Stack Exchange — chinese.stackexchange.com

The content of chinese.stackexchange.com (https://chinese.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 92,162 rows: 40,747 posts (11,570 questions, 28,885 answers, 141 tag wiki excerpts, 141 tag wikis, 5 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 51,415 comments, written between 13 December 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 27,827 user accounts, 121,481 votes, 39,257 badges awarded, 175 tags, 107,423 post revisions and 1,706 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 74 rows.

#Chinese language#Expertise network#Language learning#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 7,358 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

7.4K
Nodes
19.4K
Edges
3.59e-04
Density
57
Components
-0.1694
Assortativity
1.5%
Reciprocity
3.6K
Bridges
Most central nodes
80990.06769
41360.0613
69910.03711
62280.03371
60030.02718
173980.02447
1640.02107
380.01903
113650.0159
25830.01577
Content metrics

92,162 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.181 ± 2.351
min -10max 151
x view countμ 1K ± 4.2K
min 21max 205.1K
x answer countμ 2.497 ± 1.611
min 0max 19
x comment countμ 1.262 ± 2.114
min 0max 27
7.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
chinesecanfromusedmeansuseyoursaywhenmeaningwordsentenceenglishhowaboutthinkexamplepeoplecharactersdoncharacterwordsmeanknowquestionsamesomethingbecauseverbanswertwodifferentwayseetimethesebothfirstmandarinlanguagenamewhymosttranslationgoodmanycorrectmakebetweenwant
Topic clusters

Topic 0

chinese
mandarin
cantonese
language
character
word
china
english

Topic 1

mean
use
correct
sentence
difference
think
sound
like

Topic 2

sentence
mean
think
context
verb
word
meaning
use

Topic 3

sentence
verb
example
mean
like
use
noun
meaning

Topic 4

mandarin
tone
chinese
pronounce
pronunciation
sound
cantonese
language

Topic 5

yes
use
right
think
picture
refer
thing
similar

Topic 6

answer
question
edit
ask
comment
update
sorry
post

Topic 7

thank
answer
explanation
helpful
clear
lot
question
know

Topic 8

sentence
example
word
verb
mean
chinese
noun
like

Topic 9

character
chinese
meaning
radical
phonetic
word
component
semantic

Topic 10

translation
translate
help
english
thank
google
sentence
need

Topic 11

sentence
mean
word
meaning
like
think
verb
example
Top hashtags
#1211
#2156
#374
#444
#chinese35
#zh25
#page23
#v22
#517
#plr15
#result14
#auto8
#msg8
#67
#97
#definitions6
#en6
#mandarin6
#comment5
#cy5

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-chinese-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
103,829
Nodes
7,358
Edges
19,445 (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
zh
Collected
2011/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
East Asia (inferred: from the language of the data)

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, 35.4 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 (92,162 rows), users (27,827 rows), x_votes (121,481 rows), x_badges (39,257 rows), x_tags (175 rows), x_post_history (107,423 rows), x_post_links (1,706 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 — chinese.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-chinese.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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