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

[Rodan Bury]

A dump "once a year or so" is not enough: the average life span of a website
is 3 months. Kind regards, Dodoïste

2010/8/31 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>

> A real-time feed of external links is overkill. As mentioned by others,
> the chief problem is linkrot of old links. All we need to do is dump the
> contents of externallinks.el_to from the database once a year or so, run
> a hex to ASCII conversion on it, zip it, and email it to someone at the
> Internet Archive. Anyone with access to the databases should be able to
> do this fairly easily. Rather than trying to engineer a complicated
> system that will take a year to implement, why not take this simple
> approach that will take care of 90+% of the problem?
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
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