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Lesson I've long learned: never bookmark anything. Bookmarks are to temporarily remember a URL, not to archive content. If the content is important or meaningful to you, save the page.

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Yes this. Grab the 'singlefile' add-on[0] and train yourself to hit that instead of bookmarking. You'll be much happier if you ever need the information again!

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

Firefox: reader view then bookmark saves the content.

I'll bookmark that page, thank you!

I see what you did there. :-D

Naturally, you mean you'll SAVE that page, right? LOL.

Ah, right, of course, so that I can later access that page locally and install the extension whenever I need it. Then with that extension installed, I could even save that extension page!

im surprised at myself for shilling a service i dont even use and dont have any stake in, but https://pinboard.in/ lets you bookmark things and then also archive those things so they dont go away

That site could do the same thing as the wiki.

Not impossible, but it's a big part of how the site makes money.

You can download a complete archive of all the bookmarks and pages: https://alexwlchan.net/2017/07/backing-up-pinboard-archives/

I tried this in the past, but could not even get it to compile. Can you share your working setup, or have you just found this?

Absolutely. When it comes to sites with mostly static content I have a habit of archiving them with HTTRACK, though I wish there was a more modern solution with better support for active content.

Too bad modern single-page apps make it very hard to just scrape the site.

For some inexplicable reason some pages add script tags with javascript. So what happens is that you archive a page. The page is gone and when you visit it you notice all the broken links pointing to javascript files that are gone as well.

Archiving even just a single webpage is non-trivial. You're dependent on the internet archive if you want a reliable backup.

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