You click a reference on Wikipedia, only to find the URL is broken. It’s frustrating, but it should happen less often now thanks to The Internet Archive.

您单击Wikipedia上的引用，仅发现URL损坏。 这很令人沮丧，但是由于Internet档案库的出现，它现在应该很少见了。

Websites die, and even if they don’t they sometimes take down articles and pages. That’s a problem for Wikipedia, which builds credibility in part by citing other websites. A three year effort by The Internet Archive means 9 million previously broken Wikipedia citations point to the Archive’s Wayback Machine, providing access to source materials that would otherwise be hard for users to track down.

网站消亡了，即使不是，它们有时也会删除文章和页面。 这对维基百科来说是个问题，维基百科部分是通过引用其他网站来建立信誉。 互联网档案馆(Internet Archive)进行了三年的努力，这意味着900万个以前被破坏的Wikipedia引文指向档案馆的Wayback Machine，提供了对用户资料的访问，否则用户将很难找到它们。

Here’s Mark Graham, writing in an official Internet Archive blog post about the program:

这是Mark Graham，他在有关此程序的官方Internet存档博客文章中写道：

For more than 5 years, the Internet Archive has been archiving nearly every URL referenced in close to 300 wikipedia sites as soon as those links are added or changed at the rate of about 20 million URLs/week.

超过5年的时间，Internet档案库已经以大约每周2000万个URL的速度添加或更改了这些链接，从而将近300个维基百科站点中几乎所有引用的URL存档。

And for the past 3 years, we have been running a software robot called IABot on 22 Wikipedia language editions looking for broken links (URLs that return a ‘404’, or ‘Page Not Found’). When broken links are discovered, IABot searches for archives in the Wayback Machine and other web archives to replace them with. Restoring links ensures Wikipedia remains accurate and verifiable and thus meets one of Wikipedia’s three core content policies: ‘Verifiability’.

在过去的三年中，我们一直在22种Wikipedia语言版本上运行一个名为IABot的软件机器人，以查找断开的链接(返回“ 404”或“找不到页面”的URL)。 发现断开的链接后，IABot会在Wayback Machine和其他Web归档文件中搜索归档文件以替换它们。 恢复链接可确保Wikipedia保持准确和可验证，并符合Wikipedia的三个核心内容策略之一：“可验证性”。

The bot fixed 6 million links by pointing to the Archive, while Wikipedia editors linked to 3 million more. It’s a real service for internet users, who can now check references that would otherwise be lost. It’s a little scary that a nonprofit has to do this work, but I’m glad someone is.

该机器人通过指向“存档”修复了600万个链接，而Wikipedia编辑则链接了300万个链接。 对于互联网用户而言，这是一项真正的服务，他们现在可以检查否则会丢失的引用。 非营利组织必须完成这项工作有些令人恐惧，但我很高兴有人这样做。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/bots-and-volunteers-replaced-9-million-broken-wikipedia-references-with-wayback-machine-links/