I would certainly be very pleased to mentor people interested in installing
WikiTrust on Wikimedia Labs.

Luca


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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
>>
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