User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 68

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Users who do not wish to receive ACE messages


A tag has been placed on Category:Users who do not wish to receive ACE messages requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:51, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , And why do you feel it appropriate to nominate a newly created maintenance category for deletion? It hasn't even existed for 7 days yet.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 23:58, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot setup and requirements
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)
 * , Hi there. No IABot is not hardcoded to Wikipedia only, but I do admit documentation is lacking.  I have plans to throughly document the bot, but just haven't gotten to it.  You need at least PHP 7, a web server, composer, a MySQL DB, and your wiki requires the latest version of OAuth to be installed in your wiki.  PHP requires the intl, mysqli, and curl modules, and I recommend getting a SOCKS5 proxy in place that the bot can use to check onion URLs.  If you are using a non-english localization, I recommend the machine the bot is running on, has the date locales for the relevant language you are using installed.  Once you have the environment setup, let me know and I'll guide you to installing the bot and configuring it.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 13:55, 16 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I have those software installed. I don't think I need the SOCKS5 proxy for onion sites. What do I configure on the bot? daw5423 (talk) 17:51, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , Obviously you will need a bot account on enwiki. You will need to set up an owner-only consumer for the bot.  Make sure to note down the keys.  You are only given them once.  You also need to setup an OAuth consumer that allows the bot basic editing rights on behalf of a user's account with the ability to edit through protection.  Make sure to note down those keys.
 * Once you have that setup, copy the variables out of deadlink.config.inc.php and place them into a new file called deadlink.config.local.inc.php. Do the same for sessions.config.inc.php. Move the root IABot directory to wherever you want to put it, and the respective www folder wherever your web service access files to the public.  If IABot files aren't directly above the www folder, you will also need to create a setpath.php file in the root www folder defining the variable $path.  Set it to point to the root folder of IABot's main files.  I recommend using a relative path, relative the setpath.php file's location.  When you have that ready, let me know.


 * Can you clarify what account is supposed to propose the OAuth consumer? I have the OAuth extension group permissions set up for bureaucrats, so on my admin account, I can access the propose page "Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose". I have also created a bot account called "InternetArchiveBot". The bot account does not have permission to propose. Should I add the extension group permission to InternetArchiveBot so that it will propose from that bot account or from an admin account?
 * So do I need to submit 2 proposals: first is owner-only consumer submitted from the bot account and the second is consumer with basic editing rights submitted from a user account? Is that correct? daw5423 (talk) 20:35, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , The bot needs to propose the owner-only consumer. The bot owner needs to propose the other consumer.  So you are correct.  If I may ask, where is this wiki?— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:56, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Ok, submitted and have the bot and user keys. I put the bot keys for $oauthKeys default bot. What do I do with the user keys? What are the other variables?
 * I will be testing the bot first on a wiki hosted on a local virtual machine at a private IP address, 192.168.56.56. If testing goes well, the bot may be deployed on a Department of Energy internal wiki called Powerpedia, which is run by the US government. daw5423 (talk) 21:48, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , the remaining keys go under 'webappfull'. There should only be 2 of them.  If you plan on running the bot on other private wikis, I would recommend renaming 'default' to something more identifiable.  Keep it one word though, as that identifier shows up on the configuration setup.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 22:13, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * What are the values for $accessibleWikis? Can I leave these blank or default: $wikiDBs db, revisiontable, texttable, pagetable? daw5423 (talk) 20:39, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , delete the $accessibleWikis variable. It's no longer used on the config file.  As for $wikiDB, do you have read access to the DB the wiki runs on?  If you, put your access credentials in the respective fields, and specify the names of the tables for your views for the page, revision, and text tables.  For me, I have access to a table called revision_userindex, which is what I use for revision.  In production that table itself is revision.  If you don't have access to all of those tables, you can leave the ones you don't have access to blank.  If you don't have any access to the wiki's DB, then simply delete the default index and leave $wikiDB as an empty array.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:45, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * In addition to that for the 'db' value, it's usually the name of schema that has all of the above mentioned tables. It's typically in the form of _p.  If you have a wikifarm, and those credentials can access all of those wikis' schemas on the DB, you can use '{wikipedia}_p' and the identifier is automatically put it for you.  This Wiki's identifier is enwiki for example.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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)

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 talk:Destiny's Child
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)


 * Book talk:Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)


 * Book talk:Stargate SG1
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)


 * Book talk:Szidi Tobias
 * causing a missing end tag for ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)
 * causing a missing end tag for ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)


 * Book talk:Richard Wagner
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)


 * Book talk:Wiki How To
 * causing misnested tags; should be (and I fixed it)
 * causing misnested tags; should be (and I fixed it)

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)
 * Book talk:Korn
 * Book talk:Anthrax
 * Book talk:Miami Hurricanes
 * Book talk:Stephen King
 * Book talk:Brandy Norwood
 * Book talk:William Holden
 * Book talk:Video game series
 * Book talk:Nicktoons
 * Book talk:Resident Evil series
 * Book talk:Military conflicts of the Three Kingdoms era
 * Book talk:Boeing Passenger Jets
 * Book talk:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units
 * Book talk:Christianity
 * Book talk:Diabetes mellitus type 1
 * , I'm not deleting discussions, they just get archived by a bot. I took a quick look at this issue, but nothing sticks out this time, so I will need to find a moment to investigate this.—  CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 22:47, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, it's been a month, so I'm reminding you to find a moment to investigate this. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:50, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , thank you for the reminder.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 18:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Writing dates in Croatian
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)
 * , I will have the locales updates as soon as I can. Thank you.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 18:05, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Help needed - IABot
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)
 * , sorry, I've been really busy with work. What's up?— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 00:26, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It's totally okay. I just didn't know how else to get an answer. I didn't want to disturb with a personal email and was saving that as a last resort. :P Please, check the link here. - Klein Muçi (talk) 00:35, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot misidentifying a book
Any idea why InternetArchiveBot that The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce was The New College Latin and English Dictionary? —Mahāgaja · talk 11:24, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Gigo? Google, amazon, worldcat, all think that ISBN 0-553-27619-0 is The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce.  You might ask Anita5192, who added that citation with, where the isbn came from.  Perhaps this is one of those cases where the publisher printed the book with the wrong isbn.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I have a paperback copy of The New College Latin and English Dictionary by John C. Traupman, Ph.D. and I just checked the ISBN in case I made a mistake copying it. The ISBN was copied correctly. I can't help you any further.—Anita5192 (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Worldcat may be confused and/or there may be an ISBN mix-up from the publishers. That link shows the cover for the divorce book, the ISBN listed above, and the author/title/publisher data for a first edition (1966) of the Traupman Latin book. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * If what Anita5192 says is true, then there is an ISBN conflict. You can thank the publishers for that.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 22:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , I can confirm that your book has the wrong ISBN in it. Every lookup service I have tried goes to The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce. The real ISBN of the book in question is either, ISBN 0877205612, or ISBN 0877205612, or ISBN 0553573012, or probably others.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 22:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The ISBN 0877205612 corresponds to the second edition, 1994. The ISBN 0553573012 corresponds to the revised and enlarged edition, 1995.  I have the first edition, 1988.—Anita5192 (talk) 17:50, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Save me from the archiving bot! 😨👌🤖
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)
 * You might unarchive your original question and add (see the documentation for how that is done) ...
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:03, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , sorry, I have seen your bug report and have it on my todo list to investigate. It’s a holiday week here, so things have been a bit slow moving forward. However, you can turn off the messages by going to the configuration and disabling the option to leave archiving error messages.—  CYBER POWER  (Merry Christmas) 12:57, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem, Cyber, we're all cool. Take your time. I just wanted to know you've got the message because I never got any specific response regarding it and all my posts got archived. Please, enjoy your holidays! :))


 * thank you a lot! I didn't know that trick. I finally feel safe from the menacing archive bot. :P - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:15, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Notifying banned user
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)

Restrictions
Thanks for the close at Administrators' noticeboard. However, I believe more needs to occur: the editor should be notified at their talk (example) and the iban needs to be logged at Editing restrictions. Johnuniq (talk) 04:31, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , You are correct. I got sidetracked, and forgot to follow through.  Thanks for reminding me.—  CYBER POWER  ( Merry Christmas) 15:56, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot setup and requirements
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)

Dead links on user page
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)
 * Thank you.— CYBER POWER  ( Merry Christmas) 14:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Book talk missing title and missing end tag for italics, small, bold errors
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 talk:Destiny's Child
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)


 * Book talk:Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)


 * Book talk:Stargate SG1
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)


 * Book talk:Szidi Tobias
 * causing a missing end tag for ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)
 * causing a missing end tag for ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)


 * Book talk:Richard Wagner
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)
 * causing a missing end tag for italics ; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)


 * Book talk:Wiki How To
 * causing misnested tags; should be (and I fixed it)
 * causing misnested tags; should be (and I fixed it)

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)
 * Book talk:Korn
 * Book talk:Anthrax
 * Book talk:Miami Hurricanes
 * Book talk:Stephen King
 * Book talk:Brandy Norwood
 * Book talk:William Holden
 * Book talk:Video game series
 * Book talk:Nicktoons
 * Book talk:Resident Evil series
 * Book talk:Military conflicts of the Three Kingdoms era
 * Book talk:Boeing Passenger Jets
 * Book talk:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units
 * Book talk:Christianity
 * Book talk:Diabetes mellitus type 1
 * , I'm not deleting discussions, they just get archived by a bot. I took a quick look at this issue, but nothing sticks out this time, so I will need to find a moment to investigate this.—  CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 22:47, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, it's been a month, so I'm reminding you to find a moment to investigate this. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:50, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , thank you for the reminder.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 18:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Tewiki iabot deployment followup
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)
 * Will respond there in a moment.— CYBER POWER  ( Merry Christmas) 14:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

ActiveStats script
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)
 * The ActiveStats script should be in the repository for Cyberbot I, which you can find the link to on its userpage here.— CYBER POWER  ( Merry Christmas) 14:47, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Pearlcatty application for admin
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)

Prion Updating (Spanish Version)
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)

InternetArchiveBot in spanish
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)

Have a good day
Hi, i am new to Wiki. Plz help me to become a good contributor. Thx

Bothumanized (talk) 17:15, 13 December 2019 (UTC) 

Cyberbot1 transcluding into main AfD daily log
I reverted a batch of unexplained transclusions of regional logs into the overall log of new AfD discussions. AllyD (talk) 08:09, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Regarding edits like
This, is it possible to link to
 * https://archive.org/details/birthofpalestini00morr/page/226/mode/1up (instead of *https://archive.org/details/birthofpalestini00morr/page/226 )...as that gives you one page (instead of two)? Huldra (talk) 22:50, 17 December 2019 (UTC)


 * PS, and thanks for running this bot: it is really helpful! Huldra (talk) 23:44, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Bot marked a 404 page as live
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)
 * I have marked the link as dead for you in the IABot Management Interface. I ran the bot again and it should be marked as dead now. Thanks, Redalert2fan (talk) 16:30, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Guy mad for no reason
Stop the user from trolling my page Lachelle Wood (talk) 21:29, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

IAbot linking print volumes to wrong URLs
Hi,

In 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. -- Green  C  01:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

tewiki deployment before end of 2019
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)
 * , the holidays have been a very busy time for me, so I apologize for not getting to it. :-( I'm actioning it now, and will respond shortly.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 16:08, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot setup and requirements
,

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)


 * I think I figured out the callback. I put " https://192.168.56.56/demo/index.php?title=Special:OAuth " in the setup form, and in the user OAuth proposal, I put " http://iabot_host_ip/.../oauthcallback.php " for the OAuth "callback" URL. However, the problem now is that the management interface keeps redirecting me to "/index.php?page=systemconfig&systempage=@definearchives", which shows an "Adjust system configuration" page. daw5423 (talk) 15:48, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , You will need to define a couple of archive templates. Enwiki uses .  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)

IABot redundant page number links
Hi Cyberpower678, I have a question about the InternetArchiveBot: why does it make two links to the same place? For example in this edit:, 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)
 * Yes there was and it received almost unanimous support. The bot is approved to function in this manner.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 17:50, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

IABot replacing free access URL with registration-only one
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)
 * Thank you for reporting this. IABot already skips Google Books, but given how the remaining URLs are just library links and not actual texts, IABot will replace those.  I will add brill to the exceptions list.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 17:53, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot made 2 mistakes in its addition to the Bibliography of Cantor's first set theory
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)
 * Your donations are very greatly appreciated. :-) IABot links books based on ISBN matches.  In this case, the linked book has the ISBN of the previous volume in it so there is a metadata error on our end.  I have reported this.  This issue is very rare, and I don't expect this to be widespread.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 17:56, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Color
How did you format your talk page name?  E Super Maker (😲 shout) 00:36, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I used .— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 17:58, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

deadlink
Hi. Why bot don't added deadlink=yes? 83.219.136.110 (talk) 05:51, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * With no archive URL to add, the bot thinks the template will not handle deadlink=yes. As such it tags it with an actual template.  This can be changed in the configuration.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 18:01, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

NoACEMM
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)
 * I've removed the template for now. If it can be adjusted so that users do not appear in a category, please let me know. SilkTork (talk) 07:32, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , I made the category a hidden category. It will not show on your userpage now.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 17:49, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! SilkTork (talk) 19:51, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

IABot oddities for resolver.kb.nl
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)

Bot breaks language templates
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)


 * This is what happens when MediaWiki decides it is OK to ignore IETF RFC 3986 (sections 2.1 and .2). The placement of templates inside URLS (or adjcent with no space) should cause both template and URL to break, as URLs should only use percent-encoding (ie. not wiki markup) per the RFC. But since MediaWiki is running counter to sanity, bots have to determine when a template is part of a URL. This might be done by checking for the existence of "{{" in the URL. If it exists, ignore the URL as unfixable. Someone might request another dedicated bot try to find and repair these, by adding a space between or with square links. -- Green  C  21:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

A stray symbol by InternetArchiveBot
Hello, Why did InternetArchiveBot add a stray symbol after the categories, in ? Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 18:08, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This one's one you.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 19:43, 30 December 2019 (UTC)


 * It's not happening now and I can't replicate the diff as the bot is cfg and running for a different task. -- Green  C  22:11, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Not dead links on SvWiki
Hello, it seems the Bot does strange things on sv.wikipedia.org...?

On 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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"There will be blood"
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)
 * It happened in [//zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E9%BB%91%E9%87%91%E4%BC%81%E6%A5%AD&diff=prev&oldid=39035194]. It should say  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)