Do we send a cc: to Wikimedia tech mailing list? 2010/8/28 Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com>
> Gordon @ IA was most friendly and helpful. archive-it is a > subscription service for focused collections of sites; he had a > different idea better suited to our work. > > Gordon writes: > > Now, given the importance of Wikipedia and editorial significant of > things > > it outlinks-to, perhaps we could set up something specially focused on > its > > content (and the de facto stream of newly-occurring outlinks), that would > > require no conscious effort by editors but greatly increase the odds that > > anything linked from Wikipedia would (a few months down the line) also be > > in our Archive. Is there (or could there be) a feed of all outlinks that > IA > > could crawl almost nonstop? > > That sounds excellent to me, if possible (and I think close to what > emijrp had in mind!) What would it take to produce such a feed? > > SJ > > PS - An aside: IA's policies include taking down any links on request, > so this would not be a foolproof archive, but a 99% one. > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've asked Gordon Mohr @ IA about how to work with archive-it. I will > > cc: this thread on any response. > > > > SJ > > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:56 PM, George Herbert > > <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> Here's the Archive's on-demand service: > >>> > >>> http://archive-it.org > >>> > >>> That would be the most reliable way to set up the partnership emijrp > >>> proposes. And it's certainly a good idea. Figuring out how to make > >>> it work for almost all editors and make it spam-proof may be > >>> interesting. > >>> > >>> SJ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> > wrote: > >>>> David Gerard wrote: > >>>>> On 24 August 2010 14:57, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I want to make a proposal about external links preservation. Many > times, > >>>>>> when you check an external link or a link reference, the website is > dead or > >>>>>> offline. This websites are important, because they are the sources > for the > >>>>>> facts showed in the articles. Internet Archive searches for > interesting > >>>>>> websites to save in their hard disks, so, we can send them our > external > >>>>>> links sql tables (all projects and languages of course). They > improve their > >>>>>> database and we always have a copy of the sources text to check when > needed. > >>>>>> I think that this can be a cool partnership. > >>>>>> > >>>>> +1 > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Are people who clean up dead links taking the time to check Internet > >>>> Archive to se if the page in question is there? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Ec > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> foundation-l mailing list > >>>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>>> Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> foundation-l mailing list > >>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >> > >> > >> I actually proposed some form of Wikimedia / IArchive link > >> collaboration some years ago to a friend who worked there at the time; > >> however, they left shortly afterwards. > >> > >> I like SJ's particular idea. Who has current contacts with Brewster > >> Kahle or someone else over there? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -george william herbert > >> george.herb...@gmail.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-l mailing list > >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj > > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
