[Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

[teun spaans]

This looks like a solid organization. Solid in the sense that it wont
go suddenly offline.

Such links may be valuable for:
- article references to sources, in case the source goes offline
- article references to sources, in case thesource changes its content
- media copies when the source changes or removes a license

I took a look at the example in the french wiki, and didnt spot a date
in the archive reference. If the source changes its content, this may
pose a problem.

kind regards,
teun

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:57 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
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