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mtv.com

All mtv.com/news links have broke according to https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/. Looks like we have several thousand references. --Nintendofan885T&Cs apply 22:52, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Variety is reporting that 20 years of MTV News archives have been pulled. A few I've tested seem to support that:

Thanks! Sariel Xilo (talk) 23:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

FYI looks like mtv.com is marked as permalive on IABot so it will ignore the links on other wikis (as GreenC bot only processes enwiki) --Nintendofan885T&Cs apply 23:23, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

WaybackMedic can edit the IABot database, changing target links to permadead, which then propagate to the other wikis, via IABot. I will also process all MTV links on enwiki as normal, and see what other soft-404 rules might be discovered, which can also be applied to the IABot database. -- GreenC 01:30, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Soft-404 Rules: When a redirect matches the regex, and original URL does not match. Example for rule #1: [1] redirects to [2]
  1. ([.]|[/])mtv[.]com([.](tw|br|au))?(/(music|#))?/news/?
  2. ([.]|[/])mtv[.]com([.](tw|br|au))?/?$
  3. ([.]|[/])paramountshop[.]com/?$
  4. ([.]|[/])mtv[.]com([.](tw|br|au))?/[?]xrs=PPM-18-10caf1c/?$
  5. ([.]|[/])mtv[.]com([.](tw|br|au))?/category/ffftn1/style/?$
  6. ([.]|[/])paramountplus[.]com/brands/mtv/#ftag=PPM-18-10caf1c/?$
  7. ([.]|[/])mtvema[.]com(/en-us)?/?$
  8. ([.]|[/])mtv[.]com([.](tw|br|au))?/videos/?$
For Enwiki: Checked 19,690 pages and edited 18,113 pages. Moved 319 links to a new URL. Removed 2 {{dead link}} templates. Added 787 {{dead link}}. Switched 11,106 |url-status=live to dead. Added 27,134 archive URLs (25,337 Wayback).
More work to do, about 700 pages missed due to Cirrus vs. SQL search incongruities. -- GreenC 01:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Done. Checked 643 pages and edited 192 pages. Moved 92 links to a new URL. Added 14 {{dead link}}. Switched 4 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 51 |url-status=live to dead. Added 54 archive URLs (44 Wayback). -- GreenC 15:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
For IABot database updates: est. 3-4 days -- GreenC 00:23, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Done. Checked about unique 51,000 links. Over 98% are hard and soft dead. Uploaded the information to IABot which will be changing the links across 300+ wikis. -- GreenC 15:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 Done with mtv.com -- GreenC 15:58, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
@GreenC: Can you also check the following sites found through the certificate (don't match the above regex) that have seemingly also killed their news sections and have similar redirect-to-homepage deadlinks looking at Special:LinkSearch?
  • mtv.pl (mtv.pl/newsy)
  • mtv.co.uk (mtv.co.uk/news)

Thanks! --Nintendofan885T&Cs apply 19:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Nintendofan885, thanks. New sections below. -- GreenC 14:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

kp.by

Looks like there's a soft-redirect from kp.by to kp.ru links, such as "https://www.kp.by/daily/27084/4156223/" in Victory Day (9 May) being dead, but "https://www.kp.ru/daily/27084/4156223/" working GrapesRock (talk) 18:26, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

117 pages -- GreenC 16:22, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 Done - Checked 121 pages and edited 116 pages. Moved 149 links to a new URL. Removed 33 {{dead link}} templates. Added 2 {{dead link}}. Switched 10 |url-status=dead to live. Added 7 archive URLs (4 Wayback). -- GreenC 19:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

dailynews.gov.bw

URLs of the form "http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/news-details.php?nid=23359" that I've checked soft-redirect to "https://dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/23359" (example from Gladys Olebile Masire) GrapesRock (talk) 20:58, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

90 pages. -- GreenC 19:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
       newurl = <url>

       subs("http://", "https://", newurl)

       # normal site
       # http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/news-details.php?nid=23359
       # https://dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/23359         

       if newurl ~ "www[.]dailynews[.]gov[.]bw/news-details[.]php[?]nid=":
         subs("www.dailynews.gov.bw", "dailynews.gov.bw", newurl)
         subs("/news-details.php?nid=", "/news-detail/", newurl)

       # mobile site
       # http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/mobile/news-details.php?nid=10829&flag=
       # https://dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/10829                          

       if newurl ~ "www[.]dailynews[.]gov[.]bw/mobile/news-details[.]php[?]nid=":
         subs("www.dailynews.gov.bw", "dailynews.gov.bw", newurl)
         subs("/mobile/news-details.php?nid=", "/news-detail/", newurl) 
         subs("&flag=", "", newurl)
  • Soft-404: if redirect URL is https://dailynews.gov.bw/page-not-found
 Done - Checked 91 pages and edited 71 pages. Moved 111 links to a new URL. Removed 20 {{dead link}} templates. Added 6 {{dead link}}. Switched 22 |url-status=dead to live. Added 9 archive URLs (7 Wayback). -- GreenC 21:58, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

blackcountryhistory.org

From the page 1980, "http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB149_P_915/" soft redirects to "https://www.blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB149_P_915/" (adding a "www." to the start fixes the dead link, and might as well upgrade security). GrapesRock (talk) 17:33, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

123 pages -- GreenC 22:52, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
User:GrapesRock - the website has CloudFlare protection at maximum level ("Click box if you are human"). My bot is unable to verify if the new URL is working. Given the low number of links, and simplicity of the move (adding "www" to the domain), I will go ahead and do a "blind move" ie. without verifying. -- GreenC 23:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 Done - Checked 130 pages and edited 106 pages. Moved 133 links to a new URL. Removed 1 {{dead link}} templates. Switched 28 |url-status=dead to live. Added 5 archive URLs (2 Wayback). -- GreenC 23:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

cmt.com

Country Music Television, sister company of MTV. Paramount cost cutting: https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/cmt-mtvs-eradication-of-editorial-content-is-a-catastrophe/

6,278 pages GreenC 02:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

  • Enwiki - Checked 6,244 pages and edited 3,242 pages. Moved 47 links to a new URL. Removed 2 {{dead link}} templates. Added 310 {{dead link}}. Switched 1 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 616 |url-status=live to dead. Added 5,635 archive URLs (5,327 Wayback). Changed 220 citation metadata fields. -- GreenC 14:05, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
  • IABot DB - Checked and updated 6,831 URLs.

 Done -- GreenC 22:44, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

cc.com

Comedy Central. More Paramount cost cutting: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comedy-central-website-daily-show-clips-wiped-out-1235933345/amp/ -- GreenC 15:03, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

909 pages -- GreenC 15:11, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Soft-404 when a link redirects to one of these:

  1. ([.]|[/])cc[.]com/[?]xrs=PPM-18-10caf1[chd]/?$
  2. ([.]|[/])paramountplus[.]com/shows/tosh-0/#ftag=PPM-18-10caf1d/?$
  3. ([.]|[/])paramountplus[.]com/shows/the-daily-show/#ftag=PPM-18-10caf1d/?$
  4. ([.]|[/])paramountplus[.]com/brands/comedy-central/#ftag=PPM-18-10caf1d/?$
  5. ([.]|[/])southpark[.]cc[.]com/seasons/south-park/?$
  6. ([.]|[/])cc[.]com/fan-hub/the-daily-show[?]xrs=PPM-18-10caf1d/?$
  7. ([.]|[/])southpark[.]cc[.]com/?$
  8. ([.]|[/])southpark[.]cc[.]com/wiki/Main/?$

Results:

  • Enwiki - Checked 918 pages and edited 782 pages. Moved 135 links to a new URL. Removed 2 {{dead link}} templates. Added 121 {{dead link}}. Switched 18 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 136 |url-status=live to dead. Added 656 archive URLs (638 Wayback). Changed 131 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB Checked 2,338 links of which modified 1,675. Changes will propagate to 300+ wikis via IABot.

 Done -- GreenC 19:03, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

tvland.com

TV Land. More Paramount cost cutting: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comedy-central-website-daily-show-clips-wiped-out-1235933345/amp/ -- GreenC 15:08, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

100 pages -- GreenC 15:12, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Soft-404 when a link redirects to:

  1. paramountplus[.]com/browse/#ftag=PPM-18-10caf1i/?$

Results:

  • Enwiki: Checked 106 pages and edited 42 pages. Moved 17 links to a new URL. Added 1 {{dead link}}. Switched 2 |url-status=live to dead. Added 22 archive URLs (20 Wayback). Changed 8 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB: Checked 184 links and modified 172

 Done -- GreenC 00:41, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

zdnet.com

"it went through major changes that broke many of its old links" - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-internet-s-memory-is-under-threat/ar-BB1oRToN

5,100 pages -- GreenC 19:01, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Soft-404s are any redirects that match this:

  1. zdnet[.]com/topic/(virtualization|microsoft|enterprise-software|apple|networking|education|storage|computing|hardware|social-media|government|smartphones|innovation|open-source|security|smb|collaboration|google|big-data)/?$

Bot results:

  • Enwiki: Checked 5,148 pages and edited 2,442 pages. Moved 2,325 links to a new URL. Removed 2 {{dead link}} templates. Added 52 {{dead link}}. Switched 32 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 116 |url-status=live to dead. Added 639 archive URLs (554 Wayback). Changed 403 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB: Checked 9,883 links and modified 2,629. Changes will propagate to 300+ wikis.

 Done -- GreenC 02:24, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

mtv.pl

Paramount site per #mtv.com: mtv.pl (mtv.pl/newsy) 35 pages ---- GreenC 14:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done - Checked 35 pages and edited 19 pages. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Added 39 archive URLs (39 Wayback). Changed 2 citation metadata fields. -- GreenC 02:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

mtv.co.uk

Paramount site per #mtv.com: mtv.co.uk (mtv.co.uk/news) 1,700 pages -- GreenC 14:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Bot results:

  • Enwiki - Checked 1,741 pages and edited 1,503 pages. Moved 942 links to a new URL. Removed 1 {{dead link}} templates. Added 22 {{dead link}}. Switched 61 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 228 |url-status=live to dead. Added 755 archive URLs (688 Wayback). Changed 280 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB - Checked 2,616 unique links and fixed 1,550 which will update on 300+ wikis

 Done -- GreenC 21:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

catholicnewsagency.com

This page "http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15190" soft-redirects to "http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/15190" which redirects to "https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/15190/cardinal-rouco-opens-cause-of-canonization-for-spanish-couple" (example from Opus Dei) GrapesRock (talk) 18:10, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

2,000 pages -- GreenC 22:03, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

GrapesRock: In Charles of Sezze I found: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=416 .. do you think it soft-redirects? Also http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/document.php?n=147 in Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, and https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/martyrology_entry.php?n=596 in List of Catholic saints, and http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=409 in Natural marriage, and http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1360 in Mark Templeton (trombonist). There are probably more. -- GreenC 22:22, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

GrapesRock (talk) 23:05, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. -- GreenC 01:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Bot results:

  • Enwiki - Checked 2,004 pages and edited 1,352 pages. Moved 1,754 links to a new URL. Removed 9 {{dead link}} templates. Added 5 {{dead link}}. Switched 70 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 5 |url-status=live to dead. Added 101 archive URLs (90 Wayback). Changed 75 citation metadata fields. -- GreenC 01:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
  • IABot DB - Checked 3,445 unique links and changed 432 which will propagate across 300+ wikis.

 Done -- GreenC 14:13, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

pac-12.com

Hello. Pacific 12 Conference links are not working. Some can be moved to a new URL while others cant:

Miscellaneous links that do not work that are not under the /article/ format include /content/, and /event/.

Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Enwiki: Checked 879 pages and edited 825 pages. Moved 736 links to a new URL (per soft-redirect rules given above). Added 72 {{dead link}}. Switched 9 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 45 |url-status=live to dead. Added 1,261 archive URLs (1,235 Wayback). Changed 135 citation metadata fields.
IABot DB: Checked 1,193 unique links and updated 890. Will propagate across 300+ wikis via IABot.
-- GreenC 04:35, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Looking through the remainder links, I see the third link above now redirects here. The date was wrong in the old URL.Therefore, I think this could be revisited later to see if any more links have been moved. I don't think it's worth going through them again now as I've only found that one so far today. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:56, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Hmm that exposes a logic flaw in my bot. If there is a soft-redirect defined, it checks the status and when it fails, it assumes the URL is dead. In this case, the soft-redirect failed but a hard redirect existed. It adds overhead to check again so I never do, I am presuming the original link must be dead. As always, can't presume. The question is the overhead worth it - yes for this site, maybe not for others. It's worth retrying a set of articles to see what happens -- GreenC 01:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
The link wasn't working on Friday but it is today. This makes sense as when I asked Pac-12 about the broken links on Friday, they said not all of the links were redirecting while they're reworking the site. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:40, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
ω Awaiting site to be reworked -- GreenC 23:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

tampabay.com

Both /blogs/soundcheck and /blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics extensions seem to be removeable from the link to achieve a soft-redirect.

Examples:

GrapesRock (talk) 00:58, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

6,800 pages -- GreenC 16:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Bot results:

  • Enwiki: Checked 6,846 pages and edited 2,329 pages. Moved 2,533 links to a new URL. Removed 3 {{dead link}} templates. Added 83 {{dead link}}. Switched 214 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 84 |url-status=live to dead. Added 944 archive URLs (751 Wayback). Changed 164 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB: Checked 9,980 unique links and updated 3,366 which will propagate across 300+ wikis via IABot

Started a thread about this at User talk:GreenC bot#Tampabay.com.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 00:43, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done -- GreenC 04:35, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

bet.com

Black Entertainment Television (Paramount) - 2,100 pages -- GreenC 02:01, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Soft-404 redirect rules:

  • bet-awards(/(nominees|performers|photos))?/?$
  • soul-train-awards(/nominees)?/?$
  • hip-hop-awards(/(nominees|photos|videos))?/?$
  • shows(/soul-train-awards)?/?$
  • vertical(/(jo1ilh/celebrity|o2fii9/news))?/?$
  • topic(/betexperience)?/?$

Bot results:

  • Enwiki: Checked 2,143 pages and edited 1,522 pages. Moved 1,190 links to a new URL. Added 57 {{dead link}}. Switched 36 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 71 |url-status=live to dead. Added 620 archive URLs (584 Wayback). Changed 263 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB: Checked 3,087 unique links and changed 1,164 which will propagate across 300+ wikis via IABot

 Done -- GreenC 04:22, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

abclocal.go.com

Soft-redirects that I found:

These ABC affiliates don't seem to work: wpvi, wjrt, wtvg

I'm sure that there's other ones that didn't appear in the first two pages of searching abclocal.go.com (and I can test them if you link them). I found the correct domain by searching the thing directly after .com/ (such as ktrk) on the internet and selecting the corresponding ABC affiliate (and found the Elton John one by searching the title given in the WP article).

(and a question: is this page just for moving *dead* links? I think all pages with espn.go.com in the domain now are either dead or redirect normally) GrapesRock (talk) 16:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Looks like some wpvi links actually do redirect, such as http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/politics&id=6038619 to https://6abc.com/archive/6038619/ (from Dana Redd).
Some, however, do not, such as http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertainment&id=4498224 (from Elton John). GrapesRock (talk) 18:33, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
To answer your question, the bot can/will also move redirects that it encounters. Assuming they pass any soft-404 rules. -- GreenC 19:24, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
1,855 pages -- GreenC 04:39, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
GrapesRock, good discovery. The bot checked all abclocal.go.com links on enwiki, it didn't find any additional affiliates. It attempted the soft-redirects per rules above. If not live, it added an archive URL. One thing I did not check, it's possible the new soft-redirect URL when it returns 404 it previously worked and thus has an archive URL, but the one's I manually checked either don't exist or end up soft-404 (redirect to home page), so I didn't look for those. I did check wjrt (abc12.com) and wtvg (13abc.com) for any working soft-redirects. -- GreenC 21:52, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Bot results:

  • Enwiki: Checked 1,857 pages and edited 1,422 pages. Moved 1,389 links to a new URL. Removed 13 {{dead link}} templates. Added 74 {{dead link}}. Switched 650 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 18 |url-status=live to dead. Added 301 archive URLs (184 Wayback). Changed 30 citation metadata fields.
  • IABot DB: Checked 3,938 unique links and updated 3,889 which will propagate to 300+ wikis via IABot
 Done -- GreenC 02:32, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

ew.com

Hello, Old URLs for Entertainment Weekly that mainly consist of numbers don't work. These links can be sorted into multiple categories:

Since the new URLs don't always match the date/title format, I would like the broken links to be focused on first Then, if any of the archived links have a working URL in the date/title format, they could be converted over. Any links that don't have a matching date/title format can keep the archived URL because I can't predict the new URL.

These numbers include ones that are already fixed, such at the above link at Don't Tell Me. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 18:54, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

For #2 this is one of those dead redirects that eventually leads to the answer. It's a multi step process:

  1. Convert http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302934,00.html to https://redir.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302934,00.html
  2. Run this which finds a redirect saved in the Wayback Machine: wget -q -O- 'https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=https://redir.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302934,00.html&MatchType=prefix' | awk -v u="https://redir.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302934,00.html" '/text\/html 30[12]/{a[++i]=$2}END{print "https://web.archive.org/web/" a[i] "/" u}'
  3. With the answer from #2 run this: curl -ILs 'https://web.archive.org/web/20160606115016/https://redir.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302934,00.html' | /usr/local/bin/awk '/^[ ]*[Ll]ocation:/{sub("^[ ]*[Ll]ocation:[ ]*https?://web[.]archive[.]org/web/[0-9]{14}id_/", "", $0); a[++i]=$0}END{print a[i]}'
  4. Which produces: https://web.archive.org/web/20151030104409/http://www.ew.com/article/1994/07/15/buckshot-lefonque .. from which extract the answer: http://www.ew.com/article/1994/07/15/buckshot-lefonque

For #3 same as #2, although in this example it leads to a soft-404.

For #4 same as #2. There are over 100,000 URLs in the wayback machine to redir.ew.com so there should be a good chance of finding, though not for this example. -- GreenC 22:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

If that's easier than extracting the title/date, that could work. Didn't know this would be a complex change. Maybe more URLs could be fixed than I thought, even the ones that already have archived copies! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:39, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Well, like in https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,302934,00.html there is no title/date in the URL string, and the page itself is dead, so the only way is search the Wayback Machine for old redirects. Unless you have another idea. It does appear to be working pretty well so far getting a lot, it's only slow because of the multiple I/O steps, and large number of links to process. -- GreenC 00:55, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
I mean title/date in the citation would be added to the URL string like at buckshot. Then again, there's not always dates nor does the title always match the URL like for Heavy Competition. Searching https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ew.com/article/2009/04/17/* for Heavy Competition doesn't give an archived updated URL. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Ah yeah that method will be very hit or miss because it depends on the title in Wiki matching exactly the title in the URL. It worked for a two-word title, but I suspect for longer titles the URL drops words and punctuation. Maybe with a lot of experimenting. It also depends on the date being available. For now, I am doing the above old-redirects-in-wayback method which is getting a lot of positive results. -- GreenC 15:13, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Yesterday there was a multirack hardware outage at archive.org that may take some time to fully recover, some of the services I need for this work are running slow or intermittent. -- GreenC 14:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
MrLinkinPark333, I need to scale back the number of parallel processes to 2 because it's slow and tying up my rate-limited slots at the archive. This works but it will be running a long time. This way I can move on to other work. It will remain in "working" mode for a while, could be weeks not sure. Diff uploads will be in intermittent batches. -- GreenC 15:13, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
No worries. It is a big request after all. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:49, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Bot results:

NOTE: List of URL discoveries for future reference, or in case anyone needs it.

Enwiki: Done in 5 chunks, total was 8,673 pages

  • Checked 1,000 pages and edited 804 pages. Moved 454 links to a new URL. Removed 1 {{dead link}} templates. Added 4 {{dead link}}. Switched 164 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 97 |url-status=live to dead. Added 359 archive URLs (290 Wayback). Changed 106 citation metadata fields.
  • Checked 1,000 pages and edited 910 pages. Moved 604 links to a new URL. Removed 1 {{dead link}} templates. Added 5 {{dead link}}. Switched 286 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 78 |url-status=live to dead. Added 333 archive URLs (274 Wayback). Changed 113 citation metadata fields.
  • Checked 2,220 pages and edited 1,761 pages. Moved 1,172 links to a new URL. Removed 2 {{dead link}} templates. Switched 457 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 170 |url-status=live to dead. Added 724 archive URLs (581 Wayback). Changed 180 citation metadata fields.
  • Checked 2,220 pages and edited 1,731 pages. Moved 1,126 links to a new URL. Removed 1 {{dead link}} templates. Added 3 {{dead link}}. Switched 450 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 145 |url-status=live to dead. Added 736 archive URLs (657 Wayback). Changed 184 citation metadata fields.
  • Checked 2,233 pages and edited 1,734 pages. Moved 1,187 links to a new URL. Removed 4 {{dead link}} templates. Added 5 {{dead link}}. Switched 490 |url-status=dead to live. Switched 167 |url-status=live to dead. Added 724 archive URLs (619 Wayback). Changed 198 citation metadata fields.

IABot DB: Checked 14,591 unique links and changed 13,886 which will propagate across 300+ wikis via IABot

 Done -- GreenC 05:27, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

ghostarchive.org

Web archive provider GhostArchive is dead as of July 19. insource:ghostarchive insource:/ghostarchive[.]org/ = 66,000 pages to be converted/deleted. -- GreenC 21:20, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

I just tried two links [3] from England national football team and [4] from YouTube and they both seemed to work? GrapesRock (talk) 03:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Same, GhostArchive works fine for me... don't know why GreenC is/was having trouble. Nex 🌐 📰 leave a message 04:05, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Interesting! https://ghostarchive.org/ doesn't work .. and this admittedly hearsay post that said it is defunct, with a specific reason: Special:Diff/1230523321/1235539197. If anyone finds more information, let me know. I won't do anything until the situation is understood. -- GreenC 05:01, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Looks like I'm still able to archive. For instance, I just archived https://example.com here.
Edit: looks like 10 hours ago people were having similar issues on lostmediawiki forum, though they don't give an explanation. GrapesRock (talk) 06:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Can you access https://ghostarchive.org/ ? -- GreenC 17:55, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Yeah. I'd presume it's still down for you? GrapesRock (talk) 17:57, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Yes, down. It appears to be local to my Firefox browser, works on a different browser. The oddity is other people reported an outage. Maybe something with SSL certificate or DNS. -- GreenC 19:45, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

 Not done - false alarm -- GreenC 01:48, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Note: Ghostarchive keeps getting down at random times, i am thisisanusername123 on that forum
The website showed "Unknown domain" for me Notrealname1234 (talk) 15:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
It did for me also, I suspect something got corrupted with SSL (https) certificates, or cookies, or DNS cache, and then stuck in the local browser cache. If it happens again try clearing browser cache or a different browser. There are intermittent problems with WebCite and Archive.today also that effect some users and not others. -- GreenC 16:12, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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