[seqfan] Re: All links to private pages will break, we should get copies before they do

[Brendan McKay]

On Wikipedia there is a "bot" (automated editor) that goes around adding
archive.org urls for citations to dead sites.

Also, when a site has not been archived at archive.org, archiving can be
requested and happens immediately.  This is achieved by visiting a url
like this:
      https://web.archive.org/save/URL_TO_SAVE

Here URL_TO_SAVE includes the protocol, for example
      https://web.archive.org/save/http://www.pleasesavethis.org

I wonder if this should be a standard procedure for links on OEIS.

Brendan.

On 15/12/19 7:22 am, Neil Sloane wrote:
> This is a delicate business, because
>
> 1. we don't want to save a page unless we make every effort to get
> permission first,
>
> 2.  we don't want to preserve junk.
>
> But it is clear that any private web page will break before long (and many
> pages from organizations will also break, of course).
>
> So if someone adds a link to a private page that has good stuff about a
> sequence, then as a routine matter we should ask if we can make a cached
> copy for our server.
>
> Best regards
> Neil
>
> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
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