Let's wait until we [[todo/decide_what_kind_of_web_support_do_we_want_to_provide]] first. If we decide to improve Askbot to our requirements here is some food for thought. - <http://askbot.org/> - Django webapp, forked from OSQA. - <https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel> - Most of the development is [done by 2 people](https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/graphs/contributors), they are also selling it as a service. - The commit count looks promising: 393 (2009), 594 (2010), 1249 (2011), 1106 (2012) ### Debian packaging - [[!debbug 687966 desc="RFP #687966"]] - Has [many dependencies](https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/blob/master/askbot_requirements.txt) outside of Debian: - akismet - coffin - django-keyedcache - django-robots - django-kombu - django-followit - django-recaptcha-works - markdown2 - pystache - pytz - longusername ### Features - Anonymous posting: filling up the email field is required but the validity of the email is not checked. - Email notifications: - *Asked by me* - *Answered by me* - *Individually selected* - *Entire forum (tag filtered)* - *Comments and posts mentioning me* - List matching questions on the fly when typing a new question. - The software is [translated](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/askbot/) but there is no multilingual support from the web interface. - No subsite feature. ### Wishlist * Add multilanguage feature to: - allow users to change the language of the interface they see - allow to filter the content by the language of the questions * Add a subsite feature: - a single login should allow to post on different subsites - a single user might have different credentials, karmas and badges in different subsites - allow to move questions between subsites (if allowed to do so) - subsites can be tied to one or more languages (see multilanguage)

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