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 <madman...@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hopton <nhop...@gmail.com>
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Date: 09/05/2012 10:22
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on.
Sent by: qgis-user-boun...@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
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 <nhop...@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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