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can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something



Wikipedia isn't an appropriate place for Bash quotes because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia about broad concepts. Also, Wikipedia as a policy is not a primary source.

Wikiquotes could be appropriate. Submitting a dump of the entire database to Archive.org could be appropriate. (For example, Archive.org hosts user-submitted dumps of things like product manuals, old TV shows, old computer games.)


Considering the quotes have an unknown, and almost certainly not public domain or CC BY-SA license[1], they wouldn't be appropriate for any Wikimedia project.

[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"


far better off as an independent entity beyond those centralised place's ever changing rules.


Is it? It was its own private entity and now it's offline probably forever.

Edit: I think it'd be far better off on Wikipedia than Twitter


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950912

Mirrors still exist

(Also, Twitter already deleted old data, so these quotes wouldn't be much safer there)


Backed up on centralized gitlab and centralized archive.org, huh?

My point is that the comment was praising independent services when it doesn't make sense: bash.org, the independent service, shutting down and people want to store backups in a more trustworthy centralized service, much like the two backups you linked.


Yes, for the reason mentioned but also because it has a longer lifespan than Wikipedia and Twitter to date.


Wikipedia deletionists would cull it. Twitter is going down the drain if you believe the popular opinions but it would mess up the formatting anyway.


Wikiquotes?


Twitter itself got deleted.


It's all on archive.org





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