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

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 24 August 2010 14:57, emijrp <emijrp at 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?


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