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* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for quick shutdown.
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for quick shutdown.
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.
== In progress ==
Many of the sites above are too big to randomly start saving them and if we start they must not be so alive, but contingency plans wouldn't harm.
{| class="wikitable"
! Website
! User
! Archiving Status
! Details
! Archives
! Archive Date
! Archive Format
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[pastebin]] [http://pastebin.com/] || [[User:Arkiver]] || Aborted || Archive power can better be used for other websites. || COMING || 2013-12-14 - 2013-12-17 || .warc.gz
|-
| [[User:joepie91]] || <span style="color:orange">In progress...</span> || Downloading newest pastes ||  ||  || .warc.gz
|-
| [[User:pluesch]] || <span style="color:orange">In progress...</span> || Downloading newest pastes || COMING || 2014-09-09 - ... || .txt (paste) and .json (meta)
|}


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Revision as of 06:19, 24 December 2014

Like many sites before them, these places indicate a sunny outlook, a clean bill of health and a total sense of "all systems go". But as we've found out from those many sites before them, fortunes can change overnight.

Archive Team considers these sites specifically of interest because they solicit so much content, contain so many works and projects by a wide group of people, or have the internet particularly dependent on them. Consider this a fire drill.. know what you can do to get your data off these sites and back them off for later.

Sites

Not so alive, rather living deads (owned by Yahoo!):

  • Flickr contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by Yahoo!, need to say more?!

All the others: