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what is unity answer's software?

i want to create a web site like unity answers for Iranian users of unity. the site will use our local language for farsi users. i want to know is there any open source or free software like unity answers or stackoverflow to set up in our server?

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asked Dec 15 '09 at 05:54 PM

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@Ashkan, I'm kind of curious how many Iranian Unity users there are?

May 31 '10 at 06:24 PM Cyclops

i am not sure but i know about 10 guys using it. all of them are young boys and most of them are not professional game developers. this industry is new in Iran. i think the number of users is about 500 at most but they need help. real users that you can call them real developers are less than 100.

Jun 01 '10 at 09:05 AM Ashkan_gc
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The software is Stack Exchange (http://stackexchange.com/) by Fog Creek Software.

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answered Dec 15 '09 at 06:06 PM

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It's not exactly "by Fog Creek", I think. But yeah, it is actually Stack Exchange.

Dec 16 '09 at 08:04 AM Aras ♦♦

By bad. Didn't realize that it is a separate entity from Spolsky's other company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow for the curious).

Nov 01 '10 at 06:35 AM Slippy Douglas
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Using the open-source Drupal web content management system, you can construct a site with the same basic idea as the Stack Overflow Platform:

  • Set up a basic Drupal forum.
  • Use the Vote Up/Down module to allow users to rate questions (forum posts) and answers (comments on forum posts).
  • Use the Userpoints module to handle user reputations, and Userpoints Karma to cause votes to affect user reputations.

(Or check out this tutorial for another approach.)

UPDATE: I recently published a Drupal module that sets this up automatically --- http://drupal.org/project/atrium_answers

Second update: Unity Answers has switched from Stack Exchange to Qato.

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answered Dec 16 '09 at 04:17 AM

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i will contact stack exchange guys to see the price for on site license. their prices are too high for us. if we could not get the software we will use the second approach or maybe create one with http://ASP.NET technology.

Dec 16 '09 at 08:08 AM Ashkan_gc
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Shapado looks like it might fit the bill for what you're looking for.

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answered Dec 22 '09 at 08:08 PM

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Hi, I'm one of the main developer of Shapado, you can contact us in #shapado on freenode or by email to shapado -at-/ ricodigo d0t com. We are completely free and open source, and the software is available in various language such as Spanish, Portuguese and French and it can be easily translated into other languages. You can check us out here or grab the code here http://gitorious.org/shapado

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answered Dec 24 '09 at 11:23 PM

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i'll contact you soon.

May 30 '10 at 06:48 AM Ashkan_gc
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there are some free question and answer sites available. some of them are made with python and ruby and some others with php and mysql. http://question2answer.org is the only php based if you need one but shapado has the most features and will be sponsered by google's summer of code.

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answered May 30 '10 at 06:49 AM

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