Hi everyone, while discussing the possible platforms for an official user forum, the idea arose[1] to also evaluate a Q&A forum, similar to the well-known stackoverflow[2]. I've set up an instance of askbot to allow users to test such a forum and comment on this idea. You can access it at http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org. Feel free to register an account (at the moment, local user accounts, Facebook, twitter and various openid providers are supported) and test the installation. Comments, bug reports and improvement suggestions are very welcome, either by using the "give feedback"[3] link at the bottom of each page or at the website list or, of course, in askbot itself[3]. For a explanation how such Q&A platforms work, please see the faq[4] and my short explanation here: * Q&A forums don't provide room for general discussions, polls, rants etc. and are therefore more targeted. * Users can select correct answers and vote for answers. Selected and most voted answers are shown first, drastically improving clarity. * User activities such as answering questions or voting answers leads to karma. With more karma, the rights of users grow until the user has full moderation rights. This allows to grow a self sustaining community. * Answers can be edited collaboratively (so called "community wiki" posts)
Of course, trying it out is worth a thousand words :) Cu, Alex [1]: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/msg06443.html [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/ [3]: http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org/questions/ask/ [4]: http://osqa-test.libreoffice.org/faq/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
