On 26/02/2008, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A question that has been raised for some time. Freenode has issues
beyond just the IRC cloaks. Why aren't we having an
irc.wikimedia.org? There's really no good reason beyond "that's just
the way it is."
-dan
When Wikimedia's servers go down, freenode will still be up, so we can at
least get updates still. If we hosted it, it would go down with the site.
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Alex (Majorly)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Majorly