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==General Overview== | |||
[http://stackoverflow.com/ Stack Overflow] features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. The website features the ability for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to wiki or digg. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions, which represents a kind of gamification of the traditional Q&A site or forum. All user generated content is licensed under a Creative Commons license. | |||
As of January 2012, Stack Overflow has over 1,000,000 registered users, and more than 3,500,000 questions. Based on tags assigned to the questions, the most common topics on the site are C#, Java, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and Android. | |||
==Open Source Options== | ==Open Source Options== | ||
===Solace=== | ===Solace=== | ||
*[http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/ | *[http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/ website] | ||
*Solace is a fully open-sourced multilingual support and knowledge exchange platform written in Python. | *Solace is a fully open-sourced multilingual support and knowledge exchange platform written in Python. | ||
===Shapado=== | ===Shapado=== | ||
*[https://shapado.com/ | *[https://shapado.com/ website] | ||
*Shapado is a questions and answers site for your enterprise or community, your “knowledge base on the cloud”. It makes sure questions never get asked twice by making the information flow. Thanks to a powerful search engine, the ability to answer by email and edit each other answers to improve them as wiki, Shapado will make information available across the company with no fuss. | *Shapado is a questions and answers site for your enterprise or community, your “knowledge base on the cloud”. It makes sure questions never get asked twice by making the information flow. Thanks to a powerful search engine, the ability to answer by email and edit each other answers to improve them as wiki, Shapado will make information available across the company with no fuss. | ||
*[http://gitorious.org/shapado source code] | *[http://gitorious.org/shapado source code] | ||
*Create a test group on their server [http://shapado.com/groups/new here]. | *Create a test group on their server [http://shapado.com/groups/new here]. | ||
Revision as of 23:24, 23 September 2012
General Overview
Stack Overflow features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. The website features the ability for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to wiki or digg. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions, which represents a kind of gamification of the traditional Q&A site or forum. All user generated content is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
As of January 2012, Stack Overflow has over 1,000,000 registered users, and more than 3,500,000 questions. Based on tags assigned to the questions, the most common topics on the site are C#, Java, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and Android.
Open Source Options
Solace
- website
- Solace is a fully open-sourced multilingual support and knowledge exchange platform written in Python.
Shapado
- website
- Shapado is a questions and answers site for your enterprise or community, your “knowledge base on the cloud”. It makes sure questions never get asked twice by making the information flow. Thanks to a powerful search engine, the ability to answer by email and edit each other answers to improve them as wiki, Shapado will make information available across the company with no fuss.
- source code
- Create a test group on their server here.