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For 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 "V
by jake-low 9y ago
For 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