Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square23linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 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-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 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.