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Latest comment: 10 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion
Hey there, I've tried to run the bot several times on en:Howl's Moving Castle (film), but it never ends up adding any archives and simply ends the attempt after a few seconds. I'm not sure what the cause of this is, and I'd appreciate any help. Let me know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 18:56, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
It runs fine for me. Bear in mind archive URLs are generally only added when the bot declares a link as dead which means it would have needed o fail 3 consecutive checks each spaced 3 days apart. Archive URLs don't show up immediately after a link goes down. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)17:54, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Cyberpower678: This seems to happen even when the option to archive non-dead links is enabled. If it helps at all, here's a screenshot of the results when I tried to run it on the page again.
Thanks. The title there is "Modify URL Data", which is quite different. And both titles are not entirely clear. The two messages should be consistent and descriptive.
Okay, so I had a brain fart here. I don't think it's good to change the title of the tool itself. Maybe change the dropdown menu entry instead? —CYBERPOWER(Chat)12:41, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
So:
Keep "Modify URL Data" as the page title.
Change dropdown item to "Modify URL Data".
Change 'Refer to the "URL lookup How To" for information on the specific states.' to 'Refer to "Modify URL Data" for information on the specific states.'
Latest comment: 10 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi there, This bot adds all the right properties to the references on the page; there is only one small error: for the url status (live or dead), instead of 'dodeurl=nee', it says 'dodeurl=no '. So: 'no' should be 'nee', and there is no need for an added space. I don't seem to have the rights to change this myself. :-) Thank you in advance, Laurier (talk) 10:33, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Very interesting, a no is creeping in there. IABot tries to be backwards compatible with older versions of CS1 modules, but I do recommend eventually updating to the latest version enwiki employs. It's much more flexible and IABot works better with it. I'll take a look into the issue when I get a moment. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)12:56, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
In order to get the bot to run on your wiki, you will need to install the OAuth extension into your MediaWiki installation. I will create the respective accounts after and IABot will need a bot flag, and I will need permission to use the OAuth Consumer Registration tool. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)13:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
So it seems I'm unable to do anything due to my travels. I keep hitting IP blocks on Miraheze globally which is impacting SUL account creation too.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)09:16, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Permission error
The action you are trying to perform requires the definearchivetemplates permission.
This permission is obtainable with the following groups: root
What templates are you trying to add? Most used templates are already defined and need only be applied in the local configuration for the wiki itself. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)09:18, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Whatever it is to get similar to en.Wikipedia on repaired links. For example, archived from the original (PDF) on date, retrieved date. I've now imported Template:Webarchive to the wikis. Maybe that's all that was required? --Rob Kam (talk) 09:51, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I guess I should make you admin of your wikis. Interesting you don't seem to be a sysop on your own wikis. Is that a Miraheze policy thing? —CYBERPOWER(Chat)12:37, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
It shouldn't be a problem. On my wikis I'm "Member of: Automoderated users, Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators". Rob Kam (talk) 15:29, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 7 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
If a citation URL is the output of a template, the bot tries to convert the template invocation into a URL which results, of course, in an incorrect URL. An example of this behaviour is here, which I have undone. Could the bot be programmed to avoid doing this sort of change? Thanks. --RobertG (talk) 09:30, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm, the bot should know better, and should know how to handle these cases. I'll make sure the next major update of IABot will have this working again. —CYBERPOWER(Chat)09:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Check to make sure you have the tool set to the correct wiki. You can find the wiki you are actively on in the dropdown on the top right of the page.—CYBERPOWER(Chat)06:42, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
On English Wiktionary, on page استكرى, the bot converted this:
#* {{quote-journal|ar|work=Al-Watan|title=ar: الرئيسية / الدين الحياة / فتاوى وأحكام|date=2018-02-09|url=http://alwatan.com/details/242996
|passage=في رجل باع بيته بالإقالة لمدة عشر سنوات، على أن يستكري البائع البيت من المشتري باثنين وعشرين ريالا شهريا، وبعد مضي سنتين جاء المشتري وقال تزيد في الكراء أو ترد علي الدراهم؟، فما رأيكم فهل ذلك سائغ؟}}
to this:
#* {{quote-journal|1=ar|work=Al-Watan|title=ar: الرئيسية / الدين الحياة / فتاوى وأحكام|date=2018-02-09|url=http://alwatan.com/details/242996|passage=في رجل باع بيته بالإقالة لمدة عشر سنوات، على أن يستكري البائع البيت من المشتري باثنين وعشرين ريالا شهريا، وبعد مضي سنتين جاء المشتري وقال تزيد في الكراء أو ترد علي الدراهم؟، فما رأيكم فهل ذلك سائغ؟|accessdate=6 September 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413233443/http://alwatan.com/details/242996|archivedate=13 April 2018}}
Note in particular that unnamed param 1= is now given an explicit 1= in front of it for no clear reason. Although this technically doesn't break the template, it messes up the formatting of the wikitext. Benwing2 (talk) 03:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
