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Research WikiApiary Sites Listed as Defunct (5)

completed by: PranavK

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/81-100 and find out what happened.

For each wiki:

  1. open its WikiApiary page, for instance https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/AlexHayesHatesEverything ;
  2. open the URL of the wiki;
  3. if the wiki works correctly, edit the page on WikiApiary to mark it as "Defunct: No";
  4. if the wiki is down, search information about the domain on web.archive.org and search engines to discover why;
  5. note down what happened on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Google_Code-in_2014/Research_WikiApiary_Sites_Listed_as_Defunct/81-100

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/81-100&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