Dearests.
The archival question is a good one. The wikiverse could use a more archival gloss, and currently regularly breaks links where a slight commitment to longer term reliably would preserve them intact. Nathan: long term preservation is not yet part of the projects' raison d'etre. Perhaps it should be.
For instance sep11.wikipedia.org doesn't redirect where it should. We may not even still have an archival dump online. Deleted articles and their revs are no longer targetable by links, not even with redaction (like an oversighted rev in a rev list), making for ephemeralinks.
A better phrasing might be: how are archives made and maintained, where are full copies of each project, is there any overview of how this is working? & How can interested parties add to the mirror count of a project?
IA and IPFS each mirror some things. I don't know of any full-wikimedia mirror that includes all projects and files, and while there may be an internal mirror including all private userdata, I don't believe there is one offsite -- a delicate kind of mirroring that calls for some thought.
SJ
On Tue., May 14, 2019, 6:03 p.m. Nathan, nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
The Internet Archive, incidentally, already seems to maintain copies of Wikimedia projects. I don't know to what degree of fidelity. Additionally, the WMF's core deliverable is already to provide and sustain access to its projects. It has an endowment for that purpose already. Other websites and media that might have ephemeral access due to their nature as short-term tools need the IA to be preserved, but the WMF's projects seem to occupy a different space. It's sort of like asking if the Library of Congress needs to invest in some external project to preserve and organize its collections. No, that is its actual raison d'etre. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe