On 6/15/06, sannse sannse@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
On Wikipedia.en - to make the various discussion pages easy to find and use. No more massive pages and lost discussions. For use by anyone, but of particular help to the clueless newbs we will be sending there from OTRS.
More specifically the Village Pump, the Help Desk and the Admin Noticeboard would be the three key areas - those three would be in the main index, each with a sub-index to further split topics.
The MediaWiki-based forum solution used by TaxAlmanac is more advanced: http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Discussion_Forum_-_Tax_Tips
Tim Doyle, the moderator of the forum, recently commented on this list. At that time, it was still uncertain whether the code of the software would be open sourced.
I am copying Tim on this. Tim, the Village Pump and Help Desk are the main discussion areas of Wikipedia. If you are interested in promoting and testing your technology further, that would be an excellent playground -- but a decision would have to be made soon, otherwise it is likely that a simpler solution that is available now will be put into place.
I would like to ask Brion to wait with any implementation until Tim responds.
Erik