Good introductory references on algebraic stacks? Are there any good introductory texts on algebraic stacks?
I have found some readable half-finsished texts on the net, but the authors always seem to give up before they are finished. I have also browsed through FGA explained (Fantechi et al.). Although I find the level good, it is somewhat incomplete and I would want to see more basic examples. Unfortunately I don't read french.
 A: I find the "review of algebraic stacks and Artin's method" in chapter 1 of Faltings, Chai "Degeneration of abelian varieties" very nice. 
A: There was an MSRI summer school on stacks and deformation theory a few years ago.  The video of all the talks are online, at the workshop's webpage.  There are several copies of notes around, I believe they are on Ravi Vakil's webpage somewhere.
A: It might not be the best reference for a systematic study of stacks and some of the terminology is old, but Mumford's "Picard Groups of Moduli Problems" (1965) might be a nice complement. It explains why stacks came to be and does a few calculations to show their usefulness.
A: I always found Algebraic Stacks by Tomas Gomez to be a very readable quick introduction. It is virtually without proofs but explains on 34 pages the most relevant definitions and constructions and discusses the example of vector bundle in some detail. He has both the definition of a stack as a sheaf of groupoids and as a category fibred in groupoids in it. 
A: Master course on algebraic stacks, B. Töen
A: Anton live-texed notes to Martin's Olsson's course on stacks a few years ago. They are online here. Olsson's notes have been published as:
Algebraic Spaces and Stacks, M. Olsson, AMS Colloquium Publications, volume 62, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4704-2798-6
My general advice is to learn algebraic spaces first. The point is that the new things you need to learn for stacks fall into two categories (which are mostly disjoint): 1) making local, functorial, and non-topological definitions (e.g. what it means for a morphism to be smooth or flat or locally finitely presented) and 2) 2-categorical stuff (e.g. what is a 2-fiber product). You don't need to do things 2-categorically for algebraic spaces, so it makes sense to learn them first. I believe it really clarifies things to learn these separately.
Also, the formal notion of a stack is a generalization of functor. If you are not used to thinking of schemes functorially (e.g. as a functor from rings^op to sets) it will be hard to wrap your head around the notion of a stack.  the The intermediate step of learning to think about geometry in terms of functors of points is crucial.
Knutson's book Algebraic Spaces is very good for the EGA-style content, and its introduction will point you to many nice applications of algebraic spaces that are worth learning and will motivate you to learn the EGA-style stuff. Laumon and Moret-Bailly's Champs Algébriques is nice and contains more theorems that just the EGA style stuff.
Its hard to point you any other particular reference without knowing what your goal in learning stacks is. 
A: Dennis Gaitsgory is currently running a graduate seminar with a website here. There are quite a few notes and references on there about algebraic stacks. You should first look at the notes from the second and third talks.
A: I have to follow Alberto's answer with Deligne and Mumford's paper on irreducibility of the moduli of curves.
A: Linked below is a note written by Kai Behrend whose first section gives a concise introduction to stacks, building them directly out of (lax) functors from the category of affine schemes.
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~behrend/cet.pdf
(edit: repaired broken link)
A: You might take also a look at this:
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~heinloth/SeminarStacks.html
especially the references and more especially the last two paper of them.
A: Here are some other references:


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*Lectures on algebraic stacks (Alberto Canonaco)

*Algebraic Stacks and Moduli of Vector Bundles (Frank Neumann)

*Notes on algebraic stacks (Fredrik Meyer)

A: Vistoli's notes on descent, grothendieck topologies, fibered categories, and stacks at http://homepage.sns.it/vistoli/descent.pdf are not only just a really good introduction to algebraic stacks, they're some of the best notes I've ever read on any subject.  What I really liked is that he took the time to not identify f*g* with (gf)*, which makes the proofs longer, but absolutely rigorous.  
He starts with a review of category theory and classical scheme theory, then builds up grothendieck (pre)topologies, then builds up the notion of a fibered category, which is a generalization of a presheaf, then defines stacks in terms of fibered categories and descent.  What's really great about this approach is that once you see how fibered categories work, Lurie's approach to higher topos theory ((infty,1)-categories generalize categories fibered in groupoids) makes a good deal more sense.  I can't recommend it enough.
A: Besides the references already given, I like Dan Edidin's
Notes on the construction of the moduli space of curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9805101
I quote :
"In section 3 we return to curves and outline Deligne and Mumford's proof that the stack of stable curves is a smooth and irreducible Deligne-Mumford stack which is proper over $\operatorname{Spec} \mathbb Z$".
It starts from the basics but still explains a key result in the history of the subject. Highly recommended !
A: Daniel Halpern-Leistner is teaching a foundational course on moduli theory based on stacks at Cornell. Very nice addition to the literature in my opinion.
A: I am not sure if the book I am about to suggest is the half-finished text you are hinting at, but there is a book in progress by Kai Behrend, Brian Conrad, Dan Edidin, William Fulton, Barbara Fantechi, Lothar Göttsche and Andrew Kresch. You can find a link to it here:
Book
It is the most complete reference on algebraic stacks in English that I am aware of. It also has the advantage of being addressed to the beginner.
I think that beyond the basic things, anything deeper you learn about stacks typically involves specific stacks, with certain applications or questions in mind.
A: There is an open-source textbook on stacks being created. You can find it here
It's already more then 1400 pages long!
A: there should be a video-lecture of Kai Behrend "algebraic stacks" which I once watched. I can no more find it quickly. But i think one could find it on the homepage of Cambridge
