Archive.today owner looks like a clown.
I had no idea they were doing all kinds of nefarious shit like that.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Wikipedia not having their own archives by now is a huge vulnerability.
Them hosting their own archives of copyrighted articles would need to be non-public (for citation verification only), since if they did an archive.today-like public service, it would certainly get them sued by a constant carousel of copyright owners until they run out of money.
Archive.org might be a sign that most would look the other way, but given how tight Wikipedia's funding is, I don't think that's a good idea.
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
Pepperage Farm remembers when Wikipedia was mass transitioning citations to archive sites because the original sites couldn't be trusted to retain the information over time.
Oh how the turn tables.
Wikipedia still does that, but only for trusted websites such as archive.org