Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Automatic Archiving of Cited Web Pages in Web Archive
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[edit]A good way to start on this would be for the MediaWiki software to automatically create an RSS/Atom feed of links to newly cited external resources, allowing other people to implement their own archiving solutions independently of the WMF. The Anome (talk) 18:29, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- There is InternetArchiveBot doing exactly this and I believe all we need to do is get it running on every wiki. Or have I misunderstood this wish? A09|(pogovor) 20:21, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think you have misunderstood it: InternetArchiveBot only identifies and replaces broken external links, this wish here is about archiving pages once they are cited (roughly that time) so in case it goes 404 e.g. InternetArchiveBot has an archived link it could add to the link. By the way, InternetArchiveBot edits can clutter watchlists, there's no need for editors to spend time to check all the edits it does. Prototyperspective (talk) 00:28, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Moreover, little archiving is done on Commons. It would be good if external links on there were archived as well, especially when in the source field. (This is also useful for license review, see here.) Prototyperspective (talk) 17:29, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- I think you have misunderstood it: InternetArchiveBot only identifies and replaces broken external links, this wish here is about archiving pages once they are cited (roughly that time) so in case it goes 404 e.g. InternetArchiveBot has an archived link it could add to the link. By the way, InternetArchiveBot edits can clutter watchlists, there's no need for editors to spend time to check all the edits it does. Prototyperspective (talk) 00:28, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Already done?
[edit]Archive.org has been doing it, archiving webpages when the URL is added to Wikipedia. But to what extent is unknown to me. Relevant collections:
- https://archive.org/details/wikicollections?tab=collection
- https://archive.org/details/wikipedia-eventstream?tab=collection
- https://archive.org/details/wikipediaoutlinks?tab=about
Example of a capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20220101074942/https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/parliament-workers-party-opposes-proposed-law-on-fake-news-pritam-singh
The article is being referenced in en:POFMA article.
You can see it by clicking on 'About this capture' to expand the details on the capture. Robertsky (talk) 09:06, 6 August 2024 (UTC)