mediawiki extensions to install for better links
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	Jun 14 2019, 12:29 PM

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArchiveLinks
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebCache
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkToArchive
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RottenLinks
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkSuggest

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RottenLinks

Installed. See:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Special:RottenLinks

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkSuggest

Installed. See screenshot on how to use:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/5/56/LinkSuggestExample.png

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArchiveLinks

From 2011. syn only. Not git. Didn't bother trying.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebCache

Link to github offline.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkToArchive

Installed. It does not actually archive links. It adds an [archive] link behind all external links. Clicking on it will show that some of them are indeed archived. Others can be archived if we instruct web archive of doing so. This is a manual process.