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