An update about progress with the wiki. More time was spent dealing with threats to the site, both close at home and further afield.
Eddington brought out of the archive
The 400th publication was part of the Eddington Transport Study. This study, published in 2006, cost over £1.2 million to produce and now sits in an archive no longer indexed by search engines. Some of the supporting documents are valuable resources in and of themselves. They are now accessible from the wiki.
Reducing reliance on Wayback Machine
When the wiki was first created in 2024, Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) was chosen as the default archive service. There were a number of reasons for this. But mainly that it will archive any website and it is easy to use. However, the site is increasingly unreliable and because it is US-based is vulnerable.
The current plan is to retain Wayback Machine links but to provide redundancy where possible.
There are alternative archive services for UK Parliament (Parliament Web Archive) and UK government (The National Archives). For many other UK-based resources the UK Web Archive (British Library) will provide links once the service is restored. This will cover a fair chunk of resources recorded on the wiki.
Tomorrow’s problem: what to do with the remaining archive links
Dealing with Russian spam and Ofcom
Self-service sign ups are temporarily unavailable. The site was a target for spam and way too much time was spent dealing with that. The ability to contribute anonymously was also closed down previously, to ensure complliance with the Ofcom Online Safety Act 2023 regime.
The current plan is to invesigate the sign-up flow and make it harder for Russian online casino spammers to sign up and flood the site but not so hard it puts people off joining.
In the meantime, if you would like an account get in touch by email.