It would be great to have the totals restored. I find them very valuable

I have re-opened this tsk because I have just had the false "You have been blocked from editing" message

I did a little burrowing, and I now see what IAbot should do:

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

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1059937012 : bot adds archive links without disturbing existing unhyphenated parameter "accessdate"
2. 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"

This is a duplicate of the pre-existing T291704, to which it should be merged. I dunno how to do the merge

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

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

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

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

See two more examples:

The fake "you are blocked" thing has just cleared for me: the bot did https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1045784815

It's still doing it. The error message is "Analysis error: blocked: You have been blocked from editing."
I am not blocked

This has just happened to me this morning. I am not blocked, and https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=user&id=5852725&wiki=enwiki knows that i am not blocked, but when I submit a page the bot says I am blocked.

In T285941#7190949, @Rjwilmsi wrote:

The reason is that to correctly simplify both [[Dog|dog]] and [[dog|dog]] i.e. allowing that first letter of link may be upper or lower case, we turn first letter of both parts of link to lower case. That means that both İ and I become i so are considered the same, which is wrong.

rev 12500 SimplifyLinks: fix handling of diacritics on page's first letter

In T262239#6458850, @Marostegui wrote:

For what is worth, the last maintenance that needs to happen on s1 is being run at the moment, I expect it to take 2 days or so to complete, so expect lag on labsdb hosts for enwiki.
If you want to follow its progress you can subscribe to: T238966

In T262239#6450462, @Marostegui wrote:

The service is effectively up, but with lag. I just took a quick look at the progress and I think it will start replicating again in around 24h, it will slowly catch up on replication, but given how loaded those hosts are, it will take maybe another day or two to be fully in sync with the master.
Keep in mind that this only affects enwiki and wikidatawiki. The rest of wikis are in sync with their respective masters.

In T262239#6445454, @Marostegui wrote:

It is a very complex and hard to operate infrastructure, and that's why, together with the WMCS team we are re-architecting the infra to make it more scalable, easy to operate and easy to recover in case of failure.

Hope this helps to clarify the situation.

The failure to fix this bug means that has a negative effect on maintenance, because the use of PAGESINCATEGORY to report on the size of tracking categories gives inaccurate results.

In T227033#5310029, @Aklapper wrote:

@doctaxon: No, because teams decide themselves what they plan to work on and who works on what. I do not do that as I am not a product manager of a team. :)

In T199347#4417217, @Dinoguy1000 wrote:

Forking the behavior based on selected site would be a maintenance nightmare (definitely in the long run, and probably so even in the near-term).

Thanks for the change, Rjwilmsi.