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The bot should skip YouTube links for now
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Affected wiki(s):
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Diff(s) (if applicable):
https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=帶子&diff=prev&oldid=72330898

What is happening?:
The bot archives YouTube links with Wayback Machine

What should happen instead?:
As mentioned in T292816 and T291588, Wayback Machine is hardly useful on YouTube because it doesn’t back up the video. The long term solution is to use Ghost Archive, part of which tracked in T318201; as a stopgap solution, let’s skip YouTube and Instagram until Ghost Archive is usable (at that time we should only use Ghost Archive for YouTube and Instagram).

List of steps to reproduce (step by step, including full links if applicable):

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Event Timeline

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Stang. · View Herald Transcript

The Wayback Machine does back up YouTube videos now, though (and has for the past couple years).

Wayback Machine archives of youtube.com are now reliable, and the bot management interface can be used to exclude individual broken archives.