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

[Samuel Klein]

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 at telus.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> Ec
>
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