Research WikiApiary Sites Listed as Defunct (16)
completed by: Robin Verhoef
mentors: hexmode, Alexis T. Hershberger, Mark A. Hershberger
WikiApiary lists 3,000 MediaWiki sites as defunct. https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Category:Defunct_website For instance, Wikkii wikis are down because the host closed.
Your task is to look up the following 20 wikis from the list https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Google_Code-in_2014/Research_WikiApiary_Sites_Listed_as_Defunct/301-320 and find out what happened. For each wiki:
- open its WikiApiary page, for instance https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/AlexHayesHatesEverything ;
- open the URL of the wiki;
- if the wiki works correctly, edit the page on WikiApiary to mark it as "Defunct: No";
- if the wiki is down, search information about the domain on web.archive.org and search engines to discover why;
- note down what happened on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Google_Code-in_2014/Research_WikiApiary_Sites_Listed_as_Defunct/301-320
You can ask questions on the talk page of the list https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:WikiReleaseTeam/Google_Code-in_2014/Research_WikiApiary_Sites_Listed_as_Defunct/301-320&action=edit&redlink=1
Students are required to read Wikimedia's general instructions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Instructions_for_GCI_students first, as well as to register on WikiApiary. https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Special:CreateAccount