Fix three dead links reported by the weekly link check - #3748
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The Weekly External Link Check has failed on every scheduled run since at least 13 July. Three of the URLs it reports now return 404 to any client. Following docs/translations.md, each is fixed across every translation and only the URL is changed, so no translated prose is touched. - finding-users: @jhamrick, "How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love PyCon". jesshamrick.com no longer serves the post under any URL form, and the site root returns 403. Replaced with the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-08-04, matching how the guides already cite ~220 other dead sources. - legal: @bcantrill, "Broadening Node.js Contributions". The post is gone from tritondatacenter.com, from tritoncloud.io that it now redirects to, and from joyent.com where it was originally published. Replaced with the Internet Archive snapshot of the joyent.com original from 2022-05-28. - how-to-contribute (ko, zh-hant): the Steinmacher SANER 2016 paper at igor.pro.br is a 404. The English article and the other 27 translations already point at the ime.usp.br copy; these two were missed. Updated to match, so all 30 now agree. Not changed: openinventionnetwork.com is also reported by the weekly run, but it returns 200 with both a browser and a plain user agent, so that failure looks transient rather than real. The remaining reported URLs (stackoverflow.com, gitlab.com/explore, governingopen.com) answer 403 to automated clients while working in a browser; those are ignore-list candidates rather than content fixes, so they are left alone here.
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What this does
The Weekly External Link Check has failed on every scheduled run since at least 13 July — ten in a row, most recently 34821005741.
This fixes the three URLs in that report that are genuinely dead.
Per
docs/translations.md, each URL is updated in every language and only the URL changes — no translated prose is touched.finding-userslegalhow-to-contribute(ko, zh-hant only)ime.usp.brcopy, matching the other 28 filesjesshamrick.com no longer serves the post under any URL form I could find, and the site root itself returns 403.
"Broadening Node.js Contributions" is gone from
tritondatacenter.com, from thetritoncloud.ioit redirects to, and fromjoyent.comwhere it was originally published, so I pointed at the archive of the joyent.com original.The SANER 2016 paper was already fixed in English and 27 translations;
koandzh-hantstill had the deadigor.pro.brURL, so this brings all 30 into agreement.Archiving dead citations follows what the guides already do in roughly 220 article files.
What I deliberately left alone
openinventionnetwork.comreturns 200 for me with both a browser and a plain user agent, so that failure looks transient.stackoverflow.com,gitlab.com/explore/projects/trendingandgoverningopen.comall return 403 to automated clients while working in a browser — those areurl_ignorescandidates forscript/html-prooferrather than content fixes, and I left them out since that changes tooling. Happy to open a separate PR if you want them.How I checked
Each URL was requested directly with both user agents, following redirects, recording the final status and effective URL rather than trusting the CI log; the replacement archive URLs return 200.
With URLs masked out, all 58 changed lines are byte-identical to their originals, confirming no translated text was altered.