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Online (331) · Special cases (51) · Endangered (70) · Closing (16) · Offline (424)
Rescued Sites (498) · Self-Saved (17) · Partially Rescued Sites (213) · In Progress (43) · Upcoming (11) · Not Saved Yet (409) · On hiatus (12) · Lost Sites (91)
Unknown Status (65)

Here's where Archive Teamsters can list the projects they are currently working on and organize new projects.

Active Projects

See also: Category:In progress.

Ideas for Projects

See also Deathwatch and Alive... OR ARE THEY.
  • Suggestion: An archive of .gif and .swf preloaders? Kuro 19:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
    • We can extract all the .gif files from the GeoCities archive and compare them using md5sum to discard dupes. Emijrp 19:58, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Set up an FTP hub which AT members can access and up/down finished projects.
  • Track the 100+ top twitter feeds, as designated by one of these idiot Twitter grading sites, and back up on a regular basis the top twitter people, for posterity.
  • Groklaw has a project proposal that we could help with. - Jason
  • Archive the shutdown announcement pages on dead sites.
  • RSS Feed with death notices. - Jason
  • Twitter profile might be a good way to broadcast new site obituaries. - psicom
  • TinyURL and similar services, scraping/backup - Steve
    • highlight services that at least allow exporting data (Diigo that I know of). Next "best" - services that have registeration and enable viewing your URL / saving them by e.g. saving as HTML (tr.im). Etc. --Jaakkoh 05:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Symphony could potentially be used for archiving structured XML/RSS feeds to a relational database - Nick
  • A Firefox plugin for redirecting users to our archive when they request a site that's been rescued. - ???
  • As reported on boingboing by Cory Doctorow, all of Gopherspace - scraped in 2007 - needs an archive home. Anybody have 15GB of spare hosted-server space for this project?
I do, please contact me at admin@emuwiki.com to tell me what to do. EmuWikiAdmin 15:17, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
They are added to iBiblio http://torrent.ibiblio.org/search.php?query=gopher&submit=search Emijrp 11:34, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Archives of MUD, MUSH, MOO game sites and related information. They won't all be around forever. --Auguste 13:59, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
    • I'm keeping an eye out for, and archiving sites like LambdaMOO.info, which are either closing down or may be at risk. --Auguste 13:59, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
  • YTMND Zachera 20:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
  • WikiWikiWeb - The first wiki, is still a valuable source of information on programming patterns and related topics. It's still active, but I'm not sure how much. It's been going since 1995 so its got real historical value. Plus it's all text and wouldn't take much space. The owner Ward Cunningham might be amenable to providing a copy, so I'd suggest contact first.
  • Electronics datasheets: this, this, this and this for example. Many of these datasheets are already very hard to find (esp. for older and rarer parts, e.g. those required to emulate old computer systems) and the sites are often in China, Russia or other countries that might give problems in the future. Lots of data to grab, and many of these sites only have very slow bandwidth, so it might be good to start archiving them early. --Darkstar 23:47, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
  • ElfQuest Comics. They've recently all been scanned (6500 pages+) and are available here. They're hidden behind a Flash-based viewer though so someone would first have to decompile that to get to the links. --Darkstar 20:55, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Finished Projects

See also: Category:Rescued Sites.

Dead Projects

  • EmuWikiAdmin created EmuWiki, a collection of all emulators, emulator documents, and hardware information that exists, regrouped in a referenced database. Unfortunately, it shut down in May 2010 due to copyright issues. A 20GB torrent of the site is apparently floating around somewhere.

Tools

See also