Stef- I believe that searching for a URL in the Wayback Machine queues it and its connected docs for crawling by archive.org.
- Heath On Tuesday, March 17, 2015, Friedrich Lindenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Good digital archiving is a huge challenge, but I think claiming that > every project stored on Google Code is now entirely Google's problem isn't > reasonable and won't get this solved. It's true that zipping each project > up and pushing it onto archive.org is a simple thing to do, and I'd be > surprised if Google didn't end up doing something along these lines. > > Beyond that, I don't think that we should pretend there's a legitimate > expectation for infinite free service (e.g. git/svn servers, working > wikis). Maintaining F/OSS projects is real work, and Google shouldn't do it > for us. > > Let's not forget that OKFN's own track record on this is probably not > ideal either - KForge was shut down without a very comprehensive archival > plan... > > - Friedrich > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:34 PM, stef <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 01:25:09PM +0000, David Miller wrote: >> > On 17 March 2015 at 13:03, stef <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> > > what a disgrace >> > Are you trolling? >> >> no i'm not. i'm disgusted by google destroying knowledge after 2016. i >> deeply >> care about open knowledge and such destruction is totally unacceptable. >> >> > Yes: Nice one. >> > No: Did you read their explanation [1] ? >> >> yes, they externalize their costs again on us. them, who would count as >> one of >> the top 50 states if we'd live in a more fascistic world. we can migrate >> the >> stuff away that we want to preserve after 2016. they could put it on >> read-only >> and host it for 20 more years. >> >> there's shitloads of valuable unmaintained and orphaned projects on >> googlecode, which will not be migrated if we do not get 1/ google to take >> responsibility, 2/ someone else cleaning up googles shit. >> >> -- >> otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >> > > -- Heath Rezabek // labs.vessel.cc Icarus Interstellar / FarMaker Design Corps // icarusinterstellar.org Open Knowledge Foundation / Texas Ambassador for the OKFn // okfn.org
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