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[kcrisman]

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

[William Stein]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:27 AM, kcrisman <kcri...@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
>

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[kcrisman]

On Jan 31, 11:41 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ?
>

No! Just trying to point out some analogies, perhaps we would want to
be able to measure whether ask.sagemath is doing what we wanted. I
thought it was quite interesting.

On a related note, apparently the main math.stackexchange page has an
AD (?!?! oh, "community ads") for Sage on it. I can't post images to
the web interface for Google groups, but see
http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kcrisman/SageAdSX.png.
Apparently someone created this, though I don't recognize the
"handle". It's not doing too bad, either.

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Way to go, "kuch nahi"!