LINGUIST List 22.3494 Tue Sep 06 2011 FYI: Linguistics Q&A Community at Stack Exchange Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Taylor Smith , Linguistics Q&A Community at Stack Exchange Message 1: Linguistics Q&A Community at Stack Exchange Date: 03-Sep-2011 From: Taylor Smith <taylor.d.smithasu.edu> Subject: Linguistics Q&A Community at Stack Exchange E-mail this message to a friend Website: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6673/linguistics Stack Exchange is an online question and answer community dedicated to bringing experts together in order to answer in-depth questions that wouldn't fly at a generic Q&A site. To help expansion, the community has an incubation process for new field proposals. Currently, the linguistics proposal is in the ''commitment'' stage of this incubation. This means that it needs more users to commit to adding content in the future. Once it reaches a certain level of membership (to which it is very close) it can finally launch into beta and start accruing questions and answers. If you are interested in contributing to a public reference community for linguistics, either by asking your questions that search engines just can't answer, or by collaborating on answers for questions you have experience with, feel free to join us at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6673/linguistics Registering is as simple as linking your Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, or OpenID account. Alternatively, you can create a new log-in. (Note that, as highlighted above, Q&A for linguistics will not be available until the commitment goal is met. This policy is to ensure that all sites launched will be well-populated and able to produce quality posts.) For an overview of the Stack Exchange project, visit http://stackexchange.com/about For information on how to use the ''Area 51'' proposal area where Linguistics currently resides, visit http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq For an example of a related and successfully-launched community, visit ''English Language and Usage'' at http://english.stackexchange.com/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.