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Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content

https://lemmus.org/post/20736956

Mar 10 at 10:08amWeb
Show threadnullMar 10
Wikipedia not having their own archives by now is a huge vulnerability.
Show threadmausMar 10
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
Show threadbaatliwalaMar 10
archivebox.io exists, they need to get to self-hosting one asap
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Show threadNekoKonekoMar 11

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.

Show threadTetsuoMar 10

Archive.today owner looks like a clown.

I had no idea they were doing all kinds of nefarious shit like that.

Show threadLudicrous0251Mar 10

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.

Show threadScrolloneMar 10
Wikipedia still does that, but only for trusted websites such as archive.org