Ask.wikimedia.org (Q&A site)
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Users ask questions and other users answer them.
Proposed by
[edit ]- Electrical Experiment (original WikiAnswers)
- --Kozuch (talk)
Alternative names
[edit ]- help.wikimedia.org
Related projects/proposals
[edit ]- Wikipedia Reference Desk
- MediaWiki support desk
- Public domain end-user help pages
- Bugzilla request
- Teahouse
- Wikis Stack Exchange
- Erik Moeller, [Foundation-l] Community, collaboration, and cognitive biases, June 2010: «Further experimentation with tools like IdeaTorrent for large-scale brainstorming and ranking purposes»
Possible uses
[edit ]- Provide broad support to WMF projects
- Provide support to end-users of MediaWiki third-party wiki installations
- Help facilitate directing folks to related projects - or become a future home for related projects
Domain names
[edit ]- http://www.wikianswers.org [taken by existing organization]
- http://help.wikimedia.org
- http://ask.wikimedia.org
See also the StackExchange "Area51" proposed site for general wiki questions (editing Wikipedia, installing MediaWiki and developing new wiki features).
Mailing list links
[edit ]- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/242379
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/277623
- bugzilla:29923