[Foundation-l] Sep11 Wiki/Partnership Message Removal/Mr. Wales Concerns

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

Here's the stats on the sep11.wikipedia.org site since Dec 1 (it's very 
active)

Jeff


Summary


	
*Reported period* 	Month Dec 2006
*First visit* 	01 Dec 2006 - 00:00
*Last visit* 	19 Dec 2006 - 04:50
	Unique visitors 	Number of visits 	Pages 	Hits 	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic * 	*6707*
	*8360*
(1.24 visits/visitor) 	*50021*
(5.98 pages/visit) 	*125657*
(15.03 hits/visit) 	*899.37 MB*
(110.16 KB/visit)
Not viewed traffic * 	
	*19653* 	*23500* 	*44.39 MB*

* Not viewed traffic includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or 
replies with special HTTP status codes.



Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:

>I located a reference to a "partnership" on hosting the 
>sep11.wikipedia.org website on one of my personal websites which 
>referred to this project where
>WMG took over the hosting and server costs for the sep11.wikipedia.org 
>domain for the Foundation.   This appears to be the source of the 
>confusion on the part of folks about this topic.
>
>Mr. Wales has expressed concerns about our hosting of the 
>sep11.wikipedia.org domain as request by Erik Moeller since
>it may create the impression of a "partnership" between WMF and WMG, 
>which should be avoided.
>
>I am going to leave the site active for now, but I would suggest peraps 
>wikia.com take over this task to avoid remove any discomfort on
>the part of Mr. Wales, or at a minimum, the stakeholders contact Wales 
>and find out what his beef is with the decision.
>
>I would ask that Erik Moeller check with Mr. Wales on whether we should 
>continue to host this site or have wikia.com or one of
>the chapters take it over.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jeff
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