Conceptually I agrees, somewhat… but partly not. on wiki pdfs aren't downloaded they're viewed on an in-page viewer, its basically not a PDF at that point, so i don't get the value of classifying the links for them.

Broken links should be fixed, but in the case where they can't the internet archive things sounds pretty interesting.

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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Brion's email reminds me that we sometimes use an icon resembling Adobe's A to identify PDF, which is very ugly for an open standard. FSFE's initiative welcomes design help to make their icons better, their maintainer told me: http://pdfreaders.org/graphics.en.html

Also, the Internet Archive brought up a proposal to "Create a visual format/style to include an archived link next to an external link".
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Archived_Pages

Nemo

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