Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2018-08/User:InternetArchiveBot

Nomination: I hereby request the Bot flag for User:InternetArchiveBot for the following purposes:

Requested on Phabricator by a local user. See T181879.

InternetArchiveBot crawls through the mainspace looking for dead links and attempts to fix them, or identify them as dead.

Test edits are underway, but may take some time.

Schedule:

• Vote starts: 18:32, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
• Vote ends: 23:59, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
• Vote created: —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:32, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Discussion:

• Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/December#Inviting_IABot
• en:User talk:Cyberpower678
• Wiktionary talk:Votes/bt-2018-08/User:InternetArchiveBot

1. Support Why not. We could at least see how much it does. Fay Freak (talk) 19:13, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
2. Support. @Cyberpower678, I think the bot leaving a comment on the talk page is pretty much just clutter. We should see what other people think, but I would prefer disabling that feature. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:22, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

   Yes, I prefer not to see the bot explaining his fixes on talk pages either. Fay Freak (talk) 19:25, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

   I turned it off.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:03, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

3. Support Per utramque cavernam 19:33, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
4. Support. Jberkel 20:41, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
5. Support — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 00:15, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
6. Support Very helpful. I also think we should consider having redundant archives: webcite.org, archive.is, etc. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:53, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
7. Support - TheDaveRoss 14:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
8. Support - The web links are supposed to be permanent, so if this bot can be more aggressive in converting to archived links, even before they are dead, that would be even better. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:05, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

   The option to do that exists, but it should be run by the community first.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:06, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

9. Support (We will want to be able to mass-remove links if an archive should turn into a cybersquatted spam site etc. but I can't imagine that would be hard.) Equinox ◑ 10:55, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

   possibly we can make a parameter for every archive site. So if archive.is will be a mere spam site not providing its function then we can remove the parameter. As I said at a place, the displaying fasion of the links will need to be reordered a bit. Fay Freak (talk) 00:13, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

10. Support — SGconlaw (talk) 18:29, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
11. Support DTLHS (talk) 22:12, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

1. Abstain pending more example edits. Also, why did the bot insert "{archivedate:automatic}" to $? DTLHS (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

   That was a glitch because I borked the configuration values.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

   @DTLHS: Have you see how it works on en.wp? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:54, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Passes 11-0-0. Crattage requested. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:36, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

• @SemperBlotto, Stephen G. Brown. Per utramque cavernam 11:12, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
• Made it so. SemperBlotto (talk) 12:05, 4 September 2018 (UTC)