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

[Gregory Varnum]

I'm unclear from a legal perspective how this presents a "nightmare".  In what ways do volunteers responding to Q&A's about Wikimedia projects and content present great challenges than existing efforts like enWP's Reference Desk and MW.org's Support desk?

In regards to answers.yahoo.com - I think you may be misinterpreting the proposed initial scope.

-greg


On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:43 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> 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:;>>
>>> 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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