In a recent move, Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today, a website that stores snapshots of web pages. As a result, over 695,000 archived links are being removed from the platform.
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Jon Brodkin
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I’m so sick of these arbitrary decisions Wikipedia makes without consulting the community. ‘Blacklisting’ Archive.today is just another example of their lack of transparency and accountability. It’s all about perspective, folks, but from where I stand, it looks like a bunch of gatekeepers trying to control what we can access online.
And don’t even get me started on the removal of 695,000 archived links. That’s just my two cents, but it seems like a massive overreach to me. What’s next? Are they going to start deleting entire articles because some bureaucrat doesn’t like them?
I’m not saying I agree with Archive.today’s methods or everything they do, but at the very least, we should be having an open discussion about this issue instead of just imposing changes without any input from the c