I've been worried for a while due to relatively low activity on Mi Yodeya, with some of you I have also discussed this issue. I think one possible solution could be to have closer ties with Sefaria, but linking old questions to their site may raise many issues. An idea I thought about is to create a table of contents that would list questions, where there is a reference to a certain verse or a page (and here we could add a Sefaria link). This could also help us with search synonyms issues. I would like to suggest something like this:
- Book of Bereishit: X questions
- Bereishit – Chapter 1: Y questions
- Bereishit 1:1: Z questions
... - Nechemyah 13:31: U questions
- Bereishit 1:1: Z questions
- Bereishit – Chapter 1: Y questions
- Tractate Berakhot: V questions
- Berakhot 2a: W questions
...
- Berakhot 2a: W questions
By scraping the source code of questions we could easily identify links, and with regular expressions we could find many other unlinked posts too. I have some experience in it, and would be happy to help. The difficult part seems to be to convince SE to cooperate with us to find a way to implement this idea. But a kind of special tagging could be a solution. I suppose it would greatly enhance search efficiency, because often you're learning Tanakh or Talmud, and would like to look for specific posts related to that verse or page. Again, I think it would be a big challenge, but it would be worth it. So I would like to hear your thoughts as well!