https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
I think it's disrespectful to solicit contributions towards a memorial
website, and then to fail to maintain that memorial website in a
searchable format.
Today, searching the web for phrases in contributed memorial pages
brings up only ancient,
I think it would be better to reformulate it into book format and make it
available as an e-book, for free download either directly from Wikimedia or
other outlets like iTunes or Amazon. That would be searchable, and I don't
know that hosting it in wiki form provides any benefits. Certainly as a
Tim Starling wrote:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
I think it's disrespectful to solicit contributions towards a memorial
website, and then to fail to maintain that memorial website in a
searchable format.
I think there's general agreement that setting up this wiki was a mistake.
This
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
We provide a dump of the September 11 wiki's contents here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backups-of-old-wikis.html. Memorial sites,
while depressing and touching, are completely outside the scope of
Wikimedia's mission. I don't
On 11/20/2013 07:09 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
In 2007, the September 11 wiki was moved to a non-Wikimedia site,
evidently hosted by an individual without the capacity to preserve
that content for posterity. It was offline after only 3 years.
It is still accessible at the Internet Archive's
On 21 Nov 2013, at 00:52, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1. sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo already redirects to the IA copy, as
well. Anything else is a distraction and a waste of time, sorry.
Perhaps it would be worth fixing the mobile redirect for the wiki, currently it
doesn't
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is done. Maybe it was stupid to
take on this responsibility, but deleting the site is not an ethical
way to rectify the mistake.
If you _really really_ want to take this on, please
Hello,
2013/11/21 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com
I think it would be better to reformulate it into book format and make it
available as an e-book, for free download either directly from Wikimedia or
other outlets like iTunes or Amazon. That would be searchable, and I don't
know that hosting it in
Tim,
You could start an indiegogo or a kickstarter campaign for this. I'm sure
you'd find funding and volunteers to keep it online. There is also a museum
on the ground zero site that you may want to get in touch with about such
an effort : http://www.911memorial.org/ They may be interested in
Tim Starling wrote:
On 21/11/13 11:38, MZMcBride wrote:
No subsequent major world event (e.g., the 2004 Indian Ocean
earthquake and tsunami) has had its own Wikimedia memorial wiki
established and it's very unlikely that we would ever set up another.
Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is
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