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Latest comment: 5 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion
Hi!
Something slightly different this time.
I've completed the translation of the bot into Hebrew on translatewiki. Along the way, I sent a few more message corrections. There are now six pull requests at GitHub. It would be nice to review them.
I fixed the spelling in the one message where you asked for a fix, and I added one more white space fix. Once these two are done, that will be it (at least for now). Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:50, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi everyone. I'd like to enable back the bot for the Asturian Wikipedia. According to the current bot status for astwiki, it was disabled in October 2023 with the reason: "dead link template still not working right". I checked the template (as well as other related ones), and they are mostly the same as on Spanish Wikipedia (eswiki), where the bot is indeed active. I'd like to ask some intel on what config or template needs review for the bot to be enabled back in astwiki.
Thanks in advance! YoaR (talk) 15:19, 10 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments3 people in discussion
It is my understanding that Google Books is globally deprecated as an archive and all links to it are treated as permanently dead by the bot. However, I was able to manually find an Internet Archive snapshot of a Google books link tagged as dead. Do you encourage or discourage adding such snapshots to the bot's archive database? Huntthetroll (talk) 21:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
By default, the entire books.google.com domain is set "Subscription" ie. skip processing. However if you found a certain URL that works, you can log into iabot.org and set the archive URL for that one URL, and change it to "Dead" status (or "Live" depending what it is). GreenC (talk) 20:58, 28 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion
Hey there, I've tried to run the bot several times on en:Howl's Moving Castle (film), but it never ends up adding any archives and simply ends the attempt after a few seconds. I'm not sure what the cause of this is, and I'd appreciate any help. Let me know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 18:56, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
It runs fine for me. Bear in mind archive URLs are generally only added when the bot declares a link as dead which means it would have needed o fail 3 consecutive checks each spaced 3 days apart. Archive URLs don't show up immediately after a link goes down. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)17:54, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Cyberpower678: This seems to happen even when the option to archive non-dead links is enabled. If it helps at all, here's a screenshot of the results when I tried to run it on the page again.
The bot is correctly identifying them as alive in the article. There was a transient issue a while ago that caused this behavior, which should long be fixed. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)17:57, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
The bot made this edit in ukwiki. It cleared the content of a tag "<ref group="к" name=":0">" that wasn't redundant, which caused an error (FAQ claims that "The bot often makes maintenance edits to articles in the course of its work. This includes removing redundant citations from articles."). I assume it's because there's a same name tag that is in another group. MonX94 (talk) 11:49, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago4 comments2 people in discussion
In this edit the bot caused harv/sfn no-target errors for "U.S. Department of State / Office of the Historian (1950b)", and "Mitterrand (1990)", and a multiple-target error for "Wörner (1991)". I have undone it, but would appreciate it if the bot were taught not to screw up references. I can be contacted on en-wiki. DuncanHill (talk) 12:12, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
There's something amiss with those references. They both reference identical content but have different attributions and authorship. The bot simply merged the two identical cites. I would take a closer look at the references. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)18:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Please could InternetArchiveBot be enabled on these wikis? It already has bot user rights on all three, from previously guarding against link rot, (but with moving to WikiTide and back something got turned off or broken). Rob Kam (talk) 22:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi,
I tried to use Manage individual URLs and it returned "http error 403, Access to iabot.wmcloud.org was denied, You don't have authorisation to view this page." Can you fix that? Anoop Bhatia (talk) 04:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
That doesn't sound like what you got was actually IABot denying you access but something on wmcloud itself. If it's still happening, let me know, but from what I see, you should have access to that tool. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)18:39, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
On the Dutch Wikipedia, the bot is adding talk pages at high speed with 'false positives', i.e. reporting of links that aren't actually broken. Furthermore, no error message is given. See for instance this talk page - but the same holds for (nearly) all recently created talk pages.
Those are messages stating that the links failed to get saved into the Wayback Machine. Someone had apparently activated the bot's feature that leaves those messages behind to make users aware that the URLs on the article can't be captured. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)18:51, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Please don't do this (first link) where the web archive template went within the other link's display text. It causes a Wiki-link in External-link error, and is a nearly eradicated tracked syntax error on enwiki. Moving Webarchive outside like this is error free and preferred. Thank you. Zinnober9 (talk) 20:55, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hello - I'm trying to access the Modify URL tool, but it appears that I don't have sufficient permissions. How can these permissions be obtained? Thanks! Breaktheicees (talk) 22:00, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Normally this accessed by experienced users only. Users with at least 3 months of experience and 1000 edits are automatically given access.
IABot generally stalls out in some cases when it needs to communicate with the Wayback Machine and there are service issue preventing such. IABot will usually recover on it's own in those case. As of today, the queue is current with the oldest job being yesterday. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)19:15, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Formats. Because IABot just can't assume the format by looking at it, it needs a list of possible formats the wiki uses to check against. If none of them matches, it defers to the designated default format, in most cases being ISO. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)19:16, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago7 comments4 people in discussion
It has been showing High load warning since few days ago. As of this comment, it's stating that "the current estimated lag is 1843 minute(s) and 59 second(s)" and has been constantly increasing minutes by minutes. Running a single page on "Analyze a page" doesn't nothing, regardless of page sizing, it would just throw 504 error after some time and unlike previously where 504 error was thrown and the article was actually archived successfully, this time round nothing really happens even waiting after a day or two. Kindly look into this issue. Thanks and regards, Paper9oll (talk) 16:34, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
This has been the case since at least July 19. The stated time is currently reduced to "387 minute(s) and 19 second(s)", but that's still more than 6 hours. However, a single-page archival I started on July 19 has either been cancelled or is still pending six days later. Is there an issue that blew up the queue? Can the queue be manually cleared once to resume normal operations? IceWelder (talk) 17:13, 25 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
It seems to be getting worse. I've tried to run it on a page since yesterday and the lag counter just keeps counting up.
Service issues with the Wayback Machine will cause requests to back up and stall out. IABot usually recovers on its own as it has been these past few weeks. However, when a sufficient number of requests do indeed back up, it will eventually just bring the whole website down. Nothing that can be done but wait for the service to recover and let the bot catch back up. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)19:18, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Cyberpower678 Thanks for the follow up. I also noticed that, as of this comment, the warning is showing "estimated lag is 754 minute(s) and 11 second(s)". However, the request was completed and published without any noticeable delay. I was expecting the publishing to occur after "754 minute(s) and 11 second(s)". I'm a bit confused—was there actually a lag, or did I misinterpret the warning message? Paper9oll (talk) 12:54, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
A good deal of such links were attributed as dead (like this). Now all of them replaced by links to riamediabank.ru [1]. Will the bot remove those 'deadlink' templates automatically or is a special launch required? Romano1981 (talk) 11:16, 28 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
IABot is not configured to remove dead links. Their very presence will actually make the bot think the links are dead and you can expect that it will try to add archive URLs. However a new version of IABot is in the works where it can remove dead link tags with much greater reliability than now. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)19:19, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi. Its an old edit, I dont know if anyone alerted you about it or not but its not right, it makes size of image parameter not work. Compare with previous version of article. Bikar (talk) 15:15, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi all, I ran IABot on Carbonyl iron against some dead links, hoping it would find something on Wayback. The busy message was displayed as discussed above. I left it running, forgot about it and fixed the dead links myself. With this edit the bot then deleted my changes (which I reverted), and has continued to make changes although I haven't asked it to. I can't imagine anything more pointless than an edit war with a bot, so please, how do you ask a bot to leave a page alone? Cheers, MinorProphet (talk) 09:34, 5 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
With the ongoing backlog, the lag time estimated on the warning is how long it is expected to take before it can complete the request. You ran it twice it seems, and it finally caught up to your request. It wasn't really edit warring with you, but simply finishing what you asked it to do. I'm working on the delays.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)12:47, 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.
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.'
Latest comment: 5 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi there, This bot adds all the right properties to the references on the page; there is only one small error: for the url status (live or dead), instead of 'dodeurl=nee', it says 'dodeurl=no '. So: 'no' should be 'nee', and there is no need for an added space. I don't seem to have the rights to change this myself. :-) Thank you in advance, Laurier (talk) 10:33, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Very interesting, a no is creeping in there. IABot tries to be backwards compatible with older versions of CS1 modules, but I do recommend eventually updating to the latest version enwiki employs. It's much more flexible and IABot works better with it. I'll take a look into the issue when I get a moment. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)12:56, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
In order to get the bot to run on your wiki, you will need to install the OAuth extension into your MediaWiki installation. I will create the respective accounts after and IABot will need a bot flag, and I will need permission to use the OAuth Consumer Registration tool. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)13:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 days ago5 comments2 people in discussion
I ran IABot on w:Minneapolis when your bot had a huge backlog, maybe more than 900 minutes, maybe it said more than 1000. I came back much later and ran it again when there was no backlog, result was no change to the page. Tonight I looked at the article history -- your bot had made a number of edits it had no business making, confusing the entire day's history. I am at my wits end trying to figure out what happened. But all signs point to IABot? -SusanLesch (talk) 02:06, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
It looks like the 4 edits prior to the IABot entry were all reverted by your bot. Help!
Not exactly reverted. What happened was the revision live at the time you submitted the request was used and processed. Once the backlog finally cleared, it was able to finish processing your request and pushed it live. All you need to do is revert the bot edit and run it again. The backlog issue should be fixed now. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)07:37, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not that simple. This happened in the middle of continuous editing and I have manually redone everything your bot undid. Anyway glad to know it is fixed. Thank you. -SusanLesch (talk) 12:46, 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
Permission error
The action you are trying to perform requires the definearchivetemplates permission.
This permission is obtainable with the following groups: root
What templates are you trying to add? Most used templates are already defined and need only be applied in the local configuration for the wiki itself. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)09:18, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Whatever it is to get similar to en.Wikipedia on repaired links. For example, archived from the original (PDF) on date, retrieved date. I've now imported Template:Webarchive to the wikis. Maybe that's all that was required? --Rob Kam (talk) 09:51, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I guess I should make you admin of your wikis. Interesting you don't seem to be a sysop on your own wikis. Is that a Miraheze policy thing? —CYBERPOWER(Chat)12:37, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
It shouldn't be a problem. On my wikis I'm "Member of: Automoderated users, Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators". Rob Kam (talk) 15:29, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
If a citation URL is the output of a template, the bot tries to convert the template invocation into a URL which results, of course, in an incorrect URL. An example of this behaviour is here, which I have undone. Could the bot be programmed to avoid doing this sort of change? Thanks. --RobertG (talk) 09:30, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm, the bot should know better, and should know how to handle these cases. I'll make sure the next major update of IABot will have this working again. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)09:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Check to make sure you have the tool set to the correct wiki. You can find the wiki you are actively on in the dropdown on the top right of the page.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)06:42, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 hours ago1 comment1 person in discussion
On English Wiktionary, on page استكرى, the bot converted this:
#* {{quote-journal|ar|work=Al-Watan|title=ar: الرئيسية / الدين الحياة / فتاوى وأحكام|date=2018-02-09|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=2018-02-09|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
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 11:58, 13 August 2024 (UTC) 