Web archiving

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Web archiving is the process of collecting, preserving, and providing access to material from the World Wide Web. The aim is to ensure that information is preserved in an archival format for research and the public.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Web archiving”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Internet Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.