[Ajedi32]

> the Wikipedia of programming questions

That's a pretty good way of putting it. But... wasn't that what it was always about? The original article says:

> So we decided to optimize everything to be useful for the thousands, not the individual. We literally have 1000 visitors for every person who asks a question. That’s why we sort the answers by votes. It’s also why we optimize for questions and answers that will be helpful to other people, later.

StackOverflow isn't optimized for the people asking questions, it's optimized for the thousands of people arriving at the question later from Google.