Archive.org requests donations.

[coulonnus]

I regularly receive quests for a donation. I understand their needs to pay for servers, staff etc. But AFAIK archive.org is divided in two features: one is offering scans of documents, made by a number of universities and libraries. See the bottom of https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Universities_and_Libraries Of course this is very valuable.

The second one is offering archived versions of web pages that have been withdrawn. But what is the contribution of this second feature to the costs of archive.org? And do the authors of these withdrawn pages wish their beeing archived?

In my view archive.org should give up this second feature. Any idea? I can't seem to find the right forum for this issue on the archive.org site.

[Melodia]

Seriously? the 'Wayback Machine' was the reason Archive.org was started in the first place. Over 22 years ago at that (though not public until 2001 apparently)

Just....well just read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

I'm boggling at such a weird ignorant comment.

[coulonnus]

Thanks for these informations. Did you make a donation?

What is the cost the Ceramic archivists collection?

[Eric]

I know that I am sometimes glad that a page at a now-deceased site of mine has been archived, yes. (If you are the owner of a website and know some basic coding you can include text that tells bots not to crawl/archive/search and most of them, including I believe Google and Archive.org, will respect that. So if you don't wish it, you don't have to allow it.)