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Stack Overflow

Summary

Stack Overflow is a Stack Exchange forum site[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Stack Overflow's field of work was computer programming[3].
  • Stack Overflow authored Joel Spolsky[4].
  • Stack Overflow's instance of is recorded as Stack Exchange forum site[5].
  • Stack Overflow's founder is recorded as Jeff Atwood[6].
  • Stack Overflow's founder is recorded as Joel Spolsky[7].
  • Stack Overflow is owned by Prosus[8].
  • stack buffer overflow is named after Stack Overflow[9].
  • Stack Overflow's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International[10].
  • Stack Overflow's Commons category is recorded as Stack Overflow[11].
  • September 15, 2008 marks the founding of Stack Overflow[12].
  • Stack Overflow's official website is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com[13].
  • Stack Overflow's web feed URL is recorded as https://stackoverflow.blog/feed/[14].
  • Stack Overflow's external data available at URL is recorded as https://archive.org/download/stackexchange[15].
  • Stack Overflow's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Stack Overflow'}[16].
  • Stack Overflow's official blog URL is recorded as https://stackoverflow.blog/[17].
  • Stack Overflow's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+61'}[18].
  • Stack Overflow's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+270'}[19].
  • Stack Overflow's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1482[20].
  • Stack Overflow's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'SO'}[21].
  • Stack Overflow's different from is recorded as stack overflow[22].
  • Stack Overflow's URL is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/[23].
  • Stack Overflow's language used is recorded as English[24].
  • Stack Overflow's search formatter URL is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=$1[25].
  • Stack Overflow's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[26].
  • Stack Overflow's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/stack_overflow[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Stack Overflow authored Joel Spolsky[4].

Why It Matters

Stack Overflow has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

computer programming Jeff Atwood Joel Spolsky Vitaly Zdanevich Wenzel Jakob

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . crunchbase.com. Retrieved . crunchbase.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wsj.com. Retrieved . wsj.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . stackoverflow.com. Retrieved . stackoverflow.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . joelonsoftware.com. joelonsoftware.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . stackoverflow.blog. Retrieved . stackoverflow.blog. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . similarweb.com. similarweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . thenextweb.com. thenextweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · ~2026-36914-41 · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Comparably company id → stack-overflow
    Linkedin company or organization id → stack-overflow
    Main wikidata property → —
    Owned by → Prosus
    + 84 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1476]]: Stack Overflow"
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