Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests/Archives/2020/June

web.mit.edu/invent/ redirecting to lemelson.mit.edu/
any hyperlink containing http://web.mit.edu/Invent/ simply redirects to https://lemelson.mit.edu/. for example http://web.mit.edu/Invent/iow/sillyputty.html redirects to https://lemelson.mit.edu/. there are 250+ articles. Vishnuvardhan leela (talk) 13:54, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Vishnuvardhan leela: I think the solution for this is add archive URLs (when possible) since there is no apparent replacement URL. I will do this but it won't be right away due to other work. -- Green  C  16:44, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * This is completed. It added 250 archive URLs and a couple dead link tags, in 196 articles. Example. -- Green  C  20:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

greatwomen.org redirecting to womenofthehall.org
any hyperlink containing http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id= simply redirects to https://www.womenofthehall.org/?action=viewone&id=. the redirected page does not contain any relevant data, but it is homepage. for example http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=18 redirects to https://www.womenofthehall.org/?action=viewone&id=18. there are 31 articles. Vishnuvardhan leela (talk) 14:13, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Looks like a similar scenario as the above. -- Green  C  16:45, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * hello GreenC if you havent started, i will add them manually or use iabot. there are only 31, very few, can fix them by tomorrow midday Vishnuvardhan leela (talk) 18:01, 13 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Maybe I am misunderstanding this. An "insource" search on "greatwomen.org" gets 87 hits in main article space.  It's true that a search on "greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall" reduces it to 34.  Am I getting 53 false hits?
 * Also, FWIW, these pages seem to mostly be available under archive.today (though a very small sampling suggests that the oldest capture is usually better than the most recent capture). There is a case to be made that (for our purposes) these archived versions are preferable to the content on the new website. Fabrickator (talk) 18:45, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Vishnuvardhan leela and Fabrickator: Yes the entire domain greatwomen.org is dead. I also count 87 with  in main and file space. -- Green  C  19:47, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Added 66 archives in 66 articles. Example. -- Green  C  22:54, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

DTB_2008
Convert about 2,200 instances of  to , undo existing archives and dead link tags. See   and WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request --  Green  C  15:00, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. About 2,224 links in the same number of articles. Example. -- Green  C  04:02, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

American Radio History - new domain name
Hello. American Radio History is now World Radio History. Therefore these URLs should be moved over (they currently redirect) i.e. this is now here. At least 10,000 results with https www., same with http www. Around 2000 with http without www and 600 with https without www. Please let me know if any of these break as I suspect some of them had been moved to new URLs before the domain name change. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:30, 15 June 2020 (UTC)


 * On the list to do. For the moment I manually fixed Template:Billboard_Year-End_number_one_singles_1960–1979. --  Green  C  18:42, 16 June 2020 (UTC)


 * This is kind of complicated. The operator of this website has blocked access to Wayback backups on the "americanradiohistory.com" domain and then there is an issue that the urls for specific pages (which are returned when you do a search) are generally not available in the new domain (these are not treated as "persistent" urls, even though they may last "indefinitely", until there is a change to the structure of the urls or there is some other kind of update, it seems that they wipe out all the urls that resulted from searches).  I think the "search" urls actually serve our needs  better, because a single page naturally results in a much faster download and doesn't require the user to search through the issue for the relevant page.


 * An alternative would be to use Wayback's own archive of these publications, but this is even worse (I think each file includes a year's worth of issues).  If the website operator could be convinced to unblock the Wayback copies, that would produce the best result and save a lot of work.  If we were to re-run the searches, we could archive the results in archive.today to avoid the fact that these are not persistent, and access wouldn't be subject to the whim of the website owner. Fabrickator (talk) 01:14, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case, perhaps it would be better to hold off from this request then. I wasn't aware of the Wayback block :/ --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:03, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Domain change from editionsdulys.com to editionsdulys.ca
There are a lot of backlinks across Wikipedia to subpages of editionsdulys.COM. The domain name has recently changed to editionsdulys.CA due to a domain hijacking. Is there a way to automate the changes through all the Wikipediapages linking to the old domain name? 104.171.61.51 (talk) 16:47, 28 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, I see 8 pages. Can you do those manually or am I missing some? -- Green  C  17:35, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I will change these manually. I believe there are links from other language Wikipedias though. I will try to manually change some. 208.124.145.18 (talk) 15:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)