An exploratory study on the repeatedly shared external links on Stack Overflow

• Main Authors: LIU, Jiakun, ZHANG, Haoxiang, XIA, Xin, LO, David, ZOU, Ying, HASSAN, Ahmed E., LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: External link; Knowledge sharing; Stack overflow; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6925; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7928/viewcontent/RepeatedlySharedExtLinks_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

On Stack Overflow, users reuse 11,926,354 external links to share the resources hosted outside the Stack Overflow website. The external links connect to the existing programming-related knowledge and extend the crowdsourced knowledge on Stack Overflow. Some of the external links, so-called as repeat...