[Foundation-l] sep11.wikipedia.org

Sun Dec 5 03:20:00 UTC 2004

sep11.wikipedia.org is a spam magnet, and not really an appropriate  
project of its own:
* not educational: outside our mission
* not a community: scope too narrow
* not verifiable
* no NPOV
* improperly located: sep11.wikipedia.org suggests association with  
Wikipedia - it even uses a Wikipedia logo

We're apparently so embarrassed by it that we hide it from most of our  
"Sister Projects" lists.

Well, I won't be too negative - there are some valuable memories there  
that deserve to be preserved, and volunteers have kept it in presentable  
shape.

So here's my offer:

With Board authorization, I would go over these pages, and transform them  
into a static website. This could be located at some URL which has yet to  
be decided, maybe 911memories.org or something like that. I would prefer a  
location that is not directly associated with Wikimedia, though it could  
be labeled a Wikimedia publication.

Wikipeople has been brought up as a potential assimilation project, but  
that strikes me as too vague, and there's no real thrust behind it, and  
I'm not sure Wikipeople is a good idea in the first place, so the static  
version seems like the best way forward for now. We would of course  
preserve and make available the wiki database in case we ever want to  
integrate it into something else.

Another option would be to host it at Jimbo's free wiki hosting service,  
Wikicities.com. That would disassociate it from Wikimedia while still  
allowing interested people to work on it.

Thoughts?

Regards,

Erik