As I have written before in http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-August/003869.html I favor Enciclopedia Libre, because that's where the action is.
I would ask EL whether they agree that our interlanguage links point to them, and if they say yes, scrap our Spanish Wikipedia. Of course, whether they say yes or no, they are always free and welcome to use the Phase III software and our translation file on their server.
Administratively, this is very nice. If they want a change in software, configuration, or hardware, they have to do it themselves. Less work for us, more control for them. I expect that many active international Wikipedias will go that route over time.
Asking them to return to the American server, or simply importing their articles to the Spanish Wikipedia, would no doubt both be interpreted as insulting. (The importing would also require some sort of acknowledgement and link back per GFDL.)
Axel
__________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com