Bot adds "|access-date" to a ref which already has "|accessdate"
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	Sep 24 2021, 4:22 PM

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See diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=prev&oldid=1046231782

It's the last change in that diff.

The output is {{Cite news |title=ESB to demolish West Offaly Power Station |url=https://www.offalyindependent.ie/2020/01/24/esb-to-demolish-west-offaly-power-station/ |newspaper=Offaly Independent |date=2020-01-24 |accessdate=2021-06-01 |access-date=29 September 2020 |archive-date=15 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515164757/https://www.offalyindependent.ie/2020/01/24/esb-to-demolish-west-offaly-power-station/ |url-status=live }}

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BrownHairedGirl created this task.Sep 24 2021, 4:22 PM

Restricted Application added a project: Internet-Archive. · View Herald TranscriptSep 24 2021, 4:22 PM

See two more examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=prev&oldid=1046198801

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=prev&oldid=1046198760

This is still happening, to three parameters which have optional hyphens:

accessdate/access-date
archivedate/archive-date
archiveurl/archive-url

Here is an example where the bot duplicated all three parameters in one ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyundai_Motor_Company&diff=1046540534&oldid=1043341624

Anon423 merged a task: T291773: Bot adds redundant access-date parameter to templates already containing accessdate.Sep 26 2021, 10:06 AM

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Another example where the bot duplicated all three parameters in one ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ananthasayanam_(1942_film)&diff=prev&oldid=1046524138

An example where the bot duplicated all three parameters in two refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anantram_Jaiswal&diff=1046529844&oldid=1043151348

Another example where the bot's addition does not provide value: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liam_Chilvers&diff=1046730482&oldid=1046719795

As a workaround until the bot is fixed, i have written a wee script to add dashes to cite parameters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrownHairedGirl/CiteParamDashes.js

Using the script before invoking IAbot will avoid the duplication caused by this big.

Nikkimaria mentioned this in T292201: Bot app continuing to run despite bot being stopped.Sep 30 2021, 2:09 PM

Pppery merged a task: T292357: Bot is adding in access-date parameters into citations that have accessdate parameters.Oct 3 2021, 4:08 PM

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Harej moved this task from Inbox to Backlog: Syntax on the InternetArchiveBot board.Oct 12 2021, 2:09 AM

Pppery merged a task: T293255: Duplicated archive links.Oct 14 2021, 9:38 PM

Pppery added subscribers: Klein, Harej.

Our CS1 redundant parameters in SqWiki went from almost 0 to 3k articles in around a week.
This link that was given to me some days ago by another user shows that there are more than 1k results only with the archive[-]url problem. And this is only for SqWiki that has less that 100k articles in total.

I was forced to currently disable IABot from SqWiki. I really hope that once it is fixed, it can also help fix the redundancy it caused.

Klein added a subscriber: Trappist_the_monk.Oct 15 2021, 12:19 AM

Nintendofan885 merged a task: T293464: IABot is adding duplicate archive-date and access-date parameters to refs that already have an archivedate or accessdate parameter.Nov 1 2021, 8:25 PM

Nintendofan885 added a subscriber: BubbaJoe123456.

Harej moved this task from Backlog to InternetArchiveBot on the Internet-Archive board.Nov 1 2021, 8:32 PM

Harej removed a project: Internet-Archive.Nov 2 2021, 2:08 AM

I //think// (but I am not sure my solution is 100% correct or on the right path) i coded out a solution to this, but it needs testing and debugging. I will submit a .patch file with my changes, but i don't know how to set up the testing harness.

Chlod subscribed.Nov 20 2021, 10:08 AM

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Remagoxer subscribed.Nov 24 2021, 9:32 AM

Pppery merged a task: T297063: adds |access-date= when cs1|2 template already has |accessdate=.Dec 5 2021, 8:24 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Rlink2_Bot_3 may be the solution until this gets fixed

It appears that this bug may have been fixed in the upgrade to v2.0.8.4 of IAbot. See these 2 bot edits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1059937012 : bot adds archive links without disturbing existing unhyphenated parameter "accessdate"
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1059934705 - bot adds archive link to https://legalcounselbd.com/by-executing-cht-peace-accord-bangladesh/ without disturbing existing unhyphenated parameter "accessdate"

I have [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:InternetArchiveBot&diff=22440424&oldid=22439738 asked] the bot owners for clarification. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:InternetArchiveBot#phab:T291704. However, their communication has been very poor, so I am not hopeful of a prompt and clear answer.

See also WP:BRFA/Rlink2 Bot 3 , a proposed en.wp bot which tackles this bug. It may now be redundant.

Now fully fixed in v2.0.8.5

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