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

Tue Jun 24 14:38:49 PDT 2008

hi,

an other update

http://nice.indymedia.org , last contribution 28 avril 2007

toya a écrit :
> hi ben, just an update on your list:
>
>  > http://chilesur.indymedia.org Frozen since Nov 2006
>  > http://india.indymedia.org/ Suspended in 2006
>
> both are hosted by imc brasil, both had their own collectives ask us to 
> froze their sites. And has being this way since 2006 as you pointed out.
> I don't see them as indymedia collectives or sites, since is a frozen 
> site. But is a resource for information that should be up and available 
> to the public.
>
>
>  > http://paris.indymedia.org/ 404 Not Found
>
> the server is having problems and we are working on with ppl from paris 
> has being about a month, they are being attacked by bots like crazy and 
> that is making the cpu usage goes way too high for the rest of the 
> server...that is why you see it as 404 but ppl from paris are still 
> active and on irc with us working on it in a daily basis.
>
>
>  > 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.
>
> Well our home is safe :P heheh I am kidding, I just want to say that the 
> server where those frozen sites (chilesur and india) are is safe and is 
> backed up etc. I think is a good idea to have them separate from the 
> list of sites that are avaliable. maybe they should be in a section 
> inside the list that says imc archives, and list the frozen sites...
> I just think that if we send the users to another page so they can see 
> what are the frozen sites etc, the user will never do it...so maybe 
> keeping the links in the same place so the user can see it right away, 
> would be better, and they can link and access the sites.
> If there are any frozen sites that doesnt have a 'good home' :) imc tech 
> brasil could host them as well, host the frozen ones is way easy :P then 
> the active ones hehe
>
> ciao
> toya
>
>
> ben wrote:
>   
>> 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
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