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Yongmin
Sent: 30 June 2015 05:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012
Try to find links from https://archive.org/web
Il 30/06/2015 11:41, Lilburne ha scritto:
The average lifespan of a webpage is about 77 days. It matters not
whether the site is still running or dead. Webmasters shuffle stuff
about and delete things at will. Click on the random article button
and see a) how many of the first 10 have external
Try to find links from https://archive.org/web/ , http://webcitation.org ,
or https://archive.is (note: this last one is blacklisted on enwp, iirc). I
revived few deadlinks (not this host though) from these archives.
And try to make habit of archiving websites when you cite something. I
think I
: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012
Try to find links from https://archive.org/web/ , http://webcitation.org , or
https://archive.is (note: this last one is blacklisted on enwp, iirc). I
revived few deadlinks (not this host though) from these archives.
And try to make habit of archiving
Le mar. 30 juin 2015 à 4:41, Lilburne lilbu...@tygers-of-wrath.net a
écrit :
Lesson: the
internet is ephemeral and the only permanent record is on physical
material.
Digital media can be more technically demanding to work with, but I
wouldn't say it is intrinsically ephemeral, much less
On 30/06/2015 10:58, Ricordisamoa wrote:
Il 30/06/2015 11:41, Lilburne ha scritto:
The average lifespan of a webpage is about 77 days. It matters not
whether the site is still running or dead. Webmasters shuffle stuff
about and delete things at will. Click on the random article button
and see
The average lifespan of a webpage is about 77 days. It matters not
whether the site is still running or dead. Webmasters shuffle stuff
about and delete things at will. Click on the random article button and
see a) how many of the first 10 have external links, and b) how many of
those links are
There's a point to be made there: Libraries in some countries are still
being destroyed (see
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-library-ancient-manuscripts
and http://elaph.com/Web/Culture/2015/2/985403.html or
The website findarticles died in 2012 causing over 20 000 articles to have dead
links on them. A few of them was backed up on Wayback, but their robot.txt
changed so all those archives were deleted as well. So either articles have a
dead link showing as 200 (which findlinks.com does) or they
