We (the greater WP community) know people at the Internet Archive.
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...
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
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2008.10.18 01:29:32 +0300, nsk
<nsk(a)karastathis.org> scribbled 3.3K characters:
....
Perhaps the best solution would be to build a web
archiving platform in
Wikipedia itself, so that all referenced webpages are stored for later
retrieval.
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Thanks,
NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis,
http://nsk.karastathis.org/
I actually once wrote a bot* which processed a dump for external links and submitted them
to
webcitation.org. I stopped running it because the link requests didn't seem to be
resulting in URLs being archived, but that was back in May. (Perhaps things have changed
since then.) How much of the solution would such a bot represent? Could the solution be as
cheap as a post-page-save hook which submits all http:// links in the wikitext to
webcitation.org?
* <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Gwern/Archive-bot.hs>
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