Wikipedia has deprecated and will blacklist archive.today

Wikipedia has deprecated and will blacklist archive.today(en.wikipedia.org)

16 points by gyrovague-com 87 days ago | 7 comments

The archive.today owner made a good suggestion: Wikipedia should make their own archive. They can migrate all archive.xx snapshots there. They have the resources and it would be as resilient as Wikipedia itself.

jsheard 87 days ago | |

Since Wikipedia established that the archiver tampered with stored pages I doubt migrating is on the cards, the trust in those archives has been burned regardless of who hosts them going forward.

armchairhacker 87 days ago | | |

AFAIK the only evidence of tampered pages are those involved in this controversy. That archive.xx could tamper pages has always been possible (and a reason why Wikipedia should have their own archive, and migrate ASAP).

But still, Wikipedia can corroborate any archive.xx page, and if they find a matching source, archive that instead.

LegionMammal978 87 days ago |

> Change the original source to something that doesn't need an archive (e.g., a source that was printed on paper), or for which a link to an archive is only a matter of convenience.

As if paper sources are any less susceptible to becoming increasingly unavailable over time...

Iolaum 87 days ago |

Is there more context available - sounds like there's a bigger story than what is mentioned in the article.

r721 87 days ago | |

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805