[tor-bugs] #19363 [User Experience/Website]: We should check for dead links in the website

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#19363: We should check for dead links in the website
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     Reporter:  irl                      |      Owner:  irl
         Type:  task                     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                   |  Milestone:
    Component:  User Experience/Website  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                   |   Keywords:
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 Following on from #19359, I suspect that similar problems are present in
 the website.

 W3C have a link checker utility that could be run from a Jenkins job.

 http://search.cpan.org/dist/W3C-LinkChecker/

 I have a local Jenkins instance to experiment with this. If it proves to
 be effective/useful we can consider moving this to jenkins.tpo.

 Sebastian noted in IRC that some failures may be temporary and each
 failure would require individual investigation. In any documentation we
 should note that we should '''never''' automate fixes, even where there
 are permanent redirects in place (a redirect may occur simply because the
 content doesn't exist anymore and it just takes you to a home page for
 instance).

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