<h1>Solution: create an independent WIKI portal</h1>
<p>The Q&amp;A format of StackExchange has generated a sort of yellow pages for all sort of problems with several advantages:</p>
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<li>It generates content/information that is relevant to practical cases.</li>
<li>The problem-based question and answers introduce concepts in a way that is easy to understand.</li>
<li>The generation of the content has been completely free based on volunteering work.</li>
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<p><strong>Stack is changing</strong></p>
<p>However, we may wonder how long this system is gonna last (besides the company that is running the system is turning it's back towards the volunteers). The graph below indicates how StackOverflow/StackExchange is changing by looking at the time evolution of the number of votes, where different curves are shown based on the score of the questions after 30 days (<a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/1137761#resultSets" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from this Query</a>)</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdtLg.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NdtLg.png" alt="time development" /></a></p>
<p>To compare the trend more easily, the curves have been scaled such that the value is equal to 100 at the time point 2012 year.</p>
<p>The problem is: The number of monthly questions with a high vote count is decreasing (especially on StackOverflow on CrossValidated it is still somewhat stable). The number of monthly questions with a low vote count is growing.</p>
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<h3>StackExchange as a comic:</h3>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohDbK.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohDbK.jpg" alt="monkeys" /></a></p>
<p><em>Most of the pretty fruits have already been picked. The sort of activity we see now are monkeys picking the low hanging fruit (I am one of them) and occasionally there might pass by a giraffe that is able to pick some fruits from the top of the tree. There is an increasingly number of fruit that ends up rotten on the floor and we do not have enough ants to clean that up.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Solution: move over the (majority of the) content to a wiki</strong></p>
<p>We could say that the question activity is currently mostly in lower quality questions (an increasing number is not getting answered and receiving low score). We may ask ourselves whether the Q&amp;A format is still useful.</p>
<p>We could argue that the database is already very full and now needs to be organized and maintained. This is a different ballgame than the continuous posting of questions and answers.</p>
<p>To do this. We could create a portal to the current content (and possible future content) summarizing annotating and clarifying the content on CrossValidated. On this portal, we could use the format of wiki pages (since the Q&amp;A phase is over or will be soon). The additional advantage of a wiki is that there is lots of software available that may help to generate the website (only the conversion of the content from StackExchange to Wiki may be a problem but I imagine it should be possible).</p>
<p>And also, we gain independence.</p>
