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Wikipedia also hit pretty hard by link rot, nice thing there at least is that volunteers can try to fix it
by tonto 9y ago
Wikipedia also hit pretty hard by link rot, nice thing there at least is that volunteers can try to fix it
- toomuchtodo 9y agoWikipedia is working with the Internet Archive to automate the prevention of link rot.
- jake-low 9y agoFor anyone curious, you can help fix dead reference links on Wikipedia in just a few seconds. If you find a page that has a dead link (or several), click the "View History" tab at the top, then click "Fix Dead Links" to run the InternetArchiveBot on the page. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot
- exikyut 9y agoGenuine question. Why isn't this done automatically? Astronomical (even suspicious) amounts of continuous outgoing bandwidth?
- RugnirViking 9y agoJust speculating but possibly the difficulty of finding a truly dead link. Often they just redirect to a registry asking if you want to buy the domain. but redirects are also present in legitimate pages