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This is good though, as they're now hopefully aware of some previously unknown deficiencies.
Best of luck to the Archive team to get things up and running again with minimal stress!
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Downvotes! Yep, this is exactly why we have crappy infrastructure.
FYI: downvotes because (0) off-topic, (a) not constructive, (b) the world is bigger than California and there’s a lot of great infrastructure elsewhere, (c) PG&E is probably about average, (d) complaining about downvotes without thinking about why people had reason to downvote you.
All other points are fair, though.
The Internet Archive just announced a no-waitlist book lending due to COVID-19, I'd guess their servers might not be too happy about the inrush of users. http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...
So I'm guessing that they've shifted resources.
Now would be a great time to donate to the Internet Archive if you're able to. They can surely use the help.
If only shareholders would think the same way about PG&E and other companies that could use infrastructure upgrades ...
You will be glad to know that they've protected executive bonuses, though.
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If only shareholders would think the same way about PG&E and other companies that could use infrastructure upgrades ...
PG&E is so far behind on deferred maintenance that people have been petitioning for California to socialize it so the state stops catching on fire from high tension powerlines. You will be glad to know that they've protected executive bonuses, though.
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The kiwix Wikipedia-en full scrape with images has been broken for over 18 months, I think they could use some technical help. I tried running their scraper myself on a nice AWS instance and it just stalls after many days of downloading articles. Could probably use a rewrite. ;) https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/discussion/604121/thread/1f2... https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/1020 https://github.com/openzim…
The whole zim file infrastructure is pretty broken. I've been trying to put together a system for generating a WARC file by rendering all the wikitext content in a database dump, which is a lot more reasonable of an approach. Rendering wikitext is challenging though, since wikitext can include chunks of other wikitext, and wikitext can use some pretty complicated templating functionality. Oddly enough where I've run…
You could start by asking here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project
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FYI: downvotes because (0) off-topic, (a) not constructive, (b) the world is bigger than California and there’s a lot of great infrastructure elsewhere, (c) PG&E is probably about average, (d) complaining about downvotes without thinking about why people had reason to downvote you.
Downvoted you only because PG&E is way worse than average. Just yesterday they agreed to plead guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter, and I could go on and on about their wrongdoing. Much related to not doing maintenance and then falsifying maintenance reports. I moved out of their service area a decade ago, still hate them. All other points are fair, though.
Now would be a great time to donate to the Internet Archive if you're able to. They can surely use the help.
In the meantime, distributed archiving ftw, run your own archives with Webrecorder.io, ArchiveBox.io, SingleFile, kiwix.org, etc!