[Foundation-l] Proposal re: sep11.wikipedia.org

[James Hare]

Erik said Jeff Merkey is willing to do the hosting.

On 9/26/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/26/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recognize that, but I didn't work it properly. In order to comply, AND
> > delete extremely old edits, we have to copy the older edit history over
> to
> > the talk page. But space is not a pressing issue, so why don't we do
> what we
> > have been doing, which has not been a problem? Hard disk drives are
> cheap.
> >
> If the wiki is truly not within the scope of the mission of the
> foundation, which *many* people feel is true, then having it on
> Wikimedia's servers and domain names confuses people as to what is the
> mission of the foundation.
>
> I suppose Wikimedia could continue to host it, on a separate domain
> name, in read-only mode, without any reference to it being an official
> project, but if someone else is willing to do this it would be better.
>
> And I'm sure someone else *is* willing to do this.  Erik, if no one
> replies offering to host the project, I'll do it.  I'll throw it up on
> some $10/month hosting site (probably cheaper than that) in read-only
> mode and be done with it.  But I didn't respond to Erik because I
> assume someone else is more willing and able to do so.
>
> Anthony
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