Is it really that much load on Wikimedia sysops to install a (very simple) script like OSQA? For the value added it would pay itself quickly off. But this goes down to resource allocations and innovation potential at the Foundation, which I can not understand most of the time...
------------ Původní zpráva ------------ Od: Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com Předmět: Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia Datum: 21.7.2011 23:07:15
True. But we don't need to use proprietary software for this.
Why?
Honest question; SE has sensible ideals and license their content well. Why add to the workload of our sysops and developers with another system to maintain and support....
We do Wiki's really well. SE do Q&A extremely well... QED.
I see companies make this mistake all the time; going down the "lets host everything ourselves" and ending up with inadequate services and support.
Looks like SE uses OSQA anyways.
StackExchange is the original :) OSQA is a clone of it.
The history of SE (which grew out of StackOverflow) is very interesting if you have a minute to read up on it. They have some awesome ideas about community interaction and moderation that we could consider adopting.
Bottom line; if we want a goo Q&A site, SE is the sensible option :)
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