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

[Mono]

I believ you misinterpreted the use. This tool would only do users EDITing
Wikipedia.

On Friday, April 6, 2012, John wrote:

> WOW, you guys are bashing the WMF for not supporting a legal nightmare, and
> yet another clone of an existing service (answers.yahoo.com). The
> legalities and paperwork necessary to avoid the WMF from getting their
> asses sued off for bad answers is probably a multi-year endeavor, and a
> money sink. How would such a system function without degrading into a crap
> pit? And how would that further the goals of the WMF?
>
> On Friday, April 6, 2012, Mono wrote:
>
> > 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:;>
> <javascript:;><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:;> <javascript:;><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:;>
> <javascript:;>
> > <javascript:;>>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com<javascript:;>
> <javascript:;>
> > <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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