Re: Sanskrit and Pali Q&A forum

Dear Frank,

It is also important to contribute opinions on the example questions by
voting; that's part of the process. The proposal now includes
Indo-Aryan Languages as a whole, because there are fairly high
participation requirements to have the proposal approved. Stack
Exchange is really a nice concept that encourages participation and
promotes quality in many ways; another example of how this sort of forum
works is our internal Sirimangalo forum:

http://ask.sirimangalo.org/

Though it's not based on Stack Exchange, the layout is similar. If the
proposal doesn't pass, we could just start an independent Pali forum in
the same way. In the meantime, if you want to see an open forum on Pali
and Sanskrit languages, please follow the proposal and do vote on the
questions (and propose your own example questions as well).

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36197/sanskrit-pali-and-other-indo-aryan-languages

Best wishes,

Yuttadhammo

On 12/03/2011 12:09 AM, frank wrote:
> Dear Ven. Yuttadhammo,
> I took a look and registered, it looks very promising. Those of you
> with gmail or openID, you can use those accounts to register very
> quickly (it took me less than 2 minutes to set up a user account,
> confirm my gmail address, and be able to "vote up" topics on that pali
> proposal group). I haven't used that stackexchange service before, but
> just a quick look at it I can see it has some extremely nice features
> that addresses many of the serious inadequacies of the email list and
> typical web forum formats.
> Ven. Yuttadhammo, please keep us informed whether that group
> proposal passes and becomes a functional pali forum.
>
> Metta,
> Frank
>
> On 11/24/2011 5:19 AM, Yuttadhammo wrote:
>> Hey everyone; just a note in case anyone here is interested in such
>> things...
>>
>> We've started a Sanskrit and Pali Q&A forum on Stack Exchange. Please
>> join and commit to this worthy project:
>>
>> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36197/sanskrit-pali-and-other-indo-aryan-languages
>>
>> Note that the site is not yet active, so there isn't much to see, but
>> we need many people to get involved, posting example questions and
>> voting up other people's example questions.
>>
>> If you aren't familiar with this sort of site, check out the
>> Philosophy forum for an idea of what it would look like if it gets
>> approved:
>>
>> http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/
>>
>> Anyone who uses these sort of sites knows how useful they are for
>> getting timely and high-quality answers to all sorts of questions.
>>
>> May all beings be happy and well.
>>
>>
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