On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 22:07, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> True. But we don't need to use proprietary software for this. > > Why? > > Honest question; SE has sensible ideals and license their content well. Why > add to the workload of our sysops and developers with another system to > maintain and support.... > > We do Wiki's really well. SE do Q&A extremely well... QED. > > I see companies make this mistake all the time; going down the "lets host > everything ourselves" and ending up with inadequate services and support. >
One can have both. Go with StackExchange for a while and see if it works out. The content is all licensed under CC BY-SA so if the StackExchange solution works well, we can always copy the good Q&As into Help: on wikipedia or meta or wherever. If it works really well, set up a local open source equivalent. Basically use the StackExchange version as a test bed to see if Wikimedia should a Q&A site of its own. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
