[Foundation-l] Call for volunteers: clean up sep11.wikipedia.org

[Brion Vibber]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
> after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Wikipedia was
> overwhelmed by people expressing their sympathy for the victims,
> adding material about affected organizations, and generally flooding
> us with content that was inappropriate. Rather than turning these
> people away, the decision was made to set up a separate wiki,
> sep11.wikipedia.org, which still exists today.

At the time these pages were very much a part of Wikipedia; the separate wiki 
was created a year later as a place where they could be archived after a number 
of people started deleting them from English Wikipedia.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)