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Strategy to migrate meaningful content from Stack Overflow
I was thinking about meaningful content that can be migrated (+ improved) from Stack Overflow. These categories pop into my mind:
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closed questions: we know Stack Overflow is very picky when it comes to some matters ("primarily opinion based") and some questions are easily closed despite being very useful (lots of views, upvotes and great answers). Examples I have already migrated with an updated answer are How to upgrade a recent (>= 8) Angular CLI? and Is it recommended for ASP.NET Web API actions to always include a CancellationToken?.
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questions with great, but almost invisible "late" answers: SO acknowledges the value of late answers (Necromancer badge), but in practice, they are rarely visible and folks will often use the most upvoted answer which is not always the best / up to date.
I am thinking about migrating some of these questions + what I think is the best answer as I stumble across such cases. However, I am also looking for community feedback if such an effort makes sense. Personally, I would gladly migrate some of my own late answers, as I sometimes use (and maybe update) them for current projects.
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Please note that migrate in this context means grabbing the exact post as-is from a SE site and importing it here. This is allowed, with attribution given, as per licensing model. Codidact staff can help out with this. Check out the Writing or Scientific Speculation communities for examples, imported posts get a little "hamburger" SO logo tag.
Do you actually mean migrating or do you just mean asking the question anew here? The latter is of course perfectly fine.
I think that the only meaningful content to actually migrate would be canonical reference materials posts. Of which there probably exist some 10 to 50 posts per major programming language or framework, not more.
The vast majority of closed posts on SO, no matter the close reason, are actually crap. Digging through that sewer in search for things that might be valuable doesn't sound like something anyone should waste time on.
In case you do find something valuable there, that's closed but unanswered, then I'd just re-formulate the question and ask it anew here. Because it is very likely that the question had other more fundamental problems than just being subjective or opinion-based. Too broad questions would be too broad here as well, for example.
Note: This is not an official Codidact staff answer; this is my personal opinion.
Let's try to build up a bit of an original base before we work on imports.
Based on other sites where content was imported - such as Writing or SciSpec - the site does better when you first work on building up local content instead of seeding the site with external content.
I would recommend first working on building up some Q&A here and making sure there's actually a userbase before importing.
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