What is the best way for me to create a professional Q&A website?
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"You set the tip you're willing to offer for a helpful answer, and we collect a deposit from your Mahalo Dollars balance. To honor the time answerers spend helping you, you are required to choose a best answer, and give the tip you offered, if any helpful answer is received."
You get what you give in life, so I'd recommend distributing this tip to the best helpful answer you receive if you'd like our community to participate in your questions on a regular basis. Rock on!
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As with other questions aimed at IT industry opportunities competition is a barrier and you're ironically asking your question about Q&A websites on a highly successful Q&A website! Why not see if you can embed threads from a successful source like Mahalo in your own site? (I don't know if this is possible within the TOS)
Alternatively, as you mentioned open source, I know you can use Wordpress as a wiki or a Multi-User site. There are unlimited themes available for Wordpress.
If you are after really useful info and participation (it sounds like you could do with bright minds to pitch in ideas and development along the way) why not open source it? Chances are by the time the community has looked at it they will have found a platform that would fit your needs.
If you want help that you don't feel like you're getting it online I would suggest attending a hackday or something similar in your area. People like participating in person as well as on websites. Put the word out before you attend as to what sort of people you would like to meet there and what skills you feel would benefit the project. Be welcoming if you aren't paying people or ask them to sign a short confidentiality contract if you are paying them and I'm sure you'll get the results you're after.
Good luck!
personal experience in building web systems
personal experience in crowdsourcing
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M$You will find many if you add open source to the end of those you will find free versions there is hundreds
Then you can tweak it to your needs. Using mediawiki is asking for spam trouble as it wouldnt be quite good for what you need.
These premade clones are everything you will need there is also wordpress based question and answer plugins you can google if you are used to the wordpress interface.
Here is a demo of one of the yahoo answer clones http://youaskit.info/
I hope this helps good luck
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@cherman You voted one of them helpful, if it was not satisfactory, why vote it helpful?
None of the answers were satisfactory.
@coreymac, I think I actually said "Oh no he di'int!" out loud, but you're right--and I'm glad you said it.. For ones I've answered that did not select a best answer, the tip was distributed amongst all who contributed useful answers, so I've said, "Yes, it's fair" and gave that explanation.
I will add this as a general comment to all: coreymac makes a good point. I answer questions on other sites, and on one in particular, if I can see that someone is clearly abusing the system to get information, having offered top dollar for answer, (I'm talking about over USD$125.00) then having received it, but then never having paid for it--many times--not only will I not answer it, but I'm quick to drop a note to the system administrators to give them the heads-up.
It uses the system's resources to bait and switch and it will make people not want to answer that user's questions.