Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square35fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 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-up10·2 days 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.