiki software apparently accepts <ref name=""> and handles it like a <ref>-tag. In this example, where two references have this kind of tag, the bot treats the empty string as if it was a real name. One of the references is replaced by <ref name=""/> causing an error message. It is a rare error, but I've seen it once before. Regards, Plumbum208 (talk) 11:00, 30 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Yea, unfortunately, handling references' nuances is a known problem with IABot. It's getting completely reworked in the next update. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:42, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

In an attempt to rescue a source in this edit on enwiki, the bot duplicated part of the article text immediately after the source:

The bot replaced this:

== Kerala Legislative Assembly ==
''Source: http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html''
=== Early years (1957 - 1979/80) ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; background:#ffffff; width:90%"
|-

with this:

== Kerala Legislative Assembly ==
''Source: http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html''
=== Early years (1957 - 1979/80) ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; backg {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111050225/http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html |date=11 November 2021 }}
=== Early years (1957 - 1979/80) ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; background:#ffffff; width:90%"
|-

—Bruce1ee ^talk 11:29, 5 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

IABot will be getting a major parser update to its code in the next major update, that should prevent such an issue from happening again. Fortunately, the issue you reported is very rare. Sorry about that, though. You should just be able to remove the duplicate without the bot fussing about it. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:44, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for the update. I was able to remove the duplicated text without any problem —Bruce1ee ^talk 21:24, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Hi Cyberpower, hope all's well! :) I don't have the permissions unfortunately to do this so thought I'd post here. I'm trying to obtain the webarchive link to ref #2 on en::Donetsk urban hromada (and a few other, similar articles too), which are dead/corroded links (everytime I try to access the refs, it gives me warning messages). For Donetsk, the specific link in question is this (take caution with opening it though, it will give a warning). I've gone through using the single-page bot use (with and without the Add archives to all non-dead references optional setting on), multi-page bot request, and the correcting bad archives tool all a few times already but nothing works. I added in the url status as dead into the ref too but still nothing. My guess is that I have to change the status of the ref from Permalive to Permadead but I don't have the necessary permission. Let me know if this would be the correct way to resolve this issue and I'll also send the other pages with refs that got missed by the bot. Many thanks and sorry for the bother!! :D Dantheanimator (talk) 21:00, 7 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Dantheanimator: Unfortunately I can't check for you right this minute however, the link you provided gives a certificate error. Is that location actually dead, or just site admin not maintaining their certs and domains correctly? Permadead is only if the site is dead, or no longer serving the content it was previously serving, and isn't expected to come back. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:49, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

As described in title, the bot says there's no references to analyse on 2024 in Australia. It's worked on this page in the past so not sure why it isn't working anymore. Thank you! GraziePrego (talk) 01:43, 12 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

@GraziePrego: Not likely entirely the cause of the issue you appear to be having but why are so many cite templates directly invoking the CS1 module? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

The bot marks some liks as dead even though they have been archived.[1] [2] [3] Why? Puppe100 (talk) 08:19, 21 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

I didn't get an answer to this. The bot is still doing it: [4] [5]. The bot says that this link isn't archived, but I can find the archived version.--Puppe100 (talk) 18:24, 17 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

same here: [6] Pancho507 (talk) 07:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

In this edit, the bot merged a video transcript archive link into the citation for the video and tagged the video link as dead, which it isn't. Is this a problem with the bot or a problem with the formatting of the citation? — W.andrea (talk) 16:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

@W.andrea: This is definitely an interesting case here. IABot will intentionally merge them when it detects the target of the archive is the same as the source URL. Not sure how it considered them the same here. I can't look into it more closely right now. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:04, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

In articles that use "Internetquelle" template (Germany wikipedia's cite template), InternetArchiveBot could't correctly add archive urls into the Internetquelle template, while add a "wayback" template after Internetquelle, such as zh:威悉体育场 (zh:Special:Diff/78034326/80281980). In zh:2018年至2019年德国足球地区联赛 (zh:Special:Diff/54612307/79607209), Bot added wayback and cite template after Internetquelle template. Kethyga (talk) 01:21, 24 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Any update on this? —— Eric Liu _{(Talk )} 11:31, 23 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

During and after Wikimania 2024, I (visited and) created articles in Finnish Wikipedia of many of the largest railway stations in Poland. I used recent, i.e. 2023 statistics (in MS Excel file format .xlsx: i.e. this page, still working ok) of the passenger number at main railway stations in Wrocław (#1), Poznań (#2), Katowice (#4), Gdynia (#5), Gdansk (#6), Sopot (#11), Rzeszów (#16) and Przemyśl. Unfortunately, InternetArchiveBot (#IABot (v2.0.9.5)) soon added a misleading link to all of these articles, which states the link be old (dead link) - i.e. that the source used for the annual passenger data (year 2023) would not be available. I was intending to create couple of more articles about Polish railway stations, but this kind of bad bots which flag sources with false claims, really do not help to support my motivation to do so. Thus, could you find out why this bot creates false links, and please, stop creation of such false statements, please! Stop this bot in Finnish Wikipedia, unless you can find the root problem why this bad behavior occurs...--Paju (talk) 21:55, 28 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Just FYI, I answered in Finnish Wikipedia howto configure the bot behaviour for certain domains or urls. -- Zache (talk) 01:07, 30 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Thank you. For the record, the link in question is not accessible to me. So from where I sit, it's a dead link. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:11, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

I suppose I haven't asked yet because I assumed someone else might've, but here goes: it is usually not worthwhile to have an archived copy from many domains that are particularly stable, or which merely act as a convenient repository for information that is known to exist elsewhere. While I understand archiving has additional purpose beyond simple contingency in case of link rot or site failure, to me it's clear there are certain domains where the potential disruptive effect on pages and editors caused by the additional wikitext very plausibly outweighs the benefits of having an inline archive. Google Books is easily the most visible example of this on the English Wikipedia, where the archives added to citation templates for one or two links can constitute tens of kilobytes in the total page size—which is a lot for editors to scroll through and organize—I must make clear that the inconvenience is nonzero. Often, it contributes to articles being mechanically more difficult to edit, as increases in wikitext size eventually cause the editor to lag.

It seems like a lot to ask for, but would it be possible to add a checkbox that does not automatically add archives for a certain list of domains in this vein? It would even be reasonable to have it checked by default, I just think there's a clear distinction here where editors can make a slightly more optimal decision about what they archive with knock-on effects in mind. Hope this reaches the team well, Cheers. Remsense (talk) 21:52, 2 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

IABot shouldn't be handling Google Books. This was brought up elsewhere fairly recently, and I have reset the bot on Google Books. It should keep it off the domain going forward. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:14, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Cyberpower678:Google Books are still archived by the bot as of Oct. 20, 2024 on Chinese Wikipedia, e.g. https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=第一次驅漢事件&diff=prev&oldid=84660136 Happyseeu (talk) 15:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

See task T344219, reported over a year ago. I added another diff there today. A fix would be welcome. I fix one or two of these per week, and other editors who monitor the error page for wikilinks inside of external links are probably fixing errors that I do not see. Jonesey95 (talk) 22:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

I fix a handful of these a week, for example this one today. —Bruce1ee ^talk 23:30, 3 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

This is one of the issue being fixed in the next major update of IABot. It's getting a rewrite to the parser. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

High load warning: The bot is currently experiencing a high load. This may cause delays in processing your request. The current estimated lag is 2300 minute(s) and 38 second(s).If you encounter a page timeout, your request may still be processing. Please wait a bit and check if the bot has made an edit on your behalf. 1250metersdeep (talk) 14:27, 12 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Internet Archive is still down. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:09, 12 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Any update? 2405:201:E012:901E:A8F3:4DB2:1027:9AD3 08:33, 31 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Sorry, the above comment was by me having forgotten to log on. Past archives at IA are viewable, so why can't IABot work then? 49.37.213.230 09:31, 31 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

This is from July 2020, so the bug may have been fixed long ago, but just in case: in en:Special:Diff/967892350, the bot erroneously removed the second web.archive.org link from a list item within {{refbegin}}..{{refend}}, keeping only the first one:

Gamapamani (talk) 06:04, 20 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

More recent similar stuff, from March 2023 in en:Special:Diff/1147210758

As in the previous case, removals are not mentioned in edit summary.

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* [http://www.gllka.com/ Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.(削除) ] (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) **[https (削除ここまで)(削除) : (削除ここまで)(削除) //web (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) archive (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) org/web/20100616000310/http (削除ここまで)(削除) : (削除ここまで)(削除) //www (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) gllka (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) com/resources/index (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) htm (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Great (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Lakes (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Lighthouse (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Resources], (削除ここまで) Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.

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* [http://www.gllka.com/ Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.(追記) ]**, (追記ここまで) Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.

Note how this time the list structure is also messed up.

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**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to East Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2006. [[Special:BookSources/0-9747977-1-5|ISBN 0-9747977-1-5]]; [[Special:BookSources/978-0-9747977-1-7|ISBN 978-0-9747977-1-7]]. **''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2007. [[Special:BookSources/978-0-9747977-2-4|ISBN 978-0-9747977-2-4]]. (削除) **''[https (削除ここまで)(削除) : (削除ここまで)(削除) //web (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) archive (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) org/web/20090321025246/http (削除ここまで)(削除) : (削除ここまで)(削除) //www (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) lighthousecentral (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) com/gallery (削除ここまで)(削除) . (削除ここまで)(削除) php4 (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) The (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Ultimate (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Guide (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) to (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) West (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Michigan (削除ここまで)(削除) (削除ここまで)(削除) Lighthouses]'' (削除ここまで). Bugs Publishing, 2005. [[Special:BookSources/0-9747977-0-7|ISBN 0-9747977-0-7]].

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**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to East Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2006. [[Special:BookSources/0-9747977-1-5|ISBN 0-9747977-1-5]]; [[Special:BookSources/978-0-9747977-1-7|ISBN 978-0-9747977-1-7]]. **''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2007. [[Special:BookSources/978-0-9747977-2-4|ISBN 978-0-9747977-2-4]]. (追記) **'''' (追記ここまで). Bugs Publishing, 2005. [[Special:BookSources/0-9747977-0-7|ISBN 0-9747977-0-7]].

While in this case all three URLs are identical, only the last one is removed - though of course it still shouldn't be.

Gamapamani (talk) 11:29, 21 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Removing contents and not archiving all urls

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Latest comment: 3 months ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Please check it. diff C⚛smLearner ^{💬 🔬} 18:39, 20 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

How do I verify the bot?

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Latest comment: 3 months ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Is the bot configured with reverse DNS to a hostname in the wikimedia.org domain? Or is there a published list of IP addresses?

A site that I maintain has too many bots falsely claiming to be other bots, and we've resorted to blocking ones that cannot be verified.

This can already be done for WikiMedia Citoid. Rrwo (talk) 07:42, 24 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Is the Bot Broken?

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Latest comment: 2 months ago 4 comments4 people in discussion

It hasn't done anything in over 24 hours on English Wikipedia, it claims that it has a lag of over 2000 minutes, but I can't find a job that it might be in the middle of. Elisfkc (talk) 02:37, 25 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Seems like it. Bot is showing a 4000 minute delay for me. Catalyzzt (talk) 21:15, 26 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

The Internet Archive has been down as part of a recent attack, which has ostensibly affected the bot's waiting times for checking the Wayback Machine. (I came to this page expecting an update but apparently there's only this thread.) czar 01:25, 27 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

IABot should be recovering now. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 01:59, 6 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

High Load Warning over 5340 minutes

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Latest comment: 2 months ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

About the warning "High load warning: The bot is currently experiencing a high load. This may cause delays in processing your request. The current estimated lag is 5340 minute(s) and 59 second(s). If you encounter a page timeout, your request may still be processing. Please wait a bit and check if the bot has made an edit on your behalf."

We all know that "Wayback Machine" is currently not support to newly backup, but IABot should temporarily disable the backup function and just allow the rescuing of exisiting archives.

Trapped IABot enhances difficulty in maintaning Wikipedia pages.

Thank you. Hoising (talk) 03:12, 2 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

functioning of the bot on it.wiki

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Latest comment: 2 months ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi, sorry for the inconvenience. I'm writing because I've noticed this kind of edits made by the bot on it.wiki. The italian it:Template:cita web allows to automatically show the links to both the original and the archived version if the link to the archived version on internet archive is present in the |url= parameter. Therefore, edits like the one that i linked are completely useless, since what the reader sees is exactly the same as before. With the big disadvantage though that the article "weighs" 2 275 bytes more than before. Would it be possible to teach to the bot not to intervene if it finds a link to an archived page of the wayback machine in the |url= parameter? I hope that I could explain myself, if you have questions pleas ask. Thank you. Friniate (talk) 20:38, 6 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

Unexplained permission error

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 3 comments2 people in discussion

I have been using the analyze page interface while doing citation cleanup. Suddenly it has started saying that there is a permission error. I had no issue using the interface until now, and as an extended confirmed Wikipedia user I should satisfy the requirements for the 'user' category. Thanks for any help -- Lenny Marks (talk) 18:26, 7 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

Please sign out and try signing in again. I had the same issue and that's what solved it for me. I think you should be seeing a permission request page every time you log in. Pancho507 (talk) 07:13, 5 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Pancho507, unfortunately I don't believe it worked. I sign out and when I logged back it it immediately loaded the permission error page. Lenny Marks (talk) 17:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

IABot adds a duplicate Webarchive template even if the parameter archive-url is filled up in cite web

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 5 comments4 people in discussion

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T379580

Recently, IABot added an unnecessary template Webarchive in Ukrainian Wikipedia, even if cite web or any with dedicated parameters for that other template is presented. But the bigger problem is that the bot adds Webarchive template even if archive-url has already been added to cite web. For example, in articles uk:Сильна жінка Кан Нам Сун (uk:Special:Diff/42933262/43837182), uk:Сон Кан (uk:Special:Diff/42376183/43852680) or uk:Сестри Хон (uk:Special:Diff/40611845/43836125) IABot added an unnecessary template Webarchive to URLs that had been already archived. Repakr (talk) 10:40, 9 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

The bot continues to make such mistakes in many articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia. Savramat (talk) 22:35, 13 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

The documentation box in the Ukrainian Wikipedia had broken styling. I fixed it, and, maybe, that's why the bot behaves like this. Usually, if the bot doesn't see the TemplateData, it can act weirdly. But it seems that some time needs to pass to see if the problem is fixed. Repakr (talk) 12:34, 20 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

The bot continues to add separate {{Webarchive}} template to the links which already are archived with "archive-url" parameter. Sometimes the latter had been added by the bot itself. Богдан Панчук (talk) 17:42, 23 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

Same problem on Icelandic Wikipedia 4 days ago. See [7]. Here the bot added a link to Internet Archive where the archive-url pointed to the Icelandic web archive ([8]). --Akigka (talk) 14:24, 8 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

Can't archive any live urls

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Latest comment: 2 months ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

In Vietnamese Wikipedia, I'm unable to archive any urls in an article by using IABot, although those urls are still live. I wonder if IAbot has any trouble in its function? Mintu Martin (talk) 15:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

The bot keep adding archive link where it isn't required.

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Latest comment: 2 months ago 7 comments3 people in discussion

Hello, The bot always try to add this link but it isn't needed. It happened like more than 3 times and I had to cancel the change every time. https://web.archive.org/web/20211012034604/https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?hidebots=1&translations=filter&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&limit=50&days=3&title=Special%3ARecentChanges&testwiki=wp%2Fryu&urlversion=2

The unwanted modifications occurs on this page: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ryu/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8

And this is an example of the unwanted modification. https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wp/ryu/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8&diff=prev&oldid=6254326 Patronus95 (talk) 04:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC) Reply

I just looked and this seems to have fixed itself. Is there anything more you need me to look at? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:54, 15 May 2024 (UTC) Reply

Patronus95, pinging for your attention. Harej (talk) 20:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Hi, no everything so far is fine now. Thank you.

--Patronus95 (talk) 05:48, 12 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Unfortunately it did it again recently: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wp/ryu/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8&diff=prev&oldid=6324664 Patronus95 (talk) 07:43, 24 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

This section was archived on a request by: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC) Reply

Reposted here as this issue keeps happening again and again. https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wp/ryu/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8&oldid=6375939

--Patronus95 (talk) 13:10, 21 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

Not archiving

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Latest comment: 2 months ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

As is the case for vietnamese wiki, in portuguese the bot didn't archive the links as requested.

See diff. RustyRapier (talk) 11:08, 22 November 2024 (UTC) Reply

How to handle soft 404 pages?

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

I found a link ([9]), the webpage content has been deleted and changed to "soft 404" (the original URL will first respond to 302, jump to a soft 404 page, and then jump to the homepage of the website through the page script), and the wayback machine failed to archive its original page. I need to modify its connection status in IAbot, but it has been locked as "Permalive". How can I fix it? --Cwek (talk) 07:18, 6 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

High Load warning over 1140 min. (About 19 hours)

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

The title says it all.

"High load warning: The bot is currently experiencing a high load. This may cause delays in processing your request. The current estimated lag is 1141 minute(s) and 14 second(s)." Jayhawker6 (talk) 21:07, 9 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

authorise the use of the bot on my wiki

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello finally I have installed oAuth on my wiki see https://de.everybodywiki.com/Special:Version So I resume the talk https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:InternetArchiveBot#authorise_the_use_of_the_bot_on_my_wiki @Cyberpower678 could you create a respective account and I will grant a bot flag to IABot. The I will give you permission to use the OAuth Consumer Registration tool. Thanks a lot

WikiMaster (EverybodyWiki) (talk) 11:57, 11 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

Server error

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi guys! the site iabot.wmcloud.org has been giving a HTTP Error 500.Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 03:26, 14 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Cyberpower678 HTTP Error 500 showing up for me as well. Not sure if this is just iabot or wmcloud as a whole. Jayhawker6 (talk) 03:33, 14 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

It is now resolved. Not sure what changed. Jayhawker6 (talk) 04:17, 14 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

Add 1 book for Verifiability (again)

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Last year I reported that IABot is adding some new book URL-s (archive link), in addition to fixing dead links. In previous thread I was told that this unapproved task has been shut off in Estonian Wikipedia, but it appears that this task is still active, e.g. see this edit from last month. Book references are not broken without an URL, and the value of URL-s linking to limited previews (subscription items) is particularly questionable. Hence I ask to shut off this task again, this time permanently (or until the task actually gets approved).

I also wonder if it wouldn't be better to use different bot account in all wikis for this different task? I see bot account GreenC bot is mentioned in edit summaries for this "book for Verifiability" task. Does this perhaps means that you actually intended to use a different account but the task isn't properly configured? Pikne 08:31, 18 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

Bot cannot run in vi:Stêphanô Nguyễn Như Thể

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Latest comment: 1 month ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi,

I frequently use the IA Bot for archive links for my Vietnamese Bishop series, which works great and saves so much time. However, while there is almost the bot works well for all articles, there is a single article that the bot never can help me archive links, it is vi:Stêphanô Nguyễn Như Thể. I hope you can help me check what's wrong with this specific article or bug from the bot that prevents its work on this page. Many thanks, ThiênĐế98 (talk) 15:06, 21 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

Erroneously marking as permanently dead

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Latest comment: 2 days ago 4 comments3 people in discussion

User Whoop whoop pull up ran IABOT on numerous articles where IABOT has failed to find archived versions that I find easily, however I have to manually fix them. 4 done, 23 more to do on just my watchlist! Grorp (talk) 22:32, 29 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

Is that the same problem as here?--Puppe100 (talk) 08:09, 6 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

@Puppe100: Yes. Grorp (talk) 08:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Finding archives, within seconds, in a database with 3 trillion records, might sound easy, but it has an error rate for many reasons. The permanent dead just means the bot considers it dead, for it's own record keeping. My bot, WaybackMedic, does a decent job and you can see here that I am in the process of converting many so-called permanent dead links to archives. In the end though, nothing is more accurate than manual work, except it doesn't scale to the billions of URLs that need to be maintained. -- GreenC (talk) 16:29, 27 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Weird change made by the bot

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Latest comment: 29 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

What was the bot's intent in this change? It claims to have rescued one source. However, what it did was only remove the "dead url" template. The URL was in fact dead (it redirected to a generic landing page on a different domain; presumably any URL from that domain would get redirected to the same landing page). Robryk (talk) 11:39, 31 December 2024 (UTC) Reply

In Russian Wikipedia all URLs were deleted.

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Latest comment: 25 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Thanks for your help! In Russian Wikipedia on the page Аксёнов, Бэно Максович all URLs were deleted. (2, 3 January 2, 3 - 2025 - El-chupanebrej, December 10 - 2024 - EyeBot) Please restore and archive them. I don't know how. I am an old man. These are old newspaper articles, photographed and which are not on the Internet. Newspapers from the archive of Aksyonov's son. Thank you. With respect. Icon1947 (talk) 17:51, 4 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Co.wiki

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Latest comment: 20 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Please, you should retract your edits on Corsican Wikipedia from "Torra d'Agnellu" until "Torra di Pinareddu", made on 3, January 2025. It seems to link to a wrong webpage. Thank you ! --Jumpy01 (talk) 21:17, 8 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Need Help

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Latest comment: 17 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T379580

Hi. Could you advise who has administrator access to the InternetArchiveBot? Could you please advise who has administrator access to the InternetArchiveBot bot? We are having problems with this bot for the Ukrainian version of Wikipedia. It is necessary to check the 'citation maps' fields in the bot (or the bot does not see the 'cite' templates), fkt only users with root access, i.e. developers, can check citation maps. Thanks BlackStar1991 (talk) 18:21, 12 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

InternetArchiveBot should be removed

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Latest comment: 16 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Surely you will wonder, the reason for this opinion. Very simple, I think it does more wrong things than right things. We are always with AI and this is not really its use. A bot like this (too simple for what it should be) is actually going to become a source of bugs, which we will have to fix, when if the site is made by a well-documented person, it would not have those bugs. I propose - if the majority agrees - to improve the bot in principle by changing the computer language with a more powerful one and at the same time with fewer lines of code The language used for this bot makes it too heavy for what it should be. To do this, you send a question to any AI and you already have it, because in reality everything is already on the web But if we want to make a virtual encyclopedia, we have to intervene as human beings, since we have made the AI, all of them, and if we let them pass us by, until never this project, in which many people have worked - non-profit - in addition to the fact that the bot is not worth by itself and people leave things as the bot did them without fixing anything So either we talk about it or I think that in the long run there will be problems. Thank you for reading and if there is a lack of dialogue, please send an email to the Interested persons Juanky Destroyer (talk) 06:23, 13 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

404 URL marked as alive

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Latest comment: 15 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C4%8Cty%C5%99koly&diff=68738776&oldid=68733253

It marked the non-archived URL as alive, but the original URL returns a 404, so it's clearly not alive. Mondo (talk) 21:00, 13 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Enable/Disable

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Latest comment: 7 days ago 1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello @Cyberpower678, I was exploring the IA Bot interface here and accidentally clicked "Disable," which surprisingly deactivated the bot. Fortunately, I reversed the change within seconds. I do have a suggestion: consider restricting the disable/enable option to users with admin privileges (e.g., sysop on a wiki) or, even more restrictively, to those with root access. TheAstorPastor (talk) 04:02, 22 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Bypassing Wayback Machine restrictions

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Latest comment: 3 days ago 2 comments1 person in discussion

I recently found out about this bot, and will try to see if it works as an alternative to the Wayback Machine as I've tried archiving Wikipedia, once a day, three times by now and nothing could work. I don't think the restriction is temporary so I just gave up for a while. And considering the lack of activity for Internet Archive-related stuff here, I'll update if I find any errors. WannurSyafiqah74 (talk) 10:15, 26 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

Okay, so, it can only analyze and not archive a page. Crap. Oh well, there was an attempt. WannurSyafiqah74 (talk) 10:17, 26 January 2025 (UTC) Reply