The result was keep. There is a rough consensus here that the main notability guideline has been met. Davewild ( talk) 06:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Renominated for deletion for further discussion of the sources per a comment at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2015 June 1#Archive.is: "Either relist or do not allow recreation". I will express my view to keep below. Cunard ( talk) 03:01, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Archive.is was deleted following discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archive.is in September 2013.
A list of Archive.is–related discussions can be found at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure/Archive 14#Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 3. Two RfCs are Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC and Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 3. Because the topic has been contentious, I brought this to DRV for community review of new sources that did not exist when the AfD took place.
Here are three reliable sources that provide significant coverage about Archive.is:
According to the Russian Wikipedia article ru:Ferra.ru, Ferra.ru is a magazine.
Archive.is also received some coverage in two journal articles:
The current name of the archiving service is Archive.is, not Archive.today. See the May 3, 2015, blog post
http://blog.archive.is/post/118010496181/why-did-you-change-the-url-back-from-archive-today
WebCite.
Analysis of the sources
The Japanese article from CNET Japan ( link to Google Translate) provides a very detailed overview of how the website works, sprinkling commentary throughout. It says that Archive.today has "unusual features" like downloading the archived page as an image or as a zip file (which, from my observation, other archiving sites like Wayback Machine and WebCite do not provide). The review notes that Archive.is's "reproducibility of the [archived] page" is "high". It further notes in a caption (from Google Translate): "Japanese also can be displayed without garbage properly, the font of the recall is also high."In fact archive.today - is an alternative clone of the famous project Wayback Machine. True archive.today does not work automatically, and upon request, so that it would be correct to put on a par with Peeep.us or Perma.cc. [My comment: This compares archive.today to two other archiving services that also don't automatically archive URLs.] You never know where some of these sites suddenly block, so it makes sense to have them all bookmarked.
Site archive.today not really famous, but they are actively using. Search on base archive.today find thousands of pages, each of which was saved by someone. Not bad for a project with private financing.
It is worth noting that the services, making snapshots of pages differ in quality. The modern web standards are so complex that some browsers are not always the same understanding. Often a snapshot gets not all content pages. In this regard archive.today good enough. [My comment: This praises archive.today's quality in archiving pages.] It normally keeps even vebdvanolnyh page, the content of which is loaded scripts. Sami snapshot scripts are not included, so save forever page with the virus will fail.
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From a technical standpoint archive.today - a useful and timely tool. [My comment: This article is clearly a review of archive.today.]
This isn't merely a description. It further provides commentary about Archive.today's features and quality.
I am not using the journal articles to satisfy the "significant coverage" clause in Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline. I am listing the articles here to show that Archive.is has been studied as an archiving service by academics. Just another data point for editors to consider.
The article in Vice is rather critical and raises questions about copyright and legality of web archiving. Also, archive.is is involved in the GamerGate controversy that said its wiki and talk pages will be ready battlefield for the gamergaters. 90.178.108.190 ( talk) 11:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
The result was keep. There is a rough consensus here that the main notability guideline has been met. Davewild ( talk) 06:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Renominated for deletion for further discussion of the sources per a comment at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2015 June 1#Archive.is: "Either relist or do not allow recreation". I will express my view to keep below. Cunard ( talk) 03:01, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Archive.is was deleted following discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archive.is in September 2013.
A list of Archive.is–related discussions can be found at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure/Archive 14#Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 3. Two RfCs are Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC and Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 3. Because the topic has been contentious, I brought this to DRV for community review of new sources that did not exist when the AfD took place.
Here are three reliable sources that provide significant coverage about Archive.is:
According to the Russian Wikipedia article ru:Ferra.ru, Ferra.ru is a magazine.
Archive.is also received some coverage in two journal articles:
The current name of the archiving service is Archive.is, not Archive.today. See the May 3, 2015, blog post
http://blog.archive.is/post/118010496181/why-did-you-change-the-url-back-from-archive-today
WebCite.
Analysis of the sources
The Japanese article from CNET Japan ( link to Google Translate) provides a very detailed overview of how the website works, sprinkling commentary throughout. It says that Archive.today has "unusual features" like downloading the archived page as an image or as a zip file (which, from my observation, other archiving sites like Wayback Machine and WebCite do not provide). The review notes that Archive.is's "reproducibility of the [archived] page" is "high". It further notes in a caption (from Google Translate): "Japanese also can be displayed without garbage properly, the font of the recall is also high."In fact archive.today - is an alternative clone of the famous project Wayback Machine. True archive.today does not work automatically, and upon request, so that it would be correct to put on a par with Peeep.us or Perma.cc. [My comment: This compares archive.today to two other archiving services that also don't automatically archive URLs.] You never know where some of these sites suddenly block, so it makes sense to have them all bookmarked.
Site archive.today not really famous, but they are actively using. Search on base archive.today find thousands of pages, each of which was saved by someone. Not bad for a project with private financing.
It is worth noting that the services, making snapshots of pages differ in quality. The modern web standards are so complex that some browsers are not always the same understanding. Often a snapshot gets not all content pages. In this regard archive.today good enough. [My comment: This praises archive.today's quality in archiving pages.] It normally keeps even vebdvanolnyh page, the content of which is loaded scripts. Sami snapshot scripts are not included, so save forever page with the virus will fail.
...
From a technical standpoint archive.today - a useful and timely tool. [My comment: This article is clearly a review of archive.today.]
This isn't merely a description. It further provides commentary about Archive.today's features and quality.
I am not using the journal articles to satisfy the "significant coverage" clause in Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline. I am listing the articles here to show that Archive.is has been studied as an archiving service by academics. Just another data point for editors to consider.
The article in Vice is rather critical and raises questions about copyright and legality of web archiving. Also, archive.is is involved in the GamerGate controversy that said its wiki and talk pages will be ready battlefield for the gamergaters. 90.178.108.190 ( talk) 11:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)