[WikiEN-l] Support needed for Wikipedia QnA website to open

[Charles Matthews]

On 26/01/2011 14:15, Steve Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Tom Jenkins<tomjenkins52 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> StackExchange<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackExchange>, a free
>> Question and Answer network of websites would start a website dedicated
>> to Wikipedia and Wiki questions if the community only supports the
>> project by voting for it. This website would have a very unique set of
> IMHO this is a pretty good idea. OpenStreetMap did the same thing, and
> it's worked out pretty well:
>
> http://help.openstreetmap.org/
>
> It's not the ideal forum for everyone (mailing lists are better for
> in-depth discussions and explorations of ideas) but it serves a
> purpose.
>
Right, the structure is (intentionally, I believe) not designed to 
encourage threaded discussion, but to elicit replies that actually 
address the question. Which can be counted as a plus.

Charles