On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Brion Vibber <br...@pobox.com> wrote: > > So the site itself is probably no longer in our configurations; it either > > needs to be set back or replaced with a URL to a mirror that will > actually > > stay around. (It would make sense, I imagine, to just host it ourselves > at > > its own domain?) > > > > At the risk of sounding callous...do we even want the wiki anymore? > 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: "I believe our own project history is important and deserves respect and attention, even if we decide that a project is not within the scope of the Wikimedia Foundation, and especially when dealing with a subject such as this." http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/peESw2iBig7YE4ZlyQ8x A number of related pages on meta appear to still be around, should anybody care to revisit these 5-year old discussions: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_entries_related_to_September_11_casualties -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
