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Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content

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Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology report - Wikipedia
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After the website archive.today launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started. After the discovery of tampered archives, consensus was reached to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times on the English Wikipedia.

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    Wikipedia not having their own archives by now is a huge vulnerability.

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      Especially given the amount of money they’ve raised. Insane that at this point they didn’t have a system to automatically archive any sources automatically

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      https://archivebox.io/ exists, they need to get to self-hosting one asap

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