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.comjavascript:;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@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@gmail.comjavascript:;
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82@gmail.comjavascript:;
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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