[Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

2013-09-23 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, is anyone out here participating in any of the Stack Exchange projects? Do people here still really think voting is a bad thing and wiki is the easiest way to collaborate? I have repeatedly had proposals for employing some voting mechanism at least on the back-stage, but no one was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

2013-09-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I participate in StackOverflow - asking, answering, voting, editing existing answers. Voting is probably good for a site that is structured around short answers and short questions. I'm not sure that it would work for Wikipedia, where articles are expected to grow to multiple pages over a long

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

2013-09-23 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, is anyone out here participating in any of the Stack Exchange projects? Yes, I participate in Stackoverflow mainly Do people here still really think voting is a bad thing and wiki is the easiest way to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

2013-09-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jan Kučera, 23/09/2013 18:20: Hi there, is anyone out here participating in any of the Stack Exchange projects? http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/49276/wikis Do people here still really think voting is a bad thing and wiki is the easiest way to collaborate? I have repeatedly had

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

2013-09-23 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Jan Kučera, 23/09/2013 18:20: Hi there, is anyone out here participating in any of the Stack Exchange projects?