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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. | 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. | 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. | Specifying the time ''in the link'' feels like extra work when I already need to find that on Wayback itself. | ||
Revision as of 12:27, 23 June 2024
Issues with the template
How do I use it to just insert a specific link from Wayback?
For example, Half-Life's original website
If I try inserting the part after /web/, 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 https://web.archive.org/web/... because the most likely use for people is going to be inserting specific links they already found.