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Common problems are described below.
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The bot needs to be shut down now
edit
Shut down InternetArchiveBot
The management interface is reporting a 503 error
edit
Wait about an hour and then refresh. If it still does not work,
report it on Phabricator
The bot wrongly claims a link is dead
edit
Report false positive
The bot is using English where it shouldn't be
edit
Modify the bot configuration for your wiki
. Make sure your wiki is selected from the dropdown on the top right.
You can translate bot documentation pages on Meta:
Translate the navigation header
Translate the bot introduction
You can translate the bot management interface on
TranslateWiki
The bot is using the incorrect date format in templates
edit
Modify the bot configuration for your wiki
. Make sure your wiki is selected from the dropdown on the top right.
Scroll to "Default used date formats". Define one date format per line, using the
strftime
syntax. The format that is preferred by your wiki should have the prefix
@default:
in front of it.
Scroll to the bottom and submit. If there are still issues, leave a message on
User talk:InternetArchiveBot
The bot is removing a lot of wikitext from pages
edit
The bot often makes maintenance edits to articles in the course of its work. This includes removing redundant citations from articles. Here is
an example
of that kind of edit. In articles, if a reference has a "name" attribute (such as
Wales, 1994
), you only need to provide the text of the citation once, and can use shorthand references after (like

).
In the event something else is happening causing the bot to remove large amounts of wikitext, please leave a message on
User talk:InternetArchiveBot
I enabled the bot for my wiki but it is not doing anything
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If the bot has never run on your wiki before, it is possible the bot is not yet configured for it. If you
leave a message on our talk page
we can work on setting up the bot for your wiki. Also, when a bot is enabled on a wiki for the first time, it can take potentially days for the first edit to be made.
If the bot has run on your wiki before, it is possible that the bot has been disabled server-side. When this happens, it is because there is a bug that is preventing InternetArchiveBot from working effectively on that wiki. Please wait for service to return to that wiki. Also check to make sure the bot is not
blocked on your wiki
I need to manually set a domain or URL as alive or dead
edit
Manage URL data
The bot is inserting Webarchive templates between the URL and the link text in external links
edit
The bot sometimes inserts Webarchive templates between the URL and the link text in external links,
like this
, causing a Linter "Wikilink in external link" error. This is a known bug,
task T344219
Other bugs or feature requests
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