It would be nice if Wikipedia automatically integrated with WayBackMachine or some other archive service. Or even directly backed up the information when it was linked.
I have a wiki editor account primarily for updating links on pages. I have also done a handful of minor edits on some obscure pages in my field, but primarily use it to update links and references. Link rot is the worst and I wish more people would help out with it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
When a link is dead, does Wikipedia allow you to change it to an archived copy of the webpage from before it was taken down?
MrEff@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not sure. I have typically just done a Google search and refound the link under the same domain but with a different sub routing.
cucumberbob@programming.dev 3 days ago
Even if the link isn’t dead, most citation templates that accept a |url= parameter also accept |archive-url=, |archive-date=, and |url-status=
Also, newly added links are automatically archived on the Wayback Machine iirc.