Hey @taavi , pinging you as you are the last person that have updated Quarry. When you have a minute, if it could be possible to merge this small PR, thanks! No need to deploy it specifically I guess, merging would be sufficient, this small css change could wait to be deployed when next code change is pushed to prod.

Similarly, translated links often contain determiners, even though they appear earlier in the original article. I am currently using a bot to remove the following determiners from the beginnings of links in translations published on frwiki:

In T400927#11156127, @Nikerabbit wrote:

Which translation engine?

In T214771#11156611, @KartikMistry wrote:

@Framawiki is it still happening? I tested a few articles and couldn't reproduce the issue.

Also reported on frwiki by @Olaf : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Projet:Lingua_Libre#Lingua_Libre_not_working

Reported several times on frwiki too.

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/10_ao%C3%BBt_2025#Bug_de_l'%C3%A9diteur_visuel
• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/25_juillet_2025#c-Lewisiscrazy-20250725084800-Bug_%C3%A9diteur?

Either duplicate of T218420: CX2: <span class="Z3988"... or T287936: CX2: Citation is generated twice with <cite class="citation web cs1" data-ve-ignore="true">

Still visible several times a day. 3 cases on yesterday translations: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stanbury&diff=prev&oldid=227715029, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Gilder&diff=prev&oldid=227715018, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slave_to_the_Rhythm_(chanson_de_Michael_Jackson)&diff=prev&oldid=227715005

anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/) is a middleware tool that adds a challenge to suspicious requesters, that requires some computing time discouraging unsolicited users. It can be configured with a list of bad, strange or good user-agent, sending them a challenge or not depending of this information.
Beta cluster, or even all WMCS web proxy, could have it in front of all requests, with a default blocking policy to get out of the worst crawlers.
This soft is used on well-known websites with similar crawling issues, like https://git.kernel.org, https://gitlab.gnome.org, https://wiki.archlinux.org.
Another similar tool: https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away

For information, here is the task for toolforge spam blocking, if it can help to choose a solution: T226688: Block web crawlers from accessing Cloud Services

In T255594#10809213, @Mvolz wrote:

Permissions issue on the paste.

Should be better. Paste contains two replacement functions, one for myprivacy gdpr portals, and another for perfdrive.com portals. You'll have to adapt it with your local template variable names.

Hi @Mbch331 , we've some similar issues on frwiki. Temporary solution we found in the meantime is to run a simple pywikibot bot running daily to replace automatically the portal links by the real citations. This way, the user is not impacted during its edits.
In case it could help you, here is the code I used for our case: P75891

Portals domains found on nl.wikipedia as explained in T255594: privacy.vakmedianet.nl / toestemming.ndcmediagroep.nl / cookies.rtlnieuws.nl. Issue reported on-wiki here and here

Other case: some citations are using URL from the portal "Radware Bot Manager Captcha" at the domain https://validate.perfdrive.com, like https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/parrot-investit-dans-la-robotique-de-surveillance-avec-une-participation-dans-eos-innovation.N245941

There is a similar issue (T213262: CX2: "citation needed" template adapted with unnecessary HTML markup and VE attributes) when {{better source needed}} is translated to {{Référence nécessaire}}, it is followed by this garbage:

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Mass closing: Unfortunately, this project is no longer ongoing, see T158739: Create a Github notification bot for phabricator for next steps.

Unfortunately I'm no longer planning to work on this topic. In particular, now that we have a Wikimedia Gitlab instance, I don't see reasons to still use Github.

In T226688#5291131, @bd808 wrote:

I took this and used it as a grep filter to get some idea of how much traffic it would block:

Complain about this on frwiki main discussion board: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/27_juillet_2024#Aux_utilisateurs_de_la_Biblioth%C3%A8que_Wikip%C3%A9dia
Was this only solved on enwiki ?

@Xqt @zhuyifei1999 thanks both of you for this really quick patch!

It is also possible some stuff was done on the toolforge side and impacted the output of the version.
Anyway, a .strip() could be added somewhere to remove any unattended \n in versions around here in pywikibot/version.py.

if somebody has the same issue right now, just append this value in your ~/.pywikibot/user-config.py (and adapt the values, for sure):
user_agent_format="MY_BOT_NAME using pywikibot on MY_WIKI_NAME"