Category:Archived: Difference between revisions

[[File:Internet Archive WaybackMachine.png|frame|right|Logo of the ''Internet Archive WaybackMachine'' at [[Archive.org]]]]

{{Not|:category:Archives}} ''– a [[:Category:Wiki Topic|wiki topic]] category.''

'''Category:Archived''' is preferred in addition to [[:category:Dead]], because WikiIndex is more than a 'yellow page' for [[wiki]]s.  We do record history, how they are created, what keeps them alive, and, sadly, how they went down.  For [[:Category:Wiki People|wiki people]], wiki history <u>is</u> 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 the '''''Internet Archive WaybackMachine''''' at [[Archive.org]][https://web.Archive.org], or the '''''Webpage archive''''' at [[archive.is]] (formerly at <tt>archive.today</tt>).[https://archive.is]

To include a [[wiki]] article page to this specific category, you must first verify that <u>more than</u> the [[Wiki main page|main page]] is archived, and that at least ''some'' of the actual content pages are also archived.  First, where available, please change all existing URLs in said dead wiki article to those of the actual archived URLs from their appropriate archiving service (Archive.org and / or archive.is); in the [[Template:Wiki|wiki infobox template]], the [[Template:Size|size template]], and any other URLs within the prose.  Secondly, please change the 'Status' field of its wiki infobox template to <tt>Archived</tt>.  Alternatively, please add <tt><nowiki>[[Category:Archived]]</nowiki></tt> at the bottom of the relevant articles' [[edit box]].

:''See also:'' [[:category:Dormant]] (for online wikis that could have activity but do not), and [[:category:Dead]] (for wikis which ''are'' offline and failed to be archived).