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

[Pharos]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some modifications and requested info has been added to:  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
>
> -greg aka varnent

There have also been a couple of other proposals on meta along these
same lines, and perhaps something useful could be merged from the
other ones as well:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_projects_-_Q&A

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> 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> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com> 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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