Is it really that much load on Wikimedia sysops to install a (very simple) script like OSQA? For the value added it would pay itself quickly off. But this goes down to resource allocations and innovation potential at the Foundation, which I can not understand most of the time...
> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------ > Od: Thomas Morton <[email protected]> > Předmět: Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within > Wikimedia > Datum: 21.7.2011 23:07:15 > ---------------------------------------- > > True. But we don't need to use proprietary software for this. > > Why? > > Honest question; SE has sensible ideals and license their content well. Why > add to the workload of our sysops and developers with another system to > maintain and support.... > > We do Wiki's really well. SE do Q&A extremely well... QED. > > I see companies make this mistake all the time; going down the "lets host > everything ourselves" and ending up with inadequate services and support. > > > > Looks like SE uses OSQA anyways. > > > StackExchange is the original :) OSQA is a clone of it. > > The history of SE (which grew out of StackOverflow) is very interesting if > you have a minute to read up on it. They have some awesome ideas about > community interaction and moderation that we could consider adopting. > > Bottom line; if we want a goo Q&A site, SE is the sensible option :) > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
