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Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The reputation system allows the sites to be self-moderating.

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Owner
Prosus N.V.
Commercial
Yes
Content license
User contributions under CC BY-SA 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0
Created by
Jeff Atwood · Joel Spolsky
Launched
September 2009; 16 years ago (2009-09) (relaunched in January 2011)
Registration
Yes

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Stack Exchange

Nodes96
Edges95
Triples99
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020833
Components1

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Stack Exchange

Top relations

related to Site creation process · 21
Stack Exchange → Area, Beta, DAYS, Definition, Every, Finally, FIRDR, First, Graduation, If, It, PrelimScore, Private Beta, Public Beta, Reputation, Reputation-101, Second, Stack Exchange Network, SUM, The
related to Technologies used · 18
Stack Exchange → Area, ASP, Blogs, Dapper, Elasticsearch, HAProxy, IDE, IIS, Microsoft, NET, NET MVC, Razor View Engine, Redis, SQL Server, Stack Overflow, The, Visual Studio, WordPress
related to Reputation and badges · 12
Stack Exchange → Along, Badges, Digg, Due, Each Stack Exchange, MetaFilter's, MetaTalk, Stack Overflow Careers, The, There, This, Users
related to Founding and growth · 11
Stack Exchange → Experts-Exchange, Fog Creek Software, In, In September, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, Server Fault, Spolsky's, Stack Overflow, Super User, This
related to Moderators and election process · 11
Stack Exchange → According, Aside, Elections, Math Stack Exchange, Moderators, Nominations, Stack Exchange Community Team, Stack Overflow, They, To, Users
related to Declining relationship between users and company · 8
Stack Exchange → After, Hot Network Questions, In, In October, Interpersonal Skills, SRE, Stack Exchange Quality Project, Twitter
related to Bounties · 3
Stack Exchange → Bounties, The, This
related to External links · 3
Stack Exchange → Exchange, Internet Archive, Official
Created by · 2
Stack Exchange → Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky
Type of site · 2
Stack Exchange → Knowledge market, Question and answer

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Important terminology

stack exchange site users questions overflow reputation sites network beta company moderators content answers public days least answer september cc

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Stack ExchangeCommercialYes1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeContent licenseUser contributions under CC BY-SA 2.5, 3.0, and 4.01.00infobox
Stack ExchangeCreated byJeff Atwood1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeCreated byJoel Spolsky1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeLaunchedSeptember 2009; 16 years ago (2009-09) (relaunched in January 2011)1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeOwnerProsus N.V.1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeRegistrationYes1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeType of siteKnowledge market1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeType of siteQuestion and answer1.00infobox
Stack ExchangeURLstackexchange.com1.00infobox
Stack Exchangeis anetwork of question-and-answer0.90text
total page views or advertising revenueinstance ofbut there is no public information on statistics0.80text

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