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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera <[email protected]> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > -- > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 > 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
