I believ you misinterpreted the use. This tool would only do users EDITing
Wikipedia.
On Friday, April 6, 2012, John wrote:
WOW, you guys are bashing the WMF for not supporting a
legal nightmare, and
yet another clone of an existing service (
answers.yahoo.com). The
legalities and paperwork necessary to avoid the WMF from getting their
asses sued off for bad answers is probably a multi-year endeavor, and a
money sink. How would such a system function without degrading into a crap
pit? And how would that further the goals of the WMF?
On Friday, April 6, 2012, Mono 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@gmail.com<javascript:;>
<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(a)gmail.com
<javascript:;> <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@gmail.com<javascript:;>
<javascript:;>
<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera
<kozuch82@gmail.com<javascript:;>
<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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