I have dreamed always to have a “questions and answers” website like Yahoo Answers, it would be great idea to generate community written posts from simple questions. Darren have talked about this idea in one of his recent posts, he is supporting my way of thinking because the idea is depending on generating content provided by community members discussions.
Since I got this idea and I am testing some open source applications, but till now I didn’t make any progress, but finally I found something interesting. It’s a new plugin for Elgg called Questions, the plugin still under development , the available version now is Questions 0.4 , the progress of development is very promising, it’s provided by DF-Digital, I really would love to give it a try in the coming a few days, I already booked a domain name for this purpose since 1 year back. If you are interested on this just give me a visit after a few days, maybe you will find a good news about the new website I am working.
I want to be sure that this plugin is working good before using it, I found already a website running the Questions plugin, it’s called Fcebook for kids, a very nice idea since Elgg is basically was used for Education. I thin I will add it to my list of 10+ communities and social networks powered by Elgg.
My idea will be complete if I have a plugin for Google AdSense working on Elgg community, I would like to add an optional widget for Google AdSense to show in user profiles and community groups, this could attract members to show some activities in the community and earn money at the same time when someone click on their ads.
If you have a plugin that can add Google AdSense to user profile or community groups for Elgg, plz drop me an email to tell me about it, or post a link in comments. I have asked about it several time in the Elgg community but no one can find that plugin that it gives the member a new widget to add HTML code to his profile.
You can download the plugin from the Elgg community in the plugins section. Download Questions plugin 0.6 from here.
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gosh. it’s not an easy job.
but i’m sure u can do it =)
question & answers portal has potential to earn a lot of traffic. believe me =)
alone’s last blog post..Trial & Error
@alone,
Great, i.m waiting for it, i have lots to ask
@ Alone – Yes my friend, I bit on that!
@ Elena – This is great, I will let you know if there is something new
Thanks for the nice comments on our site
facebook for kids (now fbfkids.com)
I can fully recommend the questions plugin for elgg our kids love it (i think we are using V0.3 on our elgg V1.5 site)
Master Jack
This questions plugin for elgg seems like a great idea for my site. great post!
@Hesham
hi, the developer was supposed to update the plugin (v0.6), but something happened to him (hopefully nothing bad) and he never got to update it.
it’s not even available so the project is dead.
some members did get to download it, so if anyone can upload it again, we could get a maintainer (i could volunteer, till an expert comes along) and get it back on functionality to v0.5+
so @Hesham (or @Master Jack) if you still have the plugin somewhere please upload it back to the community site and/or your profiles
i for one think in part is the fault of elgg for not keeping some backups just in case something happens to the developers (on the internet we rarely notice that thousands DO die daily :/)
if we really want quality plugins in the future and not just glued hacks we really need to track and take their development seriously (which is something i like about drupal lately)
I’ll be following this thread for any updates, thanks
-manny
@manny, Thank you for coming across my blog, I will find the plugin for and make it available for download soon, I will let you know!
.-= Hesham´s last blog ..Famous Bloggers are Driving Me Crazy! =-.
@manny, I have updated the post and now you can download the plugin from the new link, it’s version 0.6 !
.-= Hesham´s last blog ..Famous Bloggers are Driving Me Crazy! =-.
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