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Research WikiApiary Sites Listed as Defunct (13)

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/241-260 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/241-260
  6. Please create an account on MediaWiki.org and use that account for any modifications on the wiki page.  Once that is done, let us know what your username is.

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/241-260&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