How is the history tracking? [LWN.net]

How is the history tracking?

Posted Mar 19, 2009 17:24 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041)
In reply to: How is the history tracking? by mrjk
Parent article: Campsite offers plug-and-play freedom of the press

mrjk, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean 'are published articles assigned unique URLs'? Because of course they are, but that still wouldn't prevent a site admin from removing or re-editing old content, or from messing with other settings. Or do you mean 'is there a way for editors and story authors working on new articles to automatically pull in references to old articles for citation'? Or something else?

Nate
PS - you can access the demo site at http://campware.org/en/camp/campsite_news/643/ -- it might tell you what you need to know, although it has not yet been updated from 3.1 to 3.2.

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How is the history tracking?

Posted Mar 21, 2009 0:23 UTC (Sat) by mrjk (subscriber, #48482) [Link] (1 responses)

Hmm... I replied a couple days ago and it somehow was lost.

Anyway what I am looking for would be a kind of historical snapshot capabiity. Suppose I use
Campsite for 5 years. Its now 2014 under the Palin administration and someone alleges that two
years previously I had an article about Cheney next to an article about atheists and that insulted
Cheney and I am now a traitor and going to jail. (Ok, Ok this is just for illustration). I want to show
what the site looked like that day in 2012. The whole site in relation to itself. Not just articles.
Perhaps bundling issues would let me do this, but if I didn't want issues, is there a feature that I
could call and say, I want what the site looked like at a given point in the past.

With a paper this is always a given, but I think it is bad that it is not done for electronic Web
publication much.

Hope this gets across what I was looking for,
Mark

How is the history tracking?

Posted Mar 21, 2009 18:49 UTC (Sat) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link]

I think the solution to this is outside Campsite - either rely on the Internet Archive to do this, or set up a weekly process that captures the whole website and archives it into static HTML. The latter is probably preferable, but what might be best is if the Internet Archive could be contracted to do this for newspaper sites - it would be a useful service and also provide some income to the archive.