Refers to the second, non-commercial, generation of Stack Exchange sites created through Area 51.
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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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Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who ...
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Differentiate between employees and moderators
My understanding of who has diamonds:
All moderators have diamonds on the sites they moderate
Trilogy moderators also have diamonds on MSO
Stack Exchange employees have diamonds everywhere they're ...
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Reputation requirements compared
How do reputation requirements for various privileges compare on Stack Overflow vs a graduated Stack Exchange 2.0 site vs a site in public or private beta?
Return to FAQ Index
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Why did Theoretical Physics fail?
Theoretical Physics (TP or TP.SE), a Stack Exchange site for research-level questions, is going to be closed.
It was clear that the traffic was declining, even though the quality of questions ...
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Public Service Announcement: ongoing, offsite discussion about Area 51 graduates' branding
Related Stack Overflow Blog post:
Domain Names: The Wrong Question
Apparently, the SE team is doing a complete 180° turn and going from this:
American audiences, generally, don’t trust ...
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Migrate to *any* site?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to vote for questions to be moved to any Stack Exchange site? For example, I just voted this question as off topic, but that was all I could do. I wish I could've ...
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A Plea For Actual Domain Identities
There is a blog post from Joel on the Stack Exchange blog around the time of WebApps' Area 51 Graduation:
A while ago, I wrote:
“Individually-branded sites felt more authentic and ...
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Keeping links to the closed sites
Is there any way to keep links from the closed sites, so they can redirect to the migrated questions?
See here for the migration of the recently-closed sites.
The problem is with links on external ...
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Should “Developer Testing” be folded into a more general “Programmers” site? [closed]
We want to inject some discipline into programmers.stackexchange.com.
One of the ways we hope to achieve this is by merging the Developer Testing: Unit Testing site proposal* into programmers.se.
We ...
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Is it OK to have non-English question and answers in Area 51?
I want to propose for a Persian version of Super User (I will explain why later) so I want to create a proposal in Area 51, but this means non-English question and answers, Is this OK?
P.S: This may ...
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There should be universal LaTeX/MathJax guide for sites supporting it
Currently, stats, math, cstheory and physics have MathJax support which turns LaTeX code into equation.
At least on math, occasionally there are users that do not know this feature or don't know ...
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Graduated sites show “sketchy” offline page
The Area 51 sites that have graduated (WebApps, Webmasters, Gaming, Cooking, etc.) show Stack Exchange Beta on their offline page as seen below. Shouldn't the name and logo from their graduated ...
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Replace graduation with an incremental process
I mentioned this in TL before, and it got a positive response. It has been discussed internally, but I'd like to see what the commuinty in general thinks about it.
Pre-ramble
In the past, sites used ...
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Should we do anything about the huge language mess on Area51?
There's a long list of languages proposal on Area51, varying from an all encompassing language site to a focus one language site like the successful English Language & Usage.
When I say they ...
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Revisit “Diamond mods can handle it” feature requests
There are lots of feature requests that end up in the "Diamond mods can handle it" and "It's not a problem yet, so let's not make a change until it is a problem" piles.
I suspect that these may need ...
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No migration path for year old plus questions except for mods and 20k users
Recently, this question was migrated from Stack Overflow to Programmers SE. What was the point of migrating it?
It was asked in October 2008
It already has 44 answers
These types of migrations are ...
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Add chat-like YouTube support to Stack Exchange
Some Stack Exchange sites, like Super User and Gaming, would derive large benefits from having some sort of YouTube integration.
I'm not suggesting having embedded players in pages. Rather, I'm ...
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Why did Literature fail?
In the interest of not repeating the same mistakes if another book- or literature-related site is proposed: why did Literature Stack Exchange fail? What should we learn from this? How can we avoid ...
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Creating an internal Stack Exchange for proprietary questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is the Stack Exchange engine available?
I know Stack Exchange is not interested in setting up public forums specifically for companies to support their own products. But ...
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Is Stack Exchange becoming too fragmented for programmers?
Let's see, we have:
Stack Overflow - Place for programmers to ask technical questions.
Programmers - Place for programmers to ask "good subjective" quesitons.
Database Administrators - Place for ...
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How do tags influence Stack Exchange's SEO?
How do tags influence Stack Exchange's SEO? On RPG we've noticed we don't get as much traffic from Google as we would expect at this point.
One of the reasons we think this may occur is that our ...
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Stackexchange DNS seems to be down [closed]
According to discussion in our chat, and downforeveryoneorjustme, http://rpg.stackexchange.com is down. I can still access it, so I think it's a DNS thing.
Update: Gaming seems down too, and a ...
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Correct attribution is impossible for failed sites
Two of the attribution requirements in the data dumps are:
2. Hyperlink directly to the original question on the source site (e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345)
4. Hyperlink each ...
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Blog site for area51 sites
One of the biggest factors in involving people in SO was the blog and podcast. It provided some idea of what the site should be, pointed out interesting posts, and generally kept me interested. It's ...
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How are Stack Exchange sites “bootstrapped” given that it starts with 0 questions and 0 users with reputation?
It seems to me that the success of Stack Exchange sites is largely due to the user reputation engine, which naturally surfaces good questions and answers.
However, how does the site get started?
When ...
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Migrate questions from meta stackexchange sites to meta.stackoverflow.com
Several of the questions on the meta site of WebApps are about the stackexchange engine itself. There should be a way to migrate those questions to a different meta site. I believe Robert said that ...
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Adding discipline to programmers.stackexchange.com [closed]
Largely through inaction on our part, http://programmers.stackexchange.com has become a bit of a ... strange and undisciplined place.
We aim to fix this!
Our goal is to remove the bottom 15-20% of ...
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What's the correct way to @include all SE sites?
What's the @include sequence that most accurately lists all the SE sites for greasemonkey/userscript hacking purposes?
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How is the Stack Exchange API documentation generated?
I was just going through the pile of SE websites and just found Stack Exchange API. The documentation for each REST endpoint or URL is given in detail. Also, the API methods are listed and a separate ...
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How do I get my data from a soon-to-be-closed beta site if I am not a programmer?
The Economics beta was given a 9-day eviction notice (how typical for SE).
It mentions a link to a blog post about data dumps but the latest Clear Bits data dump is for December 2011 and does not ...
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Does participation on a per-site meta count toward completing a commitment to that site?
Do my questions/participation on both X.stackexchange and meta.X.stackexchange count when evaluating whether I've hit my commitment mark for the site ?
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Migration path from Web Applications to Stack Overflow
I have seen several people on the Web Applications site asking questions that are related to building web applications rather than using web applications. I think it would be useful to be able to ...
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Site autonomy and governance: community-driven democracy or benevolent dictatorship?
We need to talk.
We need to talk about StackExchange sites: about their autonomy, about governance.
We need to sift through all the analogies that have been thrown around (democracy, policemen, ...
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Keeping closed sites in suspended animation: a modest proposal
At the moment, when a site is closed to due to insufficient activity, it's taken offline and archived.
I'd like to propose an alternative approach.
Let's keep all the content online.
Keep the ...
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How to choose good tags for a site
I wonder how to choose good tags on a new Stack Exchange site.
On the one hand, this is very much a community thing: askers should tag their questions with the tags they'd expect to see if they were ...
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Have moderator flags show up in StackExchange inbox?
I really, really am appreciating the global inbox, but as a mod I find the one thing missing is moderator flags. I think these should show up in the inbox, and perhaps even be a different color, so ...
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List and notifications of all SE site themes / event changes?
Right now, there is an awesome Mass-Effect 3 event going on at Gaming.SE, and an ICS contest going on at Android.SE. I love participating in these events / contests (I loved the hat one on Gaming.SE ...
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Why isn't the community FAQ more prominent?
The official FAQ for Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User (should perhaps be renamed to include SE-2.0?) is quite informative, but there is no prominent link anywhere at parent sites.
Why ...
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Change the “about” text of beta sites [closed]
Public betas typically last from 60 to 90 days, although they can go on longer.
I think it's fair to say that 60 to 90 days is not anywhere near representative. Can we have that changed into a ...
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Are identify-this questions allowed on Stack Exchange?
A few months ago, there was a debate on the Gaming Meta site about
“help me remember this game” questions. Jeff came out very strongly against them, and many voices in the community spoke for them.
...
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“Convert” or move my entire Stack Exchange OpenID account to a regular account
Is it possible to "convert" an OpenID account to a regular Stack Exchange account?
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Does it make sense for Stack Exchange 1.0 sites that are active to go through Private Beta?
Why do sites that are active SE 1.0 sites still go through private beta? I'm thinking of basicallymoney.com which went from being open 1 day, to private the next.
I understand the private beta for ...
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What happens to beta SE sites that do not have enough high rep users?
Take Web Apps, which will have its progress "evaluated" in a mere 5 days.
Reputation Users Notes
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Diamonds 9 with at least 102 rep
...
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Do science sites need a better advertising and user-interface on Stack Exchange due to different growth?
I've observed for some months now the science sites stats on Stack Exchange after the closure of theoreticalphysics.se. I was glad that after the successful launch of biology.se, chemistry.se ...
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When will StackExchange sites be available in Data-explorer
When will StackExchange 2.0 beta sites be available to query to Data Explorer? It would be helpful to building the site to be able to query them. If they are available now, how can I access them? ...
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Is there a gallery for the ads used to promote beta or launched sites in the Stack Exchange network? How to get such an ad?
I was just browsing the Personal Finance & Money Stack Exchange where I am one of the moderators.
Today, and not for the first time, I noticed the following in my right sidebar: an attractive, ...
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Request for Official Clarification on Proper Location of Meta Questions for SE 2.0 Sites
On meta.webapps, Robert Cartaino ♦ says
This meta site (meta.webapps) is for
question about the operation and
administration of this site
(webapps.stackexchange.com)
specifically. Any ...
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Add an option to Vote to Close as “Off-Topic” AND a “Duplicate” of another SE site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The ability to link cross site duplicates
With the growth of the Stack Exchange 2.0 site, there are multiple users that are actively participating in multiple sites. ...
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Implement tag diacritics with automatic synonyms
This came about from a discussion on one of the betas - but it affects the main engine and my understanding is that such requests should be posted here.
Initially it was simply about supporting ...
