Chinese Language: Getting out of Beta..?

Question

According to Area 51 we don't have much hope of getting out of beta on two big fronts:

3.8 questions per day

Needs Work – 15 questions per day on average is a healthy beta, 5 questions or fewer per day needs some work. A healthy site generates lots of good content to make sure users keep coming back.

870 visits/day

Okay – 1,500 visits per day is good, 500 visits per day needs some work. A great site benefits people outside the community. Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come from search engines.

I've only been around here for about 3 months and it seems like things are slowing down rather than speeding up - others have mentioned before that 'bad' questions are getting lots of unnecessary up-votes as well.

How can we turn things around?

Can we ever get out of beta?

Answer 1

Over the past year, those figures have roughly doubled. Assuming this same rate of geometric growth, we'll only need to wait 2 more years to get out of beta.

IMHO there is one way we could help hit those numbers, and this has to do with the demographics of this site: ask more questions, especially those to do with the nuances of usage that a native speaker would know well.

Questions drive answers which together drives traffic.

Compared to other stack exchange sites, I feel that this one sees more traffic from native Chinese speakers and less from people familiar with the Q&A format. This means that you'll get a lot of crap answers, but if they're of a certain kind suited for native speakers - slang, regional differences, which synonym to use when - you'll get better answers.

We could also get better numbers via policy changes; personally I feel we should allow cursive character recognition questions, even though they are not useful for future visitors.

Finally, whilst it's nice to hit those numbers, launching a full site is up to discretion, good numbers alone are not enough. Therefore, we should avoid encouraging rubbish questions and answers just for the sake of numbers.