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

[Jan Kucera (Kozuch)]

Is it really that much load on Wikimedia sysops to install a (very simple) script like OSQA? For the value added it would pay itself quickly off. But this goes down to resource allocations and innovation potential at the Foundation, which I can not understand most of the time...

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> Od: Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com>
> Předmět: Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia
> Datum: 21.7.2011 23:07:15
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> > 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.
> 
> 
> > Looks like SE uses OSQA anyways.
> 
> 
> StackExchange is the original :) OSQA is a clone of it.
> 
> The history of SE (which grew out of StackOverflow) is very interesting if
> you have a minute to read up on it. They have some awesome ideas about
> community interaction and moderation that we could consider adopting.
> 
> Bottom line; if we want a goo Q&A site, SE is the sensible option :)
> 
> Tom
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