On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > It's fascinating cultural history (both of a country called "the USA" and - > more importantly to some here perhaps? - of Wikipedia's early years) -- if > we don't want it, well, I think that's a darn shame. > > IIRC Erik Moeller was one of the drivers behind moving this tiny collection > of pages (much smaller than thousands of other things we host) offsite in > '06, and at the time even he seemed to agree that the pages had relevance > and should be preserved:
For all your meta-history needs: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/9/11_wiki_move_proposal http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Archive/September_11_Wiki and related links. Also: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-September/023757.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-September/023819.html ;-) It's too bad (if not entirely surprising) that the external site is no longer up; in the interest of preserving history I'd support archiving a static HTML or read-only wiki (ideally with minimal skin) copy under some subdirectory URL (dumps.wikimedia.org/whatever ). If we want to do a nicer job at it, we might start making a bit of a space for these collected pieces of wiki-history (Joseph Reagle's Wikipedia 10K Redux derived from the first dumps would be another candidate: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~reagle/wp-redux/ ) But, let's please not reactivate sep11.wikipedia.org as anything other than a redirect to a different URL, to avoid confusion of readers/visitors coming in through search engines (even if we run a big banner explaining that it's archived for historical purposes, it's still likely to be confusing to folks under that domain name). It does look like the Internet Archive nabbed a full copy of it from sep11memories.org (which had the final cleaned up version of the wiki). http://web.archive.org/web/20080807125041/http://www.sep11memories.org/ -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
