Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
by matheusmoreira on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:35PM
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Is that supposed to somehow excuse the deletionism?
No excuse is required, because there's nothing wrong with it.
You dare to compare a Wikipedia article (even a short one) to an SE "article," which is, according to SE's own rules, narrowly and up-to-the-point concentrated on an equally narrow formulated question?
Yes, because there's no reason not to. A Wikipedia article (even a long one) is "narrowly and up-to-the-point concentrated" on a single concept. There maybe a lot to say about dogs, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog only covers things common to all of them, and individual dog breeds get their own pages (as does the concept of a "dog breed").
Similarly, SO has good, valid questions about general concepts, which are narrowly scoped about the concept despite the broad applicability of that concept. For example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26337003 .
The site has more than three times as many publicly-visible questions as Wikipedia has articles. And that's with the scope restricted to just programming.