On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:10 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 November 2010 08:12, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
My only concern is on precedent - is this a good one (we help others in
the
free knowledge/education world) or a bad one (our bandwidth is open to be used by any forum or website with a story to tell). Would perception and reporting in the media that we altruistically can help others (positive views) or that we take over or dominate others (even if untrue, negative views)? is there any risk that it would be seen as compromising our
stance
and neutrality ("Wikipedia hosts/hosted Citizendium!)
The precedent sounds good to me, actually. In this case, it's helping a wiki that is not only completely in line with our mission, but is presently in dire need.
For comparison, let's say OpenStreetMap suddenly went broke. I'd say that in such a hypothetical case, hosting them would be not merely a good thing to do, but the right thing to do.
We did that with Uncyclopedia. Wikimedia hosted it until Wikia was formed. And we're talking Uncyclopedia here. It's satirical value had...value. Not quite as funny anymore.
I would prefer CZ to use Wikia, which I don't think that they would ever do by the for-profit nature and relation to Jimbo. CZ is not quite the wiki culture that we have adopted and groomed for a Wikimedia project; it's Nupedia. So, realistically I don't quite see the meta community and the board adopting CZ. But it is an interesting concept, and it is not difficult for such a small project to find drastically cheaper hosting costs.