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

[George Herbert]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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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I actually proposed some form of Wikimedia / IArchive link
collaboration some years ago to a friend who worked there at the time;
however, they left shortly afterwards.

I like SJ's particular idea.  Who has current contacts with Brewster
Kahle or someone else over there?


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