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== In uk.wiki a bot adds «dead» value to «deadurl» parameter for alive links ==
Examples: {{xdiff|46012148|46003530|Гнесь Олена|w:uk}}, {{xdiff|45993237|45945007|Гадюка анатолійська лучна|w:uk}}, {{xdiff|45993238|45945008|Гадюка грецька лучна|w:uk}}, etc. --[[User:Шабля|Шабля]] ([[User talk:Шабля|talk]]) 06:09, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

== Adding a great deal of extraneous text ==
In archiving the References in [[Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire]], [[Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire]], and very likely in a lot of other places, the bot is adding the text "Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine" to '''every single line of the tables'''. I really don't think this improves the look of the tables, or their usability. Is there any way the archiving could be done ''without'' adding this extraneous text? [[User:KJP1|KJP1]] ([[User talk:KJP1|talk]]) 06:24, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

:I don't see those pages.  They are red links for me.  Can you point to the correct wiki you are referring to? —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 19:13, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
::@[[User:Cyberpower678|Cyberpower678]] English Wikipedia: [[:w:Grade I listed buildings in Monmouthshire]], [[:w:Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire]]. [[User:VirusDontKill|VirusDontKill]] ([[User talk:VirusDontKill|talk]]) 21:36, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
:::Hmmm, very unusual.  It shouldn't be expanding links out like that when outside of a reference.  I'll take a closer look.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 12:38, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>

== URLs have changed at a couple of wikis ==

It looks like the bot no longer runs at two wikis where the URL has changed:
* Scruffy Wiki (now Scruff Wiki) - URL has moved to https://scruff.miraheze.org
* Simple Electronics Wiki - URL has moved to https://amps.wiki.gd (or https://simpleelectronicswiki.miraheze.org)
[[User:Rob Kam|Rob Kam]] ([[User talk:Rob Kam|talk]]) 10:23, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
: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.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 09:16, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
::The bot is still inactive on [https://scruff.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/InternetArchiveBot Scruff Wiki] and [https://amps.wiki.gd/wiki/Special:Contributions/InternetArchiveBot Simple Electronics Wiki] --[[User:Rob Kam|Rob Kam]] ([[User talk:Rob Kam|talk]]) 20:10, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

== Bot incorrectly duplicated part of the article text ==

In an attempt to rescue a source in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_Union_Muslim_League&diff=1244154175&oldid=1243816138 this edit] on enwiki, the bot duplicated part of the article text immediately after the source:

The bot replaced this:
<pre>
== Kerala Legislative Assembly ==
''Source: http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html''

=== Early years (1957 - 1979/80) ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; background:#ffffff; width:90%"
|-
</pre>

with this:
<pre>
== Kerala Legislative Assembly ==
''Source: http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html''

=== Early years (1957 - 1979/80) ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; backg {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111050225/http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html |date=11 November 2021 }}

=== Early years (1957 - 1979/80) ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; background:#ffffff; width:90%"
|-
</pre> —[[User:Bruce1ee|Bruce1ee]]<sup>[[User talk:Bruce1ee|''talk'']]</sup> 11:29, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

:IABot will be getting a major parser update to its code in the next major update, that should prevent such an issue from happening again.  Fortunately, the issue you reported is very rare.  Sorry about that, though.  You should just be able to remove the duplicate without the bot fussing about it. —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 19:44, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks for the update. I was able to remove the duplicated text without any problem —[[User:Bruce1ee|Bruce1ee]]<sup>[[User talk:Bruce1ee|''talk'']]</sup> 21:24, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>
*:Something that looks like the same problem as reported here occurred again just yesterday in [[:en:Special:Diff/1303575786]] where the bot duplicated the whole article mispasting it in the middle of a template. [[User:MwGamera|MwGamera]] ([[User talk:MwGamera|talk]]) 05:58, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
== Bot incorrectly merged two parts of a citation ==

In [[w:Special:diff/1247044136|this edit]], the bot merged a video transcript archive link into the citation for the video and tagged the video link as dead, which it isn't. Is this a problem with the bot or a problem with the formatting of the citation?
— [[User:W.andrea|W.andrea]] ([[User talk:W.andrea|talk]]) 16:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

:{{ping|W.andrea}} This is definitely an interesting case here.  IABot will intentionally merge them when it detects the target of the archive is the same as the source URL.  Not sure how it considered them the same here.  I can't look into it more closely right now. —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 20:04, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>
== Option not to archive stable or repository URLs ==

I suppose I haven't asked yet because I assumed someone else might've, but here goes: it is usually not worthwhile to have an archived copy from many domains that are particularly stable, or which merely act as a convenient repository for information that is known to exist elsewhere. While I understand archiving has additional purpose beyond simple contingency in case of link rot or site failure, to me it's clear there are certain domains where the potential disruptive effect on pages and editors caused by the additional wikitext very plausibly outweighs the benefits of having an inline archive. Google Books is easily the most visible example of this on the English Wikipedia, where the archives added to citation templates for one or two links can constitute tens of kilobytes in the total page size—which is a lot for editors to scroll through and organize—I must make clear that the inconvenience is nonzero. Often, it contributes to articles being mechanically more difficult to edit, as increases in wikitext size eventually cause the editor to lag.

It seems like a lot to ask for, but would it be possible to add a checkbox that does not automatically add archives for a certain list of domains in this vein? It would even be reasonable to have it checked by default, I just think there's a clear distinction here where editors can make a slightly more optimal decision about what they archive with knock-on effects in mind. Hope this reaches the team well, Cheers. [[User:Remsense|Remsense]] ([[User talk:Remsense|talk]]) 21:52, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

:IABot shouldn't be handling Google Books.  This was brought up elsewhere fairly recently, and I have reset the bot on Google Books.  It should keep it off the domain going forward. —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 20:14, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
::{{ping| Cyberpower678 }}Google Books are still archived by the bot as of Oct. 20, 2024 on Chinese Wikipedia, e.g. https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=第一次驅漢事件&diff=prev&oldid=84660136 [[User:Happyseeu|Happyseeu]] ([[User talk:Happyseeu|talk]]) 15:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>
== Bot is still creating wikilinks inside of external links (an error) ==

See {{phab|T344219}}, reported over a year ago. I added another diff there today. A fix would be welcome. I fix one or two of these per week, and other editors who monitor the error page for wikilinks inside of external links are probably fixing errors that I do not see. [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 22:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:I fix a handful of these a week, for example [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jave_la_Grande&diff=prev&oldid=1249108033 this one today]. —[[User:Bruce1ee|Bruce1ee]]<sup>[[User talk:Bruce1ee|''talk'']]</sup> 23:30, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
::This is one of the issue being fixed in the next major update of IABot.  It's getting a rewrite to the parser. —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 20:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
:::[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam4Adam&diff=1286510891&oldid=1286396323 This is still happening.] [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 13:13, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
::::[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R_%28Nicklinson%29_v_Ministry_of_Justice&diff=1301400092&oldid=1206257210 This is still happening]. [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 17:00, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Cyberpower678}} {{ping|Harej}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._R._Carpenter&diff=1301239103&oldid=1296043780 Still occurring] and is a near daily occurrence. Any progress adding a check to disallow the bot from creating [[:MW:Help:Lint errors/wikilink-in-extlink|these errors]] yet? We'd appreciate a ceasefire on this daily error popup. Thank you. [[User:Zinnober9|Zinnober9]] ([[User talk:Zinnober9|talk]]) 21:07, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>
== Erroneous removals of web.archive.org links (not mentioned in edit summaries) ==

This is from July 2020, so the bug may have been fixed long ago, but just in case: in [[en:Special:Diff/967892350]], the bot erroneously removed the second ''web.archive.org'' link from a list item within {{tl|refbegin}}..{{tl|refend}}, keeping only the first one:
{{TextDiff|*[[Rafael Sorkin|R.D. Sorkin]]; Two Talks given at the 1997 Santa Fe workshop: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114214257/http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/emil/Slides/sf97talks.html A Review of the Causal Set Approach to Quantum Gravity]'' and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114214257/http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/emil/Slides/sf97talks.html A Growth Dynamics for Causal Sets]''; Presented at ”New Directions in Simplicial Quantum Gravity” July 28 - August 8, 1997; ;;|*[[Rafael Sorkin|R.D. Sorkin]]; Two Talks given at the 1997 Santa Fe workshop: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114214257/http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/emil/Slides/sf97talks.html A Review of the Causal Set Approach to Quantum Gravity]'' and ''''; Presented at ”New Directions in Simplicial Quantum Gravity” July 28 - August 8, 1997; ;;}}[[User:Gamapamani|Gamapamani]] ([[User talk:Gamapamani|talk]]) 06:04, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

:More recent similar stuff, from March 2023 in [[en:Special:Diff/1147210758]]
:As in the previous case, removals are not mentioned in edit summary.
:{{TextDiff|1=* [http://www.gllka.com/ Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20100616000310/http://www.gllka.com/resources/index.htm Great Lakes Lighthouse Resources], Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.|2=* [http://www.gllka.com/ Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.]**, Great Lakes Light Keepers Association.}}
:Note how this time the list structure is also messed up.
{{TextDiff|1=**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to East Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2006. {{ISBN|0-9747977-1-5}}; {{ISBN|978-0-9747977-1-7}}.
**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-9747977-2-4}}.
**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to West Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2005. {{ISBN|0-9747977-0-7}}.|2=**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to East Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2006. {{ISBN|0-9747977-1-5}}; {{ISBN|978-0-9747977-1-7}}.
**''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321025246/http://www.lighthousecentral.com/gallery.php4 The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan Lighthouses]''. Bugs Publishing, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-9747977-2-4}}.
**''''. Bugs Publishing, 2005. {{ISBN|0-9747977-0-7}}.
}}
:While in this case all three URLs are identical, only the last one is removed - though of course it still shouldn't be.
:[[User:Gamapamani|Gamapamani]] ([[User talk:Gamapamani|talk]]) 11:29, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>
== functioning of the bot on it.wiki ==

Hi, sorry for the inconvenience. I'm writing because I've noticed [https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dante_Alighieri&diff=138401678&oldid=138272492 this kind of edits] made by the bot on it.wiki. The italian [[:it:Template:cita web]] allows to automatically show the links to both the original and the archived version if the link to the archived version on internet archive is present in the |url= parameter. Therefore, edits like the one that i linked are completely useless, since what the reader sees is exactly the same as before. With the big disadvantage though that the article "weighs" 2 275 bytes more than before. Would it be possible to teach to the bot not to intervene if it finds a link to an archived page of the wayback machine in the |url= parameter? I hope that I could explain myself, if you have questions pleas ask. Thank you. [[User:Friniate|Friniate]] ([[User talk:Friniate|talk]]) 20:38, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
:This is unfortunately a limitation of the current version of IABot since it's code is shared on all wikis.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>
== Not archiving ==

As is the case for [[User talk:InternetArchiveBot#Can't archive any live urls|vietnamese wiki]], in portuguese the bot didn't archive the links as requested.

See [https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golpe_de_11_de_Mar%C3%A7o_de_1975&diff=prev&oldid=69041749 diff]. [[User:RustyRapier|RustyRapier]] ([[User talk:RustyRapier|talk]]) 11:08, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

==Bot cannot run in [[vi:Stêphanô Nguyễn Như Thể]]==
Hi,

I frequently use the IA Bot for archive links for my Vietnamese Bishop series, which works great and saves so much time. However, while there is almost the bot works well for all articles, there is a single article that the bot never can help me archive links, it is [[vi:Stêphanô Nguyễn Như Thể]]. I hope you can help me check what's wrong with this specific article or bug from the bot that prevents its work on this page. Many thanks, [[User:ThiênĐế98|ThiênĐế98]] ([[User talk:ThiênĐế98|talk]]) 15:06, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

== Weird change made by the bot ==

What was the bot's intent in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_Black_BN&diff=prev&oldid=1261430057 this change]? It claims to have rescued one source. However, what it did was only remove the "dead url" template. The URL was in fact dead (it redirected to a generic landing page on a different domain; presumably any URL from that domain would get redirected to the same landing page). [[User:Robryk|Robryk]] ([[User talk:Robryk|talk]]) 11:39, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
*<small>This section is being kept open to aid in testing the new release of IABot coming up.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)</small>

== Please don't insert a webarchive template inside an external link ==
This bot edited [[:en:Butte des Morts]] at 21:31, 17 April 2025 (UTC), changing
<pre><ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=11330&keyword=origin+name Butte des Morts, Lake [origin of place name&#93;<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref></pre>
to 
<pre><ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=11330&keyword=origin+name {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611091019/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=11330&keyword=origin+name |date=2011-06-11 }} Butte des Morts, Lake [origin of place name&#93;<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref></pre>
This is not OK. Please figure out why and change the bot so that it never inserts a links within links. [[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]] ([[User talk:Anomalocaris|talk]]) 22:22, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

== Returning archival functions into pt.wiki ==

Hi! I'm a sysop on the Portuguese Wikipedia. According to the [https://airtable.com/appcMH0zGNlbTAcRe/shrVZyBwfhNuyLU73/tblIzJsaAAbrAcDdn Airtable tracker], the pending issue for ptwiki is {{tq|Support for ptwiki-specific citation parameter}}. Are there any specifications available for what's needed, or any way I could help move this forward? Cheers, [[User:BraunOBruno|BraunOBruno]] ([[User talk:BraunOBruno|talk]]) 19:09, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|BraunOBruno}} it's just waiting on the next major release of IABot.  I have not forgotten ptwiki.  :-)—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 12:12, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

== Weird editing by bot on enwiki ==

This bot [[:en:Special:Diff/1299471455|done an edit]] to [[:en:Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Eastern Caribbean]], which made that article part of a cs1 error category. bot added {{para|archive-url}} but also added {{tl|webarchive}} to same field.––[[User:KEmel49|KEmel49]] ([[User talk:KEmel49|talk]]) 17:52, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|KEmel49}} That's a new one.  In any event, you should be able to safely delete the Webarchive template without the bot fighting you on that.  I'll keep this section open so I have additional test cases for the new IABot release.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 12:20, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

== IAbot and page moves ==

IAbot edited the redirect many hours after a page move: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Omai&action=history]. If there is a delay of 14 hours, maybe check whether the page is still where it was? [[User:Kusma|Kusma]] ([[User talk:Kusma|talk]]) 09:58, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

:I've also noticed this a few times. Most recently [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_Assembly_(Russia)&diff=prev&oldid=1304461563 here]. [[User:Bkonrad|Bkonrad]] ([[User talk:Bkonrad|talk]]) 13:57, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

== Request to improve error message ==
Hello.

This is very useful thanks but I use it so rarely that I always forget to set the correct wiki on the top right of the single page request. 

1) Please could you change the “bad page” error message to say that the page is not found on (name of wiki)

2) Could the default wiki please be the most common one - presumably enwiki?

[[User:Chidgk1|Chidgk1]] ([[User talk:Chidgk1|talk]])
:{{ping|Chidgk1}} IABot is undergoing a rewrite.  I will keep this thread open to remember your suggestion.  Thank you.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 19:42, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

== Bot is making unhelpful citation markup formatting edits ==

The whitespace changes in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regular_icosahedron&diff=prev&oldid=1308684638 this edit] are completely unacceptable for a bot. [[User:Jacobolus|Jacobolus]] ([[User talk:Jacobolus|talk]]) 03:28, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

== The bot doesn't put archived versions of links ==

Why doesn't the bot put archived versions of links in [[ru:Ом Сан Хён|this article]]? [[User:Рысь испанская|Рысь испанская]] ([[User talk:Рысь испанская|talk]]) 18:31, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

== Permission error ==

While logged in, I'm getting "The action you are trying to perform requires the analyzepage permission. This permission is obtainable with the following groups: basicuser, user, admin, root, bot". I'm not using a VPN and have agreed to the ToS, but has prevented me from using this bot for a few days now. [[User:CommunityNotesContributor|CommunityNotesContributor]] ([[User talk:CommunityNotesContributor|talk]]) 19:52, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

:I am facing the same issue and would love to know how to get the necessary permissions. [[User:WilliamThyer|WilliamThyer]] ([[User talk:WilliamThyer|talk]]) 03:25, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

== Massively messed up edits ==

The bot just made two massively messed up edits at [[en:Special:Diff/1310919164]] and 
[[en:Special:Diff/1310919221]], looks like it basically repasted most of the article at the edit location. Regardless of what the exact reason was, maybe there should be an edit size safeguard, because it seems highly unlikely that any normal edits made by the bot would come anywhere close to this size ('''~150k''' and '''~200k''' respectively). [[User:Gamapamani|Gamapamani]] ([[User talk:Gamapamani|talk]]) 11:16, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

:I was curious if this was something that happened more often and looked through the bot's enwiki edits since the beginning of August. Turns out that while these problems aren't that frequent, a large ''positive'' edit size is a good indicator that something has gone wrong. Of course there can be legitimate cases like [[en:Special:Diff/1309358596|this one]] with 121,403 bytes for 681 sources, so a better metric is the bytes-to-edited-sources ratio. Based on this sample, all edits with a '''>2,000''' plus-ratio were problematic. There were 3 broad categories (the numbers in parentheses are the totals if multiple links were edited):
:* Repastes of article content: [[en:Special:Diff/1310919164|149,754]], [[en:Special:Diff/1310919221|108,012 (216,024)]], [[en:Special:Diff/1303575786|3,390 (6,780)]]. This includes the two already mentioned above.
:* Strange clobbered redirects: [[en:Special:Diff/1307915687|133,998]], [[en:Special:Diff/1306065431|41,467]], [[en:Special:Diff/1303778953|38,152]], [[en:Special:Diff/1306054000|27,066]], [[en:Special:Diff/1307046263|11,043]], [[en:Special:Diff/1304287789|10,790]], [[en:Special:Diff/1309597116|9,725]], [[en:Special:Diff/1307976570|5,098]], [[en:Special:Diff/1307869644|4,409]], [[en:Special:Diff/1309608467|1,018 (43,719)]]. Since these redirects are only a few days old when the bot gets to them, maybe it's operating from an outdated cache?
:* ''translate.google.com'' pastes: [[en:Special:Diff/1306997449|4,870]], [[en:Special:Diff/1306242886|4,190]], [[en:Special:Diff/1306154026|4,180]], [[en:Special:Diff/1307358611|4,135]], [[en:Special:Diff/1306215667|3,239]], [[en:Special:Diff/1304315369|2,107]], [[en:Special:Diff/1303816764|1,089 (3,267)]]. Tricks like pasting paywalled articles into ''translate.google.com'' and archiving the result (some of the originals are actually in English). I think per (enwiki) policy text-only ''translate.google.com'' refs should be removed (or tagged for manual editing to locate the original source), especially since at least some of these pastes qualify as copyvios. (Funnily enough, these links have been previously excavated from ''archive.*'' shortlinks by [[User:GreenC bot|GreenC bot]].)
:Legitimate large-ish edits like when the link has urlencoded non-Latin text start at around the 1,500 byte mark. So I think setting the safeguard ratio at around 3,000 bytes per link should pretty much avoid false positives (though not necessarily catching all problems).
:Large removals appeared to be legit, resulting from duplicates being merged, so I didn't go over all of them. Although, it may also be helpful to mention in edit summaries that identical refs have been merged. at least when the edit size becomes large. Encountering things like [[en:Special:Diff/1308265914|a -33,490 byte change]] explained only as ''Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead'' can look a bit disconcerting. :)
:I'm pretty sure at least some of this has been reported before, so not trying to be particularly novel here, just summarizing what I saw in case it helps. Oh, and this does not concern the notification edits made to Talk pages that can also be quite large. [[User:Gamapamani|Gamapamani]] ([[User talk:Gamapamani|talk]]) 19:35, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

== Bot goofed up after Libyan crisis page moved ==

see [[en:special:diff/1313199419]] [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 22:43, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

== Bot keeps creating articles on enWiki ==

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/InternetArchiveBot]
IABot, sick of being forced to only do citation cleanup, has decided it, too, would like to create articles. The problem? It's doing this by re-creating articles recently moved to draftspace. It's done this about 4 times in the last month.  [[User:GreenLipstickLesbian|GreenLipstickLesbian]] ([[User talk:GreenLipstickLesbian|talk]]) 05:46, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

== STOP putting archive links within the existing link's text ==

This error is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Blind_Side_%28film%29&diff=1315100590&oldid=1315073790 still happening], and still erroneous behavior. Please fix this annoying error so this annoyance with the bot's behavior may stop. Thank you. [[User:Zinnober9|Zinnober9]] ([[User talk:Zinnober9|talk]]) 22:54, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

== E-Mail Confirmation mail is misformed ==
I don't think it should look like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:IABot_E-Mail_Confirmation_mail_to_me.png [[User:Äxl|Äxl]] ([[User talk:Äxl|talk]]) 07:47, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
:I can't say I've seen this one before.  What email client are you using, as the document renders fine in everything I use.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

== False positive just happened again after supposedly being corrected ==

[[/Archives/2025#False_positive_has_already_been_reported?|I reported a problem in July which Cyberpower said was "self-corrected"]], but [[w:Special:diff/1316016018|it just happened again]]. What gives?
— [[User:W.andrea|W.andrea]] ([[User talk:W.andrea|talk]]) 00:31, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

:[[w:Special:diff/1317390943|It just happened again]]. — [[User:W.andrea|W.andrea]] ([[User talk:W.andrea|talk]]) 21:37, 17 October 2025 (UTC)
::I see nothing wrong with this edit.—[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 16:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

== Error ==

Archive bot is making mistakes [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Air_Havoc_Controller&diff=prev&oldid=1316243463]. (both URL's are not live so I'm not sure why he is tagging them as live) [[User:Timur9008|Timur9008]] ([[User talk:Timur9008|talk]]) 02:23, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

:This keeps happening [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bronze_Dragon:_Conquest_of_Infinity&diff=prev&oldid=1316175394]. I have reverted 2 edits. [[User:Timur9008|Timur9008]] ([[User talk:Timur9008|talk]]) 06:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

== Malfunction on English Wikipedia ==

Bot appears to have [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rerukane_Chandawimala_Thero&oldid=1316128964 malfuctioned] on the English Wikipedia, the page was moved to a new title and the bot copied the contents of the new page to the now redirect. [[User:Aydoh8|Aydo]][[User talk:Aydoh8|h8]]<sup>[[Special:GlobalContributions/Aydoh8|&#91;what&nbsp;have&nbsp;I&nbsp;done&nbsp;now?&#93;]]</sup> 11:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

== High load/ lag times are making this great tool unusable for me ==

I presume that all those who attempt to use IABot may be having a similar experience. The tool is really great when it works and I am grateful for what it does for me in archiving citations on WP pages I am working on. I typically only use the Fix a single page option. However, over many weeks now, I have hardly ever been able to get it to work, because the long time lag makes it time-out. I have tried queuing a job, but that has been frustrating because it runs an analysis OK (and emails me to tell me), but does not add archives (and I don't know how to get it to do that in a queued batch). So the tool is effectively unusable for me at present. Can we please have an indication of what is happening, and whether a return to more normal service can be expected. ??_[[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 06:47, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

:Same, it almost always times out for me at this point. Grateful for this tool, but this issue is making it unusable. [[User:Anne drew|Anne drew]] ([[User talk:Anne drew|talk]]) 19:39, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
:Same issue for me. [[User:TenthAvenueFreezeOut|TenthAvenueFreezeOut]] ([[User talk:TenthAvenueFreezeOut|talk]]) 23:55, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
::{{re|Cyberpower678}} Sorry, this problem report is not resolved. The lag time still makes the tool timeout. Plus although I can get a queued batch job to run, I can't find out how to get the batch job to actually add archives. So the tool remains unusable for me, and I cannot find any status page that tells me what is happening or when it might be fixed.[[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 20:07, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
:::Unfortunately, the bot has reached a scaling limit and that is in part causing the tool to time out.  Aside from scaling back IABot, I am working on a new version of IABot that should be a lot more efficient at how it does it's job.  This should address the timeout problems permanently.  In the meantime, I will continue to do my best to keep lag times down.  I do apologize for this inconvenience. —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 02:44, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
::::Thanks for the reply. I really value this tool, so will wait as patiently as I can for a new version. :)_[[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 03:56, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
::::Thank you for working on this issue! [[User:Οἶδα|Οἶδα]] ([[User talk:Οἶδα|talk]]) 04:22, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
::::Thank you! We'll be patiently waiting for the new version. [[User:TenthAvenueFreezeOut|TenthAvenueFreezeOut]] ([[User talk:TenthAvenueFreezeOut|talk]]) 07:39, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
::::Any updates on this? [[User:Gommeh|Gommeh]] ([[User talk:Gommeh|talk]]) 03:05, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

* Hi. I have been also facing the similar issue on enwiki for past few months. Just opened a thread on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk?markasread=342016900&markasreadwiki=enwiki#c-M.Billoo2000-20251208131800-Pigsonthewing-20251207143200 help desk] as well. Thank you! [[User:M.Billoo2000|M.Billoo2000]] ([[User talk:M.Billoo2000|talk]]) 13:21, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

== Sub-referencing ==

Hi @[[User:Cyberpower678|Cyberpower678]], WMDE Technical Wishes is working on [[WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing|sub-referencing]], a new feature to re-use references with different details. While the main use case is book pages, we are also seeing use cases with external links in sub-references ([[:de:Ophiuride#Einzelnachweise|example]]). Sub-referencing is currently deployed to German Wikipedia as our first pilot wiki (and to test.wikipedia.org). We're hoping to deploy the feature to other Wikipedia language versions in a few months.
Based on [[InternetArchiveBot/How the bot fixes broken links|your documentation]] it seems the bot needs to be updated in order to deal with links within <code><nowiki><ref details="..."</nowiki></code>. My test [https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:Johannes_Richter_(WMDE)/Test2&diff=next&oldid=261212455] confirms this, the bot ignored the first plain link within the sub-reference and only changed the identical link in the regular reference. We would be thankful if the bot could support sub-references! Let me know if there are any questions or anything we can help with. [[User:Johannes Richter (WMDE)|Johannes Richter (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Johannes Richter (WMDE)|talk]]) 15:19, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

== Stop linking Internet Archive books ==

This bot now links user-uploaded copyvio copies of books falsely available as "free" on internet archive, e.g. these edits all link copyrighted books [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Super_Mu%C3%B1equito&diff=prev&oldid=1320719067] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irma_Aguilar&diff=prev&oldid=1320718460]. Further, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard#Due_to_the_Hachette_v._Internet_Archive_case,_aren't_most_books_in_the_Internet_Archive_lending_program_legally_problematic? this discussion] on stuff in their lending program (though IDK if it was linking those). Please cease the whole "bluelinking books for verifiability" task because much of what is available on IA is improperly licensed, this is a huge copyright violation. Most of the edits I saw had this problem. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 10:08, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you for bringing attention to that specific alleged copyvio material.  It has been removed from access.  
:Please do (continue to) bring such issues to our attention so we can take appropriate actions. 
:In the meantime we will continue to add links pointing to books and papers available via archive.org as part of our effort to help strengthen the integrity of claims Wikipedia editors make. [[User:Markjgraham hmb|Markjgraham hmb]] ([[User talk:Markjgraham hmb|talk]]) 18:53, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
::How do you plan to make it not link from user uploads? Most user uploads on IA are copyright violations. [[User:PARAKANYAA|PARAKANYAA]] ([[User talk:PARAKANYAA|talk]]) 20:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

== Problem  ==

can you fix a Wikipedia article https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahroos_Siddiquee_Nadim

I provide everything to properly , any other site article you edit this man article i request to you if you are administered please fixed this article [[User:Robikalita62|Robikalita62]] ([[User talk:Robikalita62|talk]]) 19:37, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

== Archiving of live sources in article ==

Hey! I've been trying to use the InternetArchiveBot for the [[:en:List_of_highest-earning_Fortnite_players|list of highest-earning ''Fortnite'' players]] to archive the ever-changing sources the article relies on. The bot fails to do this. Am I doing something wrong? Can someone help me? [[User:Rockfighterz M|Rockfighterz M]] ([[User talk:Rockfighterz M|talk]]) 14:47, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

== InternetArchiveBot is again percent-encoding Chinese characters (November 2025) ==

I previously posted about the same issue in [[User talk:InternetArchiveBot/Archives/2021#InternetArchiveBot is again percent-encoding Chinese characters|April 2022]]. Today, the bot [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emi_Wong&diff=1322223848&oldid=1316997673 edited] an article to change:

{{mono|https://news.yahoo.com/做運動練人氣-030833704.html}}

to

{{mono|https://www.hk01.com/%E7%9F%A5%E6%80%A7%E5%A5%B3%E7%94%9F/185059/%E7%82%BA%E7%B7%B4%E8%85%B9%E8%82%8C%E6%89%A3%E5%96%89-%E5%A5%B3%E7%94%9F%E8%B5%B0%E6%A5%B5%E7%AB%AF%E7%B7%B4%E5%AE%8C%E7%BE%8E%E7%B7%9A%E6%A2%9D-ig%E5%A5%B3%E7%A5%9E%E4%B8%8D%E6%9C%83%E5%91%8A%E8%A8%B4%E4%BD%A0%E5%BE%88%E5%A4%9A%E4%BA%8}}

and

{{mono|https://web.archive.org/web/20230626002057/https://www.hk01.com/知性女生/185059/為練腹肌扣喉-女生走極端練完美線條-ig女神不會告訴你很多事}}

to

{{mono|https://web.archive.org/web/20230626002057/https://www.hk01.com/%E7%9F%A5%E6%80%A7%E5%A5%B3%E7%94%9F/185059/%E7%82%BA%E7%B7%B4%E8%85%B9%E8%82%8C%E6%89%A3%E5%96%89-%E5%A5%B3%E7%94%9F%E8%B5%B0%E6%A5%B5%E7%AB%AF%E7%B7%B4%E5%AE%8C%E7%BE%8E%E7%B7%9A%E6%A2%9D-ig%E5%A5%B3%E7%A5%9E%E4%B8%8D%E6%9C%83%E5%91%8A%E8%A8%B4%E4%BD%A0%E5%BE%88%E5%A4%9A%E4%BA%8B}}

Percent encoding these non-English language characters makes them unreadable. This makes it harder to catch whether the wrong URL was used or to detect from the URL a summary of what a source says. Would you modify the bot not to percent-encode the non-English characters? I do not want to have to keep reverting the bot when it makes these edits. Thank you. [[User:Cunard|Cunard]] ([[User talk:Cunard|talk]]) 11:19, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_%28YouTuber%29&diff=1326005100&oldid=1317480190 This] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heung_Shing&diff=1329033127&oldid=1323547794 this] are two more edits that percent encoded non-English language characters. I am reverting these edits. I thought this issue was fixed in the past since I didn't notice it in the past few years. Was there a regression? [[User:Cunard|Cunard]] ([[User talk:Cunard|talk]]) 10:46, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
::It happened again [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DeeDo&diff=1335405006&oldid=1289921515 here]. [[User:Cunard|Cunard]] ([[User talk:Cunard|talk]]) 10:12, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
:::It happened again [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soundpocket&diff=1336707158&oldid=1336171962 here]. [[User:Cunard|Cunard]] ([[User talk:Cunard|talk]]) 08:02, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
::::It happened again [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Tye&diff=1337725406&oldid=1326777187 here] in changing "så" to "s%C3%A" and "måtte" to "m%C3%A5tte". [[User:Cunard|Cunard]] ([[User talk:Cunard|talk]]) 09:27, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

== False permission error ==

The bot will not allow me to request pages due to it saying that I require the "analyzepage" permission, which I already have. I am an extended confirmed editor on enWiki and satisfy the criteria listed at [https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php?page=metainfo]. This issue has been going on for a long time making the bot unusable for me. [[User:Lenny Marks|Lenny Marks]] ([[User talk:Lenny Marks|talk]]) 16:11, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

== IABot OAuth Error on AARoads Wiki ==

Hello,
I am trying to log into the IABot Management Interface for the AARoads Wiki, but I am receiving a fatal error during the OAuth handshake.
Error Message: "An error occurred in the OAuth protocol: invalid consumer key" URL: https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php?w=wiki.aaroads.com
It appears the OAuth Consumer Registration for IABot on AARoads is missing, invalid, or does not match the key stored in the IABot configuration. Could you please verify the OAuth consumer key settings? Thank you. [[User:Tomkozak61|Tomkozak61]] ([[User talk:Tomkozak61|talk]]) 18:20, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

== Incorrectly flagging a link as dead ==

The bot flagged the same link (https://www.etihad.com/en-ca/abu-dhabi/stopover) as dead twice [https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Airline_free_stopover&diff=prev&oldid=5155170][https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Airline_free_stopover&curid=208498&diff=5166595&oldid=5160101] even though the link isn't dead. Any reason what's causing the error? [[User:OhanaUnited|<b style="color: #0000FF;">OhanaUnited</b>]][[User talk:OhanaUnited|<b style="color: green;"><sup>Talk page</sup></b>]] 14:45, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

== Full dates being published in es.wiki ==
Hi, we have an issue with the bot in es-wiki. Look for instance at this edit[https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%91uca_Trans&curid=11326268&diff=170805917&oldid=170733611], the bot is transforming the dates into a "human readable format". However, in Spanish we do this with the templates automatically so it is not necessary. Worse than that, having the dates in that format, creates a lot of problems when translating the pages to other languages, as the dates cannot be autotranslated and have to be changed by hand one by one. Please, correct this error. We have been updating all bots that do the same over the years in es-wiki. Regards,--[[User:Freddy eduardo|Freddy eduardo]] ([[User talk:Freddy eduardo|talk]]) 15:40, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

== Apparently reverted a redirect ==
Not sure what happened [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iranian_railway_industry&diff=prev&oldid=1325860969 with this edit], but it seems the bot undid a redirect, causing duplicate articles. [[User:Dl2000|Dl2000]] ([[User talk:Dl2000|talk]]) 21:14, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

== What does the "memory core" mean in the terms of service? ==

Whenever I am prompted to accept the Terms of Service on the IABot website, it mentions that I am responsible for any modifications to the "memory core". What is the memory core and is it freely accessible somewhere? [[User:GrinningIodize|GrinningIodize]] ([[User talk:GrinningIodize|talk]]) 17:24, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

== Bot down? & Does it also archive sites that haven't been archived yet? ==

{{ping|Cyberpower678|GreenC}} I clicked "Analyze a Page" and could log in but after I changed the dropdown to wikidatawiki the bot is down with <code>Error code: 500 Internal Server Error</code>. It stayed down for 5 minutes or so. Then it was back up but when I again selected wikidatawiki in the dropdown, it went down again. Could you take a look? I think changing the project in that dropdown is needed as just entering the full URL in the Run bot page didn't work.

Moreover, I have a question: when the bot checks links, does it also check if there is at least 1 functional archived version of the site in the Wayback Machine and if not, request an archive of the site? Because if it isn't, it would only be able to make sites accessible that got archived otherwise before the site went 404 but it's not rare that there's no archived version. [[User:Prototyperspective|Prototyperspective]] ([[User talk:Prototyperspective|talk]]) 22:32, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

:Anybody here? It still doesn't work. Now I got a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to login (https://iabot.wmcloud.org/?returnedfrom=oauthcallback&wiki=wikidatawiki). {{ping|Cyberpower678 | GreenC}} & other users in the know. [[User:Prototyperspective|Prototyperspective]] ([[User talk:Prototyperspective|talk]]) 15:23, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
::Try now —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 19:09, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
:::It works now, thanks! Do you know whether the bot checks all the links for if there's an archived version in the WBM (regardless whether the link is broken or not)? [[User:Prototyperspective|Prototyperspective]] ([[User talk:Prototyperspective|talk]]) 19:28, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
::::I believe the current policy is to only address dead links at the moment. —[[:en:User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[:en:User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:red">Chat</span>]])</span> 19:57, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

== STOP putting archive links within the existing link's text!! ==

This bot is regularly and problematically inserting archive links within the existing link's display text VIOLATING link syntax and causing [[MW:Help:Lint errors/wikilink-in-extlink|wikilink-in-extlink]] Linter errors multiple times a week. Latest being [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Spratly&diff=1327560453&oldid=1295070799 diff]. STICK THE DAMN ARCHIVE LINK OUTSIDE THE EXISTING LINK FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!! Multiple reports going back years and zero responses from operators?? UNACCEPTABLE. [[User:Zinnober9|Zinnober9]] ([[User talk:Zinnober9|talk]]) 00:36, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
:Bot operator: See {{phab|T344219}}. [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 16:51, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

== InternetArchiveBot not working for me ==

Hi. I'm currently unable to use InternetArchiveBot on English/Spanish Wikipedia. The bot does not respond or process links when I invoke it, so I have to add archive links manually.
Is this a known limitation, or is there a way to restore normal functionality for my account?
Thanks. [[User:CHr0m4tiko0|CHr0m4tiko0]] ([[User talk:CHr0m4tiko0|talk]]) 18:23, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

== 504 Gateway Time-out ==
When I try to analyze the pages, I receive a “504 Gateway Time-out” error.
I have attempted multiple times to archive the non-dead links in the [[en:Indian hegemony]] articles, but each attempt results in a time-out. [[User:Emdad Tafsir|Emdad Tafsir]] ([[User talk:Emdad Tafsir|talk]]) 07:22, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

:I am experiencing the same problem with other articles. I see a warning banner that current lag is about 2940 minutes, which is over 2 days. It seems something is seriously malfunctioning? -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] ([[User talk:Beland|talk]]) 11:04, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

== Australian Plant Name Index ==

Bot is repeatedly marking "dead link" to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Plant_Name_Index Australian Plant Name Index] in ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthosia Xanthosia]'' and ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoya Quoya]articles that are not dead. [[User:Gderrin|Gderrin]] ([[User talk:Gderrin|talk]]) 19:46, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

:On en:Wikipedia, [[:w:Template:Cbignore]] can be used to mark links that you want the bot to ignore. [[User:AlasdairW|AlasdairW]] ([[User talk:AlasdairW|talk]]) 23:27, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
::Hello AlasdairW and thank you for your work.
::There are thousands (~6,000) pages that have a link to the Australian Plant Name Index. I only edit pages about Australian native plants, and do not know a way of adding the template you've suggested to all of them. Even adding that template to the pages about ''[[Xanthosia]]'' and ''[[Quoya]]'' is cumbersome and time consuming when there are many other important tasks here. [[User:Gderrin|Gderrin]] ([[User talk:Gderrin|talk]]) 01:00, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

== False Positive reporting denied ==

Reporting of a false positive was denied for permission error.

The false positive is described: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Tsushima&diff=1333190006&oldid=1333188683<br> [[User:Yiba|Yiba]] ([[User talk:Yiba|talk]]) 07:01, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

== Bot created a content fork on English wiki ==

see this [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Debian_version_history&action=history page history], thanks [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 20:20, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Bolivarian_Armed_Forces_of_Venezuela&action=history this page history] [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 20:39, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

This is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Indoor_Rowing_Championships&action=history still a problem] [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 12:36, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
:Oops, it [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Online_Safety_Amendment&action=history did it again] [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 13:16, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

== Bot providing archived link to homepage rather than specific site asked for ==

{{tracked|T416489}}

I've created the bug report linked to in this section because of [[en:Special:Diff/1336565542|this diff on enwiki]]. [[User:Graham87|Graham87]] ([[User talk:Graham87|talk]]) 15:01, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

== Bot changes ==

Hi, please explain the reason for [https://ta.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=9_%28%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%29&diff=3362693&oldid=2539407 these changes]. Thank you.--[[User:Kanags|Kanags]] ([[User talk:Kanags|talk]]) 11:12, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

==Queenstown Lifeboat Station (link marked as dead) ==
For the second time, a current link has been marked as dead.
Martin [[User:Ojsyork|Ojsyork]] ([[User talk:Ojsyork|talk]]) 13:36, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

: The same situation applies here: https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V%C4%8Del%C3%A1r_%28mesa%C4%8Dn%C3%ADk%29&diff=8164119&oldid=7986508 .--[[User:Scholastikos|Scholastikos]] ([[User talk:Scholastikos|talk]]) 07:28, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

== Why several network citations were not archived? ==

I've seen this kind of situations several times like [https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=91454428]. The 14th citation is from websites, too. However it didn't be archived by IABotManagementConsole. Please help, thanks. [[User:迴廊彼端|迴廊彼端]] ([[User talk:迴廊彼端|talk]]) 06:37, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

== Gostivar english ==

User name (Local hero) The city of Gostivar constantly reverts changes made by Albanians, it imposes information only unilaterally, favors only the Slav-Macedonian side, and absolutely does not tolerate information regarding information from Albanians. [[User:Pjetër Guli|Pjetër Guli]] ([[User talk:Pjetër Guli|talk]]) 22:06, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

== Albanian Referendum for political and territorial autonomy in north macedonia  ==

He also redirected the referendum for political and territorial autonomy, to ilirida and change name of Republic of Ilitida to Ilirida [[User:Pjetër Guli|Pjetër Guli]] ([[User talk:Pjetër Guli|talk]]) 22:10, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

== Phil Collins ==

This bot caused a CS1 error by rescuing 2 sources on the English Wikipedia. {{u|Tomkozak61}} suggests [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Collins&diff=prev&oldid=1337561562 this edit]. [[User:Achmad Rachmani|Achmad Rachmani]] ([[User talk:Achmad Rachmani|talk]]) 22:41, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

== Motociclismo.it ==

The website written on the title of this message is the on-line version of an italian magazine. This magazine closed in 2024. Unfortunately we have used a great amount of articles from the web page of this. All of this articles are currently off-line. In my wikiwork, when i have found them in pages, i always found the articles into the webarchive. The problem is that a great numebr of articles from this website are been used. So i talk you if it's possible to activate this bot in order to add the archive copyto all the notes with this url: ''motociclismo.it'' 
Thank you so much. [[User:SuperbikeHistory|SuperbikeHistory]] ([[User talk:SuperbikeHistory|talk]]) 17:02, 20 February 2026 (UTC)