I may actually have a different solution here, that should be fairly easy to implement. I can simply delete the second reference and replace it with a self closing one. That seems like the best solution.

In T216504#5243160, @Legoktm wrote:

(my bad, I read the task too quickly)

I can certainly look into this. However this is a technical limitation at the moment as IABot needs to encode the URL to actually query it. So it saves the URL internally in it's encoded form.

There are internal issues with the workers causing them to hang. I've been pushing them along a bit. The queue is almost cleared now.

Sorry but anything that the bot needs to modify will get overwritten. It cannot selectively keep something there. This is because not only will it cause bloat in the code for something very insignificant in terms of occurrence, but comments may no longer apply to the new value. Also other bots may not be able to actually process the value in the template as the comment may throw it off. I would advise moving comments to other fields that IABot doesn't touch. IABot changes the URL, archive URL, access date, archive date, deadurl, and df fields if applicable. By policy the bot will leave behind a clean value that another process can easily read.

That would mean I would need to map every invisible character. This creates code bloat and I would need to find out what every whitespace out there even looks like in it's encoded form. I really think this would be better served by creating an FAQ entry about this instead. I have been grinded on in the past for leaving behind HTML entities rather than decoding them.

This is weird. It works as intended on my local installation but fails on production. I don’t really get why though.

Fixed in beta15

It didn't remove the non-breaking whitespace, it just decoded it. It's still a non-breaking whitespace. IABot decodes HTML entities for technical reasons.

Fixed in beta15

This should be fixed in beta15

This doesn't seem to happen in beta15.

This is already fixed in beta15

Fixed in beta15

IABot no longer uses the df parameter.

Should be fixed in beta15

Request filed

I need the page for bot approval.

Please translate the following:

• External links modified ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
• Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have just modified {linksrescued} external links on [[{namespacepage}]]. Please take a moment to review [{diff} my edit]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit [[:m:InternetArchiveBot/FAQ|this simple FaQ]] for additional information. I made the following changes:\n{modifiedlinks}\nPlease refer to the FaQ for information on correcting errors with the bot.\n\nCheers.
• External links found that need fixing ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
• Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have found one or more external links on [[{namespacepage}]] that are in need of attention. Please take a moment to review the links I found and correct them on the article if necessary. I found the following problems:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished making the appropriate changes, please visit [[:m:InternetArchiveBot/FAQ|this simple FaQ]] for additional information to fix any issues with the URLs mentioned above.\n\nThis notice will only be made once for these URLs.\n\nCheers.
• Trouble archiving links on the article ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
• Hello. During the archive process, the archive returned errors for one or more sites that I submitted for archiving.\nBelow, I have included the links that returned with an error and the following error message.\n\n{problematiclinks}\nIn any event this will be the only notification in regards to these links, and no further attempt will be made to archive the links.\n\nCheers.
• {link} is found to be dead. Recommend adding {newarchive} to the original URL.
• {link} is found to be dead. No archive was found.
• {link} is considered to be dead, however has been found to be alive. Recommend removing the dead flag from the URL.
• Added archive {newarchive} to {link}
• Replaced archive link {oldarchive} with {newarchive} on {link}
• Corrected formatting/usage for {link}
• Added {{tlx|dead link}} tag to {link}
• Removed dead tag from {link}
• Modified source for {link}
• {problem} with error {error}
• Rescuing {linksrescued} sources and tagging {linkstagged} as dead.
• Notification of errors encountered when attempting to archive links
• Notification of altered sources needing review

https://github.com/wikimedia/DeadlinkChecker/pull/35

Awaiting review from the WMF.

Sorry for the delays. Large plate that is full. The bot is getting prepped for operation. Can you please point me to the page where I can request approval?

In T169477#4796770, @MuhammadShuaib wrote:

Any proceedings?

Please translate the following:

• External links modified ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
  • Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have just modified {linksrescued} external links on [[{namespacepage}]]. Please take a moment to review [{diff} my edit]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit [[:m:InternetArchiveBot/FAQ|this simple FaQ]] for additional information. I made the following changes:\n{modifiedlinks}\nPlease refer to the FaQ for information on correcting errors with the bot.\n\nCheers.
  • External links found that need fixing ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
  • Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have found one or more external links on [[{namespacepage}]] that are in need of attention. Please take a moment to review the links I found and correct them on the article if necessary. I found the following problems:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished making the appropriate changes, please visit [[:m:InternetArchiveBot/FAQ|this simple FaQ]] for additional information to fix any issues with the URLs mentioned above.\n\nThis notice will only be made once for these URLs.\n\nCheers.
  • Trouble archiving links on the article ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
  • Hello. During the archive process, the archive returned errors for one or more sites that I submitted for archiving.\nBelow, I have included the links that returned with an error and the following error message.\n\n{problematiclinks}\nIn any event this will be the only notification in regards to these links, and no further attempt will be made to archive the links.\n\nCheers.
  • {link} is found to be dead. Recommend adding {newarchive} to the original URL.
  • {link} is found to be dead. No archive was found.
  • {link} is considered to be dead, however has been found to be alive. Recommend removing the dead flag from the URL.
  • Added archive {newarchive} to {link}
  • Replaced archive link {oldarchive} with {newarchive} on {link}
  • Corrected formatting/usage for {link}
  • Added {{tlx|dead link}} tag to {link}
  • Removed dead tag from {link}
  • Modified source for {link}
  • {problem} with error {error}
  • Rescuing {linksrescued} sources and tagging {linkstagged} as dead.
  • Notification of errors encountered when attempting to archive links
  • Notification of altered sources needing review

Please translate the following:

• External links modified ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
  • Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have just modified {linksrescued} external links on [[{namespacepage}]]. Please take a moment to review [{diff} my edit]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit [[:m:InternetArchiveBot/FAQ|this simple FaQ]] for additional information. I made the following changes:\n{modifiedlinks}\nPlease refer to the FaQ for information on correcting errors with the bot.\n\nCheers.
  • External links found that need fixing ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
  • Hello fellow editors,\n\nI have found one or more external links on [[{namespacepage}]] that are in need of attention. Please take a moment to review the links I found and correct them on the article if necessary. I found the following problems:\n{modifiedlinks}\nWhen you have finished making the appropriate changes, please visit [[:m:InternetArchiveBot/FAQ|this simple FaQ]] for additional information to fix any issues with the URLs mentioned above.\n\nThis notice will only be made once for these URLs.\n\nCheers.
  • Trouble archiving links on the article ({{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}})
  • Hello. During the archive process, the archive returned errors for one or more sites that I submitted for archiving.\nBelow, I have included the links that returned with an error and the following error message.\n\n{problematiclinks}\nIn any event this will be the only notification in regards to these links, and no further attempt will be made to archive the links.\n\nCheers.
  • {link} is found to be dead. Recommend adding {newarchive} to the original URL.
  • {link} is found to be dead. No archive was found.
  • {link} is considered to be dead, however has been found to be alive. Recommend removing the dead flag from the URL.
  • Added archive {newarchive} to {link}
  • Replaced archive link {oldarchive} with {newarchive} on {link}
  • Corrected formatting/usage for {link}
  • Added {{tlx|dead link}} tag to {link}
  • Removed dead tag from {link}
  • Modified source for {link}
  • {problem} with error {error}
  • Rescuing {linksrescued} sources and tagging {linkstagged} as dead.
  • Notification of errors encountered when attempting to archive links
  • Notification of altered sources needing review

I am excited to make IABot available to your Wikipedia. I just have a few questions for you. I need translations to get started.

Fandom is so far behind the times, I don't even see why there are efforts to even support it anymore. They clearly don't care about any upkeep. Just making money. Everybody over there should just move to Miraheze which is also a Wikifarm, and also free, but also free of ads, and community maintained.

Testing the implementation now, but it should be ready in checkIfDead v1.8.

Fixed in beta15

Fixed in beta15

Fixed in beta15

The sanitizer was missing an argument that defaults to false if omitted. Fixed now in beta15

This cannot be replicated in beta15. Another fix may have fixed this bug.

Should be fixed in beta15

Not fully compatible, but beta15 won't completely screw up handling these. But the template itself allows way too many weird formats.

This is not feasible. IABot's updated config will only recognize that a URL exists somewhere in Online, but because of limitations in the code that is shared on other wikis, it cannot detect that a Webarchive already exists in there. We might need to use a cleanup bot to move the Webarchiv templates out of Literatur to fix this.

Should be fixed in beta15

Fixed in beta15

Boldly raising the priority to Normal as this is HIGHLY useful and needed, especially with IPv6

Not an excuse, but that first diff has a terribly formatted cite and looks all wrong. You might to actually replace that with a cite journal template.

Please use https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot/index.php?page=manageurlsingle to fix bad archives.

So this a bit of an issue here. IABot is global, and this is a unique problem on enwiki. It's not a simple code change as any change has global implications.

Yes. There have been issues with the bot getting stuck on articles and spinning in circles. This bug has been particularly difficult to find, but I believe the cause blocking your page has been fixed. You just need to wait for the bot to get to your bot job.

You can, but this is expected behavior. Webarchive templates should not be used on their own.