On 12/24/08, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/12/24 Michael Bimmler <mbimm...@gmail.com>: > >> A project which is motivated in such a way cannot possibly be anything >> else than biased...and indeed, the very concept of memorials is >> biased: Why should we have a memorial of the victims of Soviet >> Repression, when we don't have a memorial of Nazi victims, victims of >> the Armenian Genocide, victim of the Rwandan Genocide, victims of >> various repression regimes in South-East Asia and China, victims in >> Darfur, Chad, the Central African Republic etc. etc. >> No one can sensibly suggest that we can have memorial sites for every >> "repression" (in lack of a better word) in history and thus, we had >> better none, in my opinion. (Yes, in other cases I argued and would >> argue that it is better to have "something" than "nothing", but in >> this case, I'm afraid I am not convinced of the merits of the proposal >> at all and of the propriety of the motives behind it) > > > Yes. However, it could be a valuable wiki to create privately. Generic > hosting is (a) really cheap (b) often includes MediaWiki out the box. > The wiki is unlikely to be vastly overloaded, so cheap hosting would > do for a start. > > See http://www.sep11memories.org/wiki/In_Memoriam for a memorial > project for victims of the World Trade Center attack, for example. > > Although started with a strong POV, such a project could nevertheless > accumulate material of high quality historical and scholarly interest. >
Oh, surely. There are also genuine academic projects 'off-wiki' that have such aims - it just doesn't fit with my personal vision of the Wikimedia Foundation. > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
