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

[Bence Damokos]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:47 PM, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> If you click on an archive link the top frame will display the exact date
of the archiving -   I think the reason it is not displayed by default on
the French Wikipedia is because the archive links are generated by
JavaScript on the fly. (At least that was the case the last time I looked at
the French Wikipedia.)

Having the ability to store multiple copies of the same webpage (for
different dates) was one of the first feature requests we had at the
Hungarian Wikipedia and it seems they are working on it. Still, Wikiwix's
service is very convenient and hassle free for all the static websites or
references.


Webcitation.org also has a service for on-demand archiving and they do store
multiple versions of the same page. Unfortunately their service is often
intermittent and their website tends to go dark, but otherwise it is a
convenient service for manual archiving. (I had a bot once that sent each
link through its service on the Hungarian Wikipedia, and for a time the
English Wikipedia had a similar bot.

Best regards,
Bence