Dear fans of WikiApiary,
After a year or more of limping along, we're taking WikiApiary offline to rebuild the site.
If you use Wikiapiary or have used Wikiapiary, or have written a bot that uses Wikiapiary, we need your input on the design.
We need the help of volunteers. We have ideas around how to construct the site so that it is robust, but we'd like input from the community for its design.
The reimplementation of Wikiapiary is mainly happening because we couldn't resolve some SMW issues and its query limitations as well as just the need to update the wiki.
The site has become unmaintainable and those of us who have been responsible for the back-end (mainly Cindy and myself) haven't had time to dedicate to resolving the problems
A major contributing factor to this decision is the ongoing cost of hosting. Previously, we started to move it back to Wikimedia Cloud Services, but attempted to upgrade it before moving it while keeping the design the same.
That ended up causing problems which blocked our progress.
As a result, we've decided we need to rethink Wikiapiary's design completely and rebuild it from scratch.
I'm interested in your feedback and any ideas you may have.
Thanks,
Mark.