See this blog post from Jeff. I suggest we need to allow migration to StackOverflow (the programming questions) and math.stackexchange (the more mathematical questions). What other migration paths do we need?
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$\begingroup$ Can this cover sites like MathOverflow, Or-Exchange and BioStar? Or are those independent entities? $\endgroup$– arsOct 15, 2010 at 20:12
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1$\begingroup$ @ars. We won't be able to migrate questions from or to Q&A sites that aren't part of the stackexchange network. $\endgroup$– Rob HyndmanOct 16, 2010 at 4:00
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1$\begingroup$ Great; I think SO and math are our primary targets at this point. $\endgroup$– ShaneNov 17, 2010 at 14:28
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Ok, I have now enabled:
- math --> stats
- stats --> math
- stats --> stack overflow
As Srikant noted in his comment, we want migration paths to be based on "happens in the wild frequently", not "could theoretically happen at some unknown possible point in the future"..
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$\begingroup$ Thanks......... $\endgroup$– user88Nov 22, 2010 at 9:14
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We also need the reverse paths I guess (i.e., SO --> Stats, Math --> Stats). I do not think we need anything else.
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I participate in the GIS stackexchange community. There may be enough cross over in the future warrant this, but currently their is little need.
The vast majority of questions are related to programming aspects of GIS software.
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1$\begingroup$ This isn't a bad idea, although I expect that most of the flow would be from GIS to Stats (unfortunately!) $\endgroup$ Oct 14, 2010 at 13:27
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$\begingroup$ Agreed, the only example I think that would maybe come up here that people on the GIS community could help with would be how to handle big geo data questions. $\endgroup$– Andy WOct 14, 2010 at 13:41
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$\begingroup$ A candidate for stats => GIS migration has just come up: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/6463/… $\endgroup$– onestopJan 23, 2011 at 10:42
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1$\begingroup$ A visual review of the migration record shows one migration to and one migration from GIS during the lifetimes of both sites (almost two years now). I guess people are pretty good at figuring where to post their questions :-). $\endgroup$– whuber ModJun 28, 2012 at 18:50
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$\begingroup$ Only two! I guess perhaps this was just wishful thinking on my part that the communities would overlap. $\endgroup$– Andy WJun 28, 2012 at 19:00
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Computation Science? There's certainly some overlap of subject matter with CrossValidated. It's still in beta, and needs more questions if it's ever to get past beta. I'm not clear if migration to/from beta sites is allowed.
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1$\begingroup$ Yes, we can migrate questions to any sites, including beta sites. (Or see Is it possible to migrate questions to a beta SE site?) $\endgroup$– chlJun 27, 2012 at 21:21
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1$\begingroup$ SO and math have been handy targets indeed. To date--after moderating for 15 months--I recall seeing exactly one close vote given by the community for a message that needed to be migrated anywhere else, so additional options currently have little use. A method that works well is to vote to close and make a suggestion in a comment to the original question concerning a good migration destination. You can also flag the question and make a recommendation. (I have sent a bunch of questions to CogSci through that mechanism thanks to flags by an attentive member of both sites.) $\endgroup$– whuber ModJun 28, 2012 at 18:46
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Looking further ahead, we should consider adding Quantitative Finance if and when it comes out of beta (currently still in the 'commit' phase).
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To tex.SE? A lot less common than math.SE or StackOverflow, but seems worth considering to me. Example: Typographic conventions for width of figures in LaTeX data analysis reports Reverse path probably not needed.
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1$\begingroup$ I think we should only request migration paths for questions require frequent migration to another site. I suspect that migrating questions to tex.SE will be a lot less than to some of the other targets such as math.SE. $\endgroup$– svadaliNov 19, 2010 at 18:01
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Didn't find this discussion anywhere else in meta, so I'd like to add that we should allow migration to https://datascience.stackexchange.com/.
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4$\begingroup$ There are a strictly limited number of migration paths we can have, & migrations to Data Science would be much less common than the paths we have. $\endgroup$ Dec 2, 2019 at 13:00
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$\begingroup$ Oh, didn't know that we can't have a 4th one $\endgroup$ Dec 2, 2019 at 14:04