Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 days agoThat’s not true.
Okay, then you’ll need to explain the annual emails I’ve gotten saying “Your application to the Wikipedia Library has been approved” after I apparently tripped and fell and filled out a manual form applying to the library every year.
It doesn’t seem selective if at all once you meet the four aforementioned criteria, but you do need to manually apply.
The idea you’re talking about, meanwhile, is nonsensical and doesn’t address basically anything about the massive structural problems blacklisting archive.today imposes. I wholly support expanding out the Wikipedia Library, but even this pie-in-the-sky version of it falls too far short of what archive.today provides – and that’s just going forward in an ideal world where you can snap your fingers and make this fantasyland version of the WML happen as soon as archive.today is blacklisted.
The “backcatalogue”, so to speak, is what’s going to be the most catastrophic part of this by far.
Aatube@thriv.social 2 days ago
34 (mainly non–core Anglosphere newspapers) of the 121 platforms TWL can give you access to require an application. The rest you can access automatically, instantaneously right now as long as you meet the stats.
I mentioned that this (only) solves one (of two) major problems archive.today was used to solve: paywalls. This is also very workable; you already have major newspapers like Haaretz and WSJ available on TWL.
I also mentioned that the backcatalogue problem can be solved by running a different archiving service on the existing archive.today URLs we use.