Dietmar Lettau

Internet Archive / web.archive.org

Copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016_August_2#Internet_Archive_.2F_web.archive.org (as info/reminder to myself, I will expand that into a way shorter "howto" as soon as I did such task again in the future...)
I once found the info / help page on how to use the three possible website archives, like Internet Archive / web.archive.org, but now trying to search the help pages for either "Internet Archive" or "archive.org" gives me lots of results, but none of these seem to be the one page I once found. Since it happens frequently that a page once existed and was accessible with its original URL, it happens regularly that the host no longer has the original URL.

I don't recall what the bot was named which finds such URLs by itself (could be giftbot²), because that way I was able to do some edits since I used the infobox of that bot (it places these info on the talkpage) to find the needed info (since not always the bot suggested web.archive.org is the one that should be used. I think the info of how to use these website archives should be easily found in the wikipedia:Help area. Cheers Dietmar Lettau (talk) 00:13, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

@Dietmar Lettau You want en:Wikipedia:Citing_sources/Further_considerations#Pre-emptive_archiving. en:Wikipedia:Link rot might also be helpful. I think the bot you're talking about was likely en:User:InternetArchiveBot. Though you may also have been talking about the different archives shown by en:Template:Query web archive. Let me know if you have further questions or need clarification. Opencooper (talk) 16:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

There's also en:WP:WEBCITE and en:WP:WAYBACK. clpo13_(talk) 16:05, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

add link // tlx|distinguish

• And hopefully my last 2 questions: How do I manage to link from Free field (acoustics) to the German Freifeld (since there is no German article about the "Free Field (physics)" or as it is titled in English, simply "Free Field". Also, how to add the header line about "did you mean Free Field (acoustics)" (or how it is phrased) into "Free field"? Dietmar Lettau (talk) 20:35, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
• 1. At the german wiki, click on "Links hinzufügen" under "Sprachen" at the bottom left to link Free field (acoustics) to the German version.
• 2. At the top of the article, type in {{distinguish|Free field (acoustics)}}. Or you can type in {{for|the acoustics concept|field (acoustics)}} with brackets instead. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 21:04, 23 August 2016 (UTC)