Fix broken links found by "make linkcheck". scipy.org seems to be done right now, so I could not verify links going there.

Doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst

@@ -572,8 +572,7 @@ Work has been done on porting Python to 64-bit Windows on the Itanium processor,
 mostly by Trent Mick of ActiveState.  (Confusingly, ``sys.platform`` is still
 ``'win32'`` on Win64 because it seems that for ease of porting, MS Visual C++
 treats code as 32 bit on Itanium.) PythonWin also supports Windows CE; see the
-Python CE page at http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/ce/ for more
-information.
+Python CE page at http://pythonce.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
 
 Another new platform is Darwin/MacOS X; initial support for it is in Python 2.0.
 Dynamic loading works, if you specify "configure --with-dyld --with-suffix=.x".
@@ -1041,8 +1040,8 @@ sent over a socket.  When compiling Python, you can edit :file:`Modules/Setup`
 to include SSL support, which adds an additional function to the :mod:`socket`
 module: :func:`socket.ssl(socket, keyfile, certfile)`, which takes a socket
 object and returns an SSL socket.  The :mod:`httplib` and :mod:`urllib` modules
-were also changed to support "https://" URLs, though no one has implemented FTP
-or SMTP over SSL.
+were also changed to support ``https://`` URLs, though no one has implemented
+FTP or SMTP over SSL.
 
 The :mod:`httplib` module has been rewritten by Greg Stein to support HTTP/1.1.
 Backward compatibility with the 1.5 version of :mod:`httplib` is provided,

Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ understand the complete implementation and design rationale for a change, refer
 to the PEP for a particular new feature.
 
 
-.. seealso::
+.. seealso (now defunct)
 
    http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1356/urm0109h/0109h.htm
       "What's So Special About Python 2.2?" is also about the new 2.2 features, and
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ amazing new capabilities. Before beginning this, the longest and most
 complicated section of this article, I'll provide an overview of the changes and
 offer some comments.
 
-A long time ago I wrote a Web page (http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/warts.html)
-listing flaws in Python's design.  One of the most significant flaws was that
-it's impossible to subclass Python types implemented in C.  In particular, it's
-not possible to subclass built-in types, so you can't just subclass, say, lists
-in order to add a single useful method to them. The :mod:`UserList` module
-provides a class that supports all of the methods of lists and that can be
-subclassed further, but there's lots of C code that expects a regular Python
-list and won't accept a :class:`UserList` instance.
+A long time ago I wrote a Web page listing flaws in Python's design.  One of the
+most significant flaws was that it's impossible to subclass Python types
+implemented in C.  In particular, it's not possible to subclass built-in types,
+so you can't just subclass, say, lists in order to add a single useful method to
+them. The :mod:`UserList` module provides a class that supports all of the
+methods of lists and that can be subclassed further, but there's lots of C code
+that expects a regular Python list and won't accept a :class:`UserList`
+instance.
 
 Python 2.2 fixes this, and in the process adds some exciting new capabilities.
 A brief summary:

Doc/whatsnew/2.3.rst

@@ -1855,10 +1855,10 @@ and bundle it with the source of your extension.
 
 .. seealso::
 
-   http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Objects/obmalloc.c
-      For the full details of the pymalloc implementation, see the comments at the top
-      of the file :file:`Objects/obmalloc.c` in the Python source code.  The above
-      link points to the file within the SourceForge CVS browser.
+   http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/obmalloc.c
+      For the full details of the pymalloc implementation, see the comments at
+      the top of the file :file:`Objects/obmalloc.c` in the Python source code.
+      The above link points to the file within the python.org SVN browser.
 
 .. ======================================================================
 

Doc/whatsnew/2.4.rst

@@ -680,9 +680,6 @@ includes a quick-start tutorial and a reference.
       Written by Facundo Batista and implemented by Facundo Batista, Eric Price,
       Raymond Hettinger, Aahz, and Tim Peters.
 
-   http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html
-      A more detailed overview of the IEEE-754 representation.
-
    http://www.lahey.com/float.htm
       The article uses Fortran code to illustrate many of the problems that floating-
       point inaccuracy can cause.
@@ -756,7 +753,7 @@ API that perform ASCII-only conversions, ignoring the locale setting:
   :ctype:`double` to an ASCII string.
 
 The code for these functions came from the GLib library
-(http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gtk/glib.html), whose developers kindly
+(http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/), whose developers kindly
 relicensed the relevant functions and donated them to the Python Software
 Foundation.  The :mod:`locale` module  can now change the numeric locale,
 letting extensions such as GTK+  produce the correct results.

Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

@@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
 
   The :mod:`bsddb.dbshelve` module now uses the highest pickling protocol
   available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1.
-  (Contributed by W. Barnes; :issue:`1551443`.)
+  (Contributed by W. Barnes.)
 
 * The :mod:`cgi` module will now read variables from the query string
   of an HTTP POST request.  This makes it possible to use form actions
@@ -2977,7 +2977,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
 * The BerkeleyDB module now has a C API object, available as
   ``bsddb.db.api``.   This object can be used by other C extensions
   that wish to use the :mod:`bsddb` module for their own purposes.
-  (Contributed by Duncan Grisby; :issue:`1551895`.)
+  (Contributed by Duncan Grisby.)
 
 * The new buffer interface, previously described in
   `the PEP 3118 section <#pep-3118-revised-buffer-protocol>`__,