404 Day

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Seanpm2001, 404-Day, et al.

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Current language is: English (EN_US) (translations may need to be corrected to fix English replacing the correct language)

🌐 List of languages

Translations in languages other than English are machine translated and are not yet accurate. No errors have been fixed yet as of February 5th 2021. Please report translation errors here make sure to backup your correction with sources and guide me, as I don't know languages other than English well (I plan on getting a translator eventually) please cite wiktionary and other sources in your report. Failing to do so will result in a rejection of the correction being published.

Note: due to limitations with GitHub's interpretation of markdown (and pretty much every other web-based interpretation of markdown) clicking these links will redirect you to a separate file on a separate page that isn't my GitHub profile page. You will be redirected to the seanpm2001/404Day repository, where the README is hosted.

Translations are done with Google Translate due to limited or no support for the languages I need in other translation services like DeepL and Bing Translate. For some reason, the formatting (links, dividers, bolding, italics, etc.) is messed up in various translations. It is tedious to fix, and I do not know how to fix these issues in languages with non-latin characters, and right to left languages (like Arabic) extra help is needed in fixing these issues

Due to maintenance issues, over 25 translations are out of date and are using Version 8 or Version 9 of this README file. A translator is needed. Also, as of April 1st 2021, it is going to take me a while to get all the new links working.

🎌️ Flag guide 🎌️

🚩️🏴️🏳️ Flags were beginning to get added in version 2 of this document. I was originally just going to add the Ukraine 🇺🇦️ flag, but decided to add more, until every language had at least 1 flag. They were done purely with the existing knowledge of the developer. In version 3, flags were added for every language. There are some notes that go with this:

🌐️ [Unions 🇪🇺️ and Nations 🇺🇳️] 🌐️

Languages listed here that are official languages of the European Union have a European Union flag 🇪🇺️ next to them. As of 2022 March 14th, there are currently 27 languages recognized by the European Union, from 27 different member states.

Languages listed here that are official languages of the United Nations have a United Nations flag 🇺🇳️ next to them. As of 2022 March 14th, there are currently 6 languages recognized by the European Union (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish) alongside 193 different member states and 2 observer states.

🌏️ [One China (PRC) 🇨🇳️ Two China (Taiwan) 🇹🇼️ Hong Kong 🇭🇰️ and Macau 🇲🇴️] 🌏️

For neutrality reasons, languages listed here that have an official majority in Chinese speakers will receive all 4 of these flags, even if the language isn't Chinese or in the Sino family of languages.

🌐️ [Global languages 🌐️] 🌐️

Currently, 1 global language is listed, and that is Esperanto. Esperanto is not native to any countries, its goal is to be a universal lingua franca (Latin translation: bridge language) it is represented with a globe with meridians or 🌐️

💞️ [Regarding sexuality 🏳️‍🌈️] 💞️

Sexuality is not measured here, I feel it would be unnecessary, as you are picking out a language, not a sexuality.

💠️ [Location of flag 🚩️] 💠️

Flags are located at the end of each language name (after the Romanization) with one space before, to the right.

Like this:

[Pl Polski Polish 🇵🇱️]

But not like this:

[Pl Polski 🇵🇱️ Polish]

And also not like this:

[Pl 🇵🇱️ Polski Polish]

🏁️ End of flag guide 🏁️

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2022.03.12

I was so angry and frustrated. I didn't save the file, and my computer randomly froze up twice, then crashed. I had to re-add all the flags, it took an hour to do so originally, and I was just seconds away from finishing. I couldn't save the file quick enough. Luckily, all the research was still in my head, and there was no data that wasn't easily replacable (identically) so it is a type of important work that was the best thing to lose, since it was the easiest to recreate, taking me less than 20 minutes

Other notes:

⚠️ A language is missing: Latvian

ℹ️ Possibly supporting the next 126 languages that are going to be added to Google Translate

🗜️ Plans to automate this process with the @AUTOMATE2001 bot

⛔️ Need to find a way to work with these languages on services other than Google Translate.

⚠️ There might be noticeable lag in this section due to how many flag emojis are in use.

Languages segment version: 5 (2022, Monday, March 14th at 2:28 pm)

Index

00.0 - Top

00.1 - Title

00.2 - Read this article in a different language

00.3 - Index

01.0 - Description

02.0 - About

02.1 - Unrelated

03.0 - Link rot

03.0.1 - What is link rot?

03.0.2 - Types of link rot

03.0.2.1 - General

03.0.2.1.1 - Website rot

03.0.2.1.2 - Page rot

03.0.2.1.3 - Query rot

03.0.2.1.4 - Anchor rot

03.0.2.1.5 - Fuzzy rot

03.0.3 - What can be done to prevent it?

03.0.3.1 - Crawling services

03.0.3.2 - Be careful where you upload

03.0.3.3 - Donate to the sites that matter

04.0 - 404 collection

05.0 - Requests

06.0 - Wiki

07.0 - Version history

08.0 - Software status

09.0 - Sponsor info

10.0 - Contributers

11.0 - Issues

11.1 - Current issues

11.2 - Past issues

11.3 - Past pull requests

11.4 - Active pull requests

16.0 - README Version history

17.0 - Footer

17.9 - End of file

404Day

<404 Error: day not found> April 4th 2021 (4.04) is now a new technical holiday to celebrate hyperlinks, and to raise awareness on Link rot (Hyperlink celebration day, Link Rot Awareness day)

About

See above. This repository aims to be the homepage for the HTTP 404 error as a holiday. Nobody created a technical holiday for it yet, and it has 2 significant important things to recognize:

To celebrate hyperlinks and their importance (hyperlink recognition day, 404 day)
To recognize the problems of link rot (Linkrot recognition day)

This project is a humor project, but at the same time is a serious project.

404 Day is also commonly known as Web masters day.

This year, you should also help fight Internet censorship in libraries, the EFF supports it. https://www.eff.org/event/404-day

Source 1 (www.vice.com)

Unrelated

In Atlanta Georgia (US) 404 day is a self-proclaimed holiday that started in 2021.

Source 2 (atlanticdailyworld.com)

How to celebrate 404 day

Salute the fallen

Remember websites that have gone down.

Try to prevent link rot

See below.

Link rot

What is link rot?

Link rot is a common issue, where websites go down or have their pages moved around, which results in hyperlinks 'rotting' (becoming dead links)

Types of link rot

These are the 5 types of link rot (I made 3 of them up (Query rot, Anchor rot, Fuzzy rot), as a term for them didn't exist yet, or I couldn't find one, possibly due to link rot)

General

Website rot

Importance: Very high

When a website goes down (such as https://www.example.com/) so do all of its links.

Page rot

Importance: High/Very high

When a webpage goes down, it is no longer accessible.

Query rot

Importance: Low

When a query (such as ?id=11111) stops working, this is also a form of link rot.

Anchor rot

Importance: Very low/low

When an anchor link no longer works (such as #rotten) this is a form of link rot

Fuzzy rot

Importance: None

When you can't enter any text you want (eg: jshfkdhfkfh) and get a result.

What can be done to prevent it?

Crawling services

Crawling services (such as the wayback machine a part of the Internet Archive) help to reduce the amount of link rot by archiving websites that have gone down or changed too much. These services aren't free to operate, but are free to use. It is recommended you donate to the Internet archive to keep this great service running, and prevent it from becoming one of the biggest incidents of link rot to date (if it can't be funded, it will go down, and we will lose trillions of links, and a great deal of priceless Internet history)

Be careful where you upload

Sites like YouTube, TikTok, and almost all other social media sites have stability issues, and can take content down at any time, even without violating their terms of service. Note that sites like YouTube will likely go down in the future if they continue operating in the way they do. Also, entire YouTube channels are often deleted at random, due to abuse of the DMCA, an overly broad change to the terms of service, or another illicit reason (YouTube is being noted here, as it is one of the biggest sites that is in constant danger)

Donate to the sites that matter

Websites like archive.org, wikipedia.org, and other important sites should be donated to, so that their operators can continue to keep them running for the current generation, along with future generations. Even just a $1.00/month donation can mean life or death, especially when most people don't donate. It all adds up.

404 collection

Starting on 2023 Webmasters day, this project was heavily updated, and received important new documentation. It also received a new 404 collection, a collection of 404 pages across various sites. It is a major work in progress, and is community run. Check out the link for more details.

Requests

Importance: Very low

GitHub has some queries that shouldn't result in 404. The most notable one (to me) is typing https://github.com/NEW instead of https://github.com/new most pages aren't case sensitive, so why is this still happening?

Wiki

Click/tap here to view this projects Wiki

If the project has been forked, the Wiki was likely removed. Luckily, I include an embedded version. You can view it here.

Sponsor info

You can sponsor this project if you like, but please specify what you want to donate to. See the funds you can donate to here

You can view other sponsor info here

Try it out! The sponsor button is right up next to the watch/unwatch button.

Version history

Version history currently unavailable

No other versions listed

Software status

All of my works are free some restrictions. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is not present in any of my works.

This sticker is supported by the Free Software Foundation. I never intend to include DRM in my works.

I am ussing the abbreviation "Digital Restrictions Management" instead of the more known "Digital Rights Management" as the common way of addressing it is false, there are no rights with DRM. The spelling "Digital Restrictions Management" is more accurate, and is supported by Richard M. Stallman (RMS) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

This section is used to raise awareness for the problems with DRM, and also to protest it. DRM is defective by design and is a major threat to all computer users and software freedom.

Image credit: defectivebydesign.org/drm-free/...

Contributers

Currently, I am the only contributer. Contributing is allowed, as long as you follow the rules of the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

seanpm2001 - 60 commits (As of 2022, Monday, April 4th at 1:56 pm)

No other contributers.

Issues

Current issues

None at the moment
No other current issues

If the repository has been forked, issues likely have been removed. Luckily I keep an archive of certain images here

Read the privacy policy on issue archival here

TL;DR

I archive my own issues. Your issue won't be archived unless you request it to be archived.

Past issues

None at the moment
No other past issues

If the repository has been forked, issues likely have been removed. Luckily I keep an archive of certain images here

Read the privacy policy on issue archival here

TL;DR

I archive my own issues. Your issue won't be archived unless you request it to be archived.

Past pull requests

None at the moment
No other past pull requests

If the repository has been forked, issues likely have been removed. Luckily I keep an archive of certain images here

Read the privacy policy on issue archival here

TL;DR

I archive my own issues. Your issue won't be archived unless you request it to be archived.

Active pull requests

None at the moment
No other active pull requests

If the repository has been forked, issues likely have been removed. Luckily I keep an archive of certain images here

Read the privacy policy on issue archival here

TL;DR

I archive my own issues. Your issue won't be archived unless you request it to be archived.

Resources

Here are some other resources for this project:

Project language file A (HTML5)

Join the discussion on GitHub

View examples of common websites 404 pages

No other resources at the moment.

Sources

404 day (as a day to fight censorship and link rot)

https://www.eff.org/event/404-day - EFF

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8qxgk5/today-is-404-day-because-the-web-is-breaking/ - Vice

404 day (In US: Atlanta Georgia, to celebrate their area code)

https://atlantadailyworld.com/2022/04/04/404-day-in-atlanta-is-celebration-of-culture-and-purpose/ - AtlantaDailyWorld

Contributing

Contributing is allowed for this project, as long as you follow the rules of the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Click/tap here to view the contributing rules for this project

About README

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File version: 3 (2023, Tuesday, April 4th at 5:16 pm PST)

Line count (including blank lines and compiler line): 641

Encoding: UTF-8 With Emoji 5.0

All times are UTC-7 (PDT/Pacific Time) (Please also account for DST (Daylight Savings Time) until it is abolished/no longer followed)

Note On 2022, Sunday, March 13th at 2:00 am PST, the time jumped ahead 1 hour to 3:00 am.

Note You may need special rendering support for the <details> HTML tag being used in this document

README version history

Version 0.1 (Sunday, March 21st 2021 at 7:50 pm)

This release was made by: @seanpm2001

Changes:

Started the file

Added the title section

Added the index

Added the about section

Added the Wiki section

Added the version history section

Added the issues section.

Added the past issues section

Added the past pull requests section

Added the active pull requests section

Added the contributors section

Added the contributing section

Added the about README section

Added the README version history section

Added the resources section

Added a software status section, with a DRM free sticker and message

Added the sponsor info section

No other changes in version 0.1

Version 1 (Sunday, April 4th 2021 at 8:39 pm)

This release was made by: @seanpm2001

Note This is the yearly 404 day update for 2021.

Changes:

Added information to the description

Fixed broken template links (ironic)

Updated the resources section

Updated the Wiki section

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

No other changes in version 1

Version 2 (2022, Monday, April 4th at 1:56 pm)

This release was made by: @seanpm2001

Note This is the yearly 404 day update for 2022.

Changes:

Updated the title section

Updated the language switcher

Updated the index

Updated the about section

Updated the resources section

Updated the contributors section

Added the sources section

Updated the footer section

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

No other changes in version 2

Version 3 (2023, Tuesday, April 4th at 5:16 pm PST)

Changes:

Note This is a significant yearly update to the documentation, to celebrate 404 day/webmasters day. This is the 2023 update

Version 4 (Coming soon)

Changes:

Coming soon

No other changes in version 4

Version 5 (Coming soon)

Changes:

Coming soon

No other changes in version 5

Version 6 (Coming soon)

Changes:

Coming soon

No other changes in version 6

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Salute the fallen

Try to prevent link rot

Link rot

What is link rot?

Types of link rot

General

Website rot

Page rot

Query rot

Anchor rot

Fuzzy rot

What can be done to prevent it?

Crawling services

Be careful where you upload

Donate to the sites that matter

404 collection

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