[Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

Tue Aug 24 17:10:13 UTC 2010

Its a great idea, using the wayback machine to ward of link rot. I support
it but doesn't Google cache offer a similar service. there is also
deadURL.com which uses Google Cache, the Internet Archive, and user
submissions for gathering dead links.

I would guess that Google Cache would have the highest and the longest
reliability, at least as long as Google exists, its their business.

Regards

Theo

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:07 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 August 2010 17:32, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Internet Archive is a nonprofit foundation, and it is running since 1996,
> so
> > I think that it is a stable project and they are going to create mirrors
> in
> > more countries (now there is a mirror in Alexandria). But, of course,
> > Webcite or Wikiwix can help storing web copies (3 different archiving
> > projects are better than only 1).
>
>
> That's a key point: have multiple archives easily supported.
> (Hopefully not as complicated as what happens when you click on an
> ISBN.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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