Gordon @ IA was most friendly and helpful. archive-it is a
subscription service for focused collections of sites; he had a
different idea better suited to our work.
Gordon writes:
Now, given the importance of Wikipedia and editorial
significant of things
it outlinks-to, perhaps we could set up something specially focused on its
content (and the de facto stream of newly-occurring outlinks), that would
require no conscious effort by editors but greatly increase the odds that
anything linked from Wikipedia would (a few months down the line) also be
in our Archive. Is there (or could there be) a feed of all outlinks that IA
could crawl almost nonstop?
That sounds excellent to me, if possible (and I think close to what
emijrp had in mind!) What would it take to produce such a feed?
SJ
PS - An aside: IA's policies include taking down any links on request,
so this would not be a foolproof archive, but a 99% one.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've asked Gordon Mohr @ IA about how to work with
archive-it. I will
cc: this thread on any response.
SJ
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:56 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here's the Archive's on-demand service:
http://archive-it.org
That would be the most reliable way to set up the partnership emijrp
proposes. And it's certainly a good idea. Figuring out how to make
it work for almost all editors and make it spam-proof may be
interesting.
SJ
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> On 24 August 2010 14:57, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to make a proposal about external links preservation. Many times,
>> when you check an external link or a link reference, the website is dead or
>> offline. This websites are important, because they are the sources for the
>> facts showed in the articles. Internet Archive searches for interesting
>> websites to save in their hard disks, so, we can send them our external
>> links sql tables (all projects and languages of course). They improve their
>> database and we always have a copy of the sources text to check when needed.
>> I think that this can be a cool partnership.
>>
> +1
>
>
Are people who clean up dead links taking the time to check Internet
Archive to se if the page in question is there?
Ec
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I actually proposed some form of Wikimedia / IArchive link
collaboration some years ago to a friend who worked there at the time;
however, they left shortly afterwards.
I like SJ's particular idea. Who has current contacts with Brewster
Kahle or someone else over there?
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