Project: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.

Generations

• 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

Tracking deployments

Goal: move out of Airtable. Track deployment information in Librarybase.

Needed data fields:

• Wiki database code
• Wiki full name
• Status
  • Defined in Management Interface
  • Deployment Candidate
  • Pending Approval Request
  • Seeking Bot Approval
  • Stalled Request
  • Issues
  • Stalled Test
  • Test Operation
  • Ongoing Operation
  • Shelved
• Wiki host (like Wikibase World has)
  • Wikimedia
  • Miraheze
  • Weird Gloop
  • independent wiki
• Wiki family
  • Wikipedia
  • Wiktionary
  • Wikisource
  • Wikinews
  • Wikiquote
  • Wikiversity
  • Wikivoyage
  • Wikibooks
• URL
• InternetArchiveBot approval status
  • Local approval for fixing links
  • Local approval for linking to books
  • Global approval for fixing links
• InternetArchiveBot approval request link
• Some way to document whether a wiki allows global bots or not

Deployments

• Wikimedia
  • Ongoing
• Miraheze
  • On a handful of wikis, broken on a few wikis due to those wikis changing domain names
  • OAuth grants are broken as well
  • Idea: account creator script that uses a limited-scope bot password to log in as InternetArchiveBot and force local account creation for a specified wiki
• Weird Gloop
  • Only four wikis
  • The reason we're not deployed there is because they want to be able to have dry runs that show the edits without actually making them