[Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

Fri Apr 6 19:39:16 UTC 2012

I will be happy to set such a site for the Foundation, as soon as
someone gives me the power to do so... the only development task is to
connect existing software (probably OSQA) to Global login system...

Btw, Erik, I actually like acting rather than talking and I am
terribly frustrated from the "nothing" (maybe except Wikidata, but
that is not WMF again) that is currently happening in Wikimedia...
then it happens that if I talk you may think I am ill... which again
actually may partly be true temporarily. Anyways I do not feel like
having to excuse myself for such behavior...

Linking the old thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/242379

2012/4/6 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
> Great!  Could you two please revise the current dormant proposal at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAnswers
>
> And note that one of the active uses of the site would be a channel
> dedicated to Q&A about using the Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki?
>
> I think it is simpler and easier to say "let's start a Q&A site, and
> focus on building a help channel there".
> As long as the site is up and maintained, you could answer other
> questions there as well.  The WP:RefDesk has never been an ideal
> formal for answering questions or, more importantly, for aggregating
> and organizing answers over time so that it develops into a permanent
> reference resource.
>
> SJ
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would be interested in helping with this project from a third-party wiki and MediaWiki developer perspective.
>>
>> -greg aka varnent
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> new projects suck, because there are (close to) none
>>>> asked some time ago already with few positive replies
>>>>
>>>> bug was already filled at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29923
>>>> is there someone who can help move on?
>>>
>>> It looks like a good idea to me.  Do you have any experience running
>>> one of those sites?
>>>
>>> As with any new project, a set of people signed up to help administer
>>> it / be initial contributors and editosr would be useful.   So I think
>>> it's still valuable to create a page about it on meta as a 'new
>>> project' even though we haven't cleaned up the new project process
>>> there recently.
>>>
>>> SJ
>>>
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