I believe that’s what InternetArchiveBot is for, but apparently at the moment it only updates references when they break; at least, that’s how Ymblanter summarized the request for permissions. Also, its contributions show no edits since October 29, I’m not sure if that’s a problem.

Cheers,
Lucas

To guard against link-rot of news websites when they're used as Reference for statements in Wikidata, is there any bot that is systematically going around and collecting new URLs that are added with the Reference URL property (P854), adding them to Internet Archive, copying the result, and then adding that as Archive URL property (P1065) + Archive Date (P2960) back into the original statement? 

If not, would that be feasible, and a good idea?

-Liam 

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