[Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia

[Samuel Klein]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Oliver Moran <oliver.moran at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would absolutely recommend Stack Exchange. The software is far more suitable for community Q&A than Mediawiki. The Stack Exchange network of sites also share much of the free content and community spirit of Wikimedia. For example, Q&As are licensed under CC-BY-SA and the sites are community run.

True.  But we don't need to use proprietary software for this.

OSQA shares the stackexchange workflow
  http://linuxexchange.org/

And Question2Answer is the most actively used & updated free-software
platform, also php:
  http://www.question2answer.org/directory.php

SJ





> Thanks for the heads up, Tom. I wasn't aware of this proposal. For others, the link is:
>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/13716/wikis-and-wikipedia
>
> The promise to "commit" to the project doesn't require you to log in. The "commitment" is as follows:
>
> "I commit to participate actively in Wikis and Wikipedia for at least three months, especially during the private beta, and to ask or answer at least ten questions."
>
> Best,
> Oliver
>
> On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:03, Thomas Morton wrote:
>
>> There was a push to launch a stackexchange site relating to Wikipedia
>> a few months back. It's currently in the commitment phase - needing
>> people to commit to seeding it.
>>
>> SE is a proven QA platform; so worth considering.
>>
>> Tom Morton
>>
>> On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:00, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a good idea.  They are using OSQA, yes?   SJ
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) <garbage5 at seznam.cz> wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I propose to start a Q&A system within Wikimedis. We need a central place for help. Getting an advise is too complicated now if a person has very diverse questions, he/she needs to look for various wiki discussion pages. Not very easy for newbies. Could be inspired by the help site of OpenStreetMap.
>>>>
>>>> Following bug was filled:
>>>> "Install Q&A system at help.en.wikipedia.org"
>>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29923
>>>>
>>>> Discussion and hopefully creation of the site is more that welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your support!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Kozuch
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch
>>>>
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