[Foundation-l] sep11.wikipedia.org

Mon Dec 6 18:08:19 UTC 2004

I support this concept, and will host it for free wherever the major
participants prefer.

Erik Moeller wrote:

> 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
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