Ask.wikimedia.org (Q&A site)

Users ask questions and other users answer them.

Proposed by

• ElectricalExperiment (original WikiAnswers)
• --Kozuch (talk)

Alternative names

• help.wikimedia.org

Related projects/proposals

• 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

• 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

• 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

• http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/242379
• http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/277623
• bugzilla:29923

Demos

• http://answers.yahoo.com
• Wikianswers
• http://help.openstreetmap.org

People interested

1. ElectricalExperiment
2. Tosão
3. Robypedia
4. Vibhijain
5. Varnent (talk)
6. Kozuch (talk)
7. NehalDaveND (talk)
8. cscottbrown

Projects / proposals interest

1. MediaWiki.org WikiProject SysAdmins
2. Wikimedia Affiliates Network