[Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

[Lodewijk]

Contacting a museum/foundation dedicated to the topic seems to me most
ideal. They still would like to have an html dump probably - no need for it
to be editable I guess. Setting up a special organization for it seems a
bit too much effort imho if there's an easier way.

If WMNYC perhaps in contact with a relevant organization at Ground Zero?

Lodewijk


2013/11/21 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp at gmail.com>

> If September 11 wiki is a finished work and has a free license, perhaps it
> can be included in Wikisource.
>
> I tried in the past to include Nupedia articles in Wikisource but they were
> rejected because they are not free. The irony.
>
>
> 2013/11/21 Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
>
> > 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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