User talk:The Earwig

Thank you so much for this very useful tool. Somebody has probably asked this before, but I wonder if there coold be an option to compare the wiki text not to the text of the source, but to an automatic (deepl?) translation of the text of the source. I see sometimes that contributors just do this: copy, paste, translate, copy, paste... which is no better than just copy and paste, but it slips under your radar. --Lewisiscrazy (talk) 16:31, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I can't get to this right now but I've filed an issue on GitHub for it. — The Earwig (talk) 04:13, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Super! --Lewisiscrazy (talk) 17:59, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi cute pic on user page, mate,

Earwig requires login every time. My wiki login stays on, but Earwig copyvio checker asks for login each time. This makes it so hard to use. Could this please be fixed?

Samsung Internet browser in Android, same issue in chrome on winfows 11 and firefox on devuan.

Regards, Gryllida 15:45, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Hey Gryllida, sorry you're having this problem. I haven't noticed it, but I have a theory about why and have tried to make a fix. You will need to log in again but let me know if it happens after that. — The Earwig (talk) 04:54, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I will test it out! Gryllida 08:46, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

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Hi there! I've found your tool really helpful while doing new pages patrol but I've just come across a weird result. I ran a check on William Raffles Flint and the result was 0% but there are two strange links in the Checked Sources that I can't find in the article (I've checked the source code) and I can't find any mention of the article title in the links. One is a forum and the other is a Reddit thread on the OpenAI sub. Any idea what has happened here and how I should interpret these results? Thanks! Orange sticker (talk) 16:53, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Orange sticker, good question. For context: when you do the check with "Use search engine", the tool breaks the article into chunks, tries to pick a set of up to 8 representative sentences from throughout the article, and searches Google for exact hits for those sentences to compare the article against. In this case, it looks like one of the sentences we picked for this article was just "References", (which is the last "sentence" of the article, since we treat headings in the article source as a normal part of the text), and Google is returning those results when we search it for just "References". Of course, "References" is a pretty bad choice of a representative sentence from the article, and we shouldn't have used it. I'll work on fixing that. But hopefully that explains how this happened. — The Earwig (talk) 01:26, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, cool feature! Thanks for explaining. Orange sticker (talk) 07:59, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Could you do this again? User talk:The Earwig/Archive 13#Could your bot tag some articles for me?

I really just need the |importance=Low |society=yes parts added to articles about people. There's no rush. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:06, 25 March 2026 (UTC)