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 <liamwy...@gmail.com> 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 <gladjona...@outlook.com> > Date: 30 June 2015 at 06:36 > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012 > To: "wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org" <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 > >
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