View source for Template talk:Wayback

== Issues with the template ==

How do I use it to just insert a specific link from Wayback? 

For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205094204/http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/half-life/ Half-Life's original website]

If I try inserting the part after <nowiki>/web/</nowiki>, with the numbers, it automaticaly precedes the numbers with a 9, and breaks the link.

Generally I think the most use it would have is specifying exact pages. Specifying the general mirror of a page sounds unwise, as it can in the future become a later capture after some website broke or got sold or something else. Specifying the latest capture is similarly of limited use. Usually it's the ancient ones you'll want.

Specifying the time ''in the link'' feels like extra work when I already need to find that on Wayback itself.

I'd suggest a minimum amount of automation, so that editors can simply insert the page-specific part of the link and it would autocomplete it (from the 'front') with <nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/</nowiki>... because the most likely use for people is going to be inserting specific links they already found.

[[User:Cvoxalury|Cvoxalury]] ([[User talk:Cvoxalury|talk]]) 12:23, 23 June 2024 (PDT)

: I tried to take your comments into account and finalized the template. Now, by default, the oldest version is opened if a long number is not specified in the link, and also when this number is specified, everything works correctly. --[[User:Max34|Max34]] ([[User talk:Max34|talk]]) 02:00, 24 June 2024 (PDT)

::Seems to be perfect now, thank you. [[User:Cvoxalury|Cvoxalury]] ([[User talk:Cvoxalury|talk]]) 08:26, 24 June 2024 (PDT)