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

Fri Apr 6 20:40:49 UTC 2012

Is there a more "wiki" like version of that platform available - or would development of such a platform be feasible and of interest to our volunteer developers?

-greg

On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Mono <monomium at gmail.com> wrote:

> Take a look at toolserver.org/~mono/qua
> 
> On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> 
>> Some modifications and requested info has been added to:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
>> 
>> -greg aka varnent
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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<javascript:;>>
>> 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<javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
>> 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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