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

Thomas Morton morton.thomas at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 21 21:21:04 UTC 2011


> 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...
>

It's simpler than that in my mind... other people do Q&A much better, why
bother with the hassle :)

That's just my 2p; I think self hosting is a bad idea from both a community
and business perspective, but I won't belabour the point :)

Tom


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