[WikiEN-l] Ephemeral nature of web pages - a silly idea?

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 1/3/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/01/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Problem is their lag time. It takes over 6 months for stuff to appear
> there
> > by which time you are in deep trouble if it wasn't stored to begin with.
> It
> > would be nice if every site that's referenced in Wikipedia is spidered
> > automatically just like every site that's visited by a surfer with an
> Alexa
> > toolbar.
>
> We could, of course, ask them to add "any WP extlink" to their
> spidering routines...
>
> archive.org's six-month delay is intentional, but I suppose it could
> be possible for them to display some form of "we have this site
> archived on X date and just not displayed yet" identifier to the
> date-selection page; this would obviate the "not known" problem whilst
> meaning they don't have to publish it. hmm. If anyone wants to propose
> it to them, free free.
>
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> - Andrew Gray
> andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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Yes, that's what I thought. Worth asking them. It's a pain to have pages
disappear and lose verifiable content as a result.

Mgm