Wikibase:Analytics/IABot
InternetArchiveBot has been operated by the Internet Archive since 2015, based on the earlier Cyberpower II. James Hare has been supporting the InternetArchiveBot effort since February 2020.
Tracking deployments
Deployment information has moved out of Airtable and into Librarybase. Each wiki InternetArchiveBot runs on, or might run on, has an item here. There are 789 wiki items as of November 2026.
Librarybase stores only what people decide or record: setup stage, approvals and the reasons behind them. Anything another system can answer more accurately is not stored here:
- Whether the bot is running comes from the InternetArchiveBot management interface. This includes who disabled it and why.
- Whether a wiki allows global bots comes from Meta's opted-out-of-global-bots wikiset.
- Bot flag, blocks and last edit come from each wiki's API.
- Whether a wiki is closed comes from the site matrix.
Properties
| Property | Name | Potential values | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| P34 | database code | Text, for example enwiki |
The wiki's database name. Every wiki item has one; tools match wikis on it. MD Wiki's code is mdwikior_wiki, but the management interface calls it mdwiki_wiki, which is kept as an alias on the item.
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| P35 | title | Text (English) | The wiki's full name, for example "English Wikipedia". |
| P41 | official website | URL | The wiki's address, for example https://en.wikipedia.org.
|
| P1 | exact match | URL of a Wikidata item | The wiki's Wikidata item, where Wikidata has one. Left off where Wikidata attaches the database code to an organization, not a wiki (some affiliate wikis). |
| P37 | host | Wikimedia Foundation (Q246922) Miraheze (Q246923) Weird Gloop (Q246924) independently hosted wiki (Q246925) |
The organization the wiki runs on. |
| P38 | wiki family | Wikipedia (Q246926) Wiktionary (Q246927) Wikisource (Q246928) Wikinews (Q246929) Wikiquote (Q246930) Wikiversity (Q246931) Wikivoyage (Q246932) Wikibooks (Q246933) special Wikimedia wiki (Q249001) |
Wikimedia wikis only; non-Wikimedia wikis are identified by host instead. "Special Wikimedia wiki" covers the site matrix's specials: Commons, Meta, MediaWiki.org, Wikidata, Wikispecies, Incubator, test wikis and affiliate wikis. |
| P36 | InternetArchiveBot deployment status | deployment candidate (Q246914) seeking bot approval (Q246915) pending approval request (Q246912) stalled approval request (Q246916) test operation (Q246919) stalled test (Q246918) deployed (Q246920) shelved (Q246921) wiki closed (Q249002) |
Records the setup stage only, not whether the bot is running now: a deployed wiki where the bot is switched off stays deployed, and the switch-off is in the management interface. "Wiki closed" overrides every other value. A wiki with no P36 has not been evaluated, which includes every wiki the management interface doesn't list. Item type: bot deployment status (Q246911). Retired: defined in management interface (Q246913), which the management interface itself shows, and stopped due to issues (Q246917), which is operational state; no item uses either. Q246920 was formerly labelled "ongoing operation". |
| P39 | InternetArchiveBot approval status | local approval for fixing links (Q246935) local approval for linking to books (Q246936) global approval for fixing links (Q246937) |
Item type: bot approval status (Q246934). Global approval is recorded only where the Airtable said the wiki relies on global bots and the wiki hasn't opted out of global bots on Meta (wikiset 14). Opt-out membership alone isn't enough: some wikis (English, Russian, Swedish and Japanese Wikipedia, for example) aren't opted out but still bar global bots from this task by local policy. On non-Wikimedia wikis, approval by the site operator is recorded as local approval. |
| P40 | InternetArchiveBot approval request URL | URL | Used as the reference on P39 statements, not as a main statement: first the approval discussion, then the wiki's rights log (Special:Log?type=rights&page=User:InternetArchiveBot) where the dates below come from it.
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| P45 | start time | Date | Qualifier on P39 local approvals: when the local bot flag was granted, from the rights log. Where the flag was granted, removed and granted again, the latest grant. |
| P46 | end time | Date, or "unknown value" | Qualifier on P39 local approvals: when the bot flag was removed. "Unknown value" means the approval ended on an unknown date. |
| P47 | end cause | inactivity (Q249474) revoked by community (Q249475) superseded by new approval (Q249476) withdrawn by operator (Q249477) wiki closed (Q249478) |
Qualifier on P39 local approvals, with P46. Item type: approval end cause (Q249473). In use: inactivity (French Wikipedia 2026-02-28, Polish Wikipedia 2025-03-15) and wiki closed (English, Dutch, Russian and Portuguese Wikinews). |
Updates
- Tracking Librarybase IDs in Airtable. Next task is to update existing records that already have Librarybase entries, and create new items for those that don't. Harej (talk) 03:35, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Migrated all 789 rows of the Airtable "Wikis" table: updated 319 existing items, created 470 new ones, and added approval history from rights logs. Airtable's "Issues", "Resolved" and "Priority Area" columns were not migrated: issues live on Phabricator, and the priority areas are Phabricator tags. Harej with Claude (AI) 16:25, 3 November 2026 (UTC)
Versions
- InternetArchiveBot 1: ?
- InternetArchiveBot 2: The current version, flexibly supports many different kinds of wikis
- Cycles through each wiki in alphabetical order
- Supports all manner of wiki templates (or lack thereof)
- InternetArchiveBot 3: The future
- Event-centric workflow: link found dead, usage throughout wikis searched, replaced