@corruptian@mastodon.cloud Seems your focus is on search engines and perhaps speaking for others.

Without defending Wikipedia too much, it just does very well and link rot can be blamed either way if doing well and we use it.

You mention Wikipedia dying which is like totally flipping the board the other way and seems even less useful than something like both this and that or mix of things. So I question that logic.

If you agree Wikipedia scores highly both on content AND NO Adverts, NO Google stuff (much of which is on personal sites), and quite clean / fast in and out info as a service (even if not 100% perfect)... then I think that should stand REGARDLESS if other people or search engines overly' us Wikipedia.

You can't take away from that high score that serves so many well (with reason they use that and not personal sites) every single second of every day, while other sites are hit and miss on a variety of fronts...

So the logic and reasoning seems to stand more than blaming.