[developers] [Matrix-dev] poll: stack exchange?

[Emily M. Bender]

>From my perspective I'd only want to move off of our own mailing lists
(which I see
in my inbox) to some external service if I could get notifications from
that service
that were high precision/high recall for questions that I really should be
replying to.
IOW, I don't want to subscribe to a "linguistics" tag just to be able to
catch the 0.01%
of it that would be questions about the Matrix (let alone "nlp" where it
would be more
like 0.00000000000001%).

Emily

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Michael Wayne Goodman <goodmami at uw.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Olga,
>
> I think a similar idea was brought up at Stanford last year, partially as
> a way to make what we're doing more visible and to lower some barriers for
> asking questions.
>
> But a separate stackexchange forum might not be the best path forward as
> it's too narrow a topic. People have asked questions about HPSG on
> StackOverflow, and you could create an [hpsg] tag if you have 1500+
> reputation points, but they have to be used in at least 1 question every 6
> months or they get removed. Alternatively, we could reuse other tags, like
> [nlp], [grammar], or [linguistics].
>
> There's also a linguistics forum in beta: https://linguistics.
> stackexchange.com/. Its stats (https://area51.stackexchange.
> com/proposals/6673/linguistics) show that it's doing ok, but it needs
> more questions per day, so if we join up with that forum we can both
> benefit.
>
> What do you think?
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Olga Zamaraeva <olzama at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> I was curious how many people on these lists would be interested in
>> participating in a stack exchange site (like stackoverflow, tex-exchange,
>> math-exchange etc), as an alternative/supplement to this mailing list?
>>
>> The site would house questions about grammar engineering with HPSG, I
>> imagine, particularly using the Grammar Matrix.
>>
>> These sites both promote quality question/answering and provide a very
>> convenient way to look up things which had already been answered/discussed.
>>
>> I created a proposal for such a site on stackexchange.com but I suspect
>> we won't have enough users? They want 60 users or something like that, to
>> send the proposal "live".
>>
>> In any case, here's the proposal, if you think it is a good idea and
>> would like to follow.
>>
>> https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/111508/grammar-engineering
>>
>> Alternatively, if you think it is a bad idea, also let me know!
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Olga
>>
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