On 1/3/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/01/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Problem is their lag time. It takes over 6 months for stuff to appear
there
by which time you are in deep trouble if it wasn't stored to begin with.
It
would be nice if every site that's referenced in Wikipedia is spidered automatically just like every site that's visited by a surfer with an
Alexa
toolbar.
We could, of course, ask them to add "any WP extlink" to their spidering routines...
archive.org's six-month delay is intentional, but I suppose it could be possible for them to display some form of "we have this site archived on X date and just not displayed yet" identifier to the date-selection page; this would obviate the "not known" problem whilst meaning they don't have to publish it. hmm. If anyone wants to propose it to them, free free.
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- Andrew Gray
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Yes, that's what I thought. Worth asking them. It's a pain to have pages disappear and lose verifiable content as a result.
Mgm