MediaWiki Extension for Q&A

Question

Is anyone aware of an already existing MediaWiki Extension that would allow users to ask questions in a similar manner to this website or yahoo answers. I've been looking for an extension to allow users to ask/answer questions referring to specific pages for my wiki and I was hoping someone might have already implemented this.

I've been having no luck while searching considering the key words I've been using to describe what I'm looking for end up returning a wide range of results.

Answer 1

I think there are currently these options:

1. The simplest is the talk page, available for every article. You could use a main page talk (see Wikipedia example - though Wikipedia uses it only for discussion about main page content, not for general discussion) or Village Pump / Community portal idea for general discussions. Not ideal but it works.
2. You can improve on this somewhat using the LiquidThreads extension. This enhances the talk pages but does not include gaming elements found here (e.g. up votes).
3. If you just want to get community views, you can use a poll like QPoll.
4. Finally, you can use a Chat room.

FWIW - I asked a similar question over on meta.

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