Hi all,
It's been a while since anything's been posted to this list, but I'd like to notify you of a new proposal for the "WebCite" tool becoming a sister project.
The proposal's at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WebCite, and there's also related discussion on the English Wikipedia Village pumphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#a_heads-up_--_webcitation.org_may_go_dark and Maggie Dennis' talk pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdennis_(WMF)#WebCite_about_to_die .
Essentially they're looking to fundraise $50,000 to keep the service running (we currently have ~182,000 links to their service on the English Wikipedia) and modernise it, or it will be shutting down towards the end of 2013.
The user has proposed that WebCite becomes a sister project under the Foundation's wing to "*finance the necessary modernization of the service*".
Now I'm not entirely sure what our stance is on this, but there's already some support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WebCite#People_interested on the proposal page in a couple of days, so I left a respond on Maggie's talk page saying I'd make the Committee aware of the proposal and asked a couple of questions with regards to whether WebCite is willing to become a sister project and what they'd do with $50,000.
Feel free to add your comments to the proposal's talk pagehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WebCite or on this mailing list.
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:39:57 +0000, Thehelpfulone wrote:
Hi all,
Its been a while since anythings been posted to this list, but Id like to notify you of a new proposal for the "WebCite" tool becoming a sister project.
Note also that the issue was raised first on English Wikipedia on a different village pump (Miscellaneous), and I posted there a link to Meta. It would be good to try keeping the discussion in one place.
Cheers Yaroslav