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Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 8 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] null@lemmy.org 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] maus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

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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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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

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[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago*

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.

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