maintenance and docs: remove dependabot and update funding (#178)

* maintenance: remove dependabot and update funding

* update readme

* add context

* remove duplicate text

* fix typos

.github/FUNDING.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # These are supported funding model platforms
 
-github: # Replace with up to 4 GitHub Sponsors-enabled usernames e.g., [user1, user2]
+github: [adbar]
 patreon: # Replace with a single Patreon username
 open_collective: # Replace with a single Open Collective username
 ko_fi: adbarbaresi

README.md

@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@
 
 <br/>
 
-Find **original and updated publication dates** of any web page. **On
-the command-line or with Python**, all the steps needed from web page
-download to HTML parsing, scraping, and text analysis are included. The
-package is used in production on millions of documents and integrated by
-[multiple
-libraries](https://github.com/adbar/htmldate/network/dependents).
+Find **original and updated publication dates** of any web page.
+It is often not possible to do it using just the URL or the server response.
+
+**On the command-line or with Python**, all the steps needed from web page
+download to HTML parsing, scraping, and text analysis are included.
+
+The package is used in production on millions of documents and integrated into
+[thousands of projects](https://github.com/adbar/htmldate/network/dependents).
 
 
 ## In a nutshell
@@ -114,17 +116,20 @@ license](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html).
 
 Versions prior to v1.8.0 are under GPLv3+ license.
 
-## Author
+## Context
 
-This project is part of methods to derive information from web documents
-in order to build [text databases for
-research](https://www.dwds.de/d/k-web) (chiefly linguistic analysis and
-natural language processing).
+Initially launched to create text databases for research purposes
+at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (DWDS and ZDL units),
+this project continues to be maintained but its future development
+depends on community support.
 
-Extracting and pre-processing web texts to meet the exacting standards
-is a significant challenge. It is often not possible to reliably
-determine the date of publication or modification using either the URL
-or the server response. For more information:
+**If you value this software or depend on it for your product, consider
+sponsoring it and contributing to its codebase**. Your support will
+help maintain and enhance this popular package, ensuring its growth,
+robustness, and accessibility for developers and users around the world.
+
+Reach out via the software repository or the [contact page](https://adrien.barbaresi.eu/)
+for inquiries, collaborations, or feedback.
 
 [![JOSS article reference DOI: 10.21105/joss.02439](https://img.shields.io/badge/JOSS-10.21105%2Fjoss.02439-brightgreen)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02439)
 [![Zenodo archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3459599](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI-10.5281%2Fzenodo.3459599-blue)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3459599)
@@ -156,9 +161,6 @@ or the server response. For more information:
     Proceedings of the [10th Web as Corpus Workshop
     (WAC-X)](https://www.sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC-X), 2016.
 
-You can contact me via my [contact page](https://adrien.barbaresi.eu/)
-or [GitHub](https://github.com/adbar).
-
 ## Contributing
 
 [Contributions](https://github.com/adbar/htmldate/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

docs/index.rst

@@ -34,7 +34,14 @@ htmldate: find the publication date of web pages
 
 |
 
-Find original and updated publication dates of any web page. From the command-line or within Python, all the steps needed from web page download to HTML parsing, scraping, and text analysis are included.
+Find **original and updated publication dates** of any web page.
+It is often not possible to do it using just the URL or the server response.
+
+**On the command-line or with Python**, all the steps needed from web page
+download to HTML parsing, scraping, and text analysis are included.
+
+The package is used in production on millions of documents and integrated into
+`thousands of projects <https://github.com/adbar/htmldate/network/dependents>`_.
 
 
 In a nutshell
@@ -246,10 +253,22 @@ This package is distributed under the `Apache 2.0 license <https://www.apache.or
 Versions prior to v1.8.0 are under GPLv3+ license.
 
 
-Author
-------
+Context
+-------
+
+Initially launched to create text databases for research purposes
+at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (DWDS and ZDL units),
+this project continues to be maintained but its future development
+depends on community support.
+
+**If you value this software or depend on it for your product, consider
+sponsoring it and contributing to its codebase**. Your support will
+help maintain and enhance this popular package, ensuring its growth,
+robustness, and accessibility for developers and users around the world.
+
+Reach out via the software repository or the `contact page
+<https://adrien.barbaresi.eu/>`_ for inquiries, collaborations, or feedback.
 
-This effort is part of methods to derive information from web documents in order to build `text databases for research <https://www.dwds.de/d/k-web>`_ (chiefly linguistic analysis and natural language processing). Extracting and pre-processing web texts to the exacting standards of scientific research presents a substantial challenge for those who conduct such research. There are web pages for which neither the URL nor the server response provide a reliable way to find out when a document was published or modified. For more information:
 
 .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/JOSS-10.21105%2Fjoss.02439-brightgreen
    :target: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02439
@@ -278,8 +297,6 @@ This effort is part of methods to derive information from web documents in order
 -  Barbaresi, A. "`Generic Web Content Extraction with Open-Source Software <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02447264/document>`_", Proceedings of KONVENS 2019, Kaleidoscope Abstracts, 2019.
 -  Barbaresi, A. "`Efficient construction of metadata-enhanced web corpora <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01371704v2/document>`_", Proceedings of the `10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X) <https://www.sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC-X>`_, 2016.
 
-You can contact me via my `contact page <https://adrien.barbaresi.eu/>`_ or `GitHub <https://github.com/adbar>`_.
-
 
 Contributing
 ------------