User blog:JetCrusherTorpedo/Archiving the wiki

In light of the upcoming wiki updates due to the soon-to-be open beta testing, I think it would be a good idea to save the wiki pages to the Wayback Machine internet archive, when we make an edit.

The Wayback Machine is helpful because it saves the images and formatting of the page, while the xml dump does not.

Saving a page can be done from https://archive.org/web/, or with a simple bookmarklet. The code for the bookmarklet is:

javascript:(function{xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest;xmlhttp.open("GET",'http://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href,true); xmlhttp.send;}) To add a bookmarklet in chrome, create a new bookmark (of any website) and right-click on it. Click edit in the drop-down menu, and paste the code above in the "url" box. If you want, you can change the name to "Save Page" or something similar.

For more information about bookmarklets, see http://marklets.com/FAQ.aspx

Update
The code above was changed from: javascript:(function{xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest;xmlhttp.open("GET",'http://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href,false); xmlhttp.send;}) This changes the GET request to asynchronous, so your browser doesn't hang while the request is being made.