A dump "once a year or so" is not enough: the average life span of a website is 3 months. Kind regards, Dodoïste
2010/8/31 Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
