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

2010-08-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Gordon @ IA was most friendly and helpful. archive-it is a subscription service for focused collections of sites; he had a different idea better suited to our work. Gordon writes: Now, given the importance of Wikipedia and editorial significant of things it outlinks-to, perhaps we could set up

[Foundation-l] Why do you contribute to Wikipedia?

2010-08-28 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, Right now we in the Bookshelf Project are preparing a number of booklets and brochures and you are welcome to participate in the work. We look forward to any comments you may have to any of our deliverables: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project#Deliverables One of the

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

2010-08-28 Thread emijrp
Do we send a cc: to Wikimedia tech mailing list? 2010/8/28 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Gordon @ IA was most friendly and helpful. archive-it is a subscription service for focused collections of sites; he had a different idea better suited to our work. Gordon writes: Now, given the

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

2010-08-28 Thread Excirial
*What would it take to produce such a feed?** * A real-time feed may or may not be the best idea, for several reasons. - One issue is that every edit would have to be examined not only for external links, but for external links that were not present previously. Doing this real-time may cause

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

2010-08-28 Thread theo10011
A real time feed wouldn't be a smart idea neither would only new links. New external links are probably the most reliable ones, if they dont work today then theres probably no point in preserving them. Link rot is the biggest problem here, external links which might be 5-6 years old or more. I

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

2010-08-28 Thread Excirial
*A real time feed wouldn't be a smart idea neither would only new links. New external links are probably the most reliable ones. *After reading this part i am not entirely certain if you caught my drift correctly, or if you missed it somehow. In case you understood it correctly apologies for