[Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on.

[Paulo van Breugel]

I think there has been a monthly growth in the use of the SE for some time
now. This makes me wonder how the increase observed below compares to the
longer term average monthly increase. Also, one would need to consider
other means of communication, e..g, the email list might have absorbed part
of the Q&A 'traffic'

I agree that it is very important (too) how well the SE functions in terms
of questions being answered and whether it functions for both questions
asked by relative beginners and for more advanced users. For me personally,
the forum felt like an easier way of communicating. On the other hand, the
email list offers much if not all of that functionality by providing an
easy and informal way of asking questions or discussing specific topics
(like this one :-)).





On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:35 AM, <jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk> wrote:

> Looking at it from the other angle, there appear to have been ~100 threads
> with replies made to them in the "Help" section of the forum in March and
> about the same number for February. So the increase in the
> GIS.Stackexchange seems to coincide with the former usage of the forums
> with Nathan's stats.
>
> For another (probably more important) metric:
>         On average about 20-30% of the threads in that forum didn't get
> any replies at all. How many of the GIS.Stackexchange questions are
> actually being answered? There appear to be 88 tagged unanswered QGIS
> questions:
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/qgis
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> From:        Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
> To:        Nick Hopton <nhopton at gmail.com>
> Cc:        qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Date:        09/05/2012 10:22
> Subject:        Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on.
> Sent by:        qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> So the stats are in for March, April, and some of May, using the query *
> http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis
> *<http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis>
>
> The results are:
>
> 02-2012 = 346
> 03-2012 =  400
> 04-2012 =  556
> 05-2012 =  596
>
> Some pretty sharp increases there.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick Hopton <*nhopton at gmail.com*<nhopton at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> In the last month of its existence about 130 new topics were created on the
> forum. It appears that during the same period about 54 new topics tagged
> 'QGIS' were created on Stack Exchange (SE) GIS. It is of course obvious
> that
> there has been an increase in QGIS questions on SE following the closure of
> the forum, but I think it is unlikely that all, or possibly even most, of
> the people who used to post on the forum have shifted to SE. However, for
> obvious reasons there can be no firm evidence to support this proposition;
> usage statistics are not enough.
>
> I wish it well and I'm sure that QGIS at SE will suit many of the more
> experienced QGIS users very nicely, but I'm also sure it will also put off
> many newcomers and less experienced users who need a friendly place of
> first
> contact where they can ask their questions. But that's enough, I seem to be
> a lone voice in this discussion so I won't push things any further.
>
> Nick.
>
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