Apologies for the pun title, but the message is this: I will no longer be
maintaining the WikiTrust installation at UCSC. If anyone is interested in
the data provided by WikiTrust, I would be happy to mentor them in
installing WikiTrust at their institution, or on their servers.
Keeping WikiTrust running at UCSC has been time consuming. At UCSC, we
have very frequent power interruptions, as well as disruptions of various
kinds resulting from changes in our hosting space. The hardware is also
close to the end of life (indeed, some drives in the RAID for the German
Wikipedia have failed).
I would have loved to give WikiTrust a stable home in the cloud; something
like Google Appengine would be ideal. However, this would cost several
thousand dollars per month; the cloud is still expensive for intensive
computation.
This is a somewhat sad decision for me, but I have only so much time and
energy, and I need to put the energy in new research directions. Again, if
others are interested in the data WikiTrust produces, I would be happy to
mentor them through an installation.
Luca de Alfaro