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Newspapers that follow the same process as Tribune Publishing. Only migrate if new links are not behind paywall, otherwise archive. -- GreenC 18:01, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

4,150 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 4,150 pages and edited 3,977 pages. Converted 1 templates. Moved 4,833 links to a new URL. Resolved 51 ghost redirects. Resolved 11 soft-404s. Removed 3 {{dead link}}. Added 64 {{dead link}}. Switched 791 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 39 |url-status=live to dead. Added 688 archive URLs (494 Wayback). Changed 50 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated about 8,000 URLs which propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 03:35, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

9,400

Enwiki

• Pass 1: Checked 9,455 pages and edited 1,877 pages. Moved 1,745 links to a new URL. Resolved 1,663 ghost redirects. Resolved 10 soft-404s. Removed 10 {{dead link}}. Added 133 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,621 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 80 |url-status=live to dead. Added 92 archive URLs (92 Wayback). Changed 334 citation metadata.

• Pass 2 after improvements to Ghost redirect code: Checked 9,455 pages and edited 3,488 pages. Moved 5,186 links to a new URL. Discovered 5,126 ghost redirects. Resolved 229 soft-404s. Removed 7 {{dead link}}. Switched 5,061 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 16 archive URLs (0 Wayback). Changed 1 citation metadata. -- GreenC 18:24, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

• Pass 3: Checked 9,455 pages and edited 1,359 pages. Moved 1,839 links to a new URL. Discovered 1,780 ghost redirects. Removed 2 {{dead link}}. Switched 1,762 |url-status=dead to live. Added 4 archive URLs (0 Wayback).

• Pass 4: Checked 9,455 pages and edited 276 pages. Moved 378 links to a new URL. Discovered 331 ghost redirects. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Switched 323 |url-status=dead to live. Added 7 archive URLs (0 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

2,655

Enwiki

• Checked 2,654 pages and edited 2,422 pages. Moved 86 links to a new URL. Discovered 3 ghost redirects. Added 115 {{dead link}}. Switched 587 |url-status=live to dead. Added 2,505 archive URLs (2,237 Wayback). Changed 23 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

4,700 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 4,702 pages and edited 4,055 pages. Resolved 2,032 soft-404s. Added 75 {{dead link}}. Switched 550 |url-status=live to dead. Added 5,215 archive URLs (4,721 Wayback). Changed 160 citation metadata.

Analysis: the URLs were unable to convert via the |title= method, like elsewhere with the other articles.* domains. It has ghost redirects, but they are all soft-404s pointing to the home page. Last option was archive URLs, which it was mostly able, except for 75 {{dead link}}.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

1,300 pages GreenC 18:01, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Pass 1: Checked 1,365 pages and edited 1,328 pages. Moved 1,236 links to a new URL. Discovered 1,236 ghost redirects. Resolved 4 soft-404s. Removed 76 {{dead link}}. Added 26 {{dead link}}. Switched 102 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 23 |url-status=live to dead. Added 291 archive URLs (122 Wayback). Changed 7 citation metadata.
• Pass 2: Checked 1,365 pages and edited 241 pages. Moved 266 links to a new URL. Discovered 266 ghost redirects. Removed 25 {{dead link}}. Switched 234 |url-status=dead to live. Added 1 archive URLs (1 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

772 pages

Enwiki

• Pass 1: Checked 774 pages and edited 444 pages. Moved 426 links to a new URL. Discovered 426 ghost redirects. Removed 13 {{dead link}}. Added 28 {{dead link}}. Switched 396 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 12 archive URLs (4 Wayback). Changed 8 citation metadata.
• Pass 2: Checked 774 pages and edited 141 pages. Moved 126 links to a new URL. Discovered 126 ghost redirects. Switched 124 |url-status=dead to live.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

622 pages

Enwiki

• Pass 1: Checked 622 pages and edited 263 pages. Moved 103 links to a new URL. Discovered 103 ghost redirects. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 63 {{dead link}}. Switched 76 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 6 |url-status=live to dead. Added 101 archive URLs (50 Wayback). Changed 7 citation metadata.
• Pass 2: Checked 622 pages and edited 26 pages. Moved 26 links to a new URL. Discovered 26 ghost redirects. Switched 24 |url-status=dead to live.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

123 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 123 pages and edited 75 pages. Moved 4 links to a new URL. Added 4 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 88 archive URLs (78 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

"has a paywall"

133 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 133 pages and edited 23 pages. Added 1 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 18 archive URLs (9 Wayback). Changed 1 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

"redirect to latimes and don't appear to have easy conversion rules"

110 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 109 pages and edited 88 pages. Added 2 {{dead link}}. Switched 10 |url-status=live to dead. Added 113 archive URLs (110 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Checked and updated

 Done -- GreenC 18:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Has been WP:JUDI usurped by a Thai site. Redirects to Gbo5000 - Mainkan Slot Gacor Server Thailand Resmi (dacres.org)
It used to contain photos of European fish, and there are ~18 occurrences in the articlespace. Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 12:51, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

 Done in WP:JUDI batch #19 -- GreenC 17:56, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Domain is usurped, new domain is usemod.org. Paths should work the same. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:44, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

3 pages. I edited them manually.

 Done -- GreenC 18:03, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

655 pages. This domain was sold to a gambling website, and Citation bot changed the titles of these links. Cherry Cotton Candy (talk) 04:11, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done in WP:JUDI batch #19 -- GreenC 17:56, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

262 pages. It has been usurped by a gambling website. Cherry Cotton Candy (talk) 09:14, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done in WP:JUDI batch #19 -- GreenC 17:56, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Old CTV links don't work anymore. I did not find any that were now at ctvnews.ca, Therefore, I request archives for these links only. ~1500 articles. Some of these already have archives added in the article. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:47, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

I did this domain in 2021. Developed code to move links to ctvnews.ca .. example diff: Special:Diff/1029587503/1033596569 .. converted about 1,000 links. But that code won't work anymore as the redirect information no longer exists. Currently there are 1,847 pages. I'll try to find ghost redirects otherwise convert to archive. -- GreenC 23:45, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

That's too bad that the conversion doesn't work anymore. Hopefully some more can be changed over if possible. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:50, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

Checked 1,854 pages and edited 459 pages. Moved 2 links to a new URL. Resolved 6 soft-404s. Switched 4 |url-status=live to dead. Added 133 archive URLs (116 Wayback). Changed 184 citation metadata.

Analysis - It found only 2 conversions. The 133 archive URLs might be links that were missed in 2021 due to improvements in code, new archives at the service provider, or new links (re)added to Wikipedia since 2021. The citation metadata is a new feature not available in 2021. Overall, it looks about expected. -- GreenC 16:42, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

IABot DB

Previously done and for any stragglers I changed the status to permadead in the DB

 Done -- GreenC 16:42, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello again. citynews.ca links are mostly redirecting to toronto.citynews.ca:

• Links with dates: this is now here for The Christmas Shoes (song).
• Links without dates: Other article links need to be converted to toronto.citynews.ca/year/month/day/name-of-article/ - For example this is now here for First Canadian Place. Unfortunately, the old URL does not have the date already listed, so it either has to be extracted from the citation or archived copy. Any punctuation marks are removed

~290 links. If any of these new links do not work, it is possible that it's under a different subdomain like calgary.citynews.ca. As Toronto is the main domain, it might be easier to test if they convert to toronto.citynews.ca, then archive the ones that don't work. Please let me know if any of these don't convert to new links. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:28, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333: Let me know what you want to do with the below 37. If not too complicated. At some point it's easier to fix small numbers by hand. Overall it found most of them successfully Special:Diff/1255156660/1255809021. It scraped the title from the citation |title=, and scraped the date from the archive URL page content; reformatted and assembled into a new URL. -- GreenC 20:02, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Were any of them converted to calgary? I used that as an example as there are 9 subdomains. However, I think that the rest of them would be at toronto and just need manually converting. Let me know if that's the case, and I'll swap the rest manually. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:47, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Converted only 1 calgary Special:Diff/1255149041/1255811790 -- GreenC 21:08, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

Pass 1: toronto and calgary: Checked 298 pages and edited 266 pages. Moved 291 links to a new URL. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 1 {{dead link}}. Switched 39 |url-status=dead to live. Added 10 archive URLs (5 Wayback). Changed 4 citation metadata.

Articles that still have www.citynews.ca links after trying conversion to toronto or calgary.citynews.ca

IABOt DB

• Checked and updated.

 Done -- GreenC 01:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

567 pages. This website always returns the error code 521. Cherry Cotton Candy (talk) 03:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 565 pages and edited 257 pages. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 67 |url-status=live to dead. Added 286 archive URLs (246 Wayback). Changed 2 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and done a few thousand.

 Done -- GreenC 15:51, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

1357 pages for https://www.kotaku.com.au - Kotaku Australia is now redirecting to Kotaku's front page (see update on Aftermath). Sariel Xilo (talk) 23:55, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 1,370 pages and edited 1,303 pages. Added 8 {{dead link}}. Switched 825 |url-status=live to dead. Added 772 archive URLs (749 Wayback). Changed 89 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated about 2,000 links which propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 23:15, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

"disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/" redirects to https://disneyparksblog.com/, with none of the articles/post still active/archived. I've tried to {{dead link}} many of them and have submitted for InternetArchiveBot to run on many of the pages, but I'm sure I missed a bunch of them as well. Elisfkc (talk) 02:55, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

452 pages Elisfkc (talk) 17:51, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 461 pages and edited 390 pages. Removed 1 {{dead link}}. Added 7 {{dead link}}. Switched 156 |url-status=live to dead. Added 544 archive URLs (520 Wayback). Changed 3 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated about 900 URLs that will propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 15:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Colonial Williamsburg site. 10 pages -- GreenC 19:36, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done - via IABot job. -- GreenC 05:07, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello. I was looking through the Judi list and saw that bcsportshalloffame.com is there. These links could be converted over to their new url at bcsportshall.com/honoured_member/ Here are examples:

• Generally, any individual inductee's url is the person's first and last name. Here is now there for Andrea Neil.
• Last names at birth are included in the urls. Here is now there for Claire Lovett.
• (M) is ignored for team inductees. For instance, here is now there for Mark Evans (rower).

Just over 100 links. If any don't convert over, let me know and I'll fix them. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:50, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Hmm.. I've never done something like this. It will require de-usurping, like parsing and removing {{usurped}}. It's an inevitable situation as old usurped domains are migrated to a new working domain. It's probably more complicated than it seems. Will take a look. -- GreenC 16:53, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I was able to fix cites on 85 pages. The pages it was unable to edit:

Jack Whent
Lorne Loomer
Charles Edward Pratt
1934 Women's World Games
Burnaby Lake Rowing Club
Karen Magnussen
Lillian Palmer (athlete)
Greg Ion
Joe Watson (ice hockey)
Donald Arnold
Archibald MacKinnon
Richard McClure
Hugh Fisher (canoeist)
Sven Habermann
Shea Weber
Terry Fox
1934 Women's World Games
Mary Frizzell

-- GreenC 02:42, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Not bad! It makes sense some of it didn't work as the reference titles for Karen Magnussen and Jack Whent were adjusted a bit. I'll tweak the remaining 13 later. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:56, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

OK. Added five more. This search found them. -- GreenC 04:40, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

I've updated the 18 that the bot couldn't fix. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:56, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

User:MrLinkinPark333, great! (just saw). -- GreenC 22:22, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done -- GreenC 14:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Weibo is a Chinese social media platform with a lot of official information disseminated through the official accounts. Some editors tend to use the visitor landing url with prefix when citing a specific post. So a url cited on Death of Li Keqiang goes like:

https://passport.weibo.com/visitor/visitor?entry=miniblog&a=enter&url=https%3A%2F%2Fweibo.com%2F1938487875%2FNpL26wys2&domain=weibo.com&ua=Citoid%20%28Wikimedia%20tool%3B%20learn%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FCitoid%29&_rand=1713694476635&sudaref=

Am hoping to clean all the citations, just to take what goes after the 'url=' with '%3A → :' and '%2F → /' so the url becomes https://weibo.com/1938487875/NpL26wys2. NoCringe (talk) 02:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi NoCringe: 134 pages. The links are not dead, but I can still process them for link normalization. And if it finds any are dead it will add an archive. -- GreenC 05:19, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Please process them. It will make archiving easier since the IABot gets stuck on some of these landing pages. NoCringe (talk) 06:57, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

NoCringe: This is not working. For example in Liu Duan Duan there is this which translates to that. Which is a soft-404 which I don't know how to detect due to foreign script. Furthermore, if you follow the redirect headers, it actually should go to here, which doesn't even work. There are some legitimate working pages, also many not. Without a way to detect the non-working pages, I can't remove existing URLs. -- GreenC 02:47, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Ugh I didn't realise there are variations. I will try to clean them up manually when time permits. Thanks for processing by the way. NoCringe (talk) 08:57, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

User:NoCringe, ok good luck. I wrote the code to extract and decode the sub-URL, if you need me to run it and log the results I can post a three column table: <wikipage> <origiurl> <extracted url> -- GreenC 15:02, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

If it's not too much trouble please run it. It will be useful. NoCringe (talk) 03:15, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

kcchiefs.com redirects to chiefs.com without having an archive of the articles. There are 386 articles on English Wikipedia linking to kcchiefs.com Elisfkc (talk) 19:38, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 384 pages and edited 87 pages. Added 10 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 109 archive URLs (101 Wayback). Changed 1 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated 168 URLs which propagate to 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 02:26, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Possibly a similar modus operandi as detailed in WP:JUDI but in this case identifying domains for sale and changing text to show this as here [1]. Small at present with only about 20 pages affected Lyndaship (talk) 13:01, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi User:Lyndaship, good to hear from you, thanks for the report. That was done automatically by the user-run bot ReFill which checks the page title header and adds it to Wikipedia. I don't think it's malicious intent, a side effect of how reFill "works". Probably the best solution is report to two places (I think) monitor for title string spam: WP:CITATIONBOT, and Help talk:Citation Style 1. I just reported it to later. -- GreenC 17:06, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

There is also WP:CYBERSQUATTER, a page to document squatters like this. -- GreenC 17:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)