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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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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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Salvage questions on closed sites via migration
I was pretty sad to hear that some sites are being closed. I understand why it's necessary, though.
But, some of the sites have overlap with other, established sited. TheoreticalPhy.SE and Astro.SE ...
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Will it be possible to migrate questions between the trilogy and the Stack Exchange 2.0 sites?
May not be the best place to ask this, but my ask is mostly linked to the original trilogy. I haven't found duplicates as well.
From what I understood, the Stack Exchange 2.0 sites will be hosted by ...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics results: What can we learn about migrations?
Data source: June, 2011 (23 SE sites, not including Meta sites)
Question source: What can we learn about migrations?
Where do migrations originate, and where do they end up?
Sources (min 100) ...
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Should we have “Migrate to programmers.stackexchange.com” when closing a question?
I apologize if that has been discussed before, didn't find anything when searching. But I think it would be convenient if there was an option to vote to close/migrate questions to ...
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How to migrate question to programmers.stackexchange.com [duplicate]
Faq says that you need 250 points to be able to vote for migration of questions, but still I don't see how to do that.
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What will happen to the questions and answers if a sub-topic SE site flunks beta?
What will happen if an SE site that is a sub-topic of another site flunks beta? Will the posts simply be deleted? Or could they be migrated to an appropriate trilogy site?
For example, if the ...
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Should the “Related Questions” list include questions from Stack Overflows sister sites?
With the release of Server Fault and Super User I just thought I would throw this up in the air.
Would it make sense to include other questions from SO's sister sites to try and avoid the migration ...
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My question was migrated to AskDifferent.com? Is that normal?
I just posted a question about SSH and my iPhone:
Is SSH possible on remote networks?
And I see my question is on another site called Ask Different. I don't see Ask Different on the Stack ...
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Where do you ask your question when you don’t know where to ask?
With the myriad sites of the Stack Exchange network, it will become increasingly likely that many questions will end up in the wrong place and, depending, be ignored or moved. If it's moved, that's ...
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Merging migrated makes much mayhem
To reproduce:
Migrate a question (with votes) to a site
On the site that received the question, try merging the question with an existing one, choosing to remove the migrated question.
You will get ...
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Migrating Project Management questions
The Area 51 public beta for Project Management is not getting enough questions, avid users or visitors.
After a good discussion on meta-SO yesterday about the direction of SO, it seems that ...
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Where does a question about tweaking / tuning a software belongs to?
Where does the question like "How do I run 2 instances of a < software > on Live machine?"
or
"How can I run 2 instances of same software but different versions?"
My question was on ServerFault ...
