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Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)

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[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.

My impression was/is that over the last years/decade Wikipedia made efforts to/switch to not linking directly but extending direct links with (dated) Web Archive links or using Web Archive links directly (dated as "sourced from this in this state; which protects against upstream edits too).

[-] tiago@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Have not contributed enough to Wikipedia! I'd like to implement this on links I come across.

How does one get an Archive link for a specific date and website? I tried snooping around but am not familiar

[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wikipedia has guidance for it as Citing sources. Regarding web links specifically section Handling links and Preventing and repairing dead links.

The Web Archive "Wayback Machine" is available at web.archive.org. It has a "Save Page Now" action too.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/beehaw.org gives you a history of archived versions of that URL.

The Web Archive "Wayback Machine" is a project from archive.org, which does much more in archiving and accessibility efforts. An alternative service for websites is https://archive.ph/.