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 == Description ==
 A wiki dedicated to everyone who died in the terrorist attacks of 11th September, 2001.
+The wiki was originally a fork of [[Wikipedia]].  It was created in response to a flurry of biographical pages for 9-11 victims that were deemed not to belong on Wikipedia.  The solution was to create a separate ''Wikipedia'' to cover the attacks -  [http://sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page sep11.wikipedia.org] - a move unique in Wikipedia's history and a sign of its still-uncertain scope and direction in 2001.  When the creation of new memorial pages for 9-11 victims died down on the [[English Wikipedia]], activity on the September 11 Wikipedia mostly ceased as well.
+Concern eventually surfaced that a wiki dedicated to memorials for the 9-11 victims violated Wikimedia's mission of a collection of wikis with a neutral, worldwide point of view.  Discussion on whether to delete the wiki began in 2006.  On Sep 15 2006 it was made read-only.  Sometime in 2007 the content was moved to its new location, no longer hosted by Wikimedia.  The original sep11.wikipedia.org was finally closed on 22 June 2008.
+In August 2010 the wiki was reported as offline, and it has not been restored (as of September 2010).
+The discussion relating to the creation, move, and closure of sep11.wikipedia.org can be read at [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
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