About a year ago (at the beginning of 2012) we updated python-django in Fedora and broke askbot along the way and no one had yet find the time to fix it. askbot-0.7.48-8 should work much better for you. It hasn't made it into Fedora yet, but you can find some rpms for it here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5033494

It also has a new dependency which you can find here (there's a koji build linked to from this bug that you can download rpms from): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907583

After installing, (as root) you'll need to do something like the following set of things to configure askbot:

First jump into the config dir. manage.py expects settings.py to be in cwd

pushd /etc/askbot/sites/ask/config/

Gather up dynamic resources and put them in a static/ dir

mkdir -p /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/static

echo "yes" | python manage.py collectstatic

Make db schema updates

echo "no" | python manage.py syncdb

python manage.py migrate askbot

python manage.py migrate django_authopenid

popd

Symlink the default skin into the skins directory

ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/static/default /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/skins/default

Set perm mask for httpd

chown -R apache:apache /var/log/askbot/

chown -R apache:apache /var/cache/askbot/