"Migration" is the process of migrating off-topic questions from one Stack Exchange site to another.
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Reset votes on migrated questions
All votes should be reset when a question is migrated. That's votes on the question, in both directions, as well as votes on any answer.
At the moment, downvotes are cleared from the question. Yes, ...
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This question may belong to <Another site>, consider migrating
Perhaps the site's question mechanism can learn the characteristics of previous migrations (keywords in title, tags etc.), and suggest that the user migrate their question prior to publishing it, or ...
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For migrated questions, append {migrated} to the title, instead of {closed}
Using [migrated] makes more sense, as the question isn't actually "closed" per se, as it still exists somewhere in the Trilogy. When I see [closed] I just mentally ignore it and move on, but there's ...
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Migrate shortlist based on tags?
Would it be a good idea to change the migration destination sites based on the question tags?
The new migrate option allows one to select from a limited number of destination sites. This group of ...
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Provide read-only status to moderators on other Stack Exchange sites
I'd like to see if it'd be possible for moderators to get read-only access to moderation information on other Stack Exchange sites.
As a moderator on Programmers.SE, perhaps the single most frequent ...
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Update Migration Path List for Non-Moderators
Currently the migration path options from SO are:
Meta.SO
Serverfault
SuperUser
Webmasters
Programmers
If we are going to be limited to 5 options, shouldn't we periodically re-evaluate which sites ...
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Block migration if user is suspended/question-blocked at destination
There's a sad little loophole in the suspension/question-block system: migrations.
Example: Let's say you've been suspended on MSO, but you really, really want to post a question here now. All you ...
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Why do migrated questions lack redirection via HTTP response status code 301 (Moved Permanently)?
I've just been quite surprised to click on a highly ranked Google result for a Stack Overflow question just to end up on the search page, because the page doesn't exist anymore. I figured it might ...
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Allow diamond moderators to reverse question migrations?
It has happened on occasion, due to the high amount of 10K moderators on SO that questions are migrated to the wrong site, and needs to be reversed. Although currently it is possible to re-open the ...
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Notify Author when Question is migrated
I have accounts on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. Today I asked a question on Super User that was migrated to Server Fault.
I was never notified that my question had been migrated.
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serverfault.com is not your trash bin!
I keep seeing inappropriate questions get migrated from Stack Overflow to Server Fault.
Such as this one:
How to set desktop background in ubuntu?
How to set desktop back ground for twin ...
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Provide direct feedback for rejected migrations
A significant amount of migrations are rejected by the target site, the most problematic being migrations from SO to Programmers.SE. Rejected in this case means the question is closed also on the ...
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Is there something we can do against “Ask this on xyz.SE” comments?
TL;DR: Can we do something against comments of the "ask on $othersite" kind?
Every once in a while โ probably at least a couple of times a week โ we get questions on Super User that were ...
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Disable chat migration notification if one of the users has insufficient rep?
Simple request, really.
Can we add a detection for the
Please avoid extended discussions in
comments. Would you like to
automatically move this discussion to
chat?
prompt, so that if one ...
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Proposal for migration rules
I have one proposal for migration rules in "close -> off-topic" functionality.
Currently there are fixed list of stack sites where question can be moved.
Migration to other site is possible only by ...
