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Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

59 points by ChocMontePy

by defrost

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For any, like myself, wondering "Who is Ben Welsh" ?

  Hello. My name is Ben Welsh. I'm an Iowan living in New York City.

  I am a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories.

  I work at Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, where I founded the organization's News Applications Desk. In that role, I lead the development of dashboards, databases and automated systems that benefit clients, inform readers, empower reporters and serve the public interest.

  [...]

~ https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/

by nomilk

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Couldn't figure out why archiving FTE aricles matters, but a quick search yields:
> Thousands of FiveThirtyEight articles seemingly vanish from the internet
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/thousands-of-five...
And discussions here on hn:
ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (article by Nate himself) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703

by nl

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This is because whoever owns Fivethirtyeight now (ABC?) deleted the whole archive of articles on the site.

by internet2000

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I'm seeing a lot about this. What makes this situation different than any other website going offline?

by ChocMontePy

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Github link:
https://github.com/palewire/fivethirtyeightindex.com

by 3eb7988a1663

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If I wanted to get the complete WARC archive of 538 - how do you do this in a friendly way? No interest in history tracking, just want the last available version from Internet Archive.

by ChrisArchitect

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Love Ben but title can simply be: Index of FiveThirtyEight articles preserved by the Internet Archive