Hi, just a note to say that a test Discourse instance with a Sandbox for
all kinds of tests is available at
This is an instance that Ad Huikeshoven and others set up almost a couple
of years ago to explore Discourse as a complement to mailing lists (
). *This is not the instance where
the developers support pilot will be run*, but it is just as good to test
Discourse.
Thanks to Sam Wilson for resuscitating this instance, and to Ad and other
promoters for setting it up in the first place.
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
I am admin of a discourse community
(
https://discourse.
opensourcedesign.net/)
and could answer questions about its use, if you are interested.
Jan
2017-11-20 10:10 GMT+00:00 Florian Schmidt <
florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de>gt;:
I totally agree, that it's very unlikely,
that we can solve the problem
of
having newcomers ask the same questions over and
over again with a
technical tool, however, it's probably easier for people who _wants_ to
search before they ask, if they've the possibility to do so. This is most
likely not all of the newcomers, but isn't it still worth it? :D
Best,
Florian
-----Original-Nachricht-----
Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel
Datum: 2017-11-19T23:41:29+0100
Von: "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
An: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Niharika Kohli <nkohli(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> I'd like to add that having Discourse will provide the one thing IRC
> channels and mailing lists fail to - search capabilities. If you
hangout
on
the #mediawiki IRC channel, you have probably
noticed that we get a lot
of
> repeat questions all the time. This would save everyone time and
effort.
No discussion system I've ever seen has managed to solve the problem of
people asking the same question instead of searching for past replies.
I'm
skeptical that this new one will be any
different.
Yes, the existing mailing lists have issues with searchability, although
to
a large extent that's due to a misguided
robots.txt policy preventing the
archives from being indexed in the first place.
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