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

[John]

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:;>>
> > 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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