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wk_endyesterday at 7:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

That frontend seems to have things that aren't hosted on Wikimedia Commons, whereas I think OP's link is Wikimedia-exclusive and more reliable.

For example, Network (1976) - one of my favourite films - isn't listed on the Wikimedia page, but it's listed on the WikiFlix frontend. I was a little surprised to see that, since AFAIK it's still under copyright. Clicking through, it's trying to embed a copy from the Internet Archive, from which it was taken down because, yes, it's still under copyright.


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starkparkeryesterday at 8:56 PM

> The WikiFlix tool is hosted on Toolforge in the US. Toolforge is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. All WikiFlix content is generated from Wikidata and maintained by that community.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:WikiFlix

Network's WikiData entry is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572165, which includes the Archive link and lacks a copyright status. This is also linked to from the barcode icon at the top of the movie's WikiFlix page: https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/entry/572165

Took about 2 minutes with no prior experience to remove the dead IA link and add the copyright status attribute to the WikiData item.

observationistyesterday at 7:24 PM

It's no longer accessible. It might be a regional thing, if you can still see it?