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		jacquesm 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learn... Linkrot is a problem and edited articles are another. Because you can cite all you want, but if the underlying resource changes your foundation just melted away.

jayflux 1 day ago [–]

Pretty much every citation added to wikipedia is passed on to web archive now, either by the editor or automatically later on.

For news articles especially the recommendation now is to use the archive snapshot and not the url of the page.

It’s not a perfect solution, but it tries to solve the link rot issue.

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