[Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

[Tim Starling]

On 21/11/13 11:38, MZMcBride wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I think there's general agreement that setting up this wiki was a mistake.
> This isn't said out of callousness or indifference, it's just the
> historical reality. Wikipedia was only eight months old when these attacks
> took place. No subsequent major world event (e.g., the 2004 Indian Ocean
> earthquake and tsunami) has had its own Wikimedia memorial wiki
> established and it's very unlikely that we would ever set up another.

Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is done. Maybe it was stupid to
take on this responsibility, but deleting the site is not an ethical
way to rectify the mistake.

-- Tim Starling