WayBack Machine Archiving Tips For Any Blog

meeedeee:

These tips apply to your bog. Or that of anyone else’s. You do not have to be the blog owner to archive through the Wayback Machine (WBM).

1. The Wayback Machine allows you to submit a URL to archive.  Read more.

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2.  If you have your Tumblr set to endless scroll you have to save each post one by one

3. If you set your Timblr so that there are pages (Previous/Next) you can “bulk” save each page of 5-10 posts and not just each post: 

Ex: https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/page/2

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/page/2

4. If you run a post or a page through the WBM, it is not guaranteed that the  embedded art will also be saved. If there is something you really want  to save, right click on the art and submit the image URL through the WBM machine

5. “Read More” and flagged material may not be archived correctly through the WBM. Check your links.

6. Audio and Video will not be archived

7. Why bother with the WBM? Why not download? Well, you should download your blog, no matter what. But you will be the only person who will see the download. To save the Tumblr post or entire Tumblr blog for future fans to see, use the WBM.

8. Want to save the blog of someone who has died or gone offline? You have  2 choices: submit the pages to the WBM or use the Python script below. 

Download only Tools to archive your blog:

Tumblr’s export tool

Github/Python Tool (you can also use this tool to archive someone else’s blog)

If you need help archiving a blog, Garfield, a fan vidder, is offering to use the Python install on their machine do it for free. 

Save endangered tumblrs before 17. December

destinationtoast:

17decemberarchive:

Please submit all endangered Tumblrs you care about in this form.  Also please spread the message.

Hello Tumblr users,

we are the Archive Team, the Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers,
writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since
2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns,
shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions – and done our best to save
the history before it’s lost forever. We already worked on other Yahoo related projects like GeoCities and Flickr.

You can learn more about us under https://archiveteam.org/.

We plan to save many as many of the endangered blogs as possible. To do that we take multiple approaches.

  1. We use or scan of Tumblr we did in April 2018
  2. Some guys are working on an AI solution to detect endangered pictures
  3. We look for tags manually

But just us looking is not enough. You know Tumblr better than us.

Submit your favorite endangered Tumblrs here. That way we can be sure not miss them and put them in front of our queue.

If you have technical knowledge join us via IRC chat.efnet.org:9090/?channels=%23tumbledown

I was asked to signal boost this.  You can also check out the Archive Team site and their page about Tumblr to learn more about who comprises the team, their mission & past sites they’ve archived, and their approach for Tumblr. 

Note that what they’re asking for is URLs of blogs (your own or other people’s) that you want to make sure get archived.

aplpaca:

[sound of glass shattering from the other room as the christmas tree is knocked over bc someone tried to jump to reach the shiniest ornament]

Nott, from said other room: …….frumpkin did it

Caleb, sitting in the dining room unfazed with frumpkin on his lap: ja, he is a very naughty cat

zarla-s:

GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO FIX THE JUMBLED POSTS

Okay, so if you’ve noticed that when you go to your front page, a lot of old posts are randomly resurfacing and your new posts are getting buried under them no matter what you do, there’s a REALLY EASY fix for it!

Just go into the resurfaced old post, and edit it in some way. In my case, I added a tag that said “test”. Any kind of edit to the post will be fine as long as you save the changes. Edit: You might not even have to edit it! Just save the post again. If you have Xkit’s mass post tagger that might work as well? I didn’t test it.

Then I reloaded my front page and behold! The old post was back in my archives where it belonged!

(Incidentally, if the theory that this behavior is caused by posts getting flagged and unflagged, then you can see which posts of mine tumblr’s bot thought were nsfw by looking at the test tag)

6, 18, 23, and 30 for the player character of your choice!

okay so, i have not actually played any of the characters i have because i’m the dm of the only game i’m in, but i really appreciate you asking so here we go! 

(I’m answering for my crossbow-wielding old-lady paladin because she’s the only one i have a song for off the top of my head. unfortunately she’s also the most the one with the most embarrassingly angsty backstory)

6. What’s their theme song?

i actually have a playlist for ms.paladin! but probably this or this would be her actual theme song presently, though it’s likely to change if i ever get to play her and work through some character development

18. Would they rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck?

ms. paladin would rather fight one horse sized duck, and preferably from a distance. you can’t take out a swarm of tiny horses with one well-placed crossbow bolt after all

23. Thoughts on death?

for ms. paladin death seems like it’d be a rest and a chance to hopefully meet her friends/family again more than anything scary- she’d fully expected and accepted she was going to die when they did years ago and doesn’t exactly understand why she didn’t

…but since she miraculously isn’t dead, she feels like she must still be here for a reason so she needs to be careful until she’s sure she’s fulfilled whatever it is- and that her life is a gift that it’d be rude to not appreciate properly. 

basically she’s very chill with the concept of her own death, but isn’t seeking it, and would absolutely try to save anyone whose life was in peril. 

30. Would they smooch a ghost?

she’s not really inclined to smooch anyone, but probably on the cheek if the ghost happened to be a friend. honestly she’d have more in common with most ghosts than living folks at this point