[Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

[BalaSundaraRaman]

> But do we have servers outside US now?
IIRC, we had mirror servers hosted by Yahoo! in South Korea.
Not sure if we still have them.

- Sundar
 
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>From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
>To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 12:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource
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>Sreejith's point is what I was wondering about. Is there value in
>>this? Something that the Chapter might consider?
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>So what you propose is not a new project, but to have servers in India for the projects with India related content? Infact most of the projects, including commons and meta, have India related content. 
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>I am not sure how much this will help. But do we have servers outside US now?
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>On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org> wrote:
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>Shiju and Sreejith:
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>>> Currently Wikipedia projects are hosted in US and all media files uploaded
>>> to these projects should be copyright free in the source country of origin
>>> and also in US.
>>> If we need to upload media files out of copyright in India but still
>>> copyrighted in US, I am afraid, the servers need to be hosted in India.
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>>Sreejith's point is what I was wondering about. Is there value in
>>this? Something that the Chapter might consider?
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>>Thank you.
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>>Best,
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>>Gautam
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