@Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down11cross-posted to: newstechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.com@Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square33fedilinkcross-posted to: newstechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-square@solrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilink12•2 months 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-square@dan@upvote.aulinkfedilink10•2 months agoI understand now. I completely missed the point.
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.