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There's an old school website I wanted to access that's long gone. It's only partially preserved in the Wayback Machine. I'm glad it's there at all, but some of
by eslaught 5y ago
There's an old school website I wanted to access that's long gone. It's only partially preserved in the Wayback Machine. I'm glad it's there at all, but some of the specific information I was looking for was never captured, and now there's no way to recover it.
I realize it's a hard problem, but I really wish there were a way to automate more of it. Some of these communities are too small for anyone to bother preserving the pages manually, and I don't imagine we'd even show up on ArchiveTeam's radar. But they're not large pages, and basically static. I don't think they'd be a huge burden to store and maintain. It seems like some sort of a coverage + size metric would be pretty effective at guiding an automated scan such that you'd be able to preserve things liked this without needing humans to go and manually archive each and every page.
- chaps 5y agoPretty much. Your idea of getting coverage could probably work well to make sure IA doesn't "turn into a bot" (though it's practically the same, just without the permanent downloading).
- ivank 5y agohttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot is available if you would like to help save things that are still up.
- smarx007 5y agoI never got turned down sending an IRC message "x is going down in a few days" to the AT channels. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archiveteam:IRC https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archiveteam:IRC AT just asks to be given a few weeks/months of notice depending on how many TBs (MBs?) the crawl needs to be and not to throttle/ban their clients.