If it was just a matter of money to keep the servers running, I would say yes, but if they have no editors there would not be a lot of point. We could offer an archive, and assimilation. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Seddon Sent: 04 July 2020 23:19 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Citizendium shutting down Is there any merit in us helping them continue to exist? Seddon On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:13 PM David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > here's the discussion: > > https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thoughts.3F > > On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Front page: > > > > > This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see > https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendium). > A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving > articles that they believe are useful, and which for various reasons > probably could not be written in Wikipedia. On or about Sept. 30, 2020, we > plan to end Citizendium as a public "open" project, yet (possibly) keep the > wiki running and editable by a combination of donations and subscriptions. > How this might occur is still being examined. > > > > Original announcement > > > https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864611&oldid=100857010 > > > > basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running > out. > > > > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Seddon *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
