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

Mono monomium at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 20:58:53 UTC 2012


Possibly, but maybe more trouble that it's worth.

On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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:;><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:;><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:;>
> <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com<javascript:;>
> <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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