On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 22:07, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
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.
One can have both. Go with StackExchange for a while and see if it works out. The content is all licensed under CC BY-SA so if the StackExchange solution works well, we can always copy the good Q&As into Help: on wikipedia or meta or wherever. If it works really well, set up a local open source equivalent.
Basically use the StackExchange version as a test bed to see if Wikimedia should a Q&A site of its own.