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

Tue Aug 31 21:31:49 UTC 2010

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