[wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress

[Davit Barbakadze]

StackOverflow platform is very good, much better then any other Q&A
platforms I've seen. I use it regularly.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
> On May 9, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Stas Sușcov wrote:
>> I would wait until GSoC ends, afaik Barry Carlyon will be working on
>> something like that for WordPress.org forums and I'm sure he can make
>> something better or at leas as good as SO is.
>
> I hear you. But I think it highly unlikely that a college intern over a summer project could generate the results that the experienced team (lead by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software) who has been working on this for 2 years and now has $6 million in VC can produce.
>
> Besides, Barry is doing "WP as bug tracker" not "WP as an answers exchange."  Bugs are but a small subset of things people need answers for.
>
>> Plus, there are a couple of SO open source clones (including one in php,
>> cakephp if I'm not wrong).
>
> Have you seen the traffic StackOverflow has gotten?   7.1 million unique people per month per Quantcast [1].  I don't know of any open source community using an SO clone that has even come within an order of magnitude, do you?
>
> Since their stated corporate goal is "Make the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions"[2] and they've proven they can get really high traffic (StackOverflow is #709 on Quantcast) then it would seem it would really help WordPress if more people could find the answers they need more quickly and easily. And since they pay for the hosting and the data is Creative Commons and can be exported then it seems there's more downside to waiting then there is to moving forward?
>
> -Mike
>
> [1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-a/
> [2] http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0
>
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Davit Barbakadze