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Variation of RfPP formatting

Hi Cyberpower,

I would like to switch RfPP over to using Template:Pagelinksmorehistory instead of Template:Pagelinks by default. Can the bot accept this format, or be changed to do so? Thanks.

Samsara 04:49, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

I can change the bot. It supports previous methods of submission and I think it tries to convert them over. I don’t know when I can make this change.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 13:23, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

InernetArchiveBot

Hello. I'm wondering if InternetArchiveBot is functioning the way it should. Earlier today, it tagged links as dead and said it had tried to fix them on two articles on my watchlist: Loving v. Virginia and 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. In both cases, when I went to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, there were multiple copies of the source page archived. Is the bot malfunctioning? — MShabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 14:02, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

No. The bot uses an API on the Wayback Machine. The bot asks to be provided a snapshot. If it's not given one, then it will assume there is none, until someone else tells the bot there is one.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 14:06, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. Maybe something has changed on their end. Usually when the bot says a page isn't in the Wayback Machine, it isn't there. It seems strange that I've run across so many false positives. (I just fixed another one at Israeli West Bank barrier.) — MShabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 14:24, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

WP:WAYBACKMEDIC will eventually find and fix these cases. Example. The Loving v. Virginia is actually reporting available via API right now, this is not uncommon the API reports unavailable at first, learns about a snapshot during a search and reports available thereafter. Sometimes waiting a few minutes (5 or 10?) after the first API query is enough for it to recover a snapshot on a subsequent query. The problem is impossible to replicate because once a snapshot is found the API remembers it. To me it looks like a caching problem where snapshots that have not been accessed in a long time are not in the cache and so take long to search and the API can't wait around to give a reply so it reports unavailable. -- GreenC 14:48, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

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• Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

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• Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
• A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

• Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Irvin Mayfield

just overworked the page completley, could you please give me help for the external form of references?.....thankyouverymuch --Wikiboy2015 (talk) 10:53, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

BambooHR

Dear Cyberpower678 I am talking about page BambooHR, the person who tagged article was deletion was complaining a writing style which I have removed. This is about a big company (HR Software) you can check on Google and Google news. The Software page cited references from PCMag, Deseret News, Inc. (magazine), Entrepreneur (magazine), Bloomberg, Daily Herald, The Financial Express, Forbes, and The Salt Lake Tribune. I believe you are tagging article in a mistake and ignoring the notable news and magazines which are referring to the Topic. Kindly look deeply and explore the topic notability instead of keeping sticking with the action of the previous person. EShami (talk) 09:07, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

EShami, it was not Cyperpower678 that re-added the AFD notice, it was their bot. When a user such as yourself removes an AFD notice from a deletion discussion that is still taking place, a bot such as Cyberpower's will restore the text.

In other words, please leave the AFD notice until the discussion has concluded. Primefac (talk) 12:43, 15 December 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Dear Primefac, Can you please check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/BambooHR as I believe this tag is by mistake. I am trying to explain the notability of the company, maybe my way of explaining is wrong but I cannot believe if the company/software is not meeting Wikipedia criteria. I hope you will check it on Google and Google News as well there any massive resources are linked to topic. EShami (talk) 12:54, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

EShami, there is nothing wrong about nominating a page for deletion. I do not see any evidence that the nominator was acting in bad faith. If the subject is notable, the page will be kept. If it is not, it will be deleted. Primefac (talk) 13:39, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Archive bot

Hi, I'm an admin in Azerbaijani Wikipedia and I've been referred to coders. We were just wondering is it possible to create archivebot and patrol system for Az.Wikipedia?--Azerifactory (talk) 02:39, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

To begin I need a consensus from the community there before I'm even going to consider deploying it. If the community welcomes this bot, I will add it to the next batch of wikis to deploy to.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 20:29, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Fixed urls marked as dead link

Hi Cyberpower678, in this edit your bot correctly marked two links as dead. I ran a bot to fix the old incorrect links. As you can see it's a simple search and replace. Will the {{dead link}} be removed by the bot later? Multichill (talk) 10:40, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

No, the bot will the links are dead and replace them with archives, since its current configuration is set to accept the tags over it's own judgement.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 20:30, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Cyberbot I not clerking WP:CHU/S

Hi Cyberpower678. Cyberbot I doesn't seem to have touched WP:CHU/S for a few days now, mind having a look? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 20:56, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

ca.wikiquote.org

Hi Cyberpower678, we would like to welcome your InternetArchiveBot at ca.wikiquote. Can you activated the account of the bot on this project? I hope you can do this step, thanks a lot! --Yeza (talk) 15:36, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

I'll add it to the list of next wikis to be deployed to. It may still take some time though. I'm working on a major update for IABot.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 20:26, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thanks and good work! --Yeza (talk) 22:24, 17 December 2017 (UTC) pd. And Merry Christmas! :)

Simple edit, and a little about myself

Hello there Cyberpower678!

I am brand new here to Wiki and how no idea how complex the editing could get! I am very intrigued, and plan to invest some time into learning more about the bot process and how this all works! I noticed simple grammatical errors in a sentence that I pointed out to my fiancé. He let me know that anyone could edit articles and add information, I feel silly for not really understanding that was what this page was all about! I only ever used it to read about things I wanted to know more about, or prove a fact in an argument. I am a "grammar and spelling nazi" you could say, and I would love to contribute!

The Error: I was reading the Amanda Todd suicide article, in the Reaction section's second paragraph, the first sentence is written: On October 19, 2012, a series of vigils was held across Canada and internationally to remember Todd and other victims of bullying. I believe this sentence would correctly be written as: On October 19, 2012, a series of vigils were held across Canada, and internationally, to remember Todd and other victims of bullying. Correct me if I am wrong with my placement of commas, but the use of "was" should most definitely be "were".

I do not have a college degree, but was a 4.0 student throughout middle and high school, and I had a primary interest in English. Simply put, I love to write, and I love to proofread. I notice mistakes in professional writing more than the average person. I am looking forward to seeing what I can do to help the main aspect of this site...to have the biggest selection of great articles! To be great, grammar is key, at least in my opinion! I understand if you are too busy to reply, but I would love some guidance on where to get started on this editing adventure and what types of articles are a good starting point, as the bot process is very involved, and will take some time to learn. I downloaded the editing Wikipedia guide PDF and will be reading that now.

Happy Holidays! Kchase123 Kchase123 (talk) 08:49, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

If you're interested in proofreading, you might look into Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. Your analysis of the Amanda Todd sentence seems good, but a grammar and spelling nazi should not be writing "...how no idea how complex...". Dhtwiki (talk) 21:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

P.S. I am not Cyberpower678, but a Wikipedia:Talk page stalker, and don't mean my answer to be regarded otherwise. Dhtwiki (talk) 21:31, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

cyberbot I Transcluding Deletion sorting pages

Hi, your bot transcluded 2 WikiProject Deletion sorting pages to the AfD log [1] [2] today, which made the log completely unusable. Could you please fix the bot so it only transcludes AfD's, so this problem doesn't happen again. Thanks. Iffy★Chat -- 12:27, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

• Turns out the issue was that someone removed the Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD from an AfD, and then someone else added the categories that template adds manually, and then added it to the 2 Deletion Sorting pages that the bot then started transcluding. It's all fixed now, but maybe there's a way for the bot to prevent this from happening again? Iffy★Chat -- 16:12, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

The AfD program is a pretty mature script. Since this is an exceedingly rare case, I don't think it worthwhile to fix it. Thanks for keeping me informed. :-)—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 17:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

spurious df= insertion

Cyberpower678, please could you look into why empty |df= arguments are being inserted into {{cite web}}, eg. Special:Diff/816437892. —Sladen (talk) 10:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

This is intentional. If the date format got messed up because the bot couldn't figure out what to use, a user simply sets the df parameter, and that helps other bots out as well.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 17:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Hiya

I mentioned your name over at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Should_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_donate_three_million_dollars_to_The_Internet_Archive_(http://archive.org/)?. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 03:11, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Problem with Cyberbot I

At RFPP, I made a request for reduction in protection level, but Cyberbot I said "One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm." But, I was asking for a reduction of protection, not an increase. Why is Cyberbot I doing that? —MRD2014 ^{Merry Christmas!} 17:21, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

A reduction in protection is still protection. If it already has the requested protection it will give you that message.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 17:30, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Sig spans messed up

Hi Cyberpower, your sig markup has bad HTML. This causes many issues in the edit window.

Instead of

• CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas)

I'd suggest instead

• CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas)

but that's over the 255 character limit.Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:05, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

That’s why I cut corners by omitting them. I don’t want to exceed the 255 limit.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 17:32, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes but that screws up edit window readability big time, as well as creates problem from screen readers and other WP: ACCESS related issue. Please fix that signature. If the coloring is important, omit the rockwell font change.Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:45, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

From Stave one of Dickens A Christmas Carol Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. So you see even Charles was looking for a reliable source :-) Thank you for your contributions to the 'pedia. ~ MarnetteD|Talk 00:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

IABot

Hi. Could you take a look at this edit by InternetArchiveBot? It looks to add a permanent dead link tag to the middle of a caption in an image where there is no reference whatsoever, let alone dead link present. Not sure if this is an isolated occurrence, but I thought it would be helpful to let you know about this in case you didn't already. –72 (talk) 04:01, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

There is a link there, but the bot should be ignoring anything with double brackets.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 04:08, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Cyberbot I not clerking WP:CHU/S

I dropped you a note a few days ago but you haven't responded. Cyberbot I has not clerked WP:CHU/S for a good while now. Would you mind having a look? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:36, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Whoops. I must’ve missed it. I’ll take a look tonight.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 03:37, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

The bot is unable to access the centralauth tables at the moment. Without it, it can't start. Labs is currently going through an infrastructure change and while most of Cyberbot and IABot live elsewhere, some of it still depends on the resources accessible on Toolforge where 99% of all tools and bots live.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 04:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

The bot appears to be clerking WP:CHU/S again. Thanks for having a look. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:53, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

IABot v1.5beta2 erroneous links

Not sure if there's a better place to report this, but I noticed an interesting bug in this edit by TheSandDoctor using IABot v1.5beta2 in August. A bunch of unrelated citations were erroneously assigned to a single archiveurl and archivedate. Search "dailymail" in the diff to see what I mean. If this bug has been addressed already, it still might be a good idea to verify that the error hasn't persisted in other articles the way it did for this one. Wikiacc (¶) 18:47, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

This bug should have been fixed as quickly as it was discovered back then. Run the bot on the page to see if it still causes problems.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 19:07, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Runs fine now, thanks! Wikiacc (¶) 19:50, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!

Hello Cyberpower678: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —MRD2014 ^{Merry Christmas!} 02:21, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

IABot Management Interface (v1.2.4; IABot v1.6.1; checkIfDead v1.5.1)

Script timed out (white blank page) when ran for One Piece, Megaupload, Disney, Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hei Liebrecht 23:41, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

IA Bot jobs 1153 and 1178

Hello Cyberpower678,

The InternetArchiveBot jobs made by Feminist was running up to a certain point when, at the page Claude Debussy, it got stuck for several days before the user killed the job (alerted by Balon Greyjoy. I have recently performed the job of all the remainder bot job 1153 without the Debussy page and it is running fine. Think there could be a bug with that page. Thank you, Iggy (talk) 11:24, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

HNY

Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2018, —PaleoNeonate – 21:49, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

WP Version 1.0 Bot

Is the bot that updates the pages broken? For example, the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/U.S. road transport articles by quality log page shows that it hasn't been updated since November 30. It used to update every day or two. Has it been modified to only update once a month? Thank you. Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) (talk) 18:49, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

I have the blocked as it is creating numerous technical errors that other bots are constantly cleaning up. Because the operators were not reachable or unable to fix the problems, the bot needed to be stopped.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:51, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Is there any timetable as to when this will be corrected or another bot to pick this up? Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) (talk) 19:40, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

None that I’m aware of.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 19:48, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Blacklisted link

I noticed that your bot placed tags over several Shannon-related articles, like Shannon Estuary. The culprit of that is the link http://europeaneel.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/chapter-2-study-area.pdf, falling foul of bfiles\.wordpress\.com\b. I fail to find where the link or the relevant code is blacklisted and why. Can you give me advice where that happened? The Banner talk 14:06, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

See meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#files.Word-Press.com. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:14, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. The Banner talk 19:46, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

missing end tag in User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report

There is a missing close italics in User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report, causing a lint error on this page and each of over 1000 pages that transclude it. The opening italic begins at the beginning of

''No RfXs since 03:56, 2 January 2018 (UTC).—{{#ifeq:{{{simplesig|false}}}|true|[[User:Cyberbot I|Cyberbot I]] ({{#switch:{{User:Cyberbot I/Status}}|enable=Online|disable=Offline| #default=Unknown}})|{{User:Cyberbot I/Signature}}}}{{#ifeq:{{{smalltimestamp|false}}}|true|</small>}}

and can be fixed by placing '' at the end of that string. —Anomalocaris (talk) 02:01, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Precious four years!

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

temporary magic on the blacklisted links template?

Cyberpower, do you think that there is a parser function that can check whether '\bfiles\.wordpress\.com\b' is part of parameter '1', and if so, that it then does not display the whole content of the template? People are still posting on the whitelist pages, and they will continue until the bot has cleared the templates again. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:00, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

To my recollection, no. Not with the standard template syntax. It has limited string parsing abilities. String searching isn't one of them, I think. I'll look later.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2018) 16:10, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

@Beetstra: I added an edit notice instead.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2018) 16:23, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Me stupid, I should immediately have suggested LUA .. but I am not fluent in that (though it can't be hard). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:50, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Ping

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ANI notice: improper COI tagging

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Improper_COI_tagging. The discussion is about the topic Language Creation Society.

Request

I would like to add an image to an article (not directly part of the TBAN [1] ) but the caption of the image [2] has the name of group from the TBAN on it. I would like to make sure that I'm not pushing the boundaries of the TBAN. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 08:50, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

If you feel this is a violation, I will revert it with all hast; and from now on I may need to email my questions for you as things I post here seem to be used for WP:HOUNDING.

• You are mentioned in a ANI discussion [3]. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 10:41, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Request

Archive the urls for Romani people in the Republic of Macedonia, Romani people in Turkey, Romani people in Kosovo, Romani people in Serbia, Demographics of Kosovo, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Demographics of Estonia, English Americans and Sinte Romani. Justin Bieber forever (talk) 07:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

IABot script

Hi, is there an on-wiki version of IABot that I can use to archive sources, rather than going to the site. Sort of like reFill. Cheers, Anarchyte (work | talk) 02:22, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

I've been thinking about introducing one, but I have a lot on my plate right now.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:53, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Your bot is blanking articles

Hi, Cyberbot II is on some kind of blanking-spree ([4] [5] [6]). Please fix. Sro23 (talk) 08:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

I have disabled this task, as I fount at least 3 other article blankings (there may have been more). Fram (talk) 09:16, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

I'll raise this at WP:ANI, as I think it needs mass rollback. You tagged these thousands of pages on 6 January, but on 7 January Wordpress was removed from the blacklist. Apparently your bot doesn't check the blacklist again at the time of removal? Or else I'm missing something (which is quite possible). Anyway, you are of course invited to join the ANI discussion I'll now start. Fram (talk) 09:26, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

My mistake, your second bot run actually removed the templates you added, not the actual links. I correctly stopped it for the blanking issues, but otherwise your bot did check the current blacklist and did what it should do. I have removed by ANI report as it was incorrect of course. Fram (talk) 09:34, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll look into the problem when I can.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:53, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Please look at Talk:Kenneth Megill

I've verified the link, but don't see where to put that I did. deisenbe (talk) 13:38, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

You can just remove the thread.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Urbana High School (Ohio) RPP request

This request for temporary page protection was granted earlier by a human Wikipedia editor (and not a bot.) Just wanted to let you know. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 06:20, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot on the Hungarian Wikipedia

Dear Cyberpower678,

On the Hungarian Wikipedia, we would like to use InternetArchiveBot in the near future. Currently 7 editors support the activation and waiting for the others' vote. If it is possible, I'd like to ask you to do some test edits as example to illustrate how it would work on our wiki. Of course, about notifications on talk pages and other “bigger” settings the community will decide. Could you make us a basic configuration and fix some links from this category? Your help would be very useful. Best regards, Bencemac (talk) 15:54, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

IABot needs to actually be programmed to support additional wikis at the moment. Deploying to new wikis has been put on hold until IABot's new engine is ready for deployment, which will eliminate that hassle and provided more reliability and stability. However when the bot is deployed to a new wiki, it's behavior is adapted to suit how the community needs it to run.—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2018) 16:16, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks your answer! Could you tell us when are we able to ask the deployment (so when will the new engine release)? Bencemac (talk) 08:31, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

@Bencemac: I'm pegging to have it ready by the end of February. But I can't guarantee it. It's a big change.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:52, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Then we are waiting patiently. Thanks your work! Bencemac (talk) 19:25, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot ublock request

Hi Cyberpower678, would like to test if my fix works for the semi-colon problem. Would you be so nice to ublock it so I can test my fixes? Regards Kelson (talk) 20:23, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

 Done—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:25, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

@Kelson: It doesn't quite look like it's been fixed per this edit.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:38, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Indeed, but I'm on it. Kelson (talk) 20:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

So, I have changed something which seems to work (if I look to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Boston_articles_by_quality_log). Hope it's the case, during the night, the bot should run anyway through all projects. Kelson (talk) 21:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Gilmores IBAN

Yes this has started up again, was this a violation [[7]] DS seems to think so [[8]], given the context of that statement by DS your opinion would be useful.Slatersteven (talk) 09:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I honestly don't understand the problem, I came to the AfD from the article that had just been updated. Should I remove it? Did I do something wrong? C. W. Gilmore (talk) 10:14, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Wait, I see it now. I did not see the AfD being started 3days back. Please - Let me know if my actions were wrong and what actions I should take now. Thanks C. W. Gilmore (talk) 10:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Blocked. I don't find the just happened on it explanation sufficiently credible at this point. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:51, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

@Slatersteven, C. W. Gilmore, and SarekOfVulcan: In addition to that, since this was still happening, I expanded the bans definition on these two to also restrict them from commenting on any discussion that has been started by the other. Clear violation of that.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:30, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Cheers.Slatersteven (talk) 15:39, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

This[9] has to be one of the most ...(trout worthy) edits. After saying they should stop watching each other's user space, you ping them over to read it?? Really? Please don't do that. --DHeyward (talk) 06:41, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Not my best moment, is it? In any event the ping was before the request to not talk to them.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 15:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Deadlink parameter for RuWiki

Hello! We talked about adding this parameter to the template. We can do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iniquity (talk • contribs) 05:54, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

@Iniquity: I can add it, as long as the templates support it. :-)—CYBERPOWER (Happy 2018) 16:10, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Templates support |deadlink= parameter :) Iniquity (talk) 16:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Support has been added to v1.6.2 of IABot.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:53, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello, again :) I really sorry, but we need dead link parameter only for dead urls. But... ru:Special:Diff/90317448. I have disabled the bot. Iniquity (talk) 17:53, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Well shit. The bot is only supposed to add that when the link is dead. Must be a logic error in the template generating engine.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Global ban tag on Safaru Credit article

Hi Cyberpower678, user Mckenya is wondering why this banner appeared on the article Sarafu-Credit and how to get it removed. Furthermore he does not understand the problem involved with the link to (I ma copying what is written on the banner)

   https://ijccr.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/ijccr-2014-ruddick.pdf

       Triggered by \bfiles\.wordpress\.com\b on the global blacklist

As this is the first time I am also confronted with a global ban, I am also interested in the issue. Kind regards,--Nattes à chat (talk) 11:30, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

You can safely remove the link is no longer blacklisted.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:44, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

External links modified, repeated notifications.

Hi Cyberpower678.

cyberbot II does a great job. Thank you.

Looking at Talk:Rio_de_Janeiro#External_links_modified and following sections, I see what seems to be an excessive number of sections. The notifications are all good and appreciated. An idea occurs to me, it would look nicer, if when there are repeated notifications, one immediately following another, if the 2nd onwards could be placed under a level 3 heading, thus making sectional notifications subsections of the first.

Another preference would be for the section titles to be "External_links_modified (month year)". To make fewer redundant section titles.

I make these suggestions with the assumption that they might be considered if easily implemented. They are minor preference matters. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:08, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Unlike the request above, I have been getting repeated requests to implement this, so consider it  Done.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

can IAB be more succint on articleTalk pages?

Keywords: InternetArchiveBot, words, archive.org links, too long, FAQs repetitive, etc.

Hi there, I see that your bot is very arduous across many wikis. Fixing outdated weblinks is of course a good thing, but as far as I perceive on zhwiki and enwiki, the bot is quite redundant in its utterances on article Talk pages:

Hi everyone, I have just made this edit[diff], please check.
Specifically, I have added [archive.org] to [original].
please blah blah this blah blah that. -- signature quite long

This message is really long, both in bytes and in appearance. I personally feel it quite annoying. Could we curtail the words, wormwood wormwood?　　　More specifically, I have the following thoughts:

• instead of showing the "plain text" archive.org link, pack it up like [~~//web.archive.org/~~ archived].
• create a very nice clear and readable instruction/FAQs/introduction page that contains all information anyone would need to know about this bot; and eliminate any such utterance on article Talk page, such as "please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know" -- this is basically a question of media/information effectiveness; my rationale is, IAB has been around for such a long time, people should have become familiar with it; the last resort for questions is simply the bot's User page, everything should be clear.
• reduce number of lines (in terms of copy-editing) posted.

Before I post this, I searched IAB in your User Talk page archive; it looks like nobody has talked about this before? (I didn't click them). I mean, please let me know about more hints on this issue, if it is already a cliche, or if my proposal will cause any technical problems, such as unable to read the "plain text" archive.org URLs directly on screen.
Thanks! -- SzMithrandir ❈ Ered Luin ❈ 18:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

I get complaints of it not being detailed enough, and complaints of it being too detailed. What my response is, that I want to see what the overall community has to say about the wording since it's gotten mixed reception. In other words I don't see any consensus to change the status quo without further community input.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:50, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

well, OK ... fair enough -- SzMithrandir () 01:48, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

IABot error

When trying to analyse World Social Forum for dead links, I'm almost immediately presented with the message

Failed to create a user log table to use. This table is vital for the operation of this interface. Exiting...

after clicking the "fix dead links" option.

I suspect this is an error condition with the bot or the server rather than a bug, but if I'm wrong I'll put a task on phabricator. Thryduulf (talk) 19:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

seconded, mine was from the bot talk page going to the report a false positive link Dave Rave (talk) 23:16, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

The Cloud wide reboot, reset the DB connection limits. I've restored them.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:12, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you it's working again now. Thryduulf (talk) 01:26, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Reporting about your level 1 warning issued to me

You just issued a level 1 warning to me regarding an AfD closure. I closed the discussion as a keep. The topic met the criteria for inclusion. Also, it had been more than 7 days since the discussion took place. Why was this warning issued to me? Dial911 (talk) 14:10, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

I did not issue you this warning, my bot did, and the AfD is not closed, thus the tag was inappropriately removed.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Not happening

How do I sort this shit out via Arbcom? I have had nothing but harassment from that account, how nobody sees it is beyond me, links please Darkness Shines (talk) 17:43, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

IBAN revised

That begins today? As in, edits before today don't count? Asking as I just read an article on Rose City Antifa and should like 1to add it to the article Darkness Shines (talk) 22:27, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

@SarekOfVulcan: I'll let you chime in on that. I personally interpret that as past edits count, effective immediately.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:00, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I would certainly think that past edits counted, yes. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:24, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

So I can edit Rose City Antifa, I was last one there, on the talk page, but not Antifa. Sound. Thanks Darkness Shines (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Deadlink again

Hello! :) How's progress going with our issue? Iniquity (talk) 06:46, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

It's not an easy issue. In every wiki, the addition of archive URLs implies the original is dead unless the tag explicitly says it isn't. Here it's the opposite, and the bot just isn't programmed to handle that logic at the moment.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:27, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Dead link has status Subscription Site and I can't change it

The URL http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/h/o/b.h.a.m.vanhout-wolters/b.h.a.m.vanhout-wolters.html gives a 404 error when trying to open it. I checked the URL in the tool and there it is registered as a subscription site. I can't change it to another status. The link should have the status dead. I've already added an archive link. This is me (mbch331) (Questions/Remarks/Complaints etc.) 17:41, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

@Mbch331: This happens when the bot has detected that something is preventing anything from accessing it correctly such as some kind of registration requirement. When it takes on this status, it is usually locked. But I will update the feature to allow these changes. I have manually changed it for you in the meantime.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:24, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I let the tool check the page and now it rescues 1 link. Thanks for the help. This is me (mbch331) (Questions/Remarks/Complaints etc.) 20:02, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Question for You

I was actually curious about an article you contributed to, the Attack (computing) page. I was considering adding notable attacks since 2010/Post-Stuxtnet era, however I was curious on your thoughts on this. Should it be a brief overview, or should I go into more details? Another option would be to list the most notable attacks, with links to their pages.

Still new to this, however I want to improve the cyber security and awareness as much as I can, as cyber security is becoming more and more relevant as time goes on.

Thank you (Unusual Suspect 87 (talk) 18:20, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Unusual_Suspect_87)

Sorry, I never contributed to said article.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:22, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

IABot merely wrongly changing accessdate and calling that an "Added archive"

Why did this edit happen? As part of it, IABot changed four accessdate parameters, from "29 December 2017" to "22 January 2018", without changing anything else; and, on the talk page, claimed that it added an archive link when it could have left it alone, as the archive links were already in place, with deadurl = yes. None of the dates were correct. The unusual archive URLs, which did not contain yyyymmdd text, led to redirects to snapshots dated circa November 14, 2012, which I've substituted in the article. Is there something here that should be addressed? Dhtwiki (talk) 22:59, 22 January 2018 (UTC) (edited 05:33, 23 January 2018 (UTC))

This is a case of GIGO. 20121705575400 is not a valid timestamp. The bot corrects the archive-dates based on what snapshot the URLs are supposed to point to. This reads as the year 2012, month 17, day 5, hour 57, minute 54, second 0. Obviously no machine can correctly interpret that stamp, and IABot is quite flexible. I don't even know what that timestamp is supposed to read as. As a result it ended up defaulting to the time it was when the bot made the edit.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:20, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

WaybackMedic will fix the timestamp next time it processes the article. Example. -- GreenC 21:44, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

BTW these timestamps were added by IABot on Dec 29 2017. The bad dates originate from the Internet Archive API, which itself originates from errors in the Wayback database, probably some deep and old bug. It is possible when encountering these to find a valid snapshot date by following the redirect. For example

https://web.archive.org/web/20121716225900/http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/PSGC_updates/Jul_Sep2012.asp

redirects to

https://web.archive.org/web/20121114050827/http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/PSGC_updates/Jul_Sep2012.asp

The redirect URL is in the header. -- GreenC 21:53, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Your ANI close

Cyberpower, thank you very much for closing the Unscintillating topic ban discussion on ANI. It was devolving into a pile-on, so I'm glad it's over. But if you have concluded that U is indefinitely topic banned, and/or that he can appeal the ban only after a set period of time, then I wish you'd say so on ANI and on U's page. I see you logged the ban as indefinite, so that's fine, but U should probably also be explicitly told about the duration. You can never be too clear in these contexts, especially when you have to do with somebody known for wikilawyering. Bishonen | talk 19:50, 25 January 2018 (UTC).

I figured the standard 6 months would be appropriate.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:29, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree. I still think it's a bit of a pity that you don't say "indefinitely topic banned" on his page. But I suppose if no ban time is specified, it defaults to indef. Bishonen | talk 20:57, 25 January 2018 (UTC).

That's normally what I imply if I don't give a specific time. But regardless, it's explicitly mentioned in the restrictions log. :-) I don't want to continue to fudge with the close, but I will be more explicit on the next close I make.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

WP:LAME#Bot vs bot

InternetArchiveBot's on the verge of getting added to WP:LAME :-) Please see WP:ANI#Slow-burn bot wars. Nyttend (talk) 15:31, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

What does it mean to have 53% Energy left?

Hey, I'm s curios about the battery level on your User page and what it really means. Please answer :) Nosugarcoating (talk) 13:20, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

It's actually more or less a representation of how much I still have to give to the community, before I burn out. With that being said, I haven't updated it in a while.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)