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Preserve a Public Noblogs Site

Public movement history should not disappear because a server, provider or domain does.

If you run a Noblogs site, save two different things:

A WordPress export containing the material needed to rebuild the site.

A static mirror showing the public site as readers actually saw it.

If you administer the site Open YOURBLOG.noblogs.org/wp-admin and sign in. In the dashboard, select Tools → Export. Select All content, then press Download Export File. Rename the downloaded file blogname-export-YYYY-MM-DD.xml.

Install the free, open-source program HTTrack. Open HTTrack and select Next or New Project. Give the project your blog’s name and choose where the backup should be stored. Select Add URL, paste the complete public homepage address, then select Next → Finish.

When the download finishes, choose Browse Mirrored Website. Open several posts, archive pages, images and downloadable files to make sure they work.

Put the WordPress XML file and the entire HTTrack project folder inside one clearly dated folder. Keep one copy on your computer and another on a separate drive or trusted location.

The XML export does not preserve the site’s appearance. The HTTrack mirror is not a replacement for the WordPress export. Keep both.

If you are preserving someone else’s public site

For an important individual page: Open the public page and copy its complete URL. Go to Internet Archive: Save Page Now. Paste the URL and press Save Page. Open the archived result and confirm that it works.

Install the free, open-source SingleFile browser extension. Return to the original public page, wait for it to finish loading, click the SingleFile icon and save the resulting .html file.

For a whole public site, follow the HTTrack instructions above using the public homepage. Do not sign in, enter passwords or attempt to reach private pages.

Record the page title, author or collective, original URL, publication date and the date you saved it. Internet Archive is an additional copy, not your only copy. Submitting a homepage does not guarantee that the Archive captured every linked page.

Finally, test the local backup with Wi-Fi turned off. Open its index.html, click through several pages, and make sure images and documents load. Preserve public material only. Do not bypass logins, collect private data or republish material that could expose people. Respect authorship, context and removal requests.

An export is not a mirror. A mirror is not enough. Keep both. Keep two copies.

#Noblogs #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #MovementArchives #AutisticiInventati #ResistantCommunication #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

I’ve been building a local-first humanities library on my TrueNAS NAS, Satchel: an offline archive of public-domain books, Project Gutenberg materials, and primary religious and historical texts. The collection includes Jewish sources such as the Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud, and Rashi/Ramban commentary; early Christian writings; Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist texts; and volumes from The Sacred Books of the East. The goal is preservation, local access, and comparative study: keeping important texts searchable and available without relying on a subscription, a platform, or an internet connection. I’m organizing it carefully by tradition, work, translation or edition, and commentary so that the texts remain useful rather than becoming a pile of files. A personal library should still work when the cloud, a website, or a company disappears. #TrueNAS #SelfHosting #DigitalPreservation #PersonalLibrary #AncientTexts #OpenAccess #Homelab

NASA has been quietly taking Shuttle documentation offline. The Columbia STS-107 FMEA/CIL files aren't even on the Wayback Machine. Same pattern as Apollo: the F-1 blueprints survive, the people who knew how to build it don't. 11 years at KSC on the Main Propulsion System, and I kept copies. 2,004 documents, images and launch voice tapes on the Internet Archive, and at Zenodo with a DOI and per-file checksums: gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle.html #SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #DigitalPreservation #Space

The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving https://hackaday.com/2026/07/13/the-death-of-physical-media-and-the-real-challenges-to-software-archiving/ #CurrentEvents #HackadayColumns #Interest #OriginalArt #Digitalpreservation

Per me, l'unico modo di intendere la preservazione digitale dei videogiochi è: andare a scavare dove nessuno ha mai scavato prima, sperando non sia troppo tardi. #retrogaming #commodore #commodorepet #digitalpreservation

Hello everyone! 👋 I’m building the Free Knowledge Preservation Foundation (FKPF), a nonprofit initiative dedicated to preserving free software, open knowledge, and digital heritage for future generations. You can learn more at https://fkpf.org I’d love your feedback—and if this mission resonates with you, I’d be happy to welcome contributors from any background. 📧 aleksa@fkpf.org #foss #freesoftware #opensource #digitalpreservation

3/3 Today, games, magazines, and digital works can disappear overnight, taking decades of creative history with them. Mechner argues that archivists, libraries, and preservation networks are essential to keeping cultural memory alive. Read Mechner's essay and much more in VANISHING CULTURE. 📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/ 🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive #GameHistory #DigitalPreservation @jmechner@mastodon.art

🧵 Some publishers and news organizations are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their journalism, cutting off access to the public record. 📣 If you rely on the Wayback Machine to preserve news & history, tell them not to block web archiving. ✏️ Sign the open letter to keep journalism preserved 👇 https://www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders @fight@mastodon.fightforthefuture.org #SaveTheArchive #WaybackMachine #PressFreedom #DigitalPreservation

They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here. https://twp.ai/4hr1bb #LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+