Hi James,
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable on Wikipedia projects?
I just did a quick tally and less than 40% of the external links cited in the introductions of L1-vital enwiki health and social science articles I sampled were good, and that's only counting those which didn't already have a {{dead link}} tag.
I thought that the bots were doing a better job of replacing dead links with archive copies than they apparently are.
Two items to share:
* In FY17-18 Annual Plan, Program 11 [1]: Objective 1, Outcome 1 is closely related to your question/observation. I expect more research in this space as a result.
* InternetArchiveBot [2] is one bot that I know operates in this space. If you are interested in it, it would be good to have a discussion with the team behind that bot to learn how the bot currently operates and what it needs to be improved.
Best, Leila
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/D... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:InternetArchiveBot
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