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"9 million broken links on Wikipedia are rescued"
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:31 pm
by ericbarbour
https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/mor ... w-rescued/No one has physically checked all 9 million links; I suspect that at least some of them might be oversighted revisions that some admin doesn't want anyone to see. Also, we occasionally need to remind the world that
the Internet Archive has had extremely friendly relations with Wikimedia for more than 10 years. So it is not inconceivable to think that someone will ask the Archive to remove some of those links--in order to keep covering something up.
Also: a useful chart:
- Wikipedia_To_Wayback_Machine.jpg (38.19 KiB) Viewed 5809 times
Re: "9 million broken links on Wikipedia are rescued"
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:51 pm
by CrowsNest
They're doing really well in their desire to ban use of the Daily Mail......
I've no doubt Wikipedia is in friendly terms with Wayback, but is it friendly enough to hide all evidence when they want an archive copy vanished? The sort of stuff lawyers ask to see.....i.e. the European Commission, the very people Wikipedia might one day soon be trying to convince you can't have your right to vanish because once it's on Wikipedia, it's archived.
Re: "9 million broken links on Wikipedia are rescued"
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:51 am
by CrowsNest
Re: "9 million broken links on Wikipedia are rescued"
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:51 pm
by Dysklyver
Sometimes I wonder if Drmies is actually blind.
Re: "9 million broken links on Wikipedia are rescued"
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:40 pm
by LargelyRecyclable
ericbarbour wrote:Also, we occasionally need to remind the world that the Internet Archive has had extremely friendly relations with Wikimedia for more than 10 years. So it is not inconceivable to think that someone will ask the Archive to remove some of those links--in order to keep covering something up.
I don't know, I archived some extremely unflattering activities of a new member of the inner circle, which I submitted in my ArbCom case, and they're still there. Is there a process for "unarchiving" pages?
Re: "9 million broken links on Wikipedia are rescued"
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:15 pm
by ericbarbour
LargelyRecyclable wrote:I don't know, I archived some extremely unflattering activities of a new member of the inner circle, which I submitted in my ArbCom case, and they're still there. Is there a process for "unarchiving" pages?
Ha ha. You must be joking. Unless you can talk an admin into doing it (and no other admin decides to rehide it), there is no "process".