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.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-french.echo.directory
Analytics
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.
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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/.
