On 02/01/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)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.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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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