diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index f7f2834..777fbd9 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -77,7 +77,13 @@
 ]
 
 # Ignore certain URLs from being checked
-linkcheck_ignore = ["https://neuromorpho.org/"]
+linkcheck_ignore = [
+    "https://neuromorpho.org/",
+    "https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/",  # ignore everything on the internal wiki
+    "https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync",
+    "https://www.uclb.com/",
+]
+linkcheck_retries = 2
 
 # -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------