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.

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

Tracking deployments

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

Needed data fields:

• Wiki database code (P34)
• Wiki full name (P35 title)
• Status (P36)
  • Item type: bot deployment status (Q246911)
    • Defined in Management Interface (Q246913)
    • Deployment Candidate (Q246914)
    • Pending Approval Request (Q246912)
    • Seeking Bot Approval (Q246915)
    • Stalled Request (Q246916)
    • Issues (Q246917)
    • Stalled Test (Q246918)
    • Test Operation (Q246919)
    • Ongoing Operation (Q246920)
    • Shelved (Q246921)
• Host (P37)
  • Wikimedia (Q246922)
  • Miraheze (Q246923)
  • Weird Gloop (Q246924)
  • independent wiki (Q246925)
• Wiki family (P38)
  • Wikipedia (Q246926)
  • Wiktionary (Q246927)
  • Wikisource (Q246928)
  • Wikinews (Q246929)
  • Wikiquote (Q246930)
  • Wikiversity (Q246931)
  • Wikivoyage (Q246932)
  • Wikibooks (Q246933)
• official website (P41)
• InternetArchiveBot approval status (P39)
  • Item type: bot approval status (Q246934)
    • Local approval for fixing links (Q246935)
    • Local approval for linking to books (Q246936)
    • Global approval for fixing links (Q246937)
• InternetArchiveBot approval request link (P40)
• Some way to document whether a wiki allows global bots or not
  • I think that is implied with having a P39 of "global approval"

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)

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