On 18/11/12 13:36, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
The Internet Archive wants to particularly make sure to archive pages that Wikipedians use as citations. A GSoC project last year got most of the way to that goal but never quite finished making the feed of new links for use by the Archive. Would anyone else like to take this up?
More information:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kevin_Brown/ArchiveLinks
http://toolserver.org/~nn123645/toolserver-feed/cronscript.php (You could ask Kevin to make his Toolserver project a MMP or you could just write your own script.)
This is quite straightforward.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArchiveLinks - would have to be moved into Git from Subversion.
This is the longer plan, which is harder to do right. Although I see code going in the right direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)&am...
- there is a real hunger for this!
I'd go solving the problem with the toolserver MMP. It can be improved later.
I see a potential problem of missing new content added to a page, though. I'm not sure how Kevin expected to handle it. It's possible that the archiver automatically recrawls then so it isn't needed (eg. IA vs WebCite).