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Bug 61133 - Let Internet Archive's Wayback machine archive tools
Let Internet Archive's Wayback machine archive tools
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia Labs
Classification: Unclassified
tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Marc A. Pelletier
http://tools.wmflabs.org/robots.txt
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Reported: 2014-02-10 11:09 UTC by Nemo
Modified: 2014-03-25 17:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Nemo 2014-02-10 11:09:50 UTC 
See bug 56893 for instructions.
Comment 1 Tim Landscheidt 2014-02-10 11:24:08 UTC 
What does "archive tools" mean?  Tools (for the most part) process input and generate output from that.  A spider doesn't provide input and thus doesn't get output.

For "archiving tools" (i. e. the interesting bit, the processor), their source code needs to be put in a repository.  But neither Internet Archive nor any other spider can access private source code from the web.
Comment 2 Nemo 2014-02-10 11:31:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> What does "archive tools" mean?  Tools (for the most part) process input and
> generate output from that.  A spider doesn't provide input and thus doesn't
> get
> output.

Which is why this operation is inexpensive but will allow Wayback to archive URLs referenced from the web or by users.
Comment 3 Marc A. Pelletier 2014-03-25 17:50:11 UTC 
Pages with dynamically generated content make no semantic sense to archive, and the cost in resources of allowing spidering of tool URLs is prohibitive.

Tool Labs is not intended for long-lived mostly static content (which is what archiving makes sense for); that data belongs on a wiki -- possibly generated and put there /by/ tools.
Comment 4 Nemo 2014-03-25 17:51:58 UTC 
RObbish
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