BoyWiki:Agora/21 March 2016 - Revision history

Meco: fixing sub-page header

2016-03-25T20:02:42Z

fixing sub-page header

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	== Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly. ==		== Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly. ==

Meco: /* Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly. */ webcitation.org

2016-03-24T11:13:03Z

Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly.: webcitation.org

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	How long did that take? [[User:User4\|User4]] ([[User talk:User4\|talk]]) 19:37, 21 March 2016 (UTC)		How long did that take? [[User:User4\|User4]] ([[User talk:User4\|talk]]) 19:37, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

			:3) http://www.webcitation.org/
			:* Equally recommended on Wikipedia to archive.org for providing archive backups of linked pages. I personally use the two interchangeably.
			:__[[User:Meco\|meco]] ([[User talk:Meco\|talk]]) 11:13, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

User4: /* Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly. */

2016-03-21T19:37:21Z

Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly.

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	https://archive.is/JhXii		https://archive.is/JhXii

	How long did that take?		How long did that take? [[User:User4\|User4]] ([[User talk:User4\|talk]]) 19:37, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

User4: I just made a copy at archive.is of this entry

2016-03-21T19:36:44Z

I just made a copy at archive.is of this entry

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	There are a few additional details to be added about using these two services, but I won't waste my time giving clear, precise instructions if this advisory is just going to be ignored (as many good suggestions seem to be). [[User:User4\|User4]] ([[User talk:User4\|talk]]) 19:34, 21 March 2016 (UTC)		There are a few additional details to be added about using these two services, but I won't waste my time giving clear, precise instructions if this advisory is just going to be ignored (as many good suggestions seem to be). [[User:User4\|User4]] ([[User talk:User4\|talk]]) 19:34, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

			*-------

			There. I just made a copy at archive.is

			https://archive.is/JhXii

			How long did that take?

User4: /* Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly. */ new section

2016-03-21T19:34:44Z

Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly.: new section

New page

== Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly. ==

'''Links to news articles and web pages often die quickly.'''

News articles are sometimes put behind a "pay-wall" after a certain time, making them inaccessible.

Websites stop paying for being hosted, and their pages become unavailable.

Solution:

1) archive.org/web
* Put each article into the WayBack machine search engine. If the article or webpage is ''not'' yet saved to archive.org, then choose to save it. (It takes only a few seconds to do this.)

2) archive.is
* This is another service of archive.org, but different. Pages are saved, but ''not'' added to the regular archive.org site.
:Sometimes the WayBack machine will ''not'' offer to save a page, but the page ''can'' be saved at archive.is.
::archive.is then gives a special "short" url to access the saved page.
::: again, it takes only a few seconds to do this.

If these precautions are ''not'' taken, then many articles posted on BoyWiki will soon become unavailable! This has happened with many sites and web pages listed on BoyLinks, '''even though they were long ago advised of this problem, and of the solution.'''

There are a few additional details to be added about using these two services, but I won't waste my time giving clear, precise instructions if this advisory is just going to be ignored (as many good suggestions seem to be). [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 19:34, 21 March 2016 (UTC)