Stack Overflow - Documentation

Does it mean this content can be copied and archived anywhere with attribution? Wonder if it would make sense to host them here since documentation is sort of what this site does? :stuck_out_tongue:

@senocular , I don’t believe ya. :grinning:


@kirupa,

There is certainly some good information there, depending on topic.

How would you achieve archiving it though, there are millions of links leading every which way. I would be interested to know how you would dump it efficiently.

They mention MIT so you should be golden being an esteemed Alumni :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I wouldn’t do a straight-up copy. Instead, I would create something like a “bite-sized” content section where relevant information is provided without the beginner-friendly context that the tutorials on this site try to provide :slight_smile:

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Oh ok. I just wondered, because I tried and its a pretty convoluted download when attempting. :crazy_face:

Actually I just came across some further info:

^ talk of Attribution in this one, and active as of yesterday.

WOW. :flushed: :hushed:

Well that was quick, 4 days later and its now gone.

Amazing they just ceased it like that and removed it altogether. :rage: :-1:

As slow as it is, it still works here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/stackoverflow.com/documentation

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Based on the attribution information details, I think it is totally feasible for some of the relevant JS content to live on this site. Am I reading it correctly?

I’ve never played a lawyer on TV, but I think I would concur.

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I managed to catch the plague last week, but I will try to get one article from the archive posted! Let us see how it goes :slight_smile:

The plague? That’s disconcerting…

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Wow, catches the plague and still writes articles. I’m impressed. :mask:

Yeah! I was in Vegas last week to accompany my wife who was presenting at a conference, and I managed to catch something in the airport on the way there itself. Still not fully recovered yet :doughnut:

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I just answered a question on SO this morning and got Privileges > Documentation Votes!

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Nice! I’m sure that “privilege” will be a source of joy and rewards for many years to come.

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Yeah, still need to figure out what this Documentation thing is about…

I wonder why that would be since Documentation has been shutdown and removed? Tagging posts for future iterations perhaps?

I thought “what you catch in Vegas stays in Vegas” or am I remembering that tv commercial wrong

I’m assuming its part of the Documentation integration they have yet to remove, or simply forgot existed.

Yeah perhaps.

Unless they purposely kept it enabled to grab references for a future endeavor. I know they said something will eventually come out of the documentation experiment in the sunsetting announcement referenced above.

With your wide ranging knowledge and ability to effortlessly articulate yourself technically in understandable form, you would certainly be a wonderful contributor. Or perhaps you could foster and share those skills through other channels such as guest articles on sites, a book, blog, etc., if you would desire. Same goes for @krilnon, and of course @kirupa with all he does already.

Certainly not as fun as collecting plastic characters, but almost as worthy of a cause. :thinking:

Tourism would probably increase exponentially if that was the case, however I think as of now what you catch is considered your free parting gift for visiting. :pimp: