Mahdi Taghizadeh I'm who I'm!

Help The First Persian IT and Computer Q&A Website

Everybody in the community has seen StackOverflow website at least once and many developers use this great QA website on a daily basis in order to ask their technical questions or help other developers resolve their programming issues. StackOverflow is built using a platform called StackExchange. StackExchange is (now a free) platform that let one build a powerful QA website on a subdomain on StackExchange.com or a dedicated domain name. To ensure that they can keep their service quality at a reasonable level, there are some qualification stages to be eligible to use their great service and support.

A few days ago my friend, Hamed Saeedifard, started a big work and prepared a proposal and sent it over to StackExchange as the first step toward the first professional QA website for Persian language developers (covering many in Iran, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, etc.) and fortunately StackExchange response was hopeful and also many Iranian developers started to contribute to this project by sending some questions to evaluate potential of this proposal and request. That was the first stage and by the help of all members, Danatarin is now qualified for commitment stage and we should encourage more and more developers to commit and support it. Oh! I said Danatarin! It is a temporary name that Hamed has chosen for this QA website and it may change after we complete the mission! Personally I love this name ;-) By the way, Danatarin means "The Wisest" in Persian.

At this stage, it's very important to invite more developers (even non-Persian speaking guys whose commits can be very effective) to commit and help us be qualified for beta program. So I would be appreciated if you take a little of your time commiting to our Danatarin: http://j.mp/helpdanatarin.

If you want to know more about Danatarin you can

• Take a look at Danatarin Zone at StackExchange Area51:
• See the official (temporary) website. [It's in Persian]
• Read a series of blog posts on Hamed blog: One, Two, Three, Four. [It's in Persian]
• Join this Google Wave!

It's good to know that Danatarin is now among the first five websites which are qualified for second level and we're really proud of this!

I would like to thank Hamed for his great idea and all his efforts to start this project and also all the people who are trying to gather and share their knowledge; thank you guys :-)

UPDATE: StackExchange behavior on commitment stage was disappointing. So my friend, Hamed, started a clone of StackOverflow (powered by python/django) on http://beta.danatarin.com. Go there, sign up and start to contribute to Danatarin right now!