  We want to make web archiving entertaining so that it can be enjoyed like a
spectator sport. To this end, we have been working on a proof of concept that
involves gamification of the web archiving process and integrating video games
and web archiving. Our vision for this proof of concept involves a web
archiving live stream and a gaming live stream. We are creating web archiving
live streams that make the web archiving process more transparent to viewers by
live streaming the web archiving and replay sessions to video game live
streaming platforms like Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and YouTube. We also want to
live stream gameplay from games where the gameplay is influenced by web
archiving and replay performance. So far we have created web archiving live
streams that show the web archiving and replay sessions for two web archive
crawlers and gaming live streams that show gameplay influenced by the web
archiving performance from the web archiving live stream. We have also applied
the gaming concept of speedruns, where a player attempts to complete a game as
quickly as possible. This could make a web archiving live stream more
entertaining, because we can have a competition between two crawlers to see
which crawler is faster at archiving a set of URIs.
