I'll be in touch with some of the IA folks after the holiday weekend
in the US and I will raise this question.

That list of spammers is HUGELY helpful because at least it's a few
clicks to undoing thousands of edits until we can script the process.

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Charles Horn <charles.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 30 June 2015 at 04:29, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2015 2:15 PM, "Tom Morris" <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > There's a bunch of stuff that could be done to streamline the spam
>> > flagging and processing, do more automated spam detection, etc.  The 
>> > current
>> > web form reporting and lone pioneer cleaning up doesn't scale...
>> >
>> > It's sad to see because it wouldn't really take that much effort to make
>> > it a thriving and vibrant site, but IA just doesn't care.
>>
>> I was just in SF running a CODEX hackathon, and met some IA folk who
>> talked about how to make OL awesome again + better integrated & supported.
>>
>> So at least some people are discussing caring. And I believe they're
>> looking to hire ~5 developers across the Archive.
>>
>> A list of priorities — from the community of OL users and would-be
>> contributors — as a subset of the many many open bugs and requests — could
>> be helpful to any new push.
>
> This sounds like great news. Is there a way to connect with these IA folk,
> or just let them know we are interested in supporting a revival of the
> project?
>
> Charles.
>
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