User:Donald Trung/Defunct websites on Oriental numismatics (and why it’s important to import images to Wikimedia Commons)
In my many years surfing the internet I’ve seen a lot of websites come and go, and while information on a certain subject may seem abundant today it could enter “a dark age” tomorrow simply because no-one bothered to archive the information available on the subject today. There have been many images of Chinese cash coins that I (we) simply can’t access today because the website where they were hosted has disappeared, the same goes for the information hosted there. For that reason it’s important to import as much as possible to Wikimedia Commons because while the information may seem easily accessible today, it could be gone tomorrow. If you have a passion for a subject then don't wait to import it because it could be gone tomorrow.
For this reason I imported all information on Chinese cash coins, Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, Chinese talismans, Chinese tokens (as an alternative currency), Chinese bamboo tallies, Japanese cash coins, Korean cash coins, Ryukyuan cash coins, Indonesian cash coins, Vietnamese cash coins, all their respective charms, amulets, and talismans, &c. to Wikimedia websites (such as Wikipedia), while all the information is safe on Wikimedia now many of the images from those websites are still not here, while I try to import as much as possible, if any of them “goes dark” tomorrow these media files might be gone forever. Because of this it’s very important to import them to Wikimedia Commons because anyone building “the websites of tomorrow” could benefit from having access to information from “the websites of yesterday”, we don't have to “start all over again” with every iteration and with all my hard work this thankfully won’t ever be necessary.
For this reason one of my primary reasons for importing images to Wikimedia Commons is the preservation of the knowledge for posterity.
Vladimir Belyaev’s list of Asian numismatic websites
[edit]The Muscovite Vladimir Belyaev lists the following websites on the Chinese Coinage Website (Charm.ru), in an attempt to showcase how bad 🙅♀️ it has become with the availability of websites dedicated to Chinese numismatics and exonumismatics I will list 📃 which ones are still in operation today, and which ones aren't, as my main and primary motivation for importing all of the information from Chinese numismatics websites to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons was to make sure that the information wouldn’t be lost to those with internet access the fact that this list contains so many 404’s simply how important it is for us to work to preserve this information right now.
“South-East Asian Coins and Related Web Links” (from Charm.ru by Vladimir Belyaev):
- Website (1): Chinese Numizmatics in Research.
- Bare URL (1): http://ykleungt.tripod.com/
- Website (2): Chinese Numizmatics in Hong Kong.
- Bare URL (2): https://home.netvigator.com/~ykleungn/
- Description: Web sites with very useful and nice information about Chinese coinage
- Owner (country): Y.K.Leung (Hong Kong).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Are You the Owner of this Tripod Site? The Tripod site you are trying to reach does not have a recognized start page (index.html) & Not done interestingly enough this link 🔗 (http://ykleungn.tripod.com/index.html) is in operation.
- Website (1): Calgary Coin Gallery.
- Bare URL (1): http://www.calgarycoin.com/
- Website (2): Chinese Cast Coins.
- Bare URL (2): http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china.htm
- Description: History of Chinese coinage with coin prices
- Owner (country): Robert Kokotailo (Commonwealth of Canada).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Online.
- Website: Chinese coin and charm images.
- Bare URL: http://www.sportstune.com/chinese
- Description: Chinese coin and charm images from John Ferguson collection.
- Owner (country): John Ferguson (United Kingdom of Great-Britain & Northern-Ireland).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Still online, and being imported to Wikimedia Commons (See: Category:Images contributed by John Ferguson (Sportstune.com)).
- Website: ANS East Asia department.
- Bare URL (1): http://www.amnumsoc.org/collections/cueasia.html
- Description (A): ANS East Asia department history, description, and special announcements.
- Description (B): Two coins from the ANS collection.
- Website: [hhttp://www.amnumsoc.org/search/ ANS coins database].
- Bare URL (2): hhttp://www.amnumsoc.org/search/
- Description (C): Search ANS coins database
- Owner (country): ANS East Asia department (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Hmm, we can’t reach this page. (Microsoft Edge standard message.)
- Website: Grifter.
- Bare URL: http://www.grifterrec.com/
- Description: Ancient China from Grifter site.
- Owner (country): Thomas K. Mallon (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Oops! That page can’t be found.
- Website: Sycee on-line.
- Bare URL: http://sycee-on-line.com/
- Description: Web site of highly proffesional expert in Sycee's.
- Owner (country): Stephen Tai (Republic of China – Taiwan).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Still on-line.
- Website: Asian Numismatics.
- Bare URL: https://www.tera-byte.com/ (http://sol.spaceports.com/~asiacoin)
- Description: Dedicated to the Study of Ancient Coins from Asia and the World. Very imteresting and important information about Chinese and Vietnamese cash coins, including anti-forgeries guide.
- Owner (country): Allan Barker (Singapore).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Automatically redirects to tera-byte.com.
- Website: East Asian Cash Coins.
- Bare URL: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/roberts/coins/index.html
- Description: Very interesting and nicely made pages.
- Owner (country): Luke Roberts (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Still accessible, last updated on 24 October 2003, and also completely imported to Wikimedia Commons (See: Category:Media contributed by East Asian Cash Coins).
- Website: Chinese Silver Sycee.
- Bare URL: http://www.sycee.net/
- Description: This site is for all sycee collectors and fans.
- Owner (country): Danny Cheng (Hong Kong).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): The domain is for sale.
- Website: .cjb.net/ Hai-Ning's Chinese Numismatics Linkpage.
- Description: Collection of links.
- Bare URL: https://www .cjb.net/
- Owner (country): Hai-Ning Liu (United Kingdom of Great-Britain & Northern-Ireland).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): The domain is for sale.
- Website: The coins of Xinjiang.
- Bare URL: http://www.xinjiangcoins.com/
- Description: Well-organized website devoted to China's Western Frontier coins.
- Owner (country): Not listed (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Darlinghurst Home Renovation Services (Darlinghurst – Xinjiangcoins.com), well “Darlinghurst” has got to be the most spammy name ever spammed, no wonder they bought a completely unrelated webdomain. Strangely enough they talk about contacting them if you need your home 🏠 remodeled yet there are literally no contact details, this is really bizarre.
- Website: VIET NAM COINS & PAPER NOTES.
- Bare URL: http://www.viettouch.com/numis
- Description: Vietnam coins, banknotes, ingots - very informative site.
- Owner (country): Chi D. Nguyen (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Hmm, we can’t reach this page. (Microsoft Edge standard message.)
- Website: Coins and banknotes of Vietnam and French Indochina.
- Bare URL: http://art-hanoi.com/collection/
- Description: Vietnamese coins and banknotes, including on-line version of Toda's book about ancient Vietnamese coins.
- Owner (country): Sema (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Active and in fact already imported to Wikimedia Commons (see: Category:Media contributed by Art Hanoi).
- Website: Coins of the Orient.
- Bare URL: http://www.mother.com/?f
- Description: Very nice site with some interesting information
- Owner (country): Greg Kareofelas (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): Some really weird domain people could lease.
- Website: Rare Chinese coins.
- Bare URL: http://www.asiawind.com/antiques/coins.htm
- Description: Displayed part of collection of Prof. Kai Keung Mark, Hong Kong.
- Owner (country): Not listed (People’s Republic of China – Mainland-China).
- Status (as of July 17th, 2018): This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.
- Website: "Hell Bank Note Collector's Club".
- Bare URL: http://www.calweb.net/~betgen/ceremonial_money.html
- Description: Web site.
- Owner (country): William Etgen (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 – Not Found.
- Website: Tibetan Numismatic Homepage.
- Bare URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~a_green
- Description: Very informative site about Tibetan coinage.
- Owner (country): Adam Green (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): Internal Server Error – “The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, support@mindspring.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”
- Website: The Eastern Coinage Experiment & Primitive coins.
- Bare URL: http://mynter.org/china.html
- Description: Page with some ancient Chinese and Japanese coins.
- Owner (country): Rune Rysstad (Kingdom of Norway).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 – Not Found.
- Website: The Home page.
- Bare URL: http://chinesecoins.lyq.dk/
- Description: Lovely and interestingly made website devoted to Chinese coins.
- Owner (country): Lars Bo Christensen (Kingdom of Denmark).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): Still operational and accessible.
- Website: Coins and Gambling Tokens.
- Bare URL: http://www.isis.csuhayward.edu/cesmith/yema/coins.html
- Description: The Yema-po (California, USA) excavations of Chinese Cash coins.
- Owner (country): George Miller (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): Hmm, we can’t reach this page. (Microsoft Edge standard message.)
- Website: History of Japanese Currencies.
- Bare URL: http://www.imes.boj.or.jp/cm/english_htmls/history.htm
- Description: Very nice pages of the Currency Museum of the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, The Bank of Japan.
- Owner (country): Currency Museum (Japanese Empire)
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 Not Found.
- Website: Gallary of old Japanese and Asian currencies.
- Bare URL: http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Exhibition/kokahei/kokahei-e.html
- Description: Short description of collection of Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
- Owner (country): takemura@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Japanese Empire).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 – Not Found.
- Website: Japanese Coins.
- Bare URL: http://www.infosys.ru/users/satem/
- Description: History of Japanese coins
- Owner (country): S. Temeryazev (Russian Federation).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 Файл не найден.
- Website: The Coins of Ancient China.
- Bare URL: http://hanwei.com/culture/coin.htm
- Description: Article with short history of Chinese coinage
- Owner (country): Juan Arroyo (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): Hmm, we can’t reach this page. (Microsoft Edge standard message.)
- Website: Chinese knife money.
- Bare URL: https://www.museon.nl/objecten.eng/564.html
- Description: Image of the Chinese knife money from the Museon, the popular-science museum in The Hague, The Netherlands
- Owner (country): Museon (Kingdom of Norway).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): Pagina niet gevonden.
- Website: Chinese Spade money.
- Bare URL: http://www.7cs.com/midage/spademoney.html
- Description: Image of Chinese Spade money from Seven Seas Trading Company.
- Owner (country): Seven Seas Trading Company ().
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 - File or directory not found.
- Website (1): Chinese Chekiang dragon coin.
- Website (1): Chinese Qing Cash.
- Bare URL (1): http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/littlelons/objects4.html
- Bare URL (2): http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/littlelons/objects3.html
- Description: Image of some Chinese coins from the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
- Owner (country): The Museum of Victoria (Commonwealth of Australia).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 Not found.
- Website: Good Luck Coins Web page.
- Bare URL: http://www.sonic.net/~yronwode/GoodLuckCoins.html
- Description: Description of some good luck coins (North America mainly)
- Owner (country): Catherine Yronwode (United States of America).
- Status (as of July 15th, 2018): 404 - File Not Found.
Original publication 📤
[edit]Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 12:28, 29 March 2019 (UTC)