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Wikipedia information page<br>This is an information page.<br>It is not a Wikipedia policy or guideline; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms or practices. It may reflect varying levels of consensus.
Shortcut<br>WP:ATODAYWP:ATODAY
This page in a nutshell: Archive.today and its domains are deprecated for use on English Wikipedia. New links to the service cannot be added. We need your help with removing existing links to it.<br>The English Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today and its related websites. This decision was agreed on after a request for comment with more than 200 participants concluded in February 2026, and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors' and readers' computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages.
The addition of links to these websites is already being blocked by the edit filter, and it will likely be added to the spam blacklist in the future. Before that happens, we need everyone's help to replace or remove links to these websites . As of February 28[update], 2026, the citation templates in popular use on Wikipedia (WP:CS1 and WP:CS2) will not render Archive.today and affiliated archive URLs.[1]
Note: archive.org, or web.archive.org, run by the Internet Archive and the most-used web archive on Wikipedia, is uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today. Please keep using archive.org.
How you can help<br>[edit]
Find an article containing one of these links<br>[edit]
Please help remove and replace links to these domain names:
archive.today – search
archive.is – search
archive.ph – search
archive.fo – search
archive.li – search
archive.md – search
archive.vn – search
Fix a random page with an archive.today link
Other options<br>[edit]
The tracking category 'CS1 maint: deprecated archival service' has a list of the 267,746 articles and pages in other subject namespaces (excluding user pages) using archive.today or its associated TLDs .fo, .is, .li, .md, .ph, and .vn.
We have a list of the highest traffic articles containing these links ! Please pick one and see if you can replace the archive links (and/or the sources themselves, if something better is available). As of 27 May 2026 : 16 to go!
You can narrow the search results from the list above by clicking the search link, then adding a keyword (e.g., "politician" or "painting") to the search box, and re-running the search box.
We're working on a way to create smaller work lists focused on any articles that interest you (e.g., within List of songs by Taylor Swift or within a custom list that you create).
There is a new web-based tool for detecting and removing these websites. Go to https://fixarchive.toolforge.org/ and put in the name of an article, category, or topic to scan it and automatically search for a different archiving link. If it finds one, check the article and the suggested link to make sure that the archived copy will verify the article content. Then click the 'Verified?' button and 'Push Verified Archives to Wikipedia'. It will open the editing window, copy/paste the new link, and show you a diff of the changes. It will not publish the changes to the article; you need to check the diff and decide if you want to post that yourself.<br>If the 'Verified?' button stays greyed out: ensure you've clicked the green highlighted Archive link (if you only right-click to open in a new tab, it will not un-grey the button).
Full dump of all articles linking to archive.today without duplicate entries as of 20 February 2026 is available here (warning: broken encoding ; download the file to fix it). This may be most useful to bot operators.
Users on the AutoWikiBrowser checkpage can use AutoWikiBrowser or JavaWikiBrowser to generate a list of all pages that link to archive.today, and edit the links out directly in the interface. The only thing you have to do to move on to the next page once you are done with one is click "Save".
Articles with many uses can be tagged with {{deprecated archival service|date=May 2026}}. Due to the scale of the problem, please don't tag pages with just one or a few of these deprecated URLs right now.
Replace or remove the link<br>[edit]
There are three main ways to do this:
Use a different archiving service . Replace the archive link so it points to a different archive with a copy of the source, such as the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/), Ghostarchive (https://ghostarchive.org) or Megalodon (https://megalodon.jp; how to use megalodon.jp). More options can be found at the list of web archives.
Find a new source . Change the original source to something that doesn't...