meta:I figure this belongs on sage-marketing, so reply there, but putting on sage-devel.
Mathematica now has a Q&A site on Stack Exchange (the thing our askbot is modeled on, I think). http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/37304/mathematica It's in public beta, only a few weeks old. What I think is interesting about this is that there are these well- defined metrics that SX has for what a "healthy" Q&A site (i.e., one that will bring them ad revenue?) will be. Here are a couple interesting ones. ++ 2.5 answers per question is good, only 1 answer per question needs some work. In a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top. ++ (I disagree. A really healthy site will have one completely correct and useful answer showing up within minutes of being posted! At least for some types of questions.) ++ Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come from search engines. ++ (Really? I wonder why; presumably they have thought about this. I know that almost all my LaTeX questions are now easy to find by searching for the question and then picking the tex.SX.com link.) Thoughts for ask.sagemath anyone has? Just trying to get some discussion going on how to improve this side of things. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
