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About the bot

InternetArchiveBot

2019 Coolest Tool Award Winner

in the category
Impact

InternetArchiveBot is an advanced bot that identifies and replaces broken external links. InternetArchiveBot makes other enhancements to references as well, including filling out bare reference templates and adding links to resources where appropriate. InternetArchiveBot monitors every Wikimedia wiki for new outgoing links and actively makes fixes on over 400 Wikimedia wikis. This bot is operated as a service of the Internet Archive in partnership with the Wikimedia community.

Bot operation

Starting and stopping the bot

Blocking the bot is not necessary to stop it.
Click "View Run Pages" below. Make sure the correct wiki is selected from the drop-down menu at the top.
If the page says: "This wiki is: Enabled"
- To disable the bot, write the reason why the bot should be disabled, then click "Disable".
- Leave a message on User talk:InternetArchiveBot explaining why you disabled the bot. Include bad edits that have been made.
If the page says: "This wiki is: Disabled"
- To enable the bot, write the reason why the bot should be enabled, then click "Enable".
- First, make sure the bot has consensus to run on your wiki. Follow your wiki's bot policies.
- If the bot was disabled due to bugs such as making incorrect edits, make sure those bugs have been fixed first.
If the bot is blocked, please leave a message at User talk:InternetArchiveBot immediately.
Even if the bot is not running on a given wiki, the Internet Archive creates archives of almost every new external link added to every Wikimedia wiki, and has been since 2013. If a bot is blocked or disabled on a wiki, it does not stop this work.

View Run Pages

Configuring the bot

The bot's behavior can be changed to suit the wikis needs. This is done by updating values in on the configuration page of the interface. Click the link below to access the configuration page. Make sure the correct wiki is selected from the drop-down menu at the top. Only administrators can edit the configuration for a given wiki.

View Configuration Page

Using the bot

Requesting specific articles

You can use the Analyze a Page interface to fix dead links, or to add archive links to all links, on a specific page. Edits made using this tool will be attributed to you. Make sure the correct wiki is selected from the drop-down menu at the top.

You can also queue the bot to run on multiple pages. These articles will be added to InternetArchiveBot's queue of edits to make.

Help with translation

InternetArchiveBot's management interface is available in many languages thanks to volunteer translators. Your help with translation is greatly appreciated. Visit translatewiki.net to help.

Contact us

Bot Talk Page Telegram IRC (irc.libera.chat #iabot)

Credits

Original Developer: Cyberpower678
Maintainers: Cyberpower678, Harej, GreenC
Past Contributors: Kaldari, Niharika, Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech

Source

GitHub

Operation status

For the most up to date information see the run pages

🟢 InternetArchiveBot is currently running on 300+ Wikimedia wikis.
🟢 InternetArchiveBot is being tested on Japanese Wikipedia (ja).
🟡 Testing is stalled on Alemannisch Wikipedia (als) and Asturian Wikipedia (ast).
🔴 Bot is approved but disabled on Hungarian Wikipedia (hu).
🔴 Bot is approved but disabled indefinitely pending software improvements on French Wikipedia (fr), MediaWiki.org, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia (nn), Polish Wikipedia (pl), and Portuguese Wikipedia (pt).

Last updated: 20:17, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

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