Stack Exchange — conlang.stackexchange.com

The content of conlang.stackexchange.com (https://conlang.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 4,662 rows: 1,948 posts (603 questions, 1,184 answers, 78 tag wiki excerpts, 78 tag wikis and 5 posts of type 6) and 2,714 comments, written between 6 February 2018 and 28 March 2024. Beside it are 3,756 user accounts, 11,456 votes, 5,415 badges awarded, 111 tags, 5,214 post revisions and 85 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 9 rows.

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Analytics

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· graph.json

Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.

374
Nodes
825
Edges
5.91e-03
Density
4
Components
-0.2451
Assortativity
5.3%
Reciprocity
173
Bridges
Most central nodes
1420.1126
300.05898
320.05898
29900.05362
3000.05094
1130.04558
12650.04558
26090.04558
29330.04021
7610.03485
Content metrics

4,662 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 2.422 ± 4.037
min -6max 50
x view countμ 424.939 ± 969.259
min 28max 16.9K
x answer countμ 1.965 ± 1.479
min 0max 14
x comment countμ 1.394 ± 2.22
min 0max 24
10.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.3
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
languagelanguageslikewordsenglishworduseexampledonconlangdifferentverbquestionthinkwaytimeknowwantnounsystemsoundpeoplenaturalcaseverbsmeaninganswerwritingthingsneedsentencesoundsgrammarordervowelsnewesperantogoodpossiblebasedmeancommonmeansdoesnvowellatinnumberconlangsformlook
Topic clusters

Topic 0

verb
noun
word
case
language
english
like
sentence

Topic 1

conlang
language
question
construct
human
create
learn
use

Topic 2

vowel
consonant
sound
syllable
language
word
fricative
like

Topic 3

question
answer
thank
edit
site
ask
post
comment

Topic 4

script
write
letter
writing
system
character
alphabet
chinese

Topic 5

tolkien
elvish
quenya
sindarin
language
black
speech
word

Topic 6

esperanto
language
nos
sae
auxlang
interslavic
interlingua
learn

Topic 7

pona
toki
sona
jan
word
phrase
moku
lawa

Topic 8

language
change
speak
ship
generation
time
proto
people

Topic 9

aspect
tense
past
time
perfect
future
mood
present

Topic 10

lojban
loglan
language
ambiguity
gismu
logical
steci
semantic
Top hashtags
#16
#26
#phonology3
#32
#awkwords2
#vowels2
#144a1
#1651
#171
#1831
#191
#221
#2231
#272581
#431
#48461
#51
#501
#870321
#comment52705_258641

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-conlang-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
5,209
Nodes
374
Edges
825 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2018/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 2.3 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (4,662 rows), users (3,756 rows), x_votes (11,456 rows), x_badges (5,415 rows), x_tags (111 rows), x_post_history (5,214 rows), x_post_links (85 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2024,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {apr},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — conlang.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-conlang.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — conlang.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-conlang.echo.directory/.

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