On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.varnum@gmail.com wrote:
Some modifications and requested info has been added to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
-greg aka varnent
There have also been a couple of other proposals on meta along these same lines, and perhaps something useful could be merged from the other ones as well:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_projects_-_Q&A
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com 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 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 wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera kozuch82@gmail.com 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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