[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

[David Gerard]

2009/5/5 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:

> However, most information isn't lost because of disaster, it is lost
> because people don't think they need it any more and delete/destroy
> it. Can we trust whoever is around in the future to continue to
> preserve the history dumps they've backed up?


As I said, the Internet Archive considers precisely that their job (as
an internet library). More examples than the IA would be good, of
course.


- d.