If it's just a technical issue, and not a political issue, then I have
no objections to doing this *under the Wikimedia Foundation*.
However, when you start your comments with this:
* We will not be depending on the US anymore.
I immediately suspect that it's political.
- As this can be considered a political issue, it is
mostly a technical
issue. Because when there are problems, we (Europeans) can solve this on
hours, people in the US are still at sleep. This also includes fixing
things on location.
But, things tend to break at random times around the clock. The
US-based servers sometimes crash at night, when people are sleeping
here.
One solution to this is to give access to the power port to people
living in other parts of the world.
* Finding a reliable server that is free and only for
us.
Well, everything is free as long as I pay for it, and if it can be
shown that it is technically superior to host European wikis in
Europe, I'm willing to do that.
* Finding European sysadmins for this server.
That's not hard -- Magnus and Erik spring to mind immediately, but of
course there are many eligible people in Europe.
Again, let me say: I strongly support taking technical measures to
ensure responsiveness and uptime for everyone on the planet. I
strongly oppose taking measures to divide the wikipedia community
politically.
--Jimbo