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Downloaded 10,000 citations from recent English Wikipedia Good Article candidates and their non-English same-topic counterparts. Only 61% fetchable, between 404s, paywalls, botwalls, etc. Not great.

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@lefttack.bsky.social

Sounds pretty good to me, the whole concept of web link being essentially broken by design for non-ephemeral use. Are there activists doing systematic cleanups on wikipedia? For personal use I've mostly switched to keeping PDF snapshots of interesting pages instead of links.

Luis Villa

@lu.is

No one is doing systematic cleanups, beyond archive.org. Part of the problem is that essentially all books and academic articles are unreachable this way. I have some ideas on how to fix that for this project but that can’t work for the general public.

archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Luis Villa

@lu.is

Can probably bring this number up some, and in the grand scheme of Wikipedia 10,000 citations counts as a small sample size. But still not great.