@ArtOfCode Some. Not sure exactly how many. That's why I was asking what the mod tools might indicate, if it would help to filter to the questions closed as off-topic.
@curiousdannii I think the best close stats available are those I imaged yesterday - this page, can you access it? I haven't done extensive looking through my tools for better close stats, but that page contains a fair amount of detail.
Here's the whole page as it currently stands:
I count 6 custom reasons that mentioned something about being a recommendation. That's 6 of 53 custom reasons, which is 11.32%.
5 of 13 or 38% in the past 30 days; 2 of 6 or 33% in the past 14 days.
@curiousdannii That's definitely something that warrants watching then, and if we get more then I'll add a reason.
@ArtOfCode I don't know, really. For one, it's barely a question for "experts", and I still consider that somewhat important in beta. It's also off-topic in that it asks how to release whatever under some license (which doesn't have to be an open culture license)
If it were narrowed down to an open source license in general, it becomes a boat question. The answer would be the same way you license anything else, only you make sure your license is suitable
that said, licensing things is among the important things you do in open culture
also, what congusbongus commented, some licenses have requirements about how to license, or best practices, so that makes it very broad again
I'd allow something like "I have a blog that I want to publish under CC-BY-SA 3.0, what is an effective way to do this" (which might be primary opinion based), or "I have a blog, and I want to put a single post under a different license than the rest of the blog, how do I do this? I want the license to be CC-BY-SA 3.0"
@Martijn Thanks for the input. I noticed it and wondered, because it seems at first glance to be on-topic for open source - it's asking about using applying an open license, which our new help center declares is on-topic.
chat is rather self-selecting as well, and I want to avoid the formation of an informal in-crowd that make decisions or influence decisions in a less public venue
While looking at some closed questions to generate some stats, I came across this question. It asks how to apply a Creative Commons license to a blog post.
It's been closed as off-topic: not about open source.
At first glance, it appears to me to be on-topic: it's about applying an open license...
While looking at some closed questions to generate some stats, I came across this question. It asks how to apply a Creative Commons license to a blog post.
It's been closed as off-topic: not about open source.
At first glance, it appears to me to be on-topic: it's about applying an open license...
We have a good number of questions tagged development. I don't really get what it's for. The tag wiki explains
Use this tag for questions regarding the development of open projects.
So what are we talking about? About software development? business development? project development? Any kind...
We have mods now, that can change a lot of things, among them the site-description in the tour.
It currently reads:
Open Source Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for
people organizing, marketing or licensing open source development
projects. It's built and run by you as part o...
When I go to ask a question, I see the typical placeholder text. However, it appears like this:
hardware and other non-software concepts are on topic here. So, can we change
What's your open source software question? Be specific.
to
What's your open source question? Be specific.
the Q&A format doesn't do discussion well. That's both a bug and a feature. The number of times discussion is helpful is far less than it seems. That said, it has a time and a place, and there is also a social aspect (which is both a bug and a feature; it encourages a tighter bond between people, but only for a part of the community)
@TrevorClarke Some of your early questions got newer answers, in part probably better than the early answers which you accepted. Would you mind take another look at your early questions and reconsidering the answers and maybe change your accepted answer if better answers are available now?
@TrevorClarke That's fine. All I ask is, that you give newer answers a look and a chance to earn to be accepted answers if they outdo the already accepted answer.
And I'm happy hearing someone is going to be more active again, we had too much people leaving so far.
@TrevorClarke There are a lot of new users since the start of the free beta. But as the overall number of questions was going down, they only earned a few hundred reputation each.
There are a number of posts hanging round on Open Source which aren't as good as they could be. Some are missing information, some are misleading, some are wrong.
Many of these are from our seed questions in the private beta, and that's to be expected - I'm not blaming people for this. However, ...