User talk:Archive Maniac
Hi Archive Maniac, if you're having trouble, it's best to chat on IRC on the #archiveteam channel on EFnet where more people can help. I don't know how to upload wikis so you will need to join the #wikiteam channel for help. Please be patient and leave your chat client connected to give someone time to answer. Thanks. Chfoo 01:37, 17 February 2014 (EST)
Hi, sorry for not responding to your earlier messages. I don't check the wiki for messages that often because Archive Team does all its discussion on IRC. There's no forums unfortunately. If you have trouble with IRC, you can email me and I can get back to you sooner.
Regarding the best way to store your backups is to keep copies on multiple hard drives. Like VHS tapes and audio cassettes, CDs and DVDs wear out after a while. It's called disk rot. Although hard drives don't last long either, they hold much more data and are cheaper in the long run.
People who run the Warrior scripts manually usually have experience and money to spend on cloud computing for virtual hosts so they can run dozens of the scripts at once. This is why the people at the top of the Warrior leaderboards have gigabytes and gigabytes downloaded.
Archive Team already has a way for people to submit websites to be archived. It's called ArchiveBot and anyone can use it. All Archive Team files are placed into the archiveteam collection. Adding files to collection is restricted since files under this collection show up in the Wayback Machine.
Regarding uploading things to Internet Archive, uploading archives with good conventions is excellent and I wish more people would take initiative and be proactive.
However when uploading websites, you need to upload WARC files instead of a 7z file of the website. With wget, you'll need to use the --warc-file option. For example, --warc-file example will produce a WARC file called example.warc.gz. You want to use WARC files so The Wayback Machine can load them and show the archives properly.
I hope I answered your questions and sorry for missing your earlier messages. --- Chfoo 16:18, 12 April 2014 (EDT)
Some friendly words
I don't like starting private conversations except about technical things. However, I've seen your strange activities on the ArchiveTeam IRC channels recently, and I can't help saying some words.
First, I won't ever be sarcastic or cinycistic with you. Some of AT members may have been, but it's understandable. We have different amounts of patience. They have made assumptions about your age as well, however, we have no information about that.
Seeing your reactions and activities, I think I can understand your behaviour. I used to make similar actions and reactions myself, so we have common traits in some way, if you don't mind me saying this.
I was lucky to be present when the initial affair happened. I read through the lines several times, but the only thing I could conclude is that you accidentally wrote those lines to that window (they were totally out of context and you said this yourself too), but you were immediately banned. I don't remember you asking too much as you state on your user page. It is possible I didn't get something, and SketchCow and the others had the reasons to qualify you as "persona non grata", but I don't see.
Either way, you shouldn't feel offended. If you had logged in with another nickname, no one would have ever remembered your earlier activity. Even if you had logged in as... you know how, even then, I'm sure, no one would have said a word against or about you, provided you acted normally.
Even now, you could see people tried to be friendly towards you. However, what you feel is that they have some kind of hatred against you, and you must take revenge. No. It's not true. People don't hate you, even now, and you don't need to take revenge. I hate to say this but if you go on acting like this, then they may become actually fed up. But it's not too late now to turn back on this crazy way.
What you have been doing is called "demonstrating" on Wikipedia. Sad to see if someone, otherwise valueable member, does that. You seem to be a valuable member, doing useful things for/with/like ArchiveTeam. Please be collaborative and not disruptive. You don't have to say much, or even do much. I myself don't say or do too much (however, more and more as I've been an AT member for more and more time). I'm sure all (or at least 98% of) ArchiveTeam members counts on your work and welcomes you if you don't act in a kind of crazy way, if you don't mind me saying this.
And, one thing about SketchCow: he is not a de jura nor a de facto leader of AT. He writes about himself: "While I am a (generally) beloved figure who is appreciated for his public speaking skills and snappy dressing, Archive Team has collectively disagreed with me and some projects have been approached completely different ways than I would have approached them." What's more, you don't have to talk to him. I myself haven't talked to him yet too, just listen to him and agree or disagree with him in myself.
You write on your user page that there are friendly people here. Definitely, more than you think. As I see, almost every one of them. There are ones who don't seem to be so good mannered – but where aren't people like them? They are good too, just not that patient or have their own problems or such. (SketchCow has really unique manners, some adorable, some maybe not, but the same could be said about any one of us.)
I want to ensure you that you can ask me if you have questions, want to discuss something, and I won't try to get rid of you, and try not to hurt you with my words. And I want to encourage you to take part in ArchiveTeam's nice work. I've been in the group only for some months so far, but every day I know more and more about archiving, web, programming – and archiving is kind of fun, isn't it? Be sure your work is appreciated by everyone, just avoid demonstrating like today. Except your today's demonstrative activities, your work (making website crawls, informing AT about closures, running warriors) is appreciated. I think everyone is ready to forget everything about you immediately, if you return to that kind of work, with a calm tone. The one on your user page is a good starting point.
I know what it is like to be touchy. I am (or used to be) touchy myself. People forget and forgive, and we outgrow our traits like that. So cheer up and ArchiveTeam awaits you in its journey and mission!