Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2025/April

usip.org

United States Institute of Peace was forceably shutdown by DOGE with help from DC Capital Police (guns involved by not fired). Website was shut down. 933 pages. -- GreenC 19:16, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 936 pages and edited 758 pages. Added 52 {{dead link}}. Switched 158 |url-status=live to dead. Added 681 archive URLs (599 Wayback). Changed 114 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked about 1,100 unique links and updated about the same. Changed domain status permadead.

 Done -- GreenC 16:45, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

wayback.archive.org

Found ~50 articles using wayback.archive.org. Thought I mention it here cause of WaybackMedic. Also, for some reason Rich Harden and Truce of Altmark have archive.today links that archived wayback.archive.org links. This does make me wonder if there are any other archive.org links that have archive.today in the URL. Haven't figured out the syntax for that. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:09, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

I wrote a program that runs automatically every 2 weeks converting non-standard Wayback domains like this one to web.archive.org. It won't convert strings outside a URL, URLs with a timestamp with a "*", URLs in a wiki comment, etc.. so that is probably most of it, various edge cases that would be better done by hand. Not too concerned with the double archives at Archive.today they exist but in small numbers. WaybackMedic can unwind double/triple archives when encountered. -- GreenC 18:52, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

abc.net.au/news/stories

This is now here for Reaction Time (book), but unfortunately does not redirect. It also can't be converted to the new URL as the id does not match. ~3400 articles. Thank you! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 23:57, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 3,480 pages and edited 3,322 pages. Added 31 {{dead link}}. Switched 959 |url-status=live to dead. Added 3,734 archive URLs (2,604 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Processed and updated 5,500 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 00:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

equipu.cl

This domain apparently expired, I am not sure how many links are to "equipu.cl" and how to replace them. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:13, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

22 pages. Will do. -- GreenC 18:39, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 22 pages and edited 20 pages. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 16 archive URLs (16 Wayback).

IABot DB

• Processed about 50 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 22:39, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

tfaw.com

TFAW (Things From Another World) announced that it is shutting down with its website (https://www.tfaw.com/) going dark on April 30. It's a comics e-commerce site with some amount of blog posts; only about ~60 articles although it looks like a lot of the older blogs from the site (like from before 2010) are already dead. Sariel Xilo (talk) 22:12, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 61 pages and edited 25 pages. Added 2 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=live to dead. Added 23 archive URLs (14 Wayback).

Looks like most were previously archived

IABot DB

• Processed and updated 94 unique links

 Done -- GreenC 22:59, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

abc.net.au/misc

abc.net.au/*/txt/ and abc.net.au/*/transcripts/

Inspired by the above abc.net.au item, I've just recalled once again that all these old links are dead and need to be archived. They either come up with "Page not found" errors (like this) or "Page archived" errors like this one or that one, and InternetArchiveBot doesn't seem to realise they're dead lihnks. I was going to provide a list of linksearch texts to use, but it'd get very long very quickly and I'm not sure how much help it would be. Any assistance archiving these links would be appreciated. Graham87 (talk) 02:56, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

541 pages -- GreenC 03:54, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 541 pages and edited 370 pages. Added 5 {{dead link}}. Switched 47 |url-status=live to dead. Added 357 archive URLs (327 Wayback). Changed 12 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked and updated 625 unique links that propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 21:23, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

{{dead link}} verification

Every few years, I check all links marked with {{dead link}} and attempt to discover archive URLs for them. WaybackMedic has advanced search technology that can discover archives other tools miss. Typically about a 15% success rate. This is a large project and slow due to the number of articles, currently about 300,000. I do it in batches of 30-50 thousand articles, which takes a few days to process. The statistics/results for each batch will be posted in this section. This job consumes all bot resources, it will be on and off while doing other projects in between batches. -- GreenC 18:45, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

• Pass 1: Pages 1 to 50,000: Edited 8,200 pages. Added 8,734 archive URLs (5,346 Wayback) -- GreenC 01:33, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
• Pass 2: Pages 50,001 to 100,000: Edited 8,076 pages. Added 8,843 archive URLs (5,649 Wayback) -- GreenC 05:28, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
• Pass 3: Pages 100,001 to 150,000: Edited 8,019 pages. Added 8,466 archive URLs (5,281 Wayback) -- GreenC 02:44, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
• Pass 4: Pages 150,001 to 200,000: Edited 8,139 pages. Added 8,336 archive URLs (5,222 Wayback) -- GreenC 22:59, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
• Pass 5: Pages 200,001 to 250,000: Edited 8,281 pages. Added 8,789 archive URLs (5,714 Wayback) -- GreenC 06:30, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• Pass 6: Pages 250,001 to 316,770: Edited 10,979 pages. Added 11,458 archive URLs (7,74 Wayback) -- GreenC 00:08, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

  Looks like you've accidentally omitted a digit from (7,74 Wayback). 2A00:807:D9:A2AF:29C5:73BC:FE8C:9F86 (talk) 21:49, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 316,776 pages. Edited 51,694 pages. Added 54,626 archive URLs.

IABot DB

• Updated 40,586 unique URLs which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 17:55, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Four RCCs

All cites of [1], [2], [3], and [4] need to be marked as dead. I believe there is no alternate location for this data. WFUM🔥🌪️ (talk) 20:10, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Because there are so few pages and links I went ahead and set the domains to permadead in the IABot database which should take care of most of it. -- GreenC 15:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

srcc.tamu.edu

0 pages

sercc.com

30 pages

hprcc.unl.edu

31 pages

mrcc.purdue.edu

5 pages

 Done -- GreenC 15:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

covid.gov

Site has been hijacked(?). Appears to be a propaganda outlet for covid conspiracy theories - probably should be usurped. -- GreenC 19:21, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

2 pages on Enwiki. Need to scrub IABot. -- GreenC 19:22, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

yea Gladcape2013 (talk) 00:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

It is official the federal government has acquired a lab week as the issue on coronavirus Gladcape2013 (talk) 04:03, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

leak* Gladcape2013 (talk) 04:04, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• No pages

IABot DB

• 24 links TBD

Similar to above changed to domain to permadead in the IABot database. Also added to the usurp list at WP:JUDI so the url-status is updated on enwiki. -- GreenC 15:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done

desimartini.com

Desimartini. No longer active. Kailash29792 (talk) 02:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

249 pages

Enwiki

• Checked 260 pages and edited 251 pages. Added 20 {{dead link}}. Switched 99 |url-status=live to dead. Added 145 archive URLs (139 Wayback). Changed 49 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked 359 unique URLs and updated about the same.

 Done -- GreenC 22:20, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

archive.fiba.com

This website now redirects to fiba.basketball but does not reirect to the new links.They can't be converted either due to the new strings (such as here to there for Madagascar). Some of these links have already been archived. ~3900 pages. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:35, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Did you request FIBA before? I recall generating a lot of archive.fiba.com links in 2022 and 2023, the last time they moved URLs (Special:Diff/1088207822/1088292106 and Special:Diff/1168750626/1173686109). Looks like they moved again, and again neglected to create redirect mappings, this time unrecoverable due to different domain, path and IDs. SEO is a thing. -- GreenC 15:44, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Another user made that request. I requested archives for archive.usab.com around the same time back in 2023. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:32, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

OK. Wish websites could redirect map. "The old refrain". -- GreenC 20:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

This will take a while. The link density per page is high, Wayback API is running slow, some other issues specific to the domain. -- GreenC 04:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

The bot has a decision tree which URLs move through as it tests for status and archive availability. The number of possible paths through the tree are countless. Ideally it's a short path but some domains don't behave well and it can take a long time to wind through and come to a final decision. I was able to tweak certain areas to speed it up where it kept going down a path that hit some lengthy sleep-retry cycles. -- GreenC 16:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Enwiki

• Checked 3,907 pages and edited 3,764 pages. Added 2,303 {{dead link}}. Switched 108 |url-status=live to dead. Added 14,565 archive URLs (13,536 Wayback). Changed 138 citation metadata.

IABot DB

• Checked 23,600 unique URLs and update the same which propagate through 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 01:55, 29 April 2025 (UTC)