At this point, it seems like a major existential risk for the internet archive to be based in the US.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Make sure you donate to the Archive and not Change.org . It's easy to click the link, sign the petition and then donate to the wrong organisation. Change.org is kind of scummy like that.
ill also remind you to use the archive team warrior to help them out, if you have spare server space.
it helps them archive content in closed services like reddit, telegram, youtube and such.
furthermore, if you have a ton of spare storage space and free time, consider helping back up their archive.
How do I go about this? I've got 30TB available, 24/7 uptime. It's not much but it might help.
In case you haven't looked into it yourself yet...
ArchiveTeam are independent from IA, but their stuff mostly does end up uploaded into the Wayback Machine. Storage space (like yours) isn't usually what they are looking for, but rather the internet bandwidth and "virgin" IP address of aforementioned "warriors" running their code to scrape different websites, and then uploading the results to AT's servers, where they are collected and eventually uploaded again to IA.
Check out https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ for current projects
talk to the archive team at their irc channel or take a look at the website. they are sometimes looking for programmers, archivists, donors or a variety of people to help with what they need.
consider running the warrior too. its pretty lightweight.
if that doesnt work out, with that storage space you could also back up a bunch of wikipedia and still spare. they have torrents and dumps of their stuff publicly available.
Thanks I'll look into it.
I already have a full backup of the entire English Wikipedia using Kiwix. It's surprisingly small. Around 100GB.