Category:Archived: Difference between revisions

'''Category:Archived''' is preferred before Category [[:Category:Dead|Dead]] because WikiIndex is more than a yellow page for wikis. We do record history, how they are created, what keeps them alive and how they went down. For wiki people, wiki history is content.

The [[WhatIsWiki|wikis]] listed in this [[Special:Categories|category]] below (collapse and/or scroll down past the {{tag|Wiki Status|status}} [[Template:WikiStatus|table]]) have been verified as '{{tag|dead}}'; ie, completely gone for good, and their URL may either return a '404' error, or may display the site of a domain name host, or advertising, or be taken over by cyber-squatters.  However, these dead wikis fortunately may have some (or even all) their former URLs captured and stored by one of the [[Web archiving]] services, such as Internet Archive WaybackMachine at [[Archive.org]][https://Archive.org], or the [[archive.today]] webpage capture personal Wayback Machine at https://archive.today.

To include a [[wiki]] article page to this category, you must first verify that more than the main page is archived, and that at least ''some'' of the actual content pages are also archived.  Please change the 'Status' field of the [[Template:Wiki|Wiki infobox template]] to <tt>Archived</tt>, after amending their infobox and size URLs (and any other URLs) to include the Archive.org URLs.  Alternatively, please add <tt>[[[[:Category:Archived]]]]</tt> at the bottom of the relevant articles' edit box.

All of these wikis are, by nature, {{tag|ReadOnly|read-only}}.