Innerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1214arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Linksarstechnica.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square33linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·14 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-up10·14 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.