Pepperage Farm remembers when Wikipedia was mass transitioning citations to archive sites because the original sites couldn’t be trusted to retain the information over time.
Oh how the turn tables.
Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
Submitted 16 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology_report
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Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 hours ago
Wikipedia still does that, but only for trusted websites such as archive.org
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
Archive.today owner looks like a clown.
I had no idea they were doing all kinds of nefarious shit like that.
null@lemmy.org 14 hours ago
Wikipedia not having their own archives by now is a huge vulnerability.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Them hosting their own archives of copyrighted articles would need to be non-public (for citation verification only), since if they did an archive.today-like public service, it would certainly get them sued by a constant carousel of copyright owners until they run out of money.
Archive.org might be a sign that most would look the other way, but given how tightly they are balanced between survival and oblivion, I don’t think that’s a good idea.
maus@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Especially given the amount of money they’ve raised. Insane that at this point they didn’t have a system to automatically archive any sources automatically
baatliwala@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
archivebox.io exists, they need to get to self-hosting one asap