I do all my research in either Matlab or R, and as a result I end up using stackoverflow.com extensively. It's a really great platform for getting answers to questions.I'm proposing the same kind of site for quantitative finance. Please go here and vote/discuss this idea: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions ... hange-site.

Seems like a fine idea. But this forum is already a good source for these things, what do you consider the benefits of having it structured like stackoverflow instead of in the current forum form?

The main disadvantage of the current forum format is that it doesn't allow "correct" answers to bubble to the top in the way that the stackoverflow format does. How many times have you gone to a thread on a particularly important topic, only to have to scroll through page after page before finding the information that's really relevant/important?Needless to say, Wilmott would be very hard to beat so far as having a strong community is concerned. I would view these as complementary tools in a sense, because Wilmott allows for discussions, while stackoverflow primarily serves questions/answers (i.e. questions where there actually exists an answer, as opposed to the "what's the best programming language" type of subjective discussions). This would also be a completely open community, built by users and managed by users. Stackoverflow does a remarkable job with open community development. There is no need to have a folder defined for a specific topic: you can just tag something, which makes it much easier to build sub-specialties of knowledge and also much more searchable.