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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20220810042239/https://github.blog/changelog/2021-12-16-github-pages-using-github-actions-for-builds-and-deployments-for-public-repositories/

GitHub Pages: using GitHub Actions for builds and deployments for public repositories

pages

December 16, 2021

Today you will begin to see a new workflow running called pages build and deployment in your public GitHub Pages repositories. This workflow is automatically triggered when you push to the branch configured for GitHub Pages in your repository. As the name suggests, it builds and deploys your pages site. The initial benefit of this change is enabling you to see your build logs and any errors that may occur which has been a long standing issue for Pages users. However, in the future this will enable us to give you the ability to fully customize your pages build and deployment workflow to use any static site generator you want without having to push the build output to a special branch of the repository.

You may notice this workflow uses some new actions actions/pages-deploy, and actions/jekyll-build-pages. For now these actions are designed to be used in the generated workflow, however, starting early next year we will introduce some additional changes that will enable you to take advantage of them.

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Advisory Database now includes an Unreviewed Advisories section

December 16, 2021

security-and-compliance

Up until today, the GitHub Advisory Database has only published advisories that have been curated and approved by our Security Lab team.

This approach meant users sometimes couldn't find advisories in our database when searching, so the Advisory Database now has a separate section of listings for unreviewed advisories. These will be auto-published from the National Vulnerability Database feed.

Screenshot of unreviewed advisories

If you search for a term like "WordPress plugin," you can now see listings that are both GitHub reviewed and unreviewed. If you'd like to filter for only reviewed advisories, add type:reviewed to your query. Alternatively, you can also enter your query and then click the "All reviewed" button on the left-hand sidebar.

Screenshot of filtering for reviewed advisories

Dependabot alerts will continue to only be generated for GitHub Reviewed advisories in order to preserve their curated level of quality.

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Restrict renaming protected branches to admins

December 16, 2021

repos

Now, only admins can rename branches that are protected by branch protection rules.

GitHub allows repository collaborators to rename every branch in a repository, with the exception of the default branch.
When a collaborator renames a branch, any non-wildcard branch protection rules that apply to that branch are also changed to match the branch's new name.
Because only admins can modify branch protection rules, renaming of a protected branch is now limited to admin users.

For more information, visit Renaming a branch and Managing a branch protection rule.

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