Template:Link with archives/doc

This template facilitates the creation of links that show their older version archived on the Wayback Machine.

Usage

Syntax

{{Link with archives|original URL|label|timestamp|date-format=...}}

The original URL and the timestamp have to be provided. The timestamp is the number that appears before the original URL in the Wayback Machine URL – as in the following example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080619060938/http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04351_time_drags.html

The |date-format= optional parameter controls the format in which the links to the archive are to be displayed. Recognized values are:

• DMY0 gives d mmmm yyyy (e.g. 31 May 2007). This is the default format.
• MDY0 gives mmmm d, yyyy (e.g. May 31, 2007)
• YMD0 gives yyyy mmmm d (e.g. 2007 May 31)
• ISO0 gives an ISO 8601 style yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2007-05-31)

Examples

• {{link with archives|http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04351_time_drags.html|As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time|20080619060938}}

  ↳ As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time (archived 19 June 2008)

• {{link with archives|http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04351_time_drags.html|As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time|20041111092435|date-format=ISO}}

  ↳ As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time (archived 2004-11-11)

• {{link with archives|http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04351_time_drags.html||20080619060938}}

  ↳ http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04351_time_drags.html (archived 19 June 2008)

The template can also be written across multiple lines

{{Link with archives
	| http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04351_time_drags.html
	| As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time
	| 20041111092435
}}

The code above yields:

As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time (archived 11 November 2004)

See also

• Category:Web archive external link templates
• {{Webarchive}}