[Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

[Tim Starling]

On 21/11/13 12:23, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 07:09 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It is still accessible at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
> (http://wayback.archive.org/web/20060111221201/http://sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
> (if I try a later year, it seems to redirect to sep11memories.org).

I'm aware of that.

> Considering it will not be opened for editing again, that and the
> dumps should be enough.

I explained why I don't think it is enough. It is not searchable and
thus not discoverable for the few people in the world who might
actually care about it. There's no point in having it if it's not
discoverable.

-- Tim Starling