archive.today incident
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack against a blog.[1] Some archives have also been altered. On 20 February, English Wikipedia became the first Wikimedia site to deprecate the archive service.[2] Other communities are still discussing this issue.
As of 15 June 2026, the following domains have been globally blacklisted by stewards, citing WMF's recommendation and due to further issues caused by the site's owner:[3]
archive.todayarchive.isarchive.liarchive.foarchive.pharchive.vnarchive.md
Discussions
[edit]Wikipedia
[edit]| Ed. | Consensus | CON since | Current discussions | Archives |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ar | Block | 2026-04-01 | RfC | |
| de | AN, VP | AN, VP | ||
| en | Deprecate | 2026-02-20 | VP, CS1, AF, WA | RFC |
| es | VP, RfC draft | |||
| fr | Block | By acclamation | centralized page, VP, RTRC bulletin | SBL |
| id | VP | |||
| it | discussion in progress | |||
| ja | VP | |||
| ko | policy proposal | |||
| nl | VP | |||
| pl | VP | |||
| ro | Block | VP | ||
| ru | VP | |||
| simple | VP | |||
| sv | Block | VP | ||
| tr | VP | |||
| vi | VP | |||
| zh | VP | |||
| zh-yue | VP |
Other wikis
[edit]| Project | Status | Current discussions | Archives |
|---|---|---|---|
| commonswiki | |||
| specieswiki | VP | ||
| wikidatawiki | RfC | ||
| enwikivoyage | Removed from mainspace only | VP | |
| frwikivoyage | Removed & blacklisted | VP | |
| enwiktionary | VP | ||
| frwikibooks | Removed | VP | |
| frwikiquote | Removing | VP | |
| frwiktionary | VP | ||
| nl.wikibooks | Removed & blacklisted | VP | |
| nlwiktionary | VP |
Notified:
From WMF
[edit]- 2026-02-10 WMF note on enwiki (Delivered by User:EMill-WMF)
Information pages
[edit]- Guidance and strategies: Archive.today guidance (Q138391690)
Actions
[edit]| Project | AF | AF action | BED | SBL | Cite | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| brwiki | Listed | |||||
| dewiki | #464 | None | bot notification | |||
| enwiki | #1402 | Disallowed | ||||
| enwikivoyage | #89 | Tag only | Listed | |||
| frwikivoyage | Listed | |||||
| frwiki | Listed | |||||
| frwikibooks | Listed | |||||
| frwikiquote | Removed | |||||
| frwiktionary | Listed | |||||
| itwikivoyage | Listed | |||||
| kowiki | #172 | Tag only | ||||
| nlwiki | #180 | None | ||||
| nlwikibooks | Listed | |||||
| rowiki | Listed | |||||
| svwiki | Listed | |||||
| zhwiki | #393 | None | Warning popup |
Global AF
[edit]- Special:AbuseFilter/449 (tracking)
Global SBL
[edit]- Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2026-02#archive.today and mirrors (procedurally declined)
- Special:Permalink/30693186#Archive.today (added)
Gallery
[edit]-
Archive.today inspect element screenshot
References
[edit]- ↑ Brodkin, Jon (February 10, 2026). "Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2026-02-11.
- ↑ Brodkin, Jon (February 20, 2026). "Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
- ↑ Talk:Spam blacklist § Archive.today