Hi Pascal, all, this is being discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cyberpower678 THe last response was June 16, and it seems to focus on geo-blocking as the cause for blacklisting (in case anyone feels called to help out the developer).
This bot performs incredible work and I hope it gets fixed soon! Best, Lodewijk On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:04 AM Pascal Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > > My native language is French, automatic translation into English. > This message follows the numerous detection of false 404 links by the > Internet Archive robot because it is blacklisted on a lot of servers. Small > details concerning the archiving service of Wikiwix ( > https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_kroeg#Internet_Archive_Bot ) > It is based solely on this Javascript to be implemented since 2008 in > French Wikipedia: > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ArchiveLinks.js > The advantage of this solution makes it possible to add other archiving > sources, and does not modify the content of Wikipedia articles. > New links are detected by 3 different means: > • Annual recovery: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html, > • Recovery on IRC and on the WEB of Recents Changes. > And we also recommend clicking on the archive link as soon as the source > is added by a contributor, this immediately generates storage of the link > and allows you to test the rendering of the archived page. > In addition to fighting 404 errors, this solution also offers the > advantage of protecting against changes in content that may appear in the > pages to be archived. > Wikiwix strictly respects copyright, archiving is only done with the > author's approval using the noarchive tag. > Since 2015, I have been alerting about the deployment of the IA robot: > 2015: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2015/Bots_and_gadgets: > the bot solution with modification of the template cache is currently > exclusive to WayBackMachine, 2017: > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_user:Pmartin#I_left_you_a_message! : > attempted collaboration abort by the bot trainer and bot stopped following > numerous false detections on page 404. > The role of IABOT is to detect the links present in Wikipedia which are in > errors 404, to find an archive in priority on the WayBack Machine, and to > modify the articles to replace the dead link there. > This process is not good because IABOT only allows one archive url to be > stored on all the languages, which greatly favors the Wayback Machine, to > the detriment of the different versions of the page. While the template > should link to a page that would list all of the possible archives for a > 404 page. > A week has been planned for the end of July 2020 to resolve the few > stabilization problems that Wikiwix currently encounters, linked to the new > solution which consumes only 30 euros of electricity per month, we can also > support this week for a deployment of the solution on the NL part of > Wikipedia. > > Could someone stop this bots, otherwise the false detection of links will > become contagious for all projects? > > Pascal Martin > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
