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

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UnitedStatesian, And why do you feel it appropriate to nominate a newly created maintenance category for deletion? It hasn't even existed for 7 days yet.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:58, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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InternetArchiveBot setup and requirements

I am trying to test InternetArchiveBot for use in a private wiki. Is the bot hardcoded for Wikipedia only? How do I specify the wiki address, setup the bot account on the wiki, etc.?

I have read the documentation page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot. Is this the only documentation page? It would be great to write a requirements section. Like does it require a MySQL database, Apache web server, and what else?

daw5423 (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Daw5423, Hi there. No IABot is not hardcoded to Wikipedia only, but I do admit documentation is lacking. I have plans to throughly document the bot, but just haven't gotten to it. You need at least PHP 7, a web server, composer, a MySQL DB, and your wiki requires the latest version of OAuth to be installed in your wiki. PHP requires the intl, mysqli, and curl modules, and I recommend getting a SOCKS5 proxy in place that the bot can use to check onion URLs. If you are using a non-english localization, I recommend the machine the bot is running on, has the date locales for the relevant language you are using installed. Once you have the environment setup, let me know and I'll guide you to installing the bot and configuring it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 13:55, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I have those software installed. I don't think I need the SOCKS5 proxy for onion sites. What do I configure on the bot? daw5423 (talk) 17:51, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Daw5423, Obviously you will need a bot account on enwiki. You will need to set up an owner-only consumer for the bot. Make sure to note down the keys. You are only given them once. You also need to setup an OAuth consumer that allows the bot basic editing rights on behalf of a user's account with the ability to edit through protection. Make sure to note down those keys.

Once you have that setup, copy the variables out of deadlink.config.inc.php and place them into a new file called deadlink.config.local.inc.php. Do the same for sessions.config.inc.php. Move the root IABot directory to wherever you want to put it, and the respective www folder wherever your web service access files to the public. If IABot files aren't directly above the www folder, you will also need to create a setpath.php file in the root www folder defining the variable $path. Set it to point to the root folder of IABot's main files. I recommend using a relative path, relative the setpath.php file's location. When you have that ready, let me know.

Can you clarify what account is supposed to propose the OAuth consumer? I have the OAuth extension group permissions set up for bureaucrats, so on my admin account, I can access the propose page "Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose". I have also created a bot account called "InternetArchiveBot". The bot account does not have permission to propose. Should I add the extension group permission to InternetArchiveBot so that it will propose from that bot account or from an admin account?

So do I need to submit 2 proposals: first is owner-only consumer submitted from the bot account and the second is consumer with basic editing rights submitted from a user account? Is that correct? daw5423 (talk) 20:35, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Daw5423, The bot needs to propose the owner-only consumer. The bot owner needs to propose the other consumer. So you are correct. If I may ask, where is this wiki?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:56, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Ok, submitted and have the bot and user keys. I put the bot keys for $oauthKeys default bot. What do I do with the user keys? What are the other variables?

I will be testing the bot first on a wiki hosted on a local virtual machine at a private IP address, 192.168.56.56. If testing goes well, the bot may be deployed on a Department of Energy internal wiki called Powerpedia, which is run by the US government. daw5423 (talk) 21:48, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Daw5423, the remaining keys go under 'webappfull'. There should only be 2 of them. If you plan on running the bot on other private wikis, I would recommend renaming 'default' to something more identifiable. Keep it one word though, as that identifier shows up on the configuration setup.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:13, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

What are the values for $accessibleWikis? Can I leave these blank or default: $wikiDBs db, revisiontable, texttable, pagetable? daw5423 (talk) 20:39, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Daw5423, delete the $accessibleWikis variable. It's no longer used on the config file. As for $wikiDB, do you have read access to the DB the wiki runs on? If you, put your access credentials in the respective fields, and specify the names of the tables for your views for the page, revision, and text tables. For me, I have access to a table called revision_userindex, which is what I use for revision. In production that table itself is revision. If you don't have access to all of those tables, you can leave the ones you don't have access to blank. If you don't have any access to the wiki's DB, then simply delete the default index and leave $wikiDB as an empty array.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:45, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

In addition to that for the 'db' value, it's usually the name of schema that has all of the above mentioned tables. It's typically in the form of <identifier>_p. If you have a wikifarm, and those credentials can access all of those wikis' schemas on the DB, you can use '{wikipedia}_p' and the identifier is automatically put it for you. This Wiki's identifier is enwiki for example.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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

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Book talk missing title and missing end tag for italics, small, bold errors

Un-archived discussion with new comment:

Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.

Book talk:Destiny's Child

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for italics ('') and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

Book talk:Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for italics ('') and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

Book talk:Stargate SG1

{{book report|''Stargate: The Ark of Truth|The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)

{{book report|Stargate: The Ark of Truth|''The Ark of Truth''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

{{book report|''Stargate: Continuum|Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)

{{book report|Stargate: Continuum|''Continuum''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

{{book report|''Stargate: Revolution|Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted and I fixed it again to)

{{book report|Stargate: Revolution|''Revolution''|Unassessed|problems=|non-free=}}

Book talk:Szidi Tobias

{{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for <small>; should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)

{{book report|Tak to chodí|''Tak to chodí'']] <small>by [[Michal Horáček (lyricist)</small>|Start|chapter=Compilations|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Tak to chodi front.jpg]]

Book talk:Richard Wagner

{{book report|''Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

causing a missing end tag for italics (''); should be (and I fixed it and you reverted)

{{book report|Wieland der Schmied (libretto)|''Wieland der Schmied''|Unassessed|problems=* Page does not exist.

Book talk:Wiki How To

{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To</big>'''|The basics of Wikipedia}}

causing misnested tags; should be (and I fixed it)

{{WBOOKS|class=book}}{{book report start|<big>'''Wiki How To'''</big>|The basics of Wikipedia}}

And similar errors that I fixed that you haven't reverted yet in:

And similar errors that I haven't fixed at Lint errors: Missing end tag in the Book talk namespace. Please deal with these errors, or at least point how to generate the list of "source code" pages and how to edit them to make the problem go away. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Anomalocaris, I'm not deleting discussions, they just get archived by a bot. I took a quick look at this issue, but nothing sticks out this time, so I will need to find a moment to investigate this.—CYBERPOWER (Trick or Treat) 22:47, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Well, it's been a month, so I'm reminding you to find a moment to investigate this. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:50, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Anomalocaris, thank you for the reminder.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Writing dates in Croatian

Bot is writin dates in form like it is in English language while archiving. For example: here. Bot wrote: archivedate=6 Prosinac 2008 but it sholud be writen: archivedate=6. prosinca 2008. All other changes are simillar. So after the date in Croatian language should be writen with punctuation mark full point same as years. Names of months should be written in lowercase. This is the list in correct grammatical case of the months that should be used respectively: siječnja, veljače, ožujka, travnja, svibnja, lipnja, srpnja, kolovoza, rujna, listopada, studenoga, prosinca. Could you, please, help. Thank you in advance.--Tulkas Astaldo (talk) 11:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Tulkas Astaldo, I will have the locales updates as soon as I can. Thank you.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:05, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Help needed - IABot

Hello, Cyber!

I've been trying to write to you for quite some time now but either my text has been archived really fast by a bot or I haven't got an answer from you when I tried pinging you at the archives. If you have the needed time, can I please have you attention so I can ask you what I need to ask? I'm not writing again here about that without knowing I have your attention since I've already written more than two times and both times they got archived by the bot automatically without an answer. I'll provide the link to the archived discussions as soon as you answer me. Thank you in advance! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 19:03, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, sorry, I've been really busy with work. What's up?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 00:26, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

It's totally okay. I just didn't know how else to get an answer. I didn't want to disturb with a personal email and was saving that as a last resort. :P Please, check the link here. - Klein Muçi (talk) 00:35, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot misidentifying a book

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

Gigo? Google, amazon, worldcat, all think that ISBN 0-553-27619-0 is The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce. You might ask Anita5192, who added that citation with this edit, where the isbn came from. Perhaps this is one of those cases where the publisher printed the book with the wrong isbn.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:07, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

I have a paperback copy of The New College Latin and English Dictionary by John C. Traupman, Ph.D. and I just checked the ISBN in case I made a mistake copying it. The ISBN was copied correctly. I can't help you any further.—Anita5192 (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Worldcat may be confused and/or there may be an ISBN mix-up from the publishers. That link shows the cover for the divorce book, the ISBN listed above, and the author/title/publisher data for a first edition (1966) of the Traupman Latin book. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

If what Anita5192 says is true, then there is an ISBN conflict. You can thank the publishers for that.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Anita5192, I can confirm that your book has the wrong ISBN in it. Every lookup service I have tried goes to The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce. The real ISBN of the book in question is either, ISBN 0877205612, or ISBN 0877205612, or ISBN 0553573012, or probably others.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

The ISBN 0877205612 corresponds to the second edition, 1994. The ISBN 0553573012 corresponds to the revised and enlarged edition, 1995. I have the first edition, 1988.—Anita5192 (talk) 17:50, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Thanks for (unintentionally) giving me the inspiration for my new signature! I love the idea of having an online/offline status. —Bsoyka ^{talk - hello!} 18:18, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Save me from the archiving bot! 😨👌🤖

Hi, Cyber! Again my post got archived without getting an answer. I now understand that you're busy. Can I go to someone else for my queries about IA Bot? I am the only one looking after it at the Albanian community and therefore I have a moral duty to fix its problems, at least until we find someone else dealing with it. It has already been some months that the bot posts some strange messages on the articles' talk pages, which I've been writing you about. Can you help me deal with them? Maybe just by telling to who else I can go to get help? Is Kaldari a right user to ask? Any other? Please, save me from the archiving bot! :'( - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:30, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

You might unarchive your original question and add {{Do not archive until}} (see the documentation for how that is done) ...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:03, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Klein Muçi, sorry, I have seen your bug report and have it on my todo list to investigate. It’s a holiday week here, so things have been a bit slow moving forward. However, you can turn off the messages by going to the configuration and disabling the option to leave archiving error messages.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 12:57, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

No problem, Cyber, we're all cool. Take your time. I just wanted to know you've got the message because I never got any specific response regarding it and all my posts got archived. Please, enjoy your holidays! :))

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

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Notifying banned user

Hey Cyberpower,

Following on this: I believe Andy Dingley needs to be notified on his TP by the closing admin. Correct?

Cheers,

François Robere (talk) 11:34, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Restrictions

Thanks for the close at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Requesting IBAN. However, I believe more needs to occur: the editor should be notified at their talk (example) and the iban needs to be logged at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions. Johnuniq (talk) 04:31, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Johnuniq, You are correct. I got sidetracked, and forgot to follow through. Thanks for reminding me.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 15:56, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot setup and requirements

For the IABot Management Interface, where do I find the "i18n source URL" for the wiki? For "URL to wiki OAuth", I have "https://192.168.56.56/demo/index.php/Special:OAuth/initiate" Is that correct? daw5423 (talk) 03:11, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Dead links on user page

In the "My Tools" section, both "restart" links point to pages on Wikitech that do not exist. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you.—CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 14:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Book talk missing title and missing end tag for italics, small, bold errors

Un-archived discussion with new comment:

Cyberpower678: You deleted the following discussion without taking action. The last time, you ultimately did solve the problem, and I'm confident you will solve this one also. Please do not remove this discussion from your talk page without at least acknowledging. I don't want to go through a long cycle of dredging it up from the page history over and over, like last time. (I have edited my previous comment slightly, mainly inserting several missing right parentheses.) —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

You are messing up italics and titles in Book talk articles.

Book talk:Destiny's Child

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for italics ('') and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

Book talk:Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

causing a missing end tag for italics ('') and title not displaying where needed; should be (and I fixed it to)

{{book report|Number 1's (Destiny's Child album)|''Number 1's''|GA|chapter=Album|problems=|non-free=* [[:File:Destiny's Child – Number 1's.jpg]]

Book talk:Stargate SG1