[Imc-communication] [IMC-Tech] proposal to imc-process

[John Milton]

http://winnipeg.indymedia.org
is still up, just slow to render

ben wrote:
> Sorry to extend this thread unnecessarily, but wanted to confirm what
> others had pointed out about stlimc.org.
> 
> I was on stlimc editorial collective, and it voted to disband several
> months ago in lieu of regrouping and/or rethinking its mission to local
> community.  That effort is visible at reboot.stlimc.org, and stlimc.org
> for now has inactive feature column but very active newswire.
> 
> ben wrote:
> 
>>I should have double checked that last list. I originally found over a
>>dozen dead imc links in cities.inc by manually going through them but I
>>couldn't face going through the 50 sites in the USA or the similar number
>> of european sites so I used an online link validator and didn't double
>>check the results.
>>
>>After the replies to the previous list there is clearer status on some...
>>
>>
>>video.indymedia.org - now accepting uploads after problem being noticed
>>radio.indymedia.org - website is dead but server was used for g8
>>streaming boston.indymedia.org - down at time of test, now up again and
>>fine kenya.indymedia.org - off but apparently coming back really soon
>>www.stlimc.org - no editorial features, collective reorganizing
>>hamilton.indymedia.org - closed to publishing but perhaps to return
>>melbourne.indymedia.org - publishing suspended, but perhaps to return
>>bc.indymedia.org / victoria.indymedia.org - off for now, may relaunch
>>ontario.indymedia.org - 8 months of downtime. up now, just very slow or
>>timing out. only spam in newswire this year.
>>
>>These can all be assumed to be coming back and it would be great to hear
>>anything people know about the rest of them...
>>
>>The revised list has 27 sites (out of about 180) which seem to be dead,
>>broken, hacked or closed.
>>
>>http://nigeria.indymedia.org/
>>http://montreal.indymedia.org/
>>http://burma.indymedia.org/
>>http://india.indymedia.org/
>>http://armenia.indymedia.org/
>>http://darwin.indymedia.org/
>>http://brisbane.indymedia.org/
>>http://croatia.indymedia.org/
>>http://belgrade.indymedia.org/
>>http://winnipeg.indymedia.org
>>http://belgrade.indymedia.org
>>http://chilesur.indymedia.org
>>http://bigmuddyimc.org/
>>http://idaho.indymedia.org/
>>http://ithaca.indymedia.org/
>>http://madison.indymedia.org/
>>http://www.ntimc.org/
>>http://tallahassee.indymedia.org/
>>http://tampabay.indymedia.org
>>http://vermont.indymedia.org/
>>http://wvl.indymedia.org/
>>http://biotech.indymedia.org/
>>http://tnimc.org/ (forbiden)
>>http://detriot.org/ (hacked?)
>>http://mumbai.indymedia.org/ (hacked?)
>>http://beirut.indymedia.org/ (collective desolved a few months ago)
>>http://process.indymedia.org/faq.php3 (long gone)
>>
>>
>>That's almost 1 in 6 links in the cities.inc apparently dead (and there
>>are almost certainly others which are working sites but with no active
>>collective anymore). So, I still would like to see a proposal go to
>>process with the aim of weeding out whatever sites continue to dead or
>>closed.
>>
>>Ben
> 
> 

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