On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:27 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
We aren't trying to generate ad revenue... so ? > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google group > "sage-marketing". > To post to this group, send email to sage-market...@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-marketing+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-marketing > More about Sage: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
