I think Wikimedia NYC could host this archive, given the very high relevance to our region, perhaps at sep11.nycwiki.org
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
I was thinking this also.
There is a museum: http://www.911memorial.org/museum
I don't know anyone there personally, but, I do have many colleagues in the GLAM sector in NYC and most likely have a connection to someone at the museum. I'm also totally comfortable cold calling them. I'll do that work if others want to draft and prepare a game plan on how they see this information being preserved and useful.
This museum isn't open yet, and opening a museum surely isn't easy, so I can't guarantee a timely response.
Connecting with folks in the digital humanities is a good idea, or perhaps even the Computer History Museum. (I know the head curator there)
-Sarah
-Sarah
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.orgwrote:
Contacting a museum/foundation dedicated to the topic seems to me most ideal. They still would like to have an html dump probably - no need for it to be editable I guess. Setting up a special organization for it seems a bit too much effort imho if there's an easier way.
If WMNYC perhaps in contact with a relevant organization at Ground Zero?
Lodewijk
2013/11/21 Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com
If September 11 wiki is a finished work and has a free license, perhaps
it
can be included in Wikisource.
I tried in the past to include Nupedia articles in Wikisource but they
were
rejected because they are not free. The irony.
2013/11/21 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org
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
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