Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square35linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 days agoWikipedia was using archive.today to link to off-wiki articles such as news articles, where the links had stopped working. Similar to how it also uses the archive.org Wayback machine for the same purpose.
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 days agoI understand now. I completely missed the point. Leaving my comment up, but I’ll edit it.
Wikipedia was using archive.today to link to off-wiki articles such as news articles, where the links had stopped working. Similar to how it also uses the archive.org Wayback machine for the same purpose.
I understand now. I completely missed the point. Leaving my comment up, but I’ll edit it.