were created, wouldn't there be a
potential for spam simply to indexed with the wayback machine? I know we
have nofollow on our off site links, but I cannot imagine how we would sort
a problem that could be created like that.
Just my 2 cents.
- Chris
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2008.10.18 19:23:11 -0700, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com>
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We (the greater WP community) know people at the
Internet Archive.
Yes, I've heard this before, although for the life of me I haven't the
slightest idea what good that has done us before (except I've heard they may
or may not back up our dumps).
One could imagine a bot which submitted a list of
WP reference URLs to
the Archive so that they could be preferentially added to the archive
library, via a process worked out with Archive people...
The IA already has a little public form to request URLs be archived;
unfortunately, it's provided with a description which to me strongly
suggests that the request is basically ignored. IMO, I'd be perfectly fine
with a machine-accessible form as long as it worked. For referencing
purposes, it's fine if the IA has to embargo it for 6 or 9 months or
whatever - as long as it shows up eventually.
Alternately, another online citation archiving
service could be set up
as a new WMF project, specifically to support the various WMF
projects.
-george william herbert
I don't think that's really a productive path: what's our motivation for
duplicating the work of both the IA and
Webcitation.org (and Lor' knows who
else)? All we need are small changes from them and they'd be fine for our
purposes.
--
gwern
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