Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1172arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldwikipedia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1171arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square34fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldwikipedia@lemmy.world
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·20 hours 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-up9·20 hours 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.