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—CYBERPOWER (Around)
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Hello!! I am Cyberpower678. I am an administrator on Wikipedia. Despite that, I'm still your run of the mill user here on Wikipedia.
I specialize in bot work and tools, but I lurk around RfPP, AfD, AIV, and AN/I, as well as RfA. If you have any questions in those areas, please feel free to ask. :-)
For InternetArchiveBot matters specifically, please see meta:InternetArchiveBot/Problem for common issues or meta:User talk:InternetArchiveBot to leave a message
I also serve as a mailing list moderator and account creator over at the Account Creation Center. If you have any questions regarding an account I created for you, or the process itself, feel free to email the WP:ACC team or me personally.
At current I have helped to create accounts for 2512 different users and renamed 793 other users.
Disputes or discussions that appear to have ended or is disputed will be archived.

All the best.—cyberpower

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Famitsu and maniac

I use the internet archive bot extensively, but it seems to not be archiving pages from famitsu and maniac. For instance, in this instance famitsu is used on the page, but not archived. This edit saved the famitsu page, but not maniac. I've found that to reliably archive these pages I have to do it manually. Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:06, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Harizotoh9, it may have been a temporary issue. I see nothing to indicate it shouldn't skip on these going forward.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:49, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

CyberBot book issue?

Hello! I saw that the book bot tried to audit the book for Never Let Me Down but there were some issues - it claims that most of the articles don't exist (when in fact they do - the book covers a Good Topic). I tried to make some manual edits but since the bot runs frequently, it over-wrote my changes. I was just hoping you could take a look and figure out why it's claiming there are errors. The .sig from the bot says to talk to you, but your comment on your talk page makes me think maybe that's no longer true? Anywhere, here's a link to the book page: Book:Never Let Me Down. If I've got it wrong, or need to talk to someone else, please let me know. Thanks! 87Fan (talk) 21:21, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

87Fan, you should avoid using double quotes and single quotes around the linked pages on the Book page. Remove those and it should work.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:58, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to report this?

Hi - I have a question about how to report an error committed by the InternetArchiveBot. The bot's talk page says to "report a false positive" if I found "a URL that is alive and the bot thinks it's dead", but the problem that I encountered is essentially the opposite - I found two dead urls that the the bot thinks are alive. Archived versions of these two urls are being used as sources in the article AJ Gil, but the InternetArchiveBot added "dead url = no" to each of them. I've reverted the bot, but am curious how to report this. Should I go through the "Report a false positive" tool? Or is there another way to report this type of error? Thanks. --Jpcase (talk) 14:00, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jpcase In the case of this particular URL, the domain is whitelisted because IABot has determined that it can't reliably assess the status of the URL. There is no particular way to report these kinds of issues. Rather, in most cases, you can go to https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=manageurlsingle to alter URL metadata there.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't know how to do that...but thanks for the response! --Jpcase (talk) 16:56, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jpcase, There's a how to manual at the top of the page. Just follow its instructions and you should be golden.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 17:04, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay - thanks! I see that now. I've never been on that website before though, and know exactly nothing about how bots work. The how to manual is saying that "privileged users can un/set the live state to blacklisted", but the manual doesn't seem to explain how to become a "privileged user".

It appears that I don't currently have the ability to set the urls to blacklisted. Would you be able to help me with that? --Jpcase (talk) 23:04, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jpcase, actually you only need to set it to dead. Admins of a supported wiki have that privilege. If you go under Meta and goto Interface Information, you can see all the permissions there and how they are obtained.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 23:13, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, my bad. I was able to set one of the two urls to dead, but it looks like the other one has been whitelisted for some reason. And as long as it's whitelisted, it can only be set to dead by someone with special permissions, right? So will I need an administrator to help me with this? --Jpcase (talk) 23:57, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jpcase, That would typically need a root like me to change it. If it's whitelisted, it means the bot couldn't correctly assess the domain and stopped checking it. However if you can confirm it's dead all around, I can change it dead.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 11:14, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just asking

What's going on? You're on indefinite wikibreak! Does this mean you aren't going to return to Wikipedia? Sincerely, Masum Reza^☎ 16:53, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Masumrezarock100: Family matters.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Glad to have you back. Sincerely, Masum Reza^☎ 09:13, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with bot applying dates in wrong format, not adhering to the cs1-dates parameter

Hi Cyberpower678, I see that you are on wikibreak (enjoy!) but hope you are still reading this. I would like to report a bug but cannot log in into the suggested reporting tool, therefore I have to report it here. In this edit InternetArchiveBot expanded an archive link (fine), but also unnecessarily added a |df= parameter and changed the date format. However, since cs1/cs2 citation templates now support auto-date formatting, it is almost never necessary to add the |df= parameter any more (it may even become deprecated over time), and when the bot inserts or updates dates in citations, it should follow the format defined by the optional |cs1-dates= parameter of the {{Use dmy dates}}/{{Use mdy dates}} templates, if it is being used in an article. In this case, the date format for citations was set to "y", so the bot should have used the ymd format. but it changed the |archive-date= from the correct "2019-04-22" to the incorrect "22 April 2019". Since the citation template will auto-format the date, this is normally only visible on source code level, but nevertheless, it should not happen. And in this case, the bot even added |df= and thereby forced the citation to show up in the wrong date format. I guess, your bot already checks for the existance of {{Use dmy dates}}/{{Use mdy dates}}, but just didn't know about the |cs1-dates= parameter yet. So, please update your bot to adhere to the |cs1-dates= parameter's setting and no longer insert |df= into citations, so that it no longer creates unnecessary inconsistencies. Thanks and greetings. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 11:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think making changes to the bot at this time for this change that has been made is probably premature. We took a representative test case (Barack Obama) but there may be other places where the approach that was taken by Trappist will not be viable for performance or technical reasons. --Izno (talk) 14:11, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but no. The changes made to the templates which are intended for automated processes was made unilaterally by a single user with the intent to enhance the CS1/2 templates. While I can most certainly remove the uses of df going forward, the changes made to the templates don't make much sense, are too costly to implement technically for IABot, and essentially break other bots that read them. I can very easily tell the bot to look for a {{Use ymd dates}} template, but I will not be implementing something that is specific to enwiki on a bot that runs globally. Sorry.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:39, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And how do you think the problem should be solved then? While it is a bit ironic that this is caused by a change somewhere else and I certainly don't expect immediate action, this is also not a condition which can be accepted long-term, because right now bots create damage to the project whenever they insert dates in wrong formats into citations.

I would think that everyone should work together to find a solution, and unless cs1/2 auto-date formatting would be withdrawn the only way I see is by updating all bots to take the new parameter into account. This may take some while, but isn't it worth it? Isn't adapting bots to changes moving forward in the project a rather normal process?

If it is easy for you to look for something like {{Use ymd dates}} (which I personally would support, but which does not exist in the English WP as our MOS doesn't allow ymd dates in article bodies yet, only in references and tables) it should be almost as easy to look for a certain parameter of the {{Use dmy dates}} and {{Use mdy dates}} templates as well. I can't see how sensing for this would negatively affect IABot's behaviour in other language entities of Wikipedia.

I would appreciate your constructive feedback.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 16:36, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Because I just essentially rebuilt how the configuration of IABot is defined to make it more efficient and easier to manage and none of the templates had hidden parameters to listen for so I didn't build the new interface to handle it. This is a major change to that setup and, IMO, not worth the time to implement it for the small gain it delivers.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:40, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IABot

Hi, would you please add fawiki to IABot?Yamaha5 (talk) 20:57, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. According to the question above, is it technically okay? I can start a discussion and report the result to you, but I need your confirmation first. Can you configure it for fawiki? Thanks. Ahmad^Talk 16:31, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ahmad252, yes. IABot is intended to run on any WMF wiki that will accept it.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 16:42, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again. I just found out that you already suggested your bot to us. That discussion shows that our community agreed, and this also shows that everyone like it. Can we start the technical part? Thanks. Ahmad^Talk 08:11, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ahmad252 Yes. But I have multiple issues going on right now, so patience is requested.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 22:16, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Of course. I see. Please ping me whenever you are ready to start. Ahmad^Talk 06:40, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ahmad252, are you on Phabricator? Please see phab:T169468 where I will ask a series of questions.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 02:24, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I just joined. Will do, thanks. Ahmad^Talk 03:35, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IABot Management Interface for pl.wiki

Hello

I hope that you will return to wiki-life. If/when you will return can you, please, answer to such question: what is needed to run IABot Management Interface for pl.wiki? PMG (talk) 15:02, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

PMG, Ideally you would need a community discussion favoring deployment of the bot to get started.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:39, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IABot for SqWiki

Hello! I'm an admin at the Albanian Wikipedia. Lately I've been dealing with the CS1 module and its categories for our community. It's not been compatible 100% with our community but it has helped us a lot by giving us a way to keep an eye on the references, the section most overlooked when creating or translating an article (at least on our community). Today I found the page for your bot and I was wondering if it could be implemented to our community too. It would be a great help and give us yet another tool to deal with the references' problems. I hope you can help us if you do return to the wiki community. :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:19, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Klein Muçi, Sure. To get started, I would need community approval first. Can you start a discussion there?—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:41, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cyberpower678, I did so. I'll write again when we get some participation. Thank you! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 15:39, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IAbot makes duplicates

Hello!

At several last days The InternetArchiveBot added doubles of the archived links, example.
IAbot don't look existing "| archiveurl=" and "| archivedate=" and inserts new {{Wayback... with same URL.
--Grumbler eburg (talk) 12:04, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Grumbler eburg: Based on the documentation, it didn't look like the template supported those values. I have corrected the bot's configuration.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:37, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Templates in the Ru-Wikipedia contain differences with same templates of the En-Wiki (En-Wiki: "archive-date" , ru-Wiki "archivedate", etc. It's true for all "{{cite ...". Grumbler eburg (talk) 17:50, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, if you wanted to, you could do a basic check of Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist and the Aliases table in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration for supported parameters and aliases for wikis with a module driving the show. (Speaking of, I wonder if those the whitelist and the aliases table shouldn't be the same table.) --Izno (talk) 18:53, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bot job request for ja-wiki

Hi, User:cyberpower678. I informed you here once on April 28, but as my post was archived during your Wikibreak, I would like to request the following again.

I have some bot jobs that I would like ask you to do, so I came up from the Japanese Wikipedia (ja-wiki). In February of this year, I and User:Dark Little Star-san (ja:User:リトルスターさん in Japanese) requested the addition of archive links to the articles on the bot request page in ja-wiki. However, there is no user who can deal with it, so I would like to ask your IABot for help.

The articles requested here are all articles which are sourced from the three broken websites that release reviews of game titles, namely "Girls-Style", "Game-Style", and "Dengekihime.com". More specifically, the following links will help you find them. I'd appreciate if you could accept our request. Thank you.

ja:特別:検索/insource:"http://www.girls-style.jp/" (92 items)
ja:特別:検索/insource:"http://www.game-style.jp/" (265 items)
ja:特別:検索/insource:"http://dengeki-hime.com/" (57 items) --stck_w (^Talk/_Edits） 03:57, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Stck w, Unfortunately I cannot. IABot's approval was revoked on jawiki because of issues I can't even remember what. If you want me to carry out the task, I need members of the community to lobby for approval as any attempt to communication simply goes unanswered.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 11:18, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Enquiry

Hi recently I have given valid citation to a page named Wakil Kumar Yadav. Plz check and remove deletion tag. Wakuxyz (talk) 05:49, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Quick help regarding a page Wakil Kumar Yadav

Hi I have edited a new page named Wakil Kumar Yadav. I have given renowned sources as reference. But someone has reported as deleting page. Plz visit the page Wakil Kumar Yadav and approve it's as if reference are according to Wikipedia guidelines. Wakuxyz (talk) 08:20, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 # [[:ja:特別:検索/insource:"http://www.game-style.jp/"]] (265 items)
 # [[:ja:特別:検索/insource:"http://dengeki-hime.com/"]] (57 items) --[[User:stck_w|stck_w]]<small> ([[User talk:stck_w|<sup>Talk</sup>]]/[[Special:Contributions/Stck w|<sub>Edits</sub>]]）</small> 03:57, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
+:{{u|Stck w}}, Unfortunately I cannot.  IABot's approval was revoked on jawiki because of issues I can't even remember what.  If you want me to carry out the task, I need members of the community to lobby for approval as any attempt to communication simply goes unanswered.—[[User:Cyberpower678|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">CYBERPOWER</span>''']] <span style="font-family:Rockwell">([[User talk:Cyberpower678|<span style="color:\#FF8C00">Around</span>]])</span> 11:18, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
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