Timeline for Long-term archiving of MathOverflow
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Sep 14, 2013 at 7:45 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | @FrançoisG.Dorais, thanks for this very helpful answer. Perhaps at some point I'll see if I can generate a "plain text" version of MathOverflow from the dumps, that is simultaneously human readable with no software, but also clearly computer digestible, in case anyone had a future need to do that. Presumably I'll just generate one text file per question. | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 0:41 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2013 at 0:32 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | I think the design of the archive is probably important when considering deleted material. Option (b) is fine if the deleted content is cannot be discovered with too much ease. However, if each question comes along with all its answers (similarly to the actual site) then the redacted answers are perhaps too easy to find. | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 0:09 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | I'd be inclined to preserve deleted material in the archives (marked as deleted). There may be occasional cases where it would be useful, such as references in the literature to material that was later deleted by whoever posted it. Deleted material is already available to nearly a hundred high-reputation users, who are allowed to distribute it under the terms of the CC license. In principle putting it in the archives would make it a little more accessible, but frankly if someone cares enough to dig it up from the archives, I don't think there's any harm in letting them see deleted content. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 21:25 | comment | added | S. Carnahan Mod | I agree that for long-term storage, it is best to use a format (e.g., ASCII plain text) that requires minimal transformation to become human readable. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 15:18 | history | answered | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |