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The Annual Wikiconference North America Update

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Mark Graham

November 12th, 2023

Team “Turn All References Blue” (TARB)

Stephen Balbach

Jake Orlowitz

Mark Graham

Max Doerr

Dr. Sawood Alam

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James Hare

Turn All References Blue

In the future nearly everything ever written or recorded, and all related resources, will be a click, gesture or a thought away.

The goal of the “Turn All References Blue” project is to contribute to making that a reality, starting with Wikipedia.

Link Rot: When Good URLs go Bad

Live Web (404)

Archived Version

We get URLs cited in Wikipedia

via the EventStreamAPI

We Archive Millions of Wikipedia Sourced URLs/day

How 1 seed URL can result in 31,259 Archived URLs

1 seed page

338 embeds

174 outlinks

30,746 outlink embeds

Results from cnn.com on June 17, 2021

We also Archive Millions of Outlinked URLs

An Interactive Page from the 117th Congress

IABot is running on 310 out of 326

Wikipedia language editions, and 74 additional wikis

Progress Fixing Broken Links

• Fixed more than 19.3 million formerly broken links across 310 Wikipedia languages�
• More than 8 million fixed in the last 2 years alone!

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Turning Book Citations Blue

Better World Books

The Internet Archive creates a wish list of books based on Wikipedia citations

Progress Adding Links to Books

More than 1.9 million links to books from archive.org across have been added to ~60 Wikipedia language editions

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(1 million added by our software and 900,000 added by Wikipedia Editors)

Progress Adding Links to Papers

Our software has added more than 156,000 links to academic papers and articles across ~61 Wikipedia language editions

In the Lab: Reference Explorer

Next Up: Finding/Fixing “Soft 404s”

Next Up: Adding link to TV News

Publishers Lawsuit (blog.archive.org)