Rather than archiving content on a centralized server, we can use the very process of curating and selecting material of interest into one of archiving this material in a permanent way.
Issue: When creating a Reference Link wiki makes a call to the server. This seems unnecessary as the information is available in the DOM. It also prevents us being able to make reference links offline, or while having problematic or intermittent internet.
When I take a snapshot of an audio recording on Audioboom, and embed this in wiki, I am helping to archive this content for everyone. I do it for myself because I am interested in the content, but in my act I also archive it for everyone - this is a by product of using IPFS.
However this is not quite sufficient. We still need to support and resource this archiving - especially for edge cases. We need other nodes to pin the snapshot.
We can achieve this by federating our own IPFS Server within wiki, and adding to it a federated protocol for archiving - this can be augmented and motivated by providing a Wiki Backup Service.
# See also
Taking a snapshot is the process of embedding content from the existing internet (the Impermanent Web) into The Federation.