On 2008.10.18 19:23:11 -0700, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com scribbled 1.8K characters:
We (the greater WP community) know people at the Internet Archive.
Yes, I've heard this before, although for the life of me I haven't the slightest idea what good that has done us before (except I've heard they may or may not back up our dumps).
One could imagine a bot which submitted a list of WP reference URLs to the Archive so that they could be preferentially added to the archive library, via a process worked out with Archive people...
The IA already has a little public form to request URLs be archived; unfortunately, it's provided with a description which to me strongly suggests that the request is basically ignored. IMO, I'd be perfectly fine with a machine-accessible form as long as it worked. For referencing purposes, it's fine if the IA has to embargo it for 6 or 9 months or whatever - as long as it shows up eventually.
Alternately, another online citation archiving service could be set up as a new WMF project, specifically to support the various WMF projects.
-george william herbert
I don't think that's really a productive path: what's our motivation for duplicating the work of both the IA and Webcitation.org (and Lor' knows who else)? All we need are small changes from them and they'd be fine for our purposes.
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