Here IABot added a link to this snapshot which is essentially a blank page. It should be possible to detect whether a snapshot contains a reasonable amount of text or not.
Of course, there might be snapshots which contain the referenced information within an image or a video, but I believe that at least cases like the one given above could be avoided.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T193158 Detect unsuitable archive snapshots | |||
| Resolved | Cyberpower678 | T191277 InternetArchiveBot should detect blank snapshots |
I personally think this should be done on the Wayback Machine's end. There's little point to fetching a snapshot and then making an additional call to try and read the snapshot, when they have the means to do all of that internally themselves.
While I agree, I believe that this and other cases under T193158: Detect unsuitable archive snapshots should be dealt with also on Wikipedia's end. But that doesn't necessarily mean that IABot does this, there could also be an external service interacting with the database.
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