[WikiEN-l] SOS -- Save Our Sources

[Michael Bimmler]

On 12/3/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen it happen and I'm pretty sure it continues to happen. Sometimes
> websites disappear. Not that uncommon on the web, but it can be disastrous
> for Wikipedia articles when those sites happen to be the source for an
> article. I think there should be an organized effort to have pages for
> uncommon sources cached and to replace dead links with their archived
> counterparts. Is there such an effort yet?
>
Î've sometimes seen WP articles linking to web.archive.org-entries,
when sites were missing. Don't know, whether this is what you meant...
Michael

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