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		Gander5739 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removin... This already happens. Every link added to Wikipedia is automatically archived on the wayback machine.

RupertSalt 57 days ago | [–]

[citation needed]

Gander5739 57 days ago | [–]

Ironic, I know. I couldn't find where I originally heard this years ago, but the InternetArchiveBot page linked above says "InternetArchiveBot monitors every Wikimedia wiki for new outgoing links" which is probably referring to what I said.

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