[Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

[Nathan]

I think it would be better to reformulate it into book format and make it
available as an e-book, for free download either directly from Wikimedia or
other outlets like iTunes or Amazon. That would be searchable, and I don't
know that hosting it in wiki form provides any benefits. Certainly as a
wiki it will never be rescued from permanent obscurity.


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
>
> I think it's disrespectful to solicit contributions towards a memorial
> website, and then to fail to maintain that memorial website in a
> searchable format.
>
> Today, searching the web for phrases in contributed memorial pages
> brings up only ancient, presumably unmaintained Wikipedia mirrors,
> such as these:
>
> http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/da/Daniel_Brandhorst
> http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Daniel_Brandhorst/
>
> In time, those will disappear from the web, as all other copies have
> done. Thus, relatives of the deceased will have no way to discover
> that these pages ever existed.
>
> In 2007, the September 11 wiki was moved to a non-Wikimedia site,
> evidently hosted by an individual without the capacity to preserve
> that content for posterity. It was offline after only 3 years.
>
> The data is still on our servers. I propose bringing the wiki back up,
> in read only mode, and leaving it like that either until such time as
> there is interest from a non-profit or government organisation in
> taking over the responsibility of indefinite hosting. It would only
> take an hour or so of ops work. It could stay like that for decades
> without needing any further maintenance.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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