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[[en:link rot|Linkrot]] is a serious problem for everythe singleWikipedia languageof Wikipediaevery language. Content is supposed to be based on previously published sources. In our modern age, manyMany of sources are onlinethese sources, which only exist in this online format and not in print. When thesesuch sources die, the information in Wikipedia citing it is in question; and if no replacement for the dead citationsource can be found, then the information is no longer easily attributable to the original source. That means our readers can no longer check the validity of the cited claimclaims, which means the statement (in the end)eventually needsneed to be removed. That also meansAnd the work that had previously beenwas spent on researching thatthe deleted information has been wasted.
[[en:WebCite|WebCite]] (see also [http://www.webcitation.org/ externalits linkown website]) is an on-demand archiving service to permanently store webpages. Thus, even if the original websiteweb page changes or disappears, the cited information is still verifiable usingif the cachedcontributor versionto ofWikipedia has had the webpageforesight onto archive the web page at WebCite.
AccordingIt to[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28technical%29&diff=536744113&oldid=536742065 ais statementclaimed] by another Wikipedian,that EN Wikipedia currently has over 180 ,000 links to WebCite. If WebCite dies, all these links will break and many of those references will be unusable, especially if the original link is already dead.
The service is currently in financial troublestrouble. '''''The idea is that the Wikimedia Foundation takes control over the WebCite service, including the physical infrastructure (such as servers) and the domain''''' ''<nowiki>http://www.webcitation.org/</nowiki>''. '''''In return, the WMF would use part of its funds to finance the necessary modernization of the service.'''''
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