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

[Gregory Varnum]

Fair enough - I could also go around and around on the value or challenge of using wiki style editing to help folks running into problems using wiki edit tools..

-greg


On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Mono <monomium at gmail.com> wrote:

> Possibly, but maybe more trouble that it's worth.
> 
> On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> 
>> Is there a more "wiki" like version of that platform available - or would
>> development of such a platform be feasible and of interest to our volunteer
>> developers?
>> 
>> -greg
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Mono <monomium at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
>> 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:;>>
>>>> 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:;>>
>>>> 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:;>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com<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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