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

Wed Aug 25 01:13:00 UTC 2010

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.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at 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 <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>>> David Gerard wrote:
>>>> On 24 August 2010 14:57, emijrp <emijrp at 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
>>>
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>
> 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?
>
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