Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012
STOP THE PRESS! Great news: I've just learned that literally last week Legal Deposit in Australia was extended to include digital! http://libcopyright.org.au/news/collecting-digital-legal-deposit-extended-national-library wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 30 June 2015 at 13:11, Liam Wyatt wrote: > > Seeing this post on Wikimedia-l about broken links reminded me of > something I was wondering about a while ago... > As many of you know, one of the projects at the National Library [where I > no longer work, just to make that clear] is called "Pandora". It's the > Australian web archiving service and http://pandora.nla.gov.au/ Unlike > the Internet Archive it only collects things related to Australia and does > so on a case-by-case permission basis (due to Australian copyright law > which doesn't extend legal-deposit legislation to digital works [yet]. > > It is actually arguably the oldest web archive in the world, with the > earliest record coming from May 1995!! > https://www.nla.gov.au/australias-web-archives/2013/05/03/what-is-the-oldest-website-and-will-an-artefact-do > > > I was wondering... Would it be difficult for someone to create a bot that > checked the Pandora archive for urls that appear in Wikipedia foontotes - > and then add the the relevant parameters and info to the template? > > |archive-url= |archive-date= | > > > -Liam > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Jonatan Svensson Glad > Date: 30 June 2015 at 06:36 > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012 > To: "wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org" > > > The website findarticles died in 2012 causing over 20 000 articles to have > dead links on them. A few of them was backed up on Wayback, but their > robot.txt changed so all those archives were deleted as well. So either > articles have a dead link showing as 200 (which findlinks.com does) or > they are claiming to be archived while they are not. > Read more in my blog post about this: > https://jonatanglad.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/findarticles-com/ > Can we use a bot to remove all instances of this link, or should we go > through them all manually? Can we use bots such as CItation bot (which is > currently blocked) to find doi's and other links to replace these links > with? Ideas people! Barely any of these links are tagged as dead, and can't > by Checklinks (unless done manually) since they show as 200. > /Josve05a > > ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012
Excellent news! Kerry _ From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015 9:19 PM To: Wikimedia-au Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012 STOP THE PRESS! Great news: I've just learned that literally last week Legal Deposit in Australia was extended to include digital! http://libcopyright.org.au/news/collecting-digital-legal-deposit-extended-na tional-library wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 30 June 2015 at 13:11, Liam Wyatt wrote: Seeing this post on Wikimedia-l about broken links reminded me of something I was wondering about a while ago... As many of you know, one of the projects at the National Library [where I no longer work, just to make that clear] is called "Pandora". It's the Australian web archiving service and http://pandora.nla.gov.au/ Unlike the Internet Archive it only collects things related to Australia and does so on a case-by-case permission basis (due to Australian copyright law which doesn't extend legal-deposit legislation to digital works [yet]. It is actually arguably the oldest web archive in the world, with the earliest record coming from May 1995!! https://www.nla.gov.au/australias-web-archives/2013/05/03/what-is-the-oldest -website-and-will-an-artefact-do I was wondering... Would it be difficult for someone to create a bot that checked the Pandora archive for urls that appear in Wikipedia foontotes - and then add the the relevant parameters and info to the template? |archive-url= |archive-date= | -Liam wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata -- Forwarded message -- From: Jonatan Svensson Glad Date: 30 June 2015 at 06:36 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012 To: "wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org" The website findarticles died in 2012 causing over 20 000 articles to have dead links on them. A few of them was backed up on Wayback, but their robot.txt changed so all those archives were deleted as well. So either articles have a dead link showing as 200 (which findlinks.com does) or they are claiming to be archived while they are not. Read more in my blog post about this: https://jonatanglad.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/findarticles-com/ Can we use a bot to remove all instances of this link, or should we go through them all manually? Can we use bots such as CItation bot (which is currently blocked) to find doi's and other links to replace these links with? Ideas people! Barely any of these links are tagged as dead, and can't by Checklinks (unless done manually) since they show as 200. /Josve05a ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Telling our stories
The Learning and Evaluation people have published this new resource on Meta that provides tips, resources and infographics about how to tell the story of any effort so that it comes across clearly and in an interesting way. It should be helpful for sharing anything and reporting what we are doing. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Reporting_and_Storytelling Whiteghost.ink ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
