All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[Labster]

Ultimately I have been thinking about it on a sitewide basis. The last I heard, our offsite backups are in New York, and our main servers are in Salt Lake. Miraheze code is hosted by GitHub, a subsidiary of US-based Microsoft, and Mediawiki is developed by a SF-based but fairly internationally-staffed nonprofit. Plenty of geographical redundancy, but almost no geopolitical redundancy.

Fundamentally the problem has been a lack of non-US-based volunteers willing to serve on a board of directors. Right now, it would be simple legal process to transfer the Miraheze IP to a nonprofit outside the US and have the current org continue to operate it. But we need people willing to do that.

[MilkmanConspiracy]

User HeatEdgeSword has joined and identified they are an alt of DeluxiumDX. Doing a surface level look at their old activity, it looks like they left voluntarily previously? I’m not sure any action is needed, but wanted to point it out so it wasn’t buried in the edit logs.

[robkelk]

User HeatEdgeSword has joined and identified they are an alt of DeluxiumDX. Doing a surface level look at their old activity, it looks like they left voluntarily previously? I’m not sure any action is needed, but wanted to point it out so it wasn’t buried in the edit logs.

No worries, just make a note of it somewhere.

(We hardly ever use "Template:Alternate account" - this would be a good place to use it.)

[robkelk]

Fundamentally the problem has been a lack of non-US-based volunteers willing to serve on a board of directors. Right now, it would be simple legal process to transfer the Miraheze IP to a nonprofit outside the US and have the current org continue to operate it. But we need people willing to do that.

If I thought it wouldn't place the wiki farm as a whole at risk because I'm Canadian and the current political administration in the USA has all but declared war on Canada, I'd be happy to volunteer. But is it safe for Miraheze to have non-USA leadership at this time?

I cannot in good conscience take a leadership role at this time unless I know that doing so would be expressly to move the entire corporation out of the USA as quickly as possible. And, so far, I've heard nothing that would make me think that this is being seriously explored.

EDIT: This, of course, does not preclude me from gathering data for Miraheze. (Such as this high-level analysis of datacentres in three of the largest cities in Canada.)