A village pump in Hungarian Wikipedia had not been archived for a long time
before we noticed it.
Investigation showed that the bot had hit a warning-type abuse filter upon
copying the text to archive and saving. In this case the abuse filter
displays a warning and lets the user press Save again if he/she wants to do
it anyway.
Of course, the archivebot
- did not save the page for the second time (could it?)
- did not pass the problematic section and archive the remainder
- did not let the owner know about the problem.
It just silently failed, with logging being the only action.
So what would the desired behaviour be in a similar case? Please keep in
mind that archivebot is tyoically run with cron or other timing, not in
interactive mode.
To see the log click on
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ato/log/archive.txt and
ctrl f for
ERROR: editpage: abusefilter-warning
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