[Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

[Mono]

Take a look at toolserver.org/~mono/qua

On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote:

> Some modifications and requested info has been added to:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
>
> -greg aka varnent
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Great!  Could you two please revise the current dormant proposal at
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAnswers
> >
> > And note that one of the active uses of the site would be a channel
> > dedicated to Q&A about using the Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki?
> >
> > I think it is simpler and easier to say "let's start a Q&A site, and
> > focus on building a help channel there".
> > As long as the site is up and maintained, you could answer other
> > questions there as well.  The WP:RefDesk has never been an ideal
> > formal for answering questions or, more importantly, for aggregating
> > and organizing answers over time so that it develops into a permanent
> > reference resource.
> >
> > SJ
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> I would be interested in helping with this project from a third-party
> wiki and MediaWiki developer perspective.
> >>
> >> -greg aka varnent
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>>
> >>>> new projects suck, because there are (close to) none
> >>>> asked some time ago already with few positive replies
> >>>>
> >>>> bug was already filled at
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29923
> >>>> is there someone who can help move on?
> >>>
> >>> It looks like a good idea to me.  Do you have any experience running
> >>> one of those sites?
> >>>
> >>> As with any new project, a set of people signed up to help administer
> >>> it / be initial contributors and editosr would be useful.   So I think
> >>> it's still valuable to create a page about it on meta as a 'new
> >>> project' even though we haven't cleaned up the new project process
> >>> there recently.
> >>>
> >>> SJ
> >>>
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