I just want to suggest that, if you are looking for good cloud hosting for WikiTrust, Wikimedia Labs[1] seems to have been built for it.
This may be a good direction for you to go or a good direction for whoever picks up the WikiTrust torch. -Aaron 1. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Luca de Alfaro <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for the pun title, but the message is this: I will no longer be > maintaining the WikiTrust installation at UCSC. If anyone is interested in > the data provided by WikiTrust, I would be happy to mentor them in > installing WikiTrust at their institution, or on their servers. > > Keeping WikiTrust running at UCSC has been time consuming. At UCSC, we > have very frequent power interruptions, as well as disruptions of various > kinds resulting from changes in our hosting space. The hardware is also > close to the end of life (indeed, some drives in the RAID for the German > Wikipedia have failed). > > I would have loved to give WikiTrust a stable home in the cloud; something > like Google Appengine would be ideal. However, this would cost several > thousand dollars per month; the cloud is still expensive for intensive > computation. > > This is a somewhat sad decision for me, but I have only so much time and > energy, and I need to put the energy in new research directions. Again, if > others are interested in the data WikiTrust produces, I would be happy to > mentor them through an installation. > > Luca de Alfaro > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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