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I am trying to test InternetArchiveBot for use in a private wiki. Is the bot hardcoded for Wikipedia only? How do I specify the wiki address, setup the bot account on the wiki, etc.?
I have read the documentation page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot. Is this the only documentation page? It would be great to write a requirements section. Like does it require a MySQL database, Apache web server, and what else?
daw5423 (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Un-archived discussion with new comment:
Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.
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((book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
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) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)((book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
((book report|''Stargate: The Ark of Truth|The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
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); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)((book report|Stargate: The Ark of Truth|''The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
((book report|''Stargate: Continuum|Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
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); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)((book report|Stargate: Continuum|''Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
((book report|''Stargate: Revolution|Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
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); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)((book report|Stargate: Revolution|''Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
((book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
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; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)((book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)</small>|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
((book report|''Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
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); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)((book report|Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|''Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
((WBOOKS|class=book))((book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To</big>'''|The basics of Wikipedia))
((WBOOKS|class=book))((book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To'''</big>|The basics of Wikipedia))
And similar errors that I fixed that you haven't reverted yet in:
And similar errors that I haven't fixed at Lint errors: Missing end tag in the Book talk namespace. Please deal with these errors, or at least point how to generate the list of "source code" pages and how to edit them to make the problem go away. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Bot is writin dates in form like it is in English language while archiving. For example: here. Bot wrote: archivedate=6 Prosinac 2008 but it sholud be writen: archivedate=6. prosinca 2008. All other changes are simillar. So after the date in Croatian language should be writen with punctuation mark full point same as years. Names of months should be written in lowercase. This is the list in correct grammatical case of the months that should be used respectively: siječnja, veljače, ožujka, travnja, svibnja, lipnja, srpnja, kolovoza, rujna, listopada, studenoga, prosinca. Could you, please, help. Thank you in advance.--Tulkas Astaldo (talk) 11:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Cyber!
I've been trying to write to you for quite some time now but either my text has been archived really fast by a bot or I haven't got an answer from you when I tried pinging you at the archives. If you have the needed time, can I please have you attention so I can ask you what I need to ask? I'm not writing again here about that without knowing I have your attention since I've already written more than two times and both times they got archived by the bot automatically without an answer. I'll provide the link to the archived discussions as soon as you answer me. Thank you in advance! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 19:03, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Any idea why InternetArchiveBot thought in this edit that The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce was The New College Latin and English Dictionary? —Mahāgaja · talk 11:24, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for (unintentionally) giving me the inspiration for my new signature! I love the idea of having an online/offline status. —Bsoyka talk - hello! 18:18, 30 November 2019 (UTC) |
Hi, Cyber! Again my post got archived without getting an answer. I now understand that you're busy. Can I go to someone else for my queries about IA Bot? I am the only one looking after it at the Albanian community and therefore I have a moral duty to fix its problems, at least until we find someone else dealing with it. It has already been some months that the bot posts some strange messages on the articles' talk pages, which I've been writing you about. Can you help me deal with them? Maybe just by telling to who else I can go to get help? Is Kaldari a right user to ask? Any other? Please, save me from the archiving bot! :'( - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:30, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
((Do not archive until))
(see the documentation for how that is done) ...News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
Interface administrator changes
will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.
Hey Cyberpower,
Following on this: I believe Andy Dingley needs to be notified on his TP by the closing admin. Correct?
Cheers,
François Robere (talk) 11:34, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the close at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Requesting IBAN. However, I believe more needs to occur: the editor should be notified at their talk (example) and the iban needs to be logged at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions. Johnuniq (talk) 04:31, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
For the IABot Management Interface, where do I find the "i18n source URL" for the wiki? For "URL to wiki OAuth", I have "https://192.168.56.56/demo/index.php/Special:OAuth/initiate" Is that correct? daw5423 (talk) 03:11, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
In the "My Tools" section, both "restart" links point to pages on Wikitech that do not exist. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Book talk missing title and missing end tag for italics, small, bold errors
Un-archived discussion with new comment:
Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.
((book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
''
) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)((book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
((book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
''
) and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)((book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]
((book report|''Stargate: The Ark of Truth|The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)((book report|Stargate: The Ark of Truth|''The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
((book report|''Stargate: Continuum|Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)((book report|Stargate: Continuum|''Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
((book report|''Stargate: Revolution|Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)((book report|Stargate: Revolution|''Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=))
((book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
<small>
; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)((book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)</small>|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]
((book report|''Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
''
); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)((book report|Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|''Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.
((WBOOKS|class=book))((book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To</big>'''|The basics of Wikipedia))
((WBOOKS|class=book))((book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To'''</big>|The basics of Wikipedia))
And similar errors that I fixed that you haven't reverted yet in:
And similar errors that I haven't fixed at Lint errors: Missing end tag in the Book talk namespace. Please deal with these errors, or at least point how to generate the list of "source code" pages and how to edit them to make the problem go away. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello User:Cyberpower678, Hope you have seen my feedback on telugu wiki. We would like you to change the setup to the one used on enwiki and test once. --Arjunaraoc (talk) 12:06, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Hey there, I've been thinking if you can please share the code of the d:User:Cyberpower678/ActiveStats you use. Probably it can be a good idea to import it also on it.wikipedia (where I'm also an admin).
I know you're busy, so... take your time. :)
Cheers, --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 16:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
My application for adminship... I want to apply for adminship because I can stop vandals and help fight crime on Wikipedia!!! All the best, Pearlcatty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pearlcatty (talk • contribs) 21:29, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Sorry for editing your page but I would like to apply for admin because I can help stop vandals on Wikipedia. Pearlcatty (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
My name is Mipercas and I would like to update the Prion article in the Spanish Wikipedia. I currently doing my PhD thesis in this field and I would like to re-write completely this Prion article. For that, I'm going to work in collaboration with a few PhD students in this field from different spanish institutions. All new information will be supervised by two Principal Investigators in prion diseases (our thesis directors).
I was wondering if it could be possible to make great changes in the current article (new sections, new references, etc.) in order to bring this article up to date and refresh the bibliography used. If we re-write the article with a lot of change, is it possible that you erase these changes?
Thank you in advanced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Migpercas (talk • contribs) 14:14, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I saw your editions in the eswiki, thanks for that, but when you change 2 o more books is "Vinculación a 2 libros para verificabilidad" but with one is "Vinculación a 1 libro para verificabilidad". ;) Thanks. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 22:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, i am new to Wiki. Plz help me to become a good contributor. Thx
Bothumanized (talk) 17:15, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
I reverted a batch of unexplained transclusions of regional logs into the overall log of new AfD discussions [1]. AllyD (talk) 08:09, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
This, is it possible to link to
Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well C. MarnetteD|Talk 04:13, 19 December 2019 (UTC) |
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!
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Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 16:25, 21 December 2019 (UTC) |
The bot tagged this source with "url-status=live", but it's actually a 404 page. 85.76.97.97 (talk) 12:53, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Stop the user from trolling my page Lachelle Wood (talk) 21:29, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
In this diff the bot has linked a different title and publication date to the cited work. Two problems here: (1) it breaks WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT and (2) citations into Robinson (1983) give line numbers which may not be the same in other editions. There is a note [a] to this effect: "Line numbers are taken from the edition of Robinson (1983) and they refer to this edition only". I have reverted the change as misleading but good faith.
Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 08:44, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
Martin of Sheffield, just noticed your comment here and did some digging and appears Internet Archive has the wrong ISBN attached to the linked book which confused the bot. The question is can we adjust the Wikipedia citation to use this edition instead, since a copy is available but I can't find one of the 2nd edition. -- GreenC 01:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi User:Cyberpower678, I am yet to see your action on my feedback for InternetArchivebot deployment on tewiki, despite assurance on your talk page on 5 Dec 2019. I am keen to complete this before end of 2019. Can you please help by giving this higher prioirty. Thanks--Arjunaraoc (talk) 03:52, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
For the IABot Management Interface, where do I find the "i18n source URL" for the wiki? For "URL to wiki OAuth", I have "https://192.168.56.56/demo/index.php/Special:OAuth/initiate" Is that correct? daw5423 (talk) 03:11, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
When submitting the step 2 setup form, I am getting the error "Missing data: Some required elements are missing which will cause the bot to malfunction." It looks like the runpage/nobots case, line 214 from "www\setup.php". $loadedArguments is undefined: "Notice: Undefined variable: loadedArguments". When I add the "global $loadedArguments;" statement, the undefined error goes away but still get the missing data error. daw5423 (talk) 09:13, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
The missing data error is vague and hard to figure out. If I select "No" for runpage or nobots, I get the missing data error under the runpage/nobots case. If I select "Yes" for both runpage and nobots but "Do not use the wiki DB" for usewikidb, I get the missing data error under the default case. So in order to bypass the error, I have to select "Yes" for both runpage and nobots and also "default" for usewikidb. It submits fine after I do this.
I am not sure what the correct OAuth URL is. After trying "Special:OAuth/initiate" and "Special:OAuth/verified", I get "An error occured connecting to your account: Error retrieving token: mwoauth-bad-request-invalid-action-contact". daw5423 (talk) 10:50, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
((Webarchive))
. If you gave me the syntax of your templates, I'll turn it into syntax you need to give the bot to define it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:48, 26 December 2019 (UTC)Hi Cyberpower678, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot: why does it make two links to the same place? For example in this edit: [2], in both citations it makes the page number into a blue link pointing to the same url as the title. It seems redundant, what is the point? And why does it add external-link urls to page numbers like that anyway? It seems like non-standard usage of the cite template. Was there a discussion about this somewhere that I could read? Thanks... --IamNotU (talk) 03:13, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for deploying and maintaining IABot. In this case, it seems that IABot is removing a free open access link (where you can literally download the PDF) in favor of a registration-only link, where you need to get in a whitelist to read the book. Could you make it stop doing this? HaEr48 (talk) 23:37, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
It changed pages from 67–77 to 67–77 and added url = https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernm0000symp/page/67 It should just add url since changing pages and adding url puts the same url in twice.
It should not have added a url for this book. I removed it with the following message: (→Bibliography: Removed url -- it goes to Vol. 2 of book series (Internet Archive does not have Vol. 1)) The Bot should check to see if the volume number of the book is correct when dealing with a book series.
By the way, thank you for pointing out the InternetArchive to me—I already donated money to it and joined it. RJGray (talk) 00:23, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
How did you format your talk page name? E Super Maker (😲 shout) 00:36, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:58, 26 December 2019 (UTC)Hi. Why bot don't added deadlink=yes? 83.219.136.110 (talk) 05:51, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Is use of the NoACEMM template dependant on that user that being placed in Category:Users who do not wish to receive ACE messages and having that cat displayed on the user's page? I'd rather not be in the cat, nor have the cat displayed on my talkpage. SilkTork (talk) 17:04, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
I am not sure if you had already been notified, but we turned off InternetArchiveBot on the Dutch Wikipedia yesterday, because it appears to be marking a lot (if not all) of urls under the resolver.kb.nl domain as "dead". (there are currently 22.7k of those urls mentioned on 4.5k articles) It is unclear to me why it does that, because the domain exists and seems to be redirecting to the correct url just fine. I don't think the redirection is particularly recent either (at least, I am not able to find any news item about it, and the redirect domain, delpher.nl, is > 5 years old). The domain itself is currently marked as a "subscription site", even tho there are no subscriptions I am aware of. The "How to" page mentioned in the description of the "Modify Domain Data" page seems to be gone too, so I can't look up what it does either.
The weird thing is that it seems to handle urls almost randomly. this url is marked as alive, while this url in the same broader repository is marked as dead. An url as this is marked as dying, but something in the same broader repository is marked as alive.
Are you able to see why it marks those urls as "dead" now? Example edits are this, this, this, this and this. Sumurai8 (talk) 16:28, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
it would be nice if the bot did not do this. This is templates, that indicates language of link. MBH (talk) 21:02, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
Why did InternetArchiveBot add a stray symbol after the categories, in this contribution?
Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 18:08, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello, it seems the Bot does strange things on sv.wikipedia.org...?
On sv:Karl Nilsson (kluven sköld), it has marked links as dead, although they are OK. Dan Koehl (talk) 18:12, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
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Wiki link for the movie "there will be blood" in Chinese has a wrong link for relinking to the English wiki. How to fix it? It's linking to Paul dano instead of the english wiki site Barlim (talk) 15:37, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
[[:en:Paul Dano]]
with a colon in front to make an inline link instead of a link under languages. There is already a link to he Chinese article about Paul Dano so I guess it can just be removed fron the current version zh:黑金企業 but I don't know Chinese or the policies of the Chinese Wikipedia. The "Daniel Plainview" part of the edit also looks odd to me. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:06, 5 January 2020 (UTC)