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Request for admin

Hello, I'm trying to submit a request for myself to become an admin, but I'm not sure how to do it. I've clicked on the RFA pages, but can't figure out where to put the request in. Can you help please.

Thanks L1amw90 (talk) 11:47, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Just FYI I have given this user much information about this, but they seem to be disregarding it or does not understand it. 331dot (talk) 12:22, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

@L1amw90: sorry but to put it bluntly, if you don’t know how to apply for admin powers, you’re not ready to be one.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 12:59, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Question from Burqcoix1

Hello cyberpower. I am a new user and actually looking for a way to create a public page for real self in real life. I’m not sure where to look for help in order to do this. I do not have one written about me yet. Burqcoix1 (talk) 00:58, 1 June 2019 (UTC) 😁 Burqcoix1 (talk) 00:59, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Burqcoix1: You don't, please see WP:AUTO. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 06:54, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

@Burqcoix1: Welcome to English Wikipedia and to the collaborative work of making it better! Adding to the excellent answer from Redrose64, you should know that "real life webpages" is something different from Wikipedia (an encyclopedia). Creating webpages can be done in many ways and there are plenty of tutorials on the web, e.g. one such example I picked more or less at random. If you actually meant a user page, perhaps inspired by User:Cyberpower678 or User:Redrose64, your user page User:Burqcoix1 is indeed a public page where you may write about yourself. Just click that link and edit it, or start at User:Burqcoix1/sandbox to make it more experimental. These user pages are not part of the encyclopedia, but since they are public and hosted on the same site, there are still some restrictions on what is allowed - see Wikipedia:User pages. JAGulin (talk) 14:01, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot FAQ

Cyberpower678/FaQs has an FAQ for IABot. It is linked from en:IABot talk. Template:Sourcecheck seems to have been discontinued. It may have less impact, if the notifications aren't posted on talk pages any more, but you should consider updating (i.e. removing) the instructions about the "checked" flag. You may also benefit from moving the FAQ to IABot user space to separate it from your own user.

The original reason for me writing is that I come from svWp and the bot is (still) adding talk posts there. In the signature it directly links en:IABot talk. I was wondering how to use the checked flag, but I now understand that there is probably no such thing on the svWp bot either. The talk post also links to IABot FAQ on metawiki. It seems to cover most of what you have on Cyberpower678/FaQs. Could you replace the FAQ link from en:IABot talk with link to the FAQ on metawiki? It would clarify the conflicting information from my svWp point of view and hopefully also work for enWp. I don't know the full complexity of this, but thought you could take a look when time permits. Thanks! JAGulin (talk) 13:18, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Jagulin  Done—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:52, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Tool

Moin Cyberpower678, a few years ago I ask you for a modification of your tool to check requests of adminship, now I´m here, because it did not work anymore: tool. Is ist possible to get it fixed? I miss it :). Thanks, regards --Itti (talk) 21:16, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Itti, You are using an outdated and discontinued xTools service. Try https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:08, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Also pinging MusikAnimal—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Moin, the side you linked is not what I´m looking for. I need a tool to check Admin, Crad, CU or OS- elections. The tool shows double votings and a summary pro/contra/ etc. Sorry for my english, I hope I could explaine what I mean. Regads --Itti (talk) 17:52, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I think that tool was retired and replaced. Pinging Enterprisey—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

AJ Gil followup

Hi. I'm still hoping to resolve the issue that I was telling you about in this discussion. I understand if you aren't able to help, but if that's the case, can you let me know if there's someone else who might know how to address this? I'm not sure who else I can ask. Thanks. --Jpcase (talk) 21:45, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Jpcase I'm working on an update to blacklist individual links that are whitelisted on the domain level.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:55, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

User:InternetArchiveBot

Hey there. Does it make sense to set a default-collapsed state for the sections posted by this bot? Many unpopular articles (such as this) often has large sections of spam-looking posts by this bot. Just my thoughts. P31?P40? (talk) 13:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

P31?P40?, IABot no longer leaves messages.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh okay, didn't realise, sorry. P31?P40? (talk) 13:27, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Listeria pages

Happening again. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:31, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Pigsonthewing, I think it would be better to throw a nobots template up and deny InternetArchiveBot. It respects nobots. Can ListeriaBot simply prepend nobots to its pages?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

You suggested that the last time we discussed this, then agreed when I pointed out that nobots may prevent ListeriaBot from editing pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:12, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

It’s not compliant with the deny or allow directive? I was thinking along the lines of {{bots|allow=ListeriaBot}} or {{bots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} or the same idea with the nobots template.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

ActiveStats @ Wikidata

Hi, It seems that d:User:Cyberpower678/ActiveStats is not presenting the correct statistics at the moment. Could you look into it? Thanks. Lymantria (talk) 05:23, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

about IAbot

Can you told me why botadd like"|0=2014-01-10"?Willy1018 (talk) 16:29, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

ACC interface approval

Hey Cyber! I'm trying to follow the steps in the ACC guide, but I'm still kind of waiting for approval. Would you ever be so kind as to review this matter for me as to get it done expediently? If there are problems with my request, I kind of want to know sooner rather than later.. Please ping any response. Kindest Regards, –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 01:37, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

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Request for unprotection

Note that this automated message, saying that a page is protected in a request for unprotection, is superfluous and distracting. Banana Republic (talk) 20:00, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

About InternetArchiveBot and webarchive

Hello,
I do not understand this edit by InternetArchiveBot. Is it correct to add {{Webarchive}} when this template is already present?
Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 20:45, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

That's an old edit. IABot has been fixed against issues like that.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot for SqWiki

Hello! :) I already answered you at the archived talk but maybe you haven't seen it so I'm writing again here. I did what you asked and opened a discussion and a voting. Our community was very positive about it. What's the next step we should take now? - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:57, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, hi there I will need a couple of translators to help prep the bot.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 12:34, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, how much work is there to be done? Do you think 2 people should be enough? - Klein Muçi (talk) 12:47, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, yes it should be enough. Give me a few moments.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 11:52, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, any news? - Klein Muçi (talk) 17:56, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi: Please translate the following:

• External links modified
• Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have just modified {linksrescued} external links on [[{namespacepage}]]. Please take a moment to review [{diff} my edit]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.\n\nCheers.
• External links found that need fixing
• Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have found one or more external links on [[{namespacepage}]] that are in need of attention. Please take a moment to review the links I found and correct them on the article if necessary. I found the following problems:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished making the appropriate changes, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information to fix any issues with the URLs mentioned above.\n\nThis notice will only be made once for these URLs.\n\nCheers.
• Trouble archiving links on the article
• Hello. During the archive process, the archive returned errors for one or more sites that I submitted for archiving.\nBelow, I have included the links that returned with an error and the following error message.\n\n{problematiclinks}\nIn any event this will be the only notification in regards to these links, and no further attempt will be made to archive the links.\n\nCheers.
• {link} is found to be dead. Recommend adding {newarchive} to the original URL.
• {link} is found to be dead. No archive was found.
• {link} is considered to be dead, however has been found to be alive. Recommend removing the dead flag from the URL.
• Added archive {newarchive} to {link}
• Replaced archive link {oldarchive} with {newarchive} on {link}
• Corrected formatting/usage for {link}
• Added {{dead link}} tag to {link}
• Removed dead tag from {link}
• Modified source for {link}
• {problem} with error {error}
• Rescuing {linksrescued} sources and tagging {linkstagged} as dead.
• Notification of errors encountered when attempting to archive links
• Notification of altered sources needing review

Please answer the following questions:

• Where is your dead link template(s)?
• Do you have any archive template(s)? Please list them.
• Do you want talk page messages?
• What is the community's preferred date format, and all other acceptable formats in order of preference?
• Where are your Cite templates?

Best—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:27, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: we translated the above text and the text in the Meta's FAQ's page. Now, before I give the whole thing to you, I need some help regarding the questions.

• Where is your dead link template(s)?
  • Can you give me an example within the EnWiki about this? Unfortunately our community isn't very adept at the whole citation process and we're just starting with it.
• Do you have any archive template(s)? Please list them.
  • The same with this question. We may have them (I'm sure we do have one for the first question - although I'm not sure if it does have a correct code) but I want to be sure first we're talking about the same templates.
• Do you want talk page messages?
  • What kind of messages? Probably, the short answer will be "Yes." We want to increase awareness about the importance of the citation process among users but if the messages are too technical, it may be better to opt out of it and let the admins teach the users.
• What is the community's preferred date format, and all other acceptable formats in order of preference?
  • I believe day, date, month (name), year will be good. Unfortunately we don't have a list of preferred formats as were just starting with the whole technical process regarding citations. It would be good to tell me where or how exactly will the date format be used so I can give you a more correct answer.
• Where are your Cite templates?
  • Another case where I'd like an example from the EnWiki. If I'm correct with this one, we do have some citation templates but they are scattered and not on a single category. I may have to import some from the EnWiki to create a starting base and do a categorization of them before I give them to you. But an example would be good.

Another question I have for you: Can we modify anything on the bot after I give the answers and translated text to you? As I mentioned earlier, the community is on a transformation phase regarding the citations and while we use the IAbot and understand things better about this subject, we may want to change some things concerning the templates or translate some things in a different way to make them appear more Albanian-friendly. Can we do that? - Klein Muçi (talk) 06:49, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi: Hi, I'm not involved in the IABot, but may have some answers to help you progress. First of all, check back on User:InternetArchiveBot to ensure that you do not have too high expectations on what IABot does. The fundamental citation work still needs to be done manually. Secondly, for brevity it may be clever to put a page with the translations in your sandbox and just link it from here. In the end I believe there will be a bot config page for continuous tweaking, including updated translations.

• Dead link: Template:Dead_link should be enough, possibly Template:Citations broken. There seems to be redirect for sq:Template:Dead_link so perhaps that is enough for IABot to find synonyms.
• Archive: Template:Webarchive is my guess, but perhaps bot also knows to avoid Template:Archive?
• Cite: Template:Cite web is an example, more in the table on the right. At least on some page you seem to use the same sq:Template:Cite web.
• date: Probably read from and written to parameters in the cite template. Such as example citation archive.
• talk page messages: Older example. EnWiki disabled these messages some time ago, but I think you should have them to raise initial awareness, as you say.

Hope my interference didn't cause additional confusion now. Good luck! JAGulin (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

@Jagulin:, thank you a lot for your answers! :) You were very clear except for the archive templates thing. I'm not sure what the bot needs the archive templates for. I mean, if it needs to avoid them or need them in order to work. We may have only one and if it needs them in order to work, we may have to raise the number of them. - Klein Muçi (talk) 04:58, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi: If you click the template links above, there is an explanation for each of them. It indicates how they are to be used, but I can't say exactly how IABot interacts with them. If you don't have too much legacy to align with, I believe the cite template is enough, since it holds both original and (replacement) archive URL, but Template:Webarchive may guide the bot if there is already an archive link added. Template:Archive signals that the page is no longer active and should be preserved in "old state", but for articles this is probably not relevant so I would not focus on it.

When you have looked at the example templates I suggested and posted answers to the questions User:Cyberpower678 had, I would recommend you to ping Cyber again to get the official feedback you need. Probably better to start the process as is and learn more, than to create more templates now.

P.S. I converted a reference link you added on Xhevahir Spahiu into a cite web and added dead link flag. I also found a replacement URL, but let's see if IABot adds an archive to fix the dead link. JAGulin (talk) 08:15, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Klein Muçi I need the bot approvals page.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:37, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: Here. - Klein Muçi (talk) 12:39, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Translation

Translation

#	English	Albanian
1	External links modified	U ndryshuan lidhjet e jashtme
2	Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have just modified {linksrescued} external links on [[{namespacepage}]]. Please take a moment to review [{diff} my edit]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.\n\nCheers.	Përshëndetje, redaktorë!\n\nTani sa ndryshova {linksrescued} lidhjet e jashtme në [[{namespacepage}]]. Ju lutem, shpenzoni pak kohë për të shqyrtuar [{diff} redaktimin tim]. Nëse keni ndonjë pyetje ose dëshironi që t'i injoroj lidhjet apo faqet krejtësisht në të ardhmen, ju lutem vizitoni këtë faqe për informacione të mëtejshme. Kam bërë këto ndryshime:\n{modifiedlinks}\nKur të keni mbaruar së shqyrtuari ndryshimet e mia, mund të ndiqni udhëzimet te stampa më poshtë për të rregulluar çdo problem me adresat.\n\nGjithë të mirat!
3	External links found that need fixing	U gjetën lidhje të jashtme që duhen rregulluar
4	Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have found one or more external links on [[{namespacepage}]] that are in need of attention. Please take a moment to review the links I found and correct them on the article if necessary. I found the following problems:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished making the appropriate changes, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information to fix any issues with the URLs mentioned above.\n\nThis notice will only be made once for these URLs.\n\nCheers.	Përshëndetje, redaktorë!\n\nKam gjetur një ose më shumë lidhje të jashtme në [[{namespacepage}]] që kanë nevojë për vëmendje. Ju lutem shpenzoni pak kohë për të shqyrtuar lidhjet që kam gjetur dhe korrigjojini ato në artikull nëse është e nevojshme. Kam gjetur këto probleme:\n{modifiedlinks}\nKur të keni mbaruar së bëri ndryshimet e duhura, ju lutem, vizitoni këtë faqe për informacione të mëtejshme për të rregulluar ndonjë problem me adresat e përmendura më parë.\n\nKy njoftim do të bëhet vetëm një herë për këto adresa.\n\nGjithë të mirat!
5	Trouble archiving links on the article	Probleme me arkivimin e lidhjeve në artikull
6	Hello. During the archive process, the archive returned errors for one or more sites that I submitted for archiving.\nBelow, I have included the links that returned with an error and the following error message.\n\n{problematiclinks}\nIn any event this will be the only notification in regards to these links, and no further attempt will be made to archive the links.\n\nCheers.	Përshëndetje! Gjatë procesit të arkivimit, arkivi ktheu një përgjigje me mesazhe gabimesh për një ose më shumë faqe që unë paraqita për arkivim.\nMë poshtë, kam përfshirë lidhjet që u kthyen me një gabim dhe mesazhin e gabimit në vijim.\n\n{problematiclinks}\nKy do të jetë njoftimi i vetëm mbi këto lidhje dhe nuk do të bëhen përpjekje të mëtejshme për të arkivuar lidhjet.\n\nGjithë të mirat.
7	{link} is found to be dead. Recommend adding {newarchive} to the original URL.	{link} është prishur. Këshillohet shtimi i {newarchive} tek adresa origjinale.
8	{link} is found to be dead. No archive was found.	{link} ësht prishur. Nuk u gjet asnjë arkiv.
9	{link} is considered to be dead, however has been found to be alive. Recommend removing the dead flag from the URL.	{link} konsiderohet të jetë e prishur, megjithatë është gjetur të jetë funksionale. Këshillohet heqja e etiketës që e përcakton lidhjen si të prishur.
10	Added archive {newarchive} to {link}	U shtua arkivi {newarchive} te {link}
11	Replaced archive link {oldarchive} with {newarchive} on {link}	U zëvendësua lidhja e arkivit {oldarchive} me {newarchive} te {link}
12	Corrected formatting/usage for {link}	U rregulluaformatimi/përdorimi për {link}
13	Added {{dead link}} tag to {link}	U shtua etiketa {{dead link}} te {link}
14	Removed dead tag from {link}	U hoq etiketa e lidhjes së prishur nga {link}
15	Modified source for {link}	U ndryshua burimi për {link}
16	{problem} with error {error}	{problem} me gabimin {error}
17	Rescuing {linksrescued} sources and tagging {linkstagged} as dead.	Shpëtim i burimeve {linksrescued} dhe etiketim {linkstagged} si të prishura.
18	Notification of errors encountered when attempting to archive links	Njoftim i gabimeve të hasura gjatë përpjekjes për të arkivuar lidhjet
19	Notification of altered sources needing review	Njoftimi i burimeve të ndryshuara në nevojë për shqyrtim

Please answer the following questions:

• Where is your dead link template(s)?
  • Stampa:Lidhje e thyer (redirect from sq:Template:Dead link)

• Do you have any archive template(s)? Please list them.

1. Stampa:Webarchive (redirect from sq:Template:Webarchive)
2. Stampa:Arkivi (no redirect from sq:Template:Archive)

• Do you want talk page messages?
  • Yes.

• What is the community's preferred date format, and all other acceptable formats in order of preference?
  • Date - Month (Name) - Year

• Where are your Cite templates?
  • Stampa:Cito web (redirected from sq:Template:Cite web)
  • Here is a category listing some more. (Not cite web as of now.)

@Jagulin: thank you for your help!

@Cyberpower678: here it is everything you needed. - Klein Muçi (talk) 14:03, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi: I created sandbox page User:Klein_Muçi/sandbox/IABot with above information. I then edited some details. Feel free to review and paste it back above if you approve. @Cyberpower678: See history for the list of changes I assumed would help your work.

@Jagulin: thank you again! I saw your changes and apart from the periods at the ending of some sentences, the other changes were more on the technical side. If you think the way you've put it, it's better, I'll go along with it. I think I'll post everything back here after you see this comment. - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:36, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

@Cyberpower678: After Jagulin's help, this page has a better text then the text above. He thinks it will help you more on the tech side also. - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:22, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Could you help?

German Wikipedia, see here: de:Benutzer Diskussion:Graphikus#Luxusproblem. Thx and Greets. --Informationswiedergutmachung (talk) 16:18, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE Yong321 (talk) 18:32, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello Sir, I'd like to correct the B-29 range on the page of "Operation Matterhorn" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Matterhorn). But I'd like to talk to an editor of the page first. I can't figure out a way to contact him/her. Could you help? I see a "Talk" link at the top. But it's for posting a message to myself, not to an editor. Thanks.

Is the adminstats task running?

Hello,

I have noticed that the adminstats task has not run (i.e. made no edits) in 4 days? The template says it should run every 24 hours and the task is still enabled. Is this intentional? Thanks, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 09:46, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

I haven't seen any adminstats updates since 17:02, 3 June 2019 UTC. – Athaenara ✉ 03:39, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

It should be running. I'll take a look when I can.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot malfunctioning

For some reason, the gadget is no longer working properly. I entered Draft:Arrow (season 8) but the bot did not function, instead saying, "The article you are trying to analyze may be too large for this tool". Even analysing Kabir Singh failed. Can you please look into this? --Kailash29792 (talk) 04:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Can we get IA bot to run against the subpages of Portal:Current events?

These are chock full of dead links; any way they could be included in IA Bot's scope of work? UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:31, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

@UnitedStatesian: You using the interface to run a job over them (I confirmed that the tool can handle portals)? * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:00, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

@Pppery: No, because: 1) I can't log in to wmf labs using OAuth, since no one has told me which cookies need to be permissioned in order for me to do so (I block all cookies by default) and 2) There is no way I am going through 30,000 subpages manually; I would really like IAbot to scan and fix them all automatically. UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:08, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia page creation

Hello i wanted to ask if you can help me create a Wikipedia page im an artist please help me, the page i had was deleted. Ephraimraphel (talk) 05:42, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot malfunctioning

Why is it not working at all? Please do something. --Kailash29792 (talk) 03:40, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot for fawiki

Hello Cyberpower. I was wondering if you are still going to work on IABot in fawiki. I think the only thing that needs to be done is to make Persian CS1 citation templates recognizable for IABot. Can you do it, please? Ahmad^Talk 05:07, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

@Ahmad252: I haven't forgotten it. Just busy until next week.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:46, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

WebCite to Wayback Machine replacement

As you may know, WebCite is down for over a week by now. At ruWiki we are investigating possible moves if the situation persists as there are over 160 000 WebCite links in source templates. Would it be proper to assume that a simple removal of the links will cause their eventual replacement with WayBack Machine copies (if any) by IABot? --Neolexx (talk) 17:29, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

@GreenC: You might care also. --Izno (talk) 20:40, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

There is an open RfC for enwiki. User:Neolexx, removing the links would not cause their replacement until the links are updated in the IABot database. I could do it but the IABot API is not working (phab). IMO best to hold off deleting anything for the moment. -- GreenC 20:54, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm going to just nuke the entries internally, that contain web citation in the archive fields. Codewise I will push an update in the next beta officially classifying web citation as invalid and replacing them with archive.org, if possible.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:51, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

When this next beta will be released? MBH (talk) 10:46, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

WebCite has (or had) some archives only available there. In the possibility they come back online, we would still want those archives vs. creating a dead link. Or find a way to transfer those WARCS somewhere. Given the possibility suggest not removing WebCite if there is no other provider available. At least for a while. -- GreenC 13:01, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot stuck on job 3865

Can you kill job 3865? It's gotten stuck. https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=viewjob&id=3865. TIA! Remagoxer (talk) 13:38, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Okay, 3865 was killed but the bot just isn’t doing anything. Remagoxer (talk) 18:16, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

There's an issue with the workers that require manual coaxing to move them forward for some reason. Still investigating.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Apparent barf when run on article with AfD header

Examples include Phorum and Mullvad. I was able to run it on Mullvad by temporary removal of the AfD header. The failure results of a dump to the page that appears to be a combination of the article page source and what appears like bits of code. Example [1] and one or two either sides. The failed runs dont apply an edit. Version: IABot Management Interface (v2.0beta15; checkIfDead v1.8) Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 20:58, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I'd noticed I have a similar issue on New Ross which does not contain an AfD template ... sorry cannot be more helpful. (actually the census footnote in the url contains ... deadurl=bot: unknown which looks a little strange. Sorry can't be more help.Djm-leighpark (talk) 12:08, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Created phab T226333. -- GreenC 14:15, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

@Djm-leighpark: - it would be best to follow up on Phab as that is where 100s of trouble tickets are tracked over many months, talk pages don't really work well for this kind of thing. It is where most Wikipedia development work happens. See further comments there. -- GreenC 14:18, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot screwed up some ELs

Hi Cyberpower678, most of the changes in this edit ([2]) were expanding archive.is links to archive.today links. They were all fine (Thanks!) except for that the wrong date format was used and that some stray spaces were inserted before the closing brackets (already discussed). However, further down in that article under "External links" there is an arrangements of links allowing interested users to browse various archived websites of this historically relevant company, that's why links matching specifically given start and end dates were provided. Archived links before and after these dates are invalid, usurped by other companies or otherwise not relevant in the context of this article, that's why these ranges were given. For unknown reasons, IABot modified some of these links, changing dates, and it removed others and made a mess out of the descriptive text between them. I have restored the previous arrangement ([3]), but since the old links were (and are) working fine exactly as desired I'm not sure what IABot was trying to achieve here in the first place. Greetings, --Matthiaspaul (talk) 20:59, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Cyberpower will know but it looks like it might be new code to fix duplicate URLs? In my experience duplicates existed with {{webarchive}} duplicates I don't recall seeing bare/square link duplicates before though. -- GreenC 14:24, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

cyberbot I - Admin stats

As far as I can determine, the bot has not updated Admin stats since June 3. Should we be inquiring elsewhere about this bot? Or are you still restarting it?— Maile (talk) 00:32, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

It seems to only blank user's subpages for adminstats when they are no longer an administrator or account creator. For example Ansh666 and Od Mishehu were done after the 3rd of June. Probably means an issue then with detecting particular statistic(s) and this problem does not seem to stop all users who use the template to be checked for the necessary rights. Maybe there was a change to the API which has affected this around the 3rd of June? Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 14:40, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Hmmm. I don't necessarily understand what that means. But looking through the bot history on June 3, the admin template names that appear before and after mine, also have not been updated since June 3. Looks like maybe all the admin template names updated on that run, have not updated since. All I can say, is that I'm still an admin. — Maile (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Maile66 Basically, the bot is still removing adminstats information from users who have their administrator (or account creator) rights removed. However, the bot is not carrying out any other tasks. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 19:39, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot at the Spanish Wikipedia

Hello Cyberpower678,

Is possible to change your configured signature at the Spanish Wikipedia to be linked to the User (and also Talk page) at the Spanish Wikipedia? Thanks. --Amitie 10g (talk) 00:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot not at all working

Don't get it? Enter Kalyana Parisu in the page title to analyze field, tick Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional) and click analyze. But it won't add any archives. Instead, you get a long page full of HTML codes. Why? What went wrong? --Kailash29792 (talk) 05:22, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Having trouble with the archives

Lately I have been having trouble with broken archive.org links. Looking at a typical page Bombing of Rome in World War II, it seemed at first when I clicked on links that they were all broken. I looked at a link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140202213215/http://rcslibri.corriere.it/bombardatelitalia/bombardate1943.pdf

It did not work. I got an empty page. On querying the API myself, I got:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140202213215/http://rcslibri.corriere.it/bombardatelitalia/bombardate1943.pdf

It appears that the https version does not work. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:22, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

They both work for me. Still not working? -- GreenC 14:21, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

No. Only the http version works. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:31, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Cleared the cache and it is working again now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 12:36, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

ActiveStats on Wikidata

Hey. Since June 3 the ActiveStats on Wikidata is erroneous. This is probably related with the introduction of the new actor reference table (phab:T167246). I would appreciate it very much if you could fix the script. Thanks. --Pasleim (talk) 12:24, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

IABot broken link

Hi Cyberpower, I noticed that in this edit from last October, IABot incorrectly added an archive link to this page (an error page) when it could have linked to this page instead. The bot might also have incorrectly marked the then-current page as not dead. In case this isn't still an issue with the bot, would you mind looking into this? Thanks, Jc86035 (talk) 10:44, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Please use https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot to correct URL data issues.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:51, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm trying to use the interface. I am unable to set the URL as dead, because the domain or URL has been incorrectly whitelisted (the link currently returns a 404, and so does the archive link originally added to the Microsoft Notepad article). I haven't made any changes for now. Jc86035 (talk) 07:23, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

@Jc86035: Log into the interface. "Modify URL Data" from the menu. Enter URL https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/59578 then change archive URL to https://web.archive.org/web/20150317213210/http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/59578 -- that would be what you want I think. --GreenC 13:26, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

@GreenC: "URL data error: The archive snapshot you are trying to add doesn't match the original URL." (The working link was archived as HTTP instead of HTTPS.) I am also not sure what to do with "Last seen access time" (currently 2018-10-12). "Live status" is still wrong and there is no option to change it. Jc86035 (talk) 08:47, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

@Jc86035: Check option box "override validation checks" - I tried it and it went through. -- GreenC 15:55, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Rename clerking bot

Hi Cyberpower678. Can you take a look at Special:Diff/903494517? It looks like those accounts exist but the bot is saying they don't. Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 01:43, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

WooHoo!

My edit count has gone zero

Hi, see this edit - the |edits= and |ed= have both dropped to zero. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:12, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

And Cyberpower678's count as well, as can be seen by red message Sorry, you don't have enough edits or haven't been on Wikipedia long enough! just above this section. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:18, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

I noticed. I need to take a closer look to see what happened. There's a DB change on the WMF servers responsible for this.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:26, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

A Small Malfunction

@Cyberpower678: Hello, there! I am a regular user in Bengali Wikipedia and also a reviewer of pending changes. When I was reviewing the changes made by the bot in the BN wiki page রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, the bot detected a citation as a dead-URL while I visited the website and it seemed okay to me. For this reason, I request you to check if there's actually any malfunction in this bot or not. Thank you! -- Bang Bang50 (talk) 15:56, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

It's no malfunction. False positives can happen due to a number of reasons.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:31, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Cyberbot I issues with archiving RFPP

Hello Cyberpower678,

Seems that Cyberbot I has been having some issues recently with archiving entries of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection too early. I assume that Cyberbot I archives discussions/section with any transcluded form of {{RFPP}} after a certain amount of time since the last edit in that section? If that is the case, that is a bit problematic in discussions where the only transclusion(s) of {{RFPP}} are {{RFPP|q}}, {{RFPP|ques}}, {{RFPP|n}}, and/or {{RFPP|note}}. With these values for parameter 1, the requests have not actually been responded to in a manner where they have been approved or denied. To correct this issue in one such archiving, I had to perform this edit to correct Cyberbot I after it performed this edit. Steel1943 (talk) 21:59, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

No Cyberbot distinguishes each response. It might be a config issue, regarding discussion timeouts.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:26, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

@Steel1943: See User:Cyberbot I/RFPP.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:33, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Readability of User:cyberbot II signature

Hello, Cyberpower678. Signature of User:cyberbot II is a bit hard to read, especially when it overlaps nearby text. Examples: one and two. Please adjust it to be more readable per WP:SIGAPP. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:13, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Andrybak, looks fine to me. Cyberbot has been using this signature for almost 5 years now.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:29, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, I assumed that it looks fine to you, otherwise you wouldn't have used it for your bot. I'm just reporting that's it hard to read for me. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:33, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Cyberbot is getting a code overhaul. Once that happens, it's signature will be updated to a more clean look.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:34, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot

Hi! Link is live, but bot added "deadlink=yes" and print "отмечено мёртвыми — 0". 83.219.146.251 (talk) 11:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

• [4]. 83.219.146.251 (talk) 11:41, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

  There was an archive URL associated with the original which, per the template's behavior, implies that the URL is dead. All IABot did was make it explicit.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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IABot stuck again...

on job 3886 ([5]). Remagoxer (talk) 09:13, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Another Daniel C. Boyer sock IP has appeared

Hi Cyberpower. I've noticed another IP that looks a lot like Daniel C. Boyer. This one is 65.88.88.69 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) who has repeated Boyer's edits at Perspiration and Marmalade with near-identical edit summaries. I've added this to the SPI case, but thought I'd mention it here too. Thanks, Railfan23 (talk) 19:06, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

IABot for fawiki

Hi. Sorry to open this in such a situation, I understand there are bigger concerns. Just asking, is there any update on IABot for fawiki? Thanks. Ahmad^Talk 17:30, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Ahmad252, There's a critical bug I'm working to fix.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:02, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Could you please ping me whenever it's ready? Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmad252 (talk • contribs) 17:04, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I hope this involves being able to fix the add-archives-to-all-non-dead-references-not-working glitch. --Kailash29792 (talk) 17:05, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Kailash29792, remind me about this glitch? I know there's an issue where the bot times out and loads a blank page.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:08, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

...and a page full of HTML coding. But it's not often; it's always. --Kailash29792 (talk) 17:10, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

I think I had previously reported this blaming the presence of a AfD header as the reason. ... in practice I am now reasonably sure the issue is when I click the optionaladd archives (cant remember the exact title) checkbox and have stopped using that option (Which means I have to do a lot more manual archiving). Only saying this to try to be a little more helpful.Djm-leighpark (talk) 03:41, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

False positive for InternetArchiveBot

Hi, I tried using the reporting tool, but for some reason it doesn't accept the URL that I tried to feed it. The bot has multiple times tagged https://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp as dead, but the link is live and as far as I can see never even was down when it got tagged. An example of this is here. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 10:46, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

I need more details. What do you mean it didn't accept it?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:32, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Well, it said something like "that URL is not in the database" and then I could not click the "submir" button, only "return". --Randykitty (talk) 16:24, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Chips for you

2601:243:CB00:DD3:8459:C4E8:50B0:EDED has given you microchips! Microchips promote WikiLove (📖💞) and hopefully this one has made your day more efficient. It is the food best preferred by bots. 🤖 Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else microchips, whether it be someone you have had robot wars with in the past or a good friend.

Spread the goodness of microchips by adding {{subst:Microchips for you}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:cb00:dd3:8459:c4e8:50b0:eded (talk • contribs) 17:01, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Deadlinks of IABot

Hello. Why does your bot mark links as dead while the links is active? See [6], [7]. --SkоrP²⁴ 17:13, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Skorp24, it's converting WebCite links to something more reliable, but the fact that it's marking them as dead is definitely concerning. This most definitely a bug.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:18, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

If I delete all inclusions "deadlink=yes" from the articles, will the bot have marked dead links correctly in them? --SkоrP²⁴ 18:40, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

@Skorp24 ... I admit to page stalking here but dead-link=yes can be set manually (I sometimes do it) to cover the situation where the page link is valid but a particular old version is known. While IABot can use access-dates or other clever things to help but ultlimately a mk. 1 human should be left to override when necessary.Djm-leighpark (talk) 18:52, 8 July 2019 (UTC)