They're starting to do this: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ We have started cr

They're starting to do this: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ We have started crawling the outlinks for every new article and update as they are made – about 5 million new URLs are archived every day. Now we have to figure out how to get archived pages back in to Wikipedia to fix some of those dead links. Kunal Mehta, a Wikipedian from San Jose, recently wrote a protoype bot that can add archived versions to any link in Wikipedia so that when those links are determined to be dead the links can be switched over automatically and continue to work. It will take a while to work this through the process the Wikipedia community of editors uses to approve bots, but that conversation is under way.