[Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Thu Nov 21 05:12:09 UTC 2013


Erik Moeller wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
>wrote:
>> Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is done. Maybe it was stupid to
>> take on this responsibility, but deleting the site is not an ethical
>> way to rectify the mistake.
>
>If you _really really_ want to take this on, please consider just
>creating a static HTML dump without the MediaWiki skin in a
>subdirectory of dumps.wm.o (mebbe
>http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/static_html_dumps/ ), with robots.txt
>rules to allow for indexing, rather than returning it to its previous
>undead status.

Yes, this.

BTW, <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/7932>. ;-)

MZMcBride





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