Lately I've seen a few questions asked on Academia that are academic in scope but might benefit from a little help from other parts of SE because of their technical nature. Some examples:
Examples of research resources for which Wikipedia is known as being amongst top referrers?
What is the best way to design a paper questionnaire to support scanning and converting to raw data?
Pushing these questions over to, say, StackOverflow is (rightly) going to have the reviewers there closing them immediately due to being off topic, etc., but do we maybe lose the benefit of the entire community of StackExchange by not allowing for more cross-pollination? Because a lot of these questions go unanswered as a result of not being a great fit for either community, is there a better place to ask them? Chat, maybe? Something else? Is there a role for hybrid SE communities?
Just a thought...