This does sound rather interesting and I'll look into checking it out as I've often found the official support desk can have questions missed and never answered.
One thing I would suggest is encourage people to learn how to do it themselves with easier to understand guides - like SecurePoll or CentralAuth. The guides for these either don't exist or bare minimum so support in these types of areas would be nice. > On 9 Nov 2017, at 06:42 pm, "Ryan Schmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > It shut down because the owner at the time lost interest in keeping it up and > was seemingly unwilling or unable to transfer it to someone else. The forum > was pretty popular — not hundreds of posts a day, but it was rarely quiet for > long periods of time. > > Past success is not an indicator of present success; the internet landscape > has changed since then and internet forums in general are less popular than > they used to be. That said, results so far are encouraging and I believe as > more questions and other content is added it will eventually reach that > critical mass. > > My focus right now is in building a user base and offering reasons to hang > out. My most recent effort in that regard is to offer tools that sysadmins > can use to make their life easier. I launched a tool to generate configs for > pretty urls[1] and next up are some tools to ease deployment of complicated > extensions like VisualEditor and Scribunto (including dependencies like > Parsoid or the luasandbox PHP extension). > > [1] https://mwusers.org/apps/pretty-url-generator > > -- > Ryan Schmidt > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Nov 9, 2017, at 9:43 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> As such, I have launched a new support forum for MediaWiki[1]. It aims to >>> make it easier to not only ask for and receive support compared to the >>> methods I outlined above, but also hopes to serve as a hub where people who >>> run their own MediaWiki installations can connect, share tips, and network. >> >> Wasn't there a forum like this years ago? IIRC, it never reached critical >> mass and shut down. >> >> -Chad >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
