User talk:InternetArchiveBot/Archives/2024

Why bot encodes decoded links?

It's wrong for links containing non-ASCII characters, because it makes links less readable: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Рыбий_клей&diff=prev&oldid=133979619 MBH (talk) 19:32, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

One more case. @Cyberpower678 @GreenC MBH (talk) 13:41, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

MBH, the bot is required to encode links to look them up. A future version will not do this. Harej (talk) 20:52, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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IABot not functioning normally and times out

I have experienced problems with the IABot not functioning as normal, and timing out. I hope this can be investigated and resolved. Marshelec (talk) 06:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Same issues encountered here, I have been experiencing 504 Gateway Timeout Error for 95% of my run since 2–3 days ago even though the IABot just needed to archive 1–3 sources for my every run, looks to me on surface that it's iterating through every single sources regardless if it has been archived. Paper9oll (talk) 07:25, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

A ticket has already been raised for this problem, by another user. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355010 I note that the author/creator of IABot is a subscriber to the ticket, so has almost certainly been notified or seen the problem report. Marshelec (talk) 19:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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The bot marked the same link as dead twice.

Se edits #1 and #2. The link works when I check it. Hubba (talk) 01:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Hubba, this appears to be due to geo-restriction interfering with our U.S.-based link checker. I have added that domain (and the root domain and www. variant) to our permalive list. Harej (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Adding strange, non-functional archive links to en:2024 Haneda Airport runway collision

Please see this diff. I'm not sure what's going on, but InternetArchiveBot keeps adding incorrect archive links pointing to a googleads.g.doubleclick.net page that doesn't seem to exist rather than to the kyodonews.net link that's actually present in the reference. (It's also edit-warring with Citation Bot, which correctly removes the bad archive links.) This appears to be a bot problem rather than an Internet Archive problem, as the proper link does exist in the Internet Archive. Jay8g (talk) 00:20, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Jay8g, this should now be resolved. Please let us know if it happens again. Harej (talk) 20:11, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Useless bot edits

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T361746

Hi! What is the point of these two changes?

• it:Special:Diff/135572845. The links are working both before (archive.is) and after (archive.today), leading to the same archive page : If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Moreover, the bot is doing the opposite of another robot IrishBot (.avgas) : it:Special:Diff/133347863.
• it:Special:Diff/136872396. Proposed archive page is an error message : "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. This page is unavailable for archiving. The server returned code: because page does not exist".

Ideawipik (talk) 02:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi I was wondering the same, that is why the bot keeps replacing .is links with .today ones, even if the only one working are .is.

I've corrected the same page twice now, so i was wandering how to make it stop. Astubudustu (talk) 10:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Ideawipik, Astubudustu, while "archive.today" is the standard domain and we tend to standardize this domain, you are right that if this is the only content of the edit, the edit should not be made. I have prepared a bug report. Harej (talk) 20:21, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Astubudustu (talk) 20:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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cbignore

Why didn't cbignore work? Proeksad (talk) 20:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Proeksad, for whatever reason the "Cbignore" template was not configured as a setting for Russian Wikipedia. This setting has now been changed. Harej (talk) 20:26, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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

The bot always try to add this link but it isn't needed. It happened like 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 Patronus95 (talk) 12:51, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Patronus95, where is this link being added? Harej (talk) 20:53, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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stalled out job?

https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php?page=viewjob&id=17011 didn't noticed this had stalled out 2 days ago Akaibu (talk) 18:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Akaibu, looks like it is now done. Sometimes it can take a while. Harej (talk) 20:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Finlex.fi URLs aren't dead

Bot's edits: [1], [2], [3]. Some URLs it tagged as dead but are actually working: [4], [5], [6]. 85.76.13.79 18:33, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

The site has a "Are you human?" check box and that is probably the cause. I set the domain to Subscription for now. It will stop the bot from changing it to dead. It also means that bot won't be fixing dead links, for this domain. -- GreenC (talk) 15:01, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

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urldatachangestate

Hi!

I'm translating InternetArchiveBot user interface into Hebrew, and I have a question.

The message urldatachangestate says "from <b>{{logfrom}}</b> to <b>{{logto}}</b>". I guess that "{{logfrom}}" and "{{logto}}" are something like "live", "dead", etc., but can you please explain more specifically what are the possible values?

And are they always in English, or can they be translated?

I'll update the documentation for translators after you reply.

Thanks! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 03:00, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Dead, Dying, Alive, Unknown, Subscription, Permadead, and Permalive are the statuses and yes, they are translatable. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:09, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I updated the documentation accordingly. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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Issue with Billboard short links

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T361752

I've run into this a bit when going through the url=value CS1 pages. So, this bot was just run on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Martin_(British_singer). If you look at the comparison between 9 January 2024 and 2 March 2024 (04:13), you'll see that one of the changes made was to the shortened Billboard link used by previous editors. I'm fixing it with the long links, but it seems IABot wants to change the symbols used to shorten URLs on Wikipedia into the code used in URLs? I've been fixing these for a while, but they aren't the only issues I come across in the CS1 pages, so it's the first time I've noticed which bot is doing this particular function.

I though someone should know. OIM20 (talk) 09:51, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

OIM20, thank you for letting us know. I have filed a bug report. Harej (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Bot citing dead link on talk pages

On talk pages where the bot leaves a description of its edits (example), it links to a dead page where we are supposed to report errors. Ubh (talk) 15:36, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

The URL changed to https://iabot.wmcloud.org. Please don't report errors from 6+ year old edits. They are far too old to be meaningful in improving the bot.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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IABot for Gagauz language

Can you please authorize me to use IABot for Gagauz language to on the gagwiki (Gagauz Wikipedia)? I can currently use it for English (enwiki) and Russian (ruwiki), but not the Gagauz one.

When I try to use the bot on a gagwiki (Gagauz Wikipedia) page, I get "Permission error" and "The action you are trying to perform requires the analyzepage permission." and "This permission is obtainable with the following groups: basicuser, user, admin, root, bot".

My Wikipedia userpage is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxim_Masiutin Maxim Masiutin (talk) 03:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Maxim Masiutin, you need a minimum of ten edits on that wiki in order to use InternetArchiveBot. You currently have four. Harej (talk) 21:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Bot (innocently) allowing itself to look rude and arrogant/condescending/entitled

In case this has already been fixed, I apologize for being behind.
I have no way of knowing whether it has, and/or have not found a place where I would have had.
I guess something might be in the docs, but it has not been obvious or easy to find for me, sorry.

tldr: This could IMHO be fixed without any fuss and for good with a flick of the wrist by just adding a few words at the start of the first paragraph of the bot's message, making it begin with "Internet Archive Bot [Link] here." /tldr

I came across a place ([here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aerospace_engineering] and in fact many more) where there is a section, created by this bot, titled "External links modified", followed by an IMHO appropriate greeting, "Hello fellow Wikipedians", followed by a number of very appropriate factual statements, BUT THEN followed by,

"When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions..."

It seems to me that for a reader who, to this point of reading the section (and onwards), is not aware (as content may well be read from top to bottom rather commonly) that they are reading a message generated by a bot, being told rather bluntly that

• "When you have finished reviewing my changes",

may appear to that reader to have been written by an author with a rather entitled personality and/or behavior, such as to assume that the reader "will" or "has to" review that authors's changes, as though the author were (feeling) entitled to the reader doing so.

It seems to me that this means running a risk of causing a casual reader to

• be upset
  by what they may well perceive as "this kind of language and behaviour towards" [themselves and the "fellow Wikipedians"],
• respond badly, such as

• feeling treated condescendingly and/or
• now feeling specifically disinclined to "review ... the changes"

thus producing a disservice to

• the objective of having the changes reviewed by a person
• peace, quiet and style on WP

• "... you may follow the instructions ..."

It seems to me that this looks and feels like more of the same, and even more strongly so.

(I know the wording may sound innocent by itself, but it seems to me that it's the context that makes the difference.)

Remark: That part of the wording was not found on the page given above (seems something had been improved in the meantime) (but on a page I don't wish to link to.)

JFTR, that is for sure how I just felt when I had read that passage to that point without realizing I was reading something written by a Bot.

About followup (after a fix has been done) on older pages that still reflect the previous presence of the problem: Would it be historical misrepresentation or maybe just a nice idea to have the Bot occasionally fix (update) the wording it left there when it did, maybe in its free time :) ?

$02c FWIW, HTH -- 93.232.230.13 13:17, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I'd like to note that the bot has largely stopped posting these messages, especially on English Wikipedia. Harej (talk) 21:31, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Page size limit

Greetings. I read you plan to increase the limit on the single page tool. I need this to run on a page with about 800 links. When do you plan to increase the limit? SusanLesch (talk) 17:59, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Well I figured out a workaround for now. I copied the article to a sandbox in parts, and ran the bot on the parts. SusanLesch (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

There shouldn't be a page size limit on the bot anymore. Are you getting an error? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:33, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Encode subject lines of emails from InternetArchiveBot

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T361757

When there are non-ASCII characters in an email subject line, the entire subject should be encoded as UTF-8 so that it will display properly for the recipient. I received email from InternetArchiveBot about a submission for the Turkish Wikipedia with "Subject: Bot iÅŸiniz 18485 tamamlandı!" and about one for the Italian Wikipedia with "Subject: La tua attività di bot 16464 è stata completata!" The corresponding text in the body of the message displayed properly, with all the diacritical messages where they should be: La tua attività di bot 16464 è stata completata! I use gmail, so it's possible that gmail is doing something wrong.

This page explains what to do: https://www.telemessage.com/developer/faq/how-do-i-encode-non-ascii-characters-in-an-email-subject-line/ and the service at https://www.sendblaster.com/utf8-email-subject-encoder/ will encode a subject line, one line at a time, so that "Subject: La tua attività di bot 16464 è stata completata!" would become Subject: =?UTF-8?B?TGEgdHVhIGF0dGl2aXTDoCBkaSBib3QgMTY0NjQgw6ggc3RhdGEgY29tcGxldGF0YSEg?= Eastmain (talk) 20:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your report Eastmain. I have filed a bug report. Harej (talk) 21:43, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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False positives and reporting

The bot appears to mark https://ochem.eu/* pages as dead links. These are not dead: when I visit http://ochem.eu/article/99826, the page redirects and asks me to login, but I can login as a guest and get redirected back to the page I'm looking for. This elaborate double-redirection process may be blocking the site to crawlers and causing the false positives.

I would report this problem through the "report false positive" link, but that appears broken: it says I don't have the "reportfp" privilege, even though that should be available to all users.

Thanks, Bernanke's Crossbow (talk) 05:58, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Bernanke's Crossbow, usually when this happens it's because of geo-restrictions affecting our link checker. However, I visited that website with a VPN and the site would not load then either. So the website appears to at least be inaccessible to much of the Internet. Harej (talk) 21:51, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Ah. In fact, I just discovered it's even weirder than that: until today, I've only ever visited the site in Firefox's InPrivate mode. I just tried it without InPrivate, and it fails to load then too (but works fine in InPrivate still). They must be doing something very strange with cookies.

Thanks and sorry to have bothered you, Bernanke's Crossbow (talk) 22:24, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

I set the domain to Subscription so the bot will skip it. -- GreenC (talk) 14:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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Month names on ary

Hello! Is there a way that InternetArchiveBot can use Moroccan Darja month names instead of English ones, on arywiki? If there's a configuration page where I can translate the month names, please let me know. Thanks! Ideophagous (talk) 09:53, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Ideophagous, month names are handled within the code, so if you could give us the 12 months in Moroccan Darja we can update the code. Harej (talk) 21:30, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Harej. Please check this json file on arywiki, it has the month names in English (en_name) and their Moroccan Darija equivalents (ary_name). You can ignore the alt_name. Ideophagous (talk) 23:19, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Ideophagous, we have configured a localization profile for ary. Harej (talk) 21:54, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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Azwiki translation

For Azwiki, en:User:Nemoralis requested the following translation (I can't find it in the translation tables):

"Reformat 1 URL" should be "1 URL yenidən formatlaşdırıldı"

-- GreenC (talk) 14:18, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC: ?? That's your bot. Do we need to be doing anything here?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:55, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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en:User:Nemoralis - Hi sorry this appears to be my bot but it's a separate minor bot so I didn't see it when searching for this phrase. Right now this bot does not support translations. If you think it's very important I can add an if/then trap directly in the bot code just for azwiki to get around this limitation. Although I would prefer not, it could be done. -- GreenC (talk) 17:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Small fixes in translatable messages

Hi! I've sent a few trivial message fixes for IABot: https://github.com/internetarchive/internetarchivebot/pulls . Can anyone please review them?

Thanks :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:59, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I've merged in your pull requests. Thank you for the improvements. They will go live within the next 24 hours. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! <3 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:42, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

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Duplicated Wayback templates

The bot is adding Wayback templates to cites which are already using cite web or cite news and filled archive-url=xxx on Chinese Wikipedia: [7]. Please fix it. Best regards, Tim Wu (talk) 07:22, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

phab:T364136.--Cwek (talk) 07:51, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

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dewiki

Please fix this error... de:Benutzer:InternetArchiveBot/Fehler#Fehlerhafte_Bearbeitung_in_Dream_State Its still happening 10-15 times daily!

[Bot is adding url-status=live to Cite web/cite news where offline is already set to "yes" or "1" which causes an error, because its contradictory. And the URLs are still offline so it makes literally no sense, they are not "live"]

Best regards, TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 08:54, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Examples: diff 1 • diff 2 • diff 3 • diff 4 TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 08:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

TenWhile6, this should now be fixed. Let us know if this happens again. Harej (talk) 22:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Harej, the fix is making other problems: de:Special:Diff/243696339 - Bot is using url-status=live instead of offline=1, thats why the archive-link is not displayed for the readers. Please fix that. Best regards, TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 20:24, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I've changed the order of priority for recognizing the aliases. It should now prefer offline over url-status. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:44, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Title changed to "HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media"

The title of many HuffPost references has been changed to "HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media" and the URL to https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=1_cc-session_fafa9f49-54d8-4731-a897-b70175c6342b or to some other page at consent.yahoo.com. All the pages at consent.yahoo.com are now permanent dead links. Would it be possible to restore these HuffPost links to the original link, without losing the useful changes that may have been made to the pages since the link was replaced with the consent.yahoo.com link? Eastmain (talk) 15:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@Eastmain: I'm not sure I'm entirely following. Could you clarify what you are requesting? If I'm understanding, HuffPost was acquired by Verizon, and they redirected their URLs to consent.yahoo.com? Or they were changed by other users? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Weird message

There's this translatable message in the bot software:

"Once you found the URL, the tool will populate the pages the URL IABot has encountered it on, you can do any of the following:"

I don't understand it at all.

Can it perhaps be rewritten?

Here's an attempt to guess what lt means, but I'm really not sure it's correct:

"Once you found the URL, the tool will populate the pages on which IABot encountered it. You can do any of the following:"

But feel free to propose something else :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:40, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Sure. Feel free to open a pull request to make the change. If you need further help with anything just ask. I always welcome outside contributions to IABot. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Pull request: https://github.com/internetarchive/internetarchivebot/pull/141 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Parameters on slwiki

Today I noticed the bot has started translating parameters and parameter values in citation templates (example), inventing parameters which are undefined in our templates and invalid. Could somebody look at this? --Upwinxp (talk) 19:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Same in eswiki (example), doubling parameters which makes citations invalid. --Milenioscuro (talk) 01:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

The bot did something strange twice today. Susmuffin (talk) 23:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Upwinxp, Milenioscuro, and Susmuffin: there was a temporary issue with parsing CS1 configuration values on local wikis. This should not be happening anymore. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:12, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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DOI

For some reason, the bot reported an error in a DOI link (here), the link is http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/597203 and currently works fine (it redirects me to JSTOR). פעמי-עליון (talk) 11:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't see what you are referring to. Please give me a link to a faulty edit that I can review. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

The bot reported in this edit that the DOI link has an error (it is obviously not true, DOI links are very stable). I thaught you night want to know about it and find the source of this mistake פעמי-עליון (talk) 19:58, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

פעמי-עליון, thank you for the report. The URL in question couldn't be found in our URL database (where links that are checked would be found), so I suppose this was a one-off situation. Please let me know if you see anything like this anywhere else. Harej (talk) 20:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

here, as well, two link that are fine. Maybe the problem is with academic papers that are not open-access? פעמי-עליון (talk) 17:19, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

If they aren't open access, they should ideally be marked as such. Not only will it serve to inform readers that it's not readily accessible, but also the bot handles such cases differently and doesn't outright mark them in dead in certain situations. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:36, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Tool links in older messages broken?

For example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thornapple_River#External_links_modified following the last two links gives a 404. I think these links are in a template but didn't track down exactly where they are sourced. ++Lar: t/c 09:43, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

@Harej: do you think you can amend the redirect on Toolforge to remap old links from iabot.toolforge.org/iabot to iabot.wmcloud.org? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:46, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Looks like it was accidentally broken by GreenC when updating the URL in w:Template:Source check. --Nintendofan885^{T&Cs apply} 08:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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Spanish

In Spanish, is it possible that when making the changes in editions like this it put urlmuerta instead of deadurl? Thank you. Vanbasten 23 (talk) 08:07, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@Vanbasten 23: IABot is reading from this page to get it's data for how to handle citation templates. You will need to flip those values around in the settings as the bot will always default to the first in the list. Once adjusted, the bot will change it's behavior automatically. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:57, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Not archive specific sources

Hi! Is there a way to add a flag on specific sources so they don't update the archive? There are some citations which are used to cite ongoing information, so the archives are always going to be wrong, if we could add something into the template to stop IABot archiving those specific sources that would be fantastic. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:11, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski: You can actually append {{cbignore}} to the citation in question. It's an invisible template that only serves to tell the bot to keep off a specific reference. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

That is very useful information. Thank you. AlH42 (talk) 12:41, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-)—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:27, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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PHP Fatal error

Have setup the Bot myself, but this comes:

PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: mysqli_real_connect(): Argument #6 ($port) must be of type ?int, string given in /app/src/Core/DB.php:275 Justman10000 (talk) 23:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Which page exactly is this occurring on? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:02, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Invitations to translate

Hi! I found two translatable message that say "Sorry, but the language you have picked is not available yet." They invite the user to translate the interface at translatewiki.

Can they ever be shown in other languages? It looks like by their nature, they can only be shown in English, but maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

@Amire80:, no. They are hard-coded in English as there is no point in translating them. They will never be shown if the UI has a complete translation, and it will be irrelevant to those who can't understand English anyway as that is the base the translations come from. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:04, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Great, thanks for the response. Since they can never be shown in their translated form, I'll remove them from the translation workflow. This is only a matter of configuration on translatewiki.net, and no action is needed in IABot code. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:14, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

... I explored it a bit more, and I realized that languageunavailableheader and languageunavailablemessage are always shown only in English, but "incompletetranslationheader" and "incompletetranslationmessage" can be shown when the localization is incomplete, as their name implies. I'll do theconfiguration accordingly. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:31, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Enlaces a nada

Hola. Aparte del ocurrente "verificar la verificabilidad", que imagino es una traducción no demasiado correcta, ¿de qué sirve enlazar en Internet Archive a digitalizaciones de libros de los que, por tener los derechos reservados, no es posible ver más que la portada y la contraportada? ¿Es para hacer posible comprobar que el libro existe? ¿Y por qué hay que comprobarlo? ¿Porque no nos fiamos del wikipedista que ha puesto la ficha bibliográfica incluido el ISBN? ¿No es suficiente para la comprobación el ISBN? Y como no nos fiamos del wikipedista hacemos perder el tiempo al lector invitándole a pinchar en un enlace que no le va a permitir comprobar nada más de lo que le dice el ISBN. ¿Es esa la idea? Saludos, --Enrique Cordero (talk) 09:53, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Which book(s)? Normally with books at archive.org you can "search inside", view pages within the book - it is the same reason people add links to Google Books. It's useful for looking up information from the citation. -- GreenC (talk) 16:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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"locale" parameter

The translatable message permissionschange says:

Your {{locale}} user permissions have been changed by <a href="{{actionuserlink}}">{{actionuser}}</a>.

What is the {{locale}} parameter?

Also, the qqq documentation says "Email body with HTML and templates", but this is a bit generic. What is the email about exactly? I guess that it's about some permissions that were changed, but where and in what context? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:30, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

locale describes the wiki. For example, if on the tool interface I gave you root, but only for enwiki, locale would be enwiki-English Wikipedia, or whatever the local translation of the Wikipedia name is. Does this help? —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:10, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

OK, just to verify: Will the actual string be "enwiki-English Wikipedia"? Or "English Wikipedia"? Or just "enwiki"? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:10, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I believe it's the first one. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:45, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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Link removal in it.wiki

I noticed that in this edit on Comunità delle Regole di Spinale e Manez the bot removed the non-working link and substituted it with {{Collegamento interrotto}}. -- ZandDev (talk) 16:16, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, but this is an old edit. Many changes and improvements have been made to IABot since then. If this keeps happening, please re-report with a new example. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:01, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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Parameters on be.wiki

Hello! Cite templates in Belarusian Wikipedia has been updated, and support |archive-date, |archive-url and |url-status parameters now, like English Wikipedia. Please correct bot behaviour for bewiki: add |archive-date=YYYY-MM-DD |archive-url=... |url-status=dead instead of |archivedate=YYYY-MM-DD |archiveurl=... |deadurl=yes for all Cite templates (be:Template:Cite web, be:Template:Cite book, be:Template:Cite journal etc.) and localized versions: be:Template:Кніга, be:Template:Артыкул, be:Template:Публікацыя, be:Template:Навіна and be:Template:Спасылка.--Artsiom91 (talk) 07:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi. I see your wiki has imported the CS1 Citation modules from enwiki. You can actually change your cite templates to use that and localize it very easily. However, this is not required. IABot now reads that Cite template and can use that knowledge to adapt its behavior to non-CS1 templates. It should behave correctly for English language templates. For the other templates, I recommend adding the local aliases to the Citation/CS1/Configuration module for the localized variants, and having them point to CS1 as well. This will make cross-wiki adaptations much easier. —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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Enable logging on an external tool

Hi! In the translatable message "enableAPILogging", what does "logging on" mean?

"Writing to a log"?

Or "Logging into an account"? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:07, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Writing to a log. :-) —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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