Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2022/November

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Unearthed Arcana article series on dnd.wizards.com

Looks like Wizards of the Coast pulled all Unearthed Arcana articles (https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana) articles from before 2020 (ex: Waterborne Adventures (2015), Psionics and the Mystic – Take Two (2016), Dragonmarks (2018), etc). I started to manually update this at List of Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks#Unearthed Arcana (since it seems all of them have been archived) but it's a lot of articles and I'm not sure what other Wikipedia articles use the UA articles as sources. Thanks! Sariel Xilo (talk) 20:29, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

How would you know if the article is pre-2020 vs post-2019? I guess pre-2020 if it redirects to https://dnd.wizards.com/news/archive?category=unearthed-arcana -- GreenC 02:24, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

It's only in 9 articles:

Good to know it's not as widespread as I feared (List of Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks#Unearthed Arcana has ~85 UA articles listed)! What I didn't realize is that Wizards didn't do redirects for all the post-2019 articles (ex: the Jan 2020 article original link goes to the UA archive redirect instead of to https://dnd.wizards.com/unearthed-arcana/subclasses-part-1). So I think everything with https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana is dead. Sariel Xilo (talk) 02:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Alright it's done. -- GreenC 03:28, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Twitter

Can/should archive links be added to sources from Twitter which don't already have them via a bot? Media coverage on the company is showing it is increasingly unstable and I'm a bit concerned about the potential future link rot. Thanks! Sariel Xilo (talk) 02:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

That would be a really big project I don't want to get into unless there is evidence of a big link rot problem. Proactively, Internet Archive should already be archiving Tweets into the Wayback Machine, they'll be available if/when the links dies. -- GreenC 02:59, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Sounds good! Sariel Xilo (talk) 03:06, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

DT Next

At some point the website revamped itself, but the old links don't redirect to the new ones. This is an old link, and this is the new one. If the bot can't replace the links (I don't expect it to), can it add archives to the dead ones or at least tag the existing links as dead? Kailash29792 (talk) 02:15, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

User:Kailash29792, it tested all URLs for 404, and added about 350 new archive URLs and 50 {{dead link}}. -- GreenC 21:29, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Four BBC hosts will shortly be removed

Details in this Mastodon post. The four deprecated hosts are:

m.bbc.co.uk
ssl.bbc.co.uk
m.bbc.com
ssl.bbc.com

In all cases, the hosts should be changed to www.bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.com (see post). Is it possible to easily get the scale of the problem? I don't know the Wikipedia linkrot tools well enough to know if it's possible to search comprehensively for URLs matching a pattern. — ʞɔıu 14:59, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

@Nkocharh, [1], [2], [3], [4] shows the usage of the links on English wikipedia. – robertsky (talk) 15:05, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Ah, brilliant, thanks! So here's what we have:

For a total of 542 links. What's the best way to bulk migrate these? — ʞɔıu 15:16, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

User:Nkocharh: they are done. -- GreenC 17:13, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

That's great, thanks! — ʞɔıu 17:25, 23 November 2022 (UTC)