OurBigBook Docs
Stack Overflow and other Q&A websites solve the main issues of Wikipedia:
- they give clear recognition to users' contributions
- they make it much less likely that your content will be deleted by others (though it can still happen sometimes)
The limitation of Stack Exchange is that you cannot write a book on it, and anything judged to be "too general" will be closed or deleted. In other words, it can only contain the smallest units of knowledge, and lacks a table of content mechanism to group knowledge together more broadly.
Therefore, while it basically perfectly solves "shallower subjects" such as computer programming, it is insufficient for "deeper" subjects with longer dependency chains of knowledge such as mathematics and physics.
To a large extent, the goal of OurBigBook is to combine the strengths of Stack Exchange with those of Wikipedia.
