project page discussing issue of external pages going down over time, breaking links
Link rot refers to the problem of external websites that Wikipedia articles link to gradually disappearing or moving, which leaves readers unable to access the sources those links point to. This matters because it undermines Wikipedia's credibility and usefulness by breaking the connections between articles and their supporting evidence.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Like most large websites, Wikipedia suffers from the phenomenon known as link rot, where external links become dead, as the linked web pages or complete websites disappear, change their content, or move without HTTP redirection.
Link rot is a significant danger to Wikipedia because of the reliability policy and source citation guideline.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).