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InternetArchiveBot
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About the bot
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InternetArchiveBot
2019
Coolest Tool Award Winner
in the category
Impact
InternetArchiveBot
is an advanced bot
that identifies and replaces
broken external links
. InternetArchiveBot makes other enhancements to references as well, including filling out bare reference templates and adding links to resources where appropriate. InternetArchiveBot monitors every Wikimedia wiki for new outgoing links and actively makes fixes on over 400 Wikimedia wikis. This bot is operated as a service of the
Internet Archive
in partnership with the Wikimedia community.
Bot operation
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Starting and stopping the bot
Blocking the bot is not necessary
to stop it.
Click "View Run Pages" below. Make sure the correct wiki is selected from the drop-down menu at the top.
If the page says: "This wiki is: Enabled"
To
disable
the bot, write the reason why the bot should be disabled, then click "Disable".
Leave a message on
User talk:InternetArchiveBot
explaining why you disabled the bot. Include bad edits that have been made.
If the page says: "This wiki is: Disabled"
To
enable
the bot, write the reason why the bot should be enabled, then click "Enable".
First, make sure the bot has consensus to run on your wiki. Follow your wiki's
bot policies
If the bot was disabled due to bugs such as making incorrect edits, make sure those bugs have been fixed first.
If the bot is blocked,
please leave a message at
User talk:InternetArchiveBot
immediately.
Even if the bot is not running on a given wiki, the Internet Archive
creates archives of almost every new external link
added to every Wikimedia wiki, and has been since 2013. If a bot is blocked or disabled on a wiki, it does not stop this work.
View Run Pages
Configuring the bot
The bot's behavior can be changed to suit the wikis needs. This is done by updating values in on the configuration page of the interface. Click the link below to access the configuration page. Make sure the correct wiki is selected from the drop-down menu at the top. Only administrators can edit the configuration for a given wiki.
View Configuration Page
Using the bot
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Requesting specific articles
You can use the
Analyze a Page
interface to fix dead links, or to add archive links to all links, on a specific page. Edits made using this tool will be attributed to you. Make sure the correct wiki is selected from the drop-down menu at the top.
You can also
queue the bot to run on multiple pages
. These articles will be added to InternetArchiveBot's queue of edits to make.
Help with translation
InternetArchiveBot's management interface is available in many languages thanks to volunteer translators.
Your help with translation is greatly appreciated.
Visit
translatewiki.net
to help.
Bot Talk Page
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Credits
Original Developer:
Cyberpower678
Maintainers:
Cyberpower678
Harej
GreenC
Past Contributors:
Kaldari
Niharika
Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech
Source
GitHub
Operation status
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For the most up to date information see
the run pages
or
Wiki Operations Summary on Airtable
🟢 InternetArchiveBot is currently running on 300+ Wikimedia wikis.
🟢 InternetArchiveBot is being tested on Japanese Wikipedia (ja).
🟡 Testing is stalled on Alemannisch Wikipedia (als) and Asturian Wikipedia (ast).
🔴 Bot is approved but disabled on Hungarian Wikipedia (hu).
🔴 Bot is approved but disabled indefinitely pending software improvements on French Wikipedia (fr), MediaWiki.org, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia (nn), Polish Wikipedia (pl), and Portuguese Wikipedia (pt).
Related tools
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Fable
– verify new locations for old web pages and help InternetArchiveBot
reFill
tool for improving citations
Dead link fix report
See also
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Community Tech/Migrate dead external links to archives
– previous work by the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech Team
Wayback Medic
– Another link rot bot
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