On 2008.10.18 19:23:11 -0700, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> scribbled
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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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