If it's just a technical issue, and not a political issue, then I have no objections to doing this *under the Wikimedia Foundation*.
However, when you start your comments with this:
- We will not be depending on the US anymore.
I immediately suspect that it's political.
- As this can be considered a political issue, it is mostly a technical
issue. Because when there are problems, we (Europeans) can solve this on hours, people in the US are still at sleep. This also includes fixing things on location.
But, things tend to break at random times around the clock. The US-based servers sometimes crash at night, when people are sleeping here.
One solution to this is to give access to the power port to people living in other parts of the world.
- Finding a reliable server that is free and only for us.
Well, everything is free as long as I pay for it, and if it can be shown that it is technically superior to host European wikis in Europe, I'm willing to do that.
- Finding European sysadmins for this server.
That's not hard -- Magnus and Erik spring to mind immediately, but of course there are many eligible people in Europe.
Again, let me say: I strongly support taking technical measures to ensure responsiveness and uptime for everyone on the planet. I strongly oppose taking measures to divide the wikipedia community politically.
--Jimbo