On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:48 AM, FT2 <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ft2.wiki@gmail.com">ft2.wiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div id=":xa">This is a generic problem. There are many &quot;temporary project&quot; or &quot;fixed life&quot; wikis (not necessarily a bad thing, they provide focus). There will be more in future. Hence cross-posting this thought here.<br>



 <br>Maybe a subdomain &quot;<a href="http://archive.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">archive.wikimedia.org</a>&quot; could be set  up, with old closed wikis marked as non-editable and moved to subdomains of this, and an index of archived wikis available on the front index page? So when it&#39;s no longer in use, &quot;ten&quot; would end up at &quot;<a href="http://ten.archive.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">ten.archive.wikimedia.org</a>&quot; (with the old domain redirected) and be readily located by anyone interested future.<br>

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 <br>FT2</font><div><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Thanks for the idea FT2, and to everyone who commented so far. <div><br></div><div>-- <br>Steven Walling<div>Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation</div><div><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org" target="_blank">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div>

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