Hello everyone. Speaking as Wikimedia Italia's president, I can tell you that as a chapter we are interested in this. We won't be able to support a Wikisource developer by ourselves, but we'd love to collaborate with other Chapters or Affiliates. IMHO, money here is not the issue: the real issue is decide a list of priorities, find a suitable candidate, mentoring, assessing the work. I actually believe that the moment we (as Wikisource users, and/or as Wikisource Community User Group) decide what to do and how to do it, the Wikimedia Foundation would be happy to help us, either financially or with developer staff time. As always, we need to organize a bit and make decisions, or at least discuss and share what's going on in our Wikisources. You all know perfectly the hidden potential on Wikisource: we just want to unleash it :-)

Aubrey

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:17 PM, David Cuenca Tudela dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all, Since the Wikisource Community User Group [1] has been building a reliable track record of activities during the last two years, there was the idea of advancing even further and tackling our technical debt with a dedicated Wikisource developer.

I would like to draft a project in order to approach Chapters or other organizations that can give us support in our task, but first I need to know what are our highest priority tasks right now. In my opinion it would be something like:

• Visual Editor for Wikisource
• Book manager extension
• Lua scripts for Wikidata integration
• Book infobox for Wikipedia to share metadata

Any thoughts about this? Does anyone know a reliable developer? Or a chapter that could offer help? Or someone who could act as a techical mentor/overseer?

Thanks and regards! Micru

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group