Personally I think it is unfair for one incident ti have a wiki and not others. It will someday open a huge Pandora's box.
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On Nov 21, 2013 6:08 AM, "MZMcBride" <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > 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 isn't said out of callousness or indifference, it's just the > historical reality. Wikipedia was only eight months old when these attacks > took place. 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. > > >The data is still on our servers. I propose bringing the wiki back up, > >in read only mode, and leaving it like that either until such time as > >there is interest from a non-profit or government organisation in > >taking over the responsibility of indefinite hosting. > > 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 believe Wikimedia has an obligation, moral > or otherwise, to host this content in an Internet searchable format in > perpetuity. Anyone, including non-profits and government organizations, > can use the dump we provide as they see fit. Deciding to host this site > again would be a mistake and one that we happen to have already made once. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
