User talk:The Earwig

Hi, I've been sent here by Sigma to deliver you: an error message (for EIA) . Any help would be greatly appreciated

Kowal2701 (talk) 12:38, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Kowal2701, your end date is malformed. You put '20231010' as the start date which is valid, but '15012025' for the end date which is not. The tool expects YYYYMMDD. — The Earwig (talk) 23:09, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

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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