Stack Exchange — chinese.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (chinese.stackexchange.com) dataset of 7,358 users, 19,445 answer-collaboration edges, 11,570 questions, 28,885 answers, collected by Stack Exchange, Inc. via the annual Stack Exchange Data Dump. Each record contains user nodes (reputation, badge counts, vote history), directed weighted edges (answerer→asker, weight=answer score, count=interactions, accepted=bool), post text, tag distribution. User collaboration network from chinese.stackexchange.com — directed weighted graph where edges represent knowledge-sharing relationships (A answered B's question), with edge weight reflecting answer quality. Enables prestige hierarchy, community detection, and expertise flow analysis.. Suitable for expertise network analysis, reputation systems, community detection, knowledge flow, PageRank-based authority ranking, Q&A platform dynamics..

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

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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

40,455 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 2.264 ± 3.117
min -10max 151
view countμ 291.782 ± 2.3K
min 0max 205.1K
answer countμ 0.714 ± 1.42
min 0max 19
comment countμ 1.271 ± 2.119
min 0max 27
8.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
quotchinesecanusedfrommeansusewhenmeaningsaysentencewordhowyourexampleenglishcharacterspeoplecharacterwordsaboutdonmeansomethingthinkverbknowtwosamethesebecausewaytimedifferentquestionbothfirstmandarinnamebetweenmostseetranslationwantcorrectmanywhylanguagemakeout
Topic clusters

Topic 0

translate
password
account
translation
user
english
team
correct

Topic 1

character
traditional
font
stroke
simplified
chinese
simplify
write

Topic 2

verb
sentence
adverb
action
adjective
complement
example
object

Topic 3

food
dish
eat
restaurant
meal
dumpling
water
chicken

Topic 4

address
woman
young
old
female
family
male
brother

Topic 5

difference
recovery
ing
eld
potential
root
unfortunately
realize

Topic 6

translation
translate
help
good
google
commit
beta
proper

Topic 7

use
answer
ask
question
yes
appropriate
know
instead

Topic 8

pinyin
input
ime
type
method
keyboard
windows
character

Topic 9

difference
interchangeable
mean
context
meaning
phrase
usage
word

Topic 10

measure
classifier
unit
word
number
noun
currency
use

Topic 11

mean
bus
meaning
pedestrian
vehicle
arrive
sentence
translate
Show all 23 topics

Topic 12

learn
book
chinese
language
child
read
level
find

Topic 13

people
chinese
word
culture
joke
mean
china
like

Topic 14

character
oracle
chinese
script
meaning
etymology
glyph
dictionary

Topic 15

cantonese
write
mandarin
speak
language
hong
kong
speaker

Topic 16

radical
character
component
dictionary
stroke
look
list
meaning

Topic 17

sentence
structure
verb
end
explain
use
mean
conjunction

Topic 18

month
day
year
week
calendar
sunday
sun
星期日

Topic 19

difference
yān
smoking
different
什么都
修眉毛
星期x
harm

Topic 20

pronounce
pronunciation
pinyin
sound
mandarin
vowel
ipa
english

Topic 21

meaning
mean
sentence
word
example
sense
phrase
express

Topic 22

tone
sandhi
pronounce
fourth
second
rule
syllable
change
Top hashtags
#181
#281
#344
#3927
#423
#page19
#result14
#chinese13
#plr9
#v9
#zh9
#55
#msg5
#94
#2243
#2373
#73
#auto3
#definitions3
#121212

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 103.8K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-chinese-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2025
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by post date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND 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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 35.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

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_2025,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/download/stackexchange}
}

APA

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

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2025). Stack Exchange — chinese.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-chinese-stackexchange-com.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. 2025, stackexchange-chinese-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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