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Published June 8, 2020 | Version v1
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Making references to Dutch newspapers in Wikipedia more sustainable, 08-06-2020

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  • 1. ROR icon National Library of the Netherlands

Description

Dutch Wikipedia contains some 20.000 citations to Delpher, a digital historical newspaper archive in the Netherlands. Many of those URLs are sustainable, but until recently Dutch Wikipedia also contained thousands of non-future-proof links to Delpher. In this article I show how I found these links and replaced them with persistent URLs, and what the benefits of this search-and-replace operation are.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Making_references_to_Dutch_newspapers_in_Wikipedia_more_sustainable_-_Olaf_Janssen,_KB,_8_June_2020.pdf

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https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/WikimediaKBURLReplacement/blob/master/stories/Making%20references%20to%20Dutch%20newspapers%20in%20Wikipedia%20more%20sustainable.md (URL)
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Publication: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Making_references_to_Dutch_newspapers_in_Wikipedia_more_sustainable_-_Olaf_Janssen,_KB,_8_June_2020.pdf (URL)

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Issued
2020-06-08