On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:30, Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Thanks for you enthousiasm, and thanks for the Crowdbase instance. The > Q&A sites are definitively very useful. I am myself an occasional user of > a few of them. Scikit-learn is actually very well represented on the main > Q&A site for machine learn, http://metaoptimize.com/qa. > > With regards to the new sklearn.crowdbase.com, I am not completely sure > that we are better off starting a site rather than benefiting from the > existing ones such as metaoptimize. The main benefits of using an > existing one is that it helps grows the comunity by drawing new users to > the scikit, and having people who don't use the scikit answer general > questions. > > Also, in the long run, I'd really like to see an ecosystem of Python > scikit-learn like package for machine learning. Indeed, the scikit-learn > cannot answer all usecases, and it is healthy to see packaging growing to > complement it, or as incubators of new ideas. Having a Q&A website > completely dedicated to scikit-learn might not help convey the message > that the cake is big enough to be shared. >
+1 There are also a couple of other reasons. First, pointing the sklearn Q&A to a new site will fail to reuse the google juice already obtained by the existing sites (stats.stackexchange, metaoptimize, the future machinelearning.stackexchange, etc). Second, all the existing website already have pretty decent tagging mechanisms. It's easy, for example, to have a bot scan the rss feed for a scikit-learn tag on those websites and periodically email the list with a digest of questions, allowing everyone to keep track of everything. Finally, there's the issue of eyeballs, in that the existing site's visitors, by seeing sklearn-related questions and answers, might feel impressed and more inclined to contribute. -- - Alexandre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
