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, presumably unmaintained Wikipedia mirrors, such as these: http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/da/Daniel_Brandhorst http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Daniel_Brandhorst/ In time, those will disappear from the web, as all other copies have done. Thus, relatives of the deceased will have no way to discover that these pages ever existed. 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. 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. It would only take an hour or so of ops work. It could stay like that for decades without needing any further maintenance. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ 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>