Stack Exchange — french.stackexchange.com

The content of french.stackexchange.com (https://french.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 114,074 rows: 41,416 posts (13,493 questions, 27,485 answers, 211 tag wiki excerpts, 211 tag wikis, 10 posts of type 6 and 6 posts of type 7) and 72,658 comments, written between 17 August 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 26,857 user accounts, 175,540 votes, 46,371 badges awarded, 327 tags, 137,529 post revisions and 3,755 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 131 rows.

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

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 6,339 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

6.3K
Nodes
16.6K
Edges
4.12e-04
Density
49
Components
-0.175
Assortativity
1.7%
Reciprocity
3.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
104160.05538
9490.04512
160200.04134
80.02509
115500.02098
8390.01609
77810.01594
61600.01562
17080.01373
39180.01057
Content metrics

114,074 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.582 ± 3.022
min -14max 107
x view countμ 2.6K ± 17.4K
min 14max 1.4M
x answer countμ 2.037 ± 1.4
min 0max 20
x comment countμ 1.755 ± 2.586
min 0max 36
x favorite count0.4% true
true 0.4%false 99.6%
8.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
theandthatyoufornotthisbutfrenchwitharecanquestionwouldhavebienwhatthereuseoneusedsensfrançaissayenglishmorephraselikefairefromwhichyouraboutsentenceexpressionwhenwasmotnonherecasexemplealsochosejustwordsomemeaningtheycould
Topic clusters

Topic 0

thank
answer
question
context
think
right
sentence
mean

Topic 1

réponse
question
commentaire
bien
trouver
voir
sens
trop

Topic 2

sens
exemple
mot
français
bien
cas
faire
utiliser

Topic 3

french
français
france
english
anglais
mean
equivalent
language

Topic 4

sens
utiliser
exemple
mot
cas
trouver
bien
verbe

Topic 5

bien
vouloir
faire
falloir
chose
cas
exemple
sens

Topic 6

french
use
like
mean
english
translate
know
think

Topic 7

vouloir
choix
venir
partir
faire
prendre
mal
croire

Topic 8

français
québec
france
utiliser
québécois
belge
entendre
belgique

Topic 9

que
verb
sentence
form
est
plus
case
english
Top hashtags
#v108
#278
#161
#t141
#333
#fr33
#en31
#420
#resultrecs18
#french17
#prononciation16
#68
#page8
#q8
#verb8
#english7
#fran6
#sthash6
#comment5
#nom_commun5

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-french-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
127,756
Nodes
6,339
Edges
16,570 (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
fr
Collected
2011/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Europe (inferred: from the language of the data)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange unverified
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 43.8 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 (114,074 rows), users (26,857 rows), x_votes (175,540 rows), x_badges (46,371 rows), x_tags (327 rows), x_post_history (137,529 rows), x_post_links (3,755 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 — french.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-french.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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