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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by iso-8859-1 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @08:57AM (#18121091)
There was a big drama in 2012. http://Archive.is was proactively archiving Wikipedia links. An unauthorized bot (RotlinkBot) was linking to Archive.is. The bot was banned.

I liked how Archive.is was so fast at archiving, its UI more clean. And since it proactively archived links, it still happens today that a dead reference link will be archive in Archive.is, but not in the Wayback Machine.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RotlinkBot

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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by duckington on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#18123535)
I'm guessing Archive.is will probably disappear within the next 5 years, taking all data down with it.

Nobody knows who owns or maintains the site, and recently the mysterious owner started taking donations to keep the site running. It's a commercial enterprise.

Slick UI or not, Archive.org's longevity is probably more feasible.

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