[IMC-Tech] State of the nation - 25% of indymedia sites are dead

[ben]

The following IMC sites (found displayed as links in the cities list
on all indymedia sites), are either dead, broken, frozen, unmanaged,
hacked, sold or otherwise unavailable at the time of writing. This
list is not intended as an exhustive list and may contain errors. It
certainly misses some other sites which are non functing but passed
automatic tests and were not checked manually. It may contain sites
which were temporarily unavailable at the time of testing.

Obviously these 46 sites represent a substancial proportion of the 185
sites listed as being part of the global indymedia network. That's 25%
of the network down, and that's not including the 22 sites already
taken off the list and marked as inactive in the contacts database.

Over twelve months ago I raised the issue of the number of dead sites
on the process list with the intention of getting such sites removed
(http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/translation/2007-June/0613-4g.html).
No progress was made (partly due to errors in my draft list) and also
because there appears to be no agreed process by which to de-list a
site.

When it looked like no progress would be made on the global level I
proposed to my local IMC (indymedia UK) that we make use of a non
standard modified cities.inc list rather than the out-of-date list
generated by the IMC contacts database
(http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-network/2007-June/0614-9p.html).
This was never implemented but with the creation of a new
london.indymedia site coming up in the next few weeks I intend to make
the proposal again.

Obviously I would rather the issue could be solved at a global level
rather than implement unilateral local workarounds so I propose again
that any site (starting with those listed below) which are
inaccessible or broken for a period of 3 months, shall be removed from
the cities list and flagged as inactive on the contacts data base.

Personally I believe that frozen/archive sites should also be removed
from the list and a new imc project sites called archives.indymedia be
created to point at such sites or better yet, pull their content into
in to a safer home.



Ben

http://richmond.indymedia.org/ Frozen June 2008
http://hawaii.indymedia.org/ Frozen since mid 2006
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/ Frozen since Nov 2006
http://vermont.indymedia.org/ Dada IMC code error
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ Frozen March 2007, collective desolved
http://bc.indymedia.org/ Site offline holding page
http://victoria.indymedia.org/ Site offline holding page
http://chilesur.indymedia.org Frozen since Nov 2006
http://bigmuddyimc.org/ Just a satic holding page
http://india.indymedia.org/ Suspended in 2006
http://binghamtonpmc.org/ Closed. Holding page
http://base.espora.org Not an Indymedia site
http://belgrade.indymedia.org Closed
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-balkan/2007-June/0615-tp.html
http://brisbane.indymedia.org/ Closed
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2007-June/0615-59.html
http://darwin.indymedia.org Closed
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2007-June/0615-59.html
http://worcester.buffaloimc.org 401 Unauthorized. requires password
http://nigeria.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://armenia.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://croatia.indymedia.org 404 Not Found
http://hungary.indymedia.org 404 Not Found
http://paris.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://193.189.147.16/cmitlse/ 404 Not Found
http://hamilton.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://montreal.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://ontario.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://windsor.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://winnipeg.indymedia.org 404 Not Found
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://cvilleindymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://colorado.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://www.hm.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://www.okimc.org 404 Not Found
http://omahaimc.org/ 404 Not Found
http://sarasota.indymedia.org 404 Not Found
http://tnimc.org/ 404 Not Found
http://mumbai.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://burma.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://lancaster.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://vienna.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://andinacol.indymedia.org 404 Not Found
http://www.quietrev.org/ 404 Not Found
http://zimbabwe.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://moscow.indymedia.org 404 Not Found
http://www.twimc.org 404 Not Found
http://arica.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://armenia.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
http://omahaimc.org/ 404 Not Found