On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > A real-time feed of external links is overkill. As mentioned by others, > the chief problem is linkrot of old links. All we need to do is dump the > contents of externallinks.el_to from the database once a year or so, run > a hex to ASCII conversion on it, zip it, and email it to someone at the > Internet Archive. Anyone with access to the databases should be able to > do this fairly easily. Rather than trying to engineer a complicated > system that will take a year to implement, why not take this simple > approach that will take care of 90+% of the problem? > > Ryan Kaldari >
Why once a year? We already get a successful externallinks dump every dump cycle. Even the enwiki one is only half a month old[0]. If someone wants to work with Internet Archive or anyone else on this, the data is already there. -Chad [0] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100817/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
