Questions tagged [area51-meta]
Questions about Area 51 itself.
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What constitutes flagging a proposal?
What merits flagging, or potentially closing a proposal?
Here is the context of my asking this question:
On the Elrond proposal on Area 51 main, I am considering flagging it. This is because of the ...
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Why were the proposals for “SARS-CoV-2 pandemic” deleted?
There seems to be a need for such a Q&A forum. Example: There are two German Scientific podcasts for the pandemic and the people behind them make clear that there are many, many new and unanswered ...
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Can dead topics be revived by the same users?
I'm thinking of proposing a new topic, but am unsure if I can build a community around it yet. If it doesn't succeed and get's removed, can we try again in the future? With the same topic name? By the ...
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Why is Area 51 NOT counted as a valid site for the commitment phase?
Proposal: Synthetic Biology (But this applies to all proposals in commitment)
I committed to the Synthetic Biology proposal on Area 51 (see above) and noticed that in the commitment statistics, it ...
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Would I lose the reps if the proposal where I asked questions gets closed someday?
Would I lose the reps which I gained by posting questions in proposals which get closed someday?
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How to move a proposal from one category to another?
I found this How can we move our proposal from the Business to the Science category? this Move 'Bharat' to 'Culture' category? and couldn't find any other questions about this, so:
How ...
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When my proposed site gets published, Will i be head moderator of the site per being the one who proposed it?
When my proposed site gets published, Will i be head moderator of the site per being the one who proposed it? Or does proposing just basically give free ideas to the site developers to make a site? ...
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I know this is kind of a dumb question, but I do want a good answer
Hoe do I make Propositions on Area 51? I have surfed the site and cant figure out how to make one. i have 51 rep.
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Is Area 51 somehow some where like per-site meta?
I haven't lost any reputations here while I have some down-voted questions here.
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How much 'commitment' is needed from organization?
The propose new site process asks for "Please link to the organization or website organizing this effort:"
How much is that "we want to see a definite group of people who will take part&...
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Why does upvoting in area51 give 5 rep rather than 10 rep?
I have been itching to ask this question. A while back, all sites adjusted to +10 for questions and answers, except area 51. Why? Is it why we start with 51 rep?
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What does “organization” for this effort mean/entail?
The proposal page says :
Please link to the organization or website organizing this effort:
If you do not yet have a community organized, ready and eager to build your site, please do not submit this ...
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Should I ask off-topic questions?
From FAQ of Area 51:
Off-topic questions are important, too
If you have a good, useful question in mind, but aren't completely sure that it's on topic, ask it anyway; others can then discuss the ...
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Is it OK to build a site for confused users?
I wonder what if there is a site that helps confused users to know if their not-yet posted questions is on-topic or off-topic in their site of interest.
I mean if they can't find it out from reading ...
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Edited 'x days ago' link not working
When clicking on the 'x days ago' link in the 'edited' widget of a proposal, e.g. this one, you get an "Oops! Something Bad Happened!" page.
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What happend to post #31266?
Post 31265 and Post 31267 are working fine, but https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31266 leads nowhere. I have earned enough rep to see deleted posts, and I do see them all the time, but ...
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Robert Cartaino's flair says he's a moderator on 3 other sites, but he isn't [duplicate]
Robert Cartaino's flair, displayed e.g. here, says he's a ♦ moderator on three other sites in the network:
He isn't anymore since the beginning of this year, so it looks like this is some kind of ...
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Proposal about culture bias or culture difference?
I encountered the concept of culture bias years ago and I found that really matters when I went abroad. For example, showing knowledge may seem offensive, especially in front of the elderly. ...
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Proposal of new site for Kali Linux
Users are posting in questions of kali in askubuntu which is not the place
So there should be a site for kali where people should only post questions of KALI
It will be helpful for ubuntu users as ...
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Would an Urban Exploration site be violating any laws?
I have noticed that the Pickpocketing proposal was (for obvious reasons) not well received. While I suppose that urban exploration does not necessitate breaking any laws, I know it often involves ...
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Accounts missing from account list
Somehow, my accounts page here doesn't show my Puzzling.SE account:
and scrolling further down, I miss MathOverflow, Software Recommendations and a couple of others too. Looking at my network profile ...
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How do I find a community or organization “eager and willing” to build my site?
I want to propose a new site for Scandinavian/Nordic Languages, e.g. Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, etc. I think, since these are modern languages, there may be more interest than there was ...
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What is the difference between “proposal-name” and “proposal-title”?
I am new to Area 51 and not aware of the many terms used here. I noticed that there are two tags- proposal-name and proposal-title- which seemed to me of having the same meaning. So, please explain to ...
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Health indicators are no longer being displayed for recently released Beta sites
Area51 stats shows indicators: Needs Work, Okay and Excellent based on the criteria. You can see that for any beta sites e.g. Area51 stats for Hinduism Beta but I have found that no such indicators ...
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Is there a designated place on this site to advertise your proposals?
So, I just created a new proposal called "Digital Logic". I think I have a lot of people who would want a stack exchange based on this concept, but I have no way of letting them know. Is there a place ...
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What is the best stack site for pre-proposal disscusions?
I have a general idea for a new stack community but the idea is not yet well formed or defined enough to make a proposal. Where should this idea be discussed, Area51, MetaSE, or some other place? ...
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Can we undelete the Languages.SE idea please?
The question is Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?, but it was deleted and the timeline says:
Via /api/posts/delete-related-...
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What happened to Stack Overflow in Turkish?
There are a few posts from many years ago saying that Stack Overflow in Turkish was on hold until after Stack Overflow in Portuguese was ironed out, and it seemed like Turkish was one of the next ...
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Is anybody out there?
The area51 list of moderators shows up as blank. Is anybody still moderating?
See also: Thank you, Robert Cartaino.
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Reputation Thresholds for Beta Sites
Current (crude) measurements of an "Excellent" number of core users consist of
150 users with 200+ rep
10 users with 2k+ rep
5 users with 3k+ rep.
In light of the new reputation changes for ...
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“Contact Us” form option for “I need to delete my user profile” gives 404 error
Title line says it all. Selecting the "I need to delete my user profile" option on the "Contact Us" form leads to a 404 error screen. This apparently has been a known bug since it was pointed out by a ...
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What's the best way to get the author of a proposal to re-engage?
If the starter of a proposed site seems to have had no activity for quite some time (over a month), whats the best way to try and get them to re-engage?
Other than tagging users in comments, what ...
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Ability to make your own stack sites
For example at another domain like stack.com: For smaller companies/ local regions: The ability to start your own stack project: Something like myproject.stack.com
As an example would be the Code ...
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Confused by a message about e-mail I didn't catch, am I okay?
I'm an active SE user and have just joined area51 and then the Materials Modeling proposal where I successfully voted five times.
But I am worried about a message about confirming e-mail that I ...
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Might it be considered, to add the “new user” box for users of Area51 that are brand new to Stack Exchange?
Proposal: Materials Modeling
I understand that to make an Area 51 proposal, we are supposed to have our own user community already organized. Because of this, I sent out a message about my Area51 ...
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Localization of Stack Exchange site [duplicate]
I'm planning on opening a site proposal for an Arabic Language Stack Exchange site, but thought many Arabic speakers might find hardships since the interface is completely in English.
So is there ...
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Why are there no NSFW Stack Exchange communities?
I get that Stack Exchange is a "professional question asking site" (I'm dubious of this claim, mostly because the sheer number of sites dedicated to non-professional topics), however, I think it's ...
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Why a discussion of a proposal just get deleted? [duplicate]
I made a proposal few days ago, and a discussion about it.
It did not go through, it's ok, there were no interest but resistance.
Or anything else happened? Then what? I'm eager to learn the policies.
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Quantum Computing (and Operations Research) are not Showing up in Accounts Tab
Proposal: Quantum Computing
QC doesn't show up in the site list (Accounts Tab) in my profile:
Elsewhere, on every other site, it shows up correctly:
This bug also affects Operations Research, which ...
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Is it possible to see how many proposals there have been for a subject?
I was wondering how many different (now deleted) proposals there have been about one particular subject, but then I found I didn't know how to search.
So, how do you search? Is there a search form ...
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Add a List of Does and Don'ts?
The help/FAQ page https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq has a lot of good info, but we have been seeing a lot of new proposals making the same mistakes that are not really addressed there.
Would it be ...
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Can I submit a proposal for a product still in development? (Proposing too early)
If I have a product that is in some sort of state which that it's not fully developed, should I propose a site about it?
To me it sounds like it could be a bad idea for the reason that since the ...
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Beta RSS feed link has misleading tooltip “the 30 oldest proposals in beta”
The tooltip on the RSS feed link on the beta tab says
the 30 oldest proposals in beta
When looking at the content, it rather looks like it contains the 30 newest proposals in beta; Operations ...
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Badge total is cut off in user lists
On various pages, where there's a list of users, the number of badges is cut off when the total width of the preceding characters pushes the remaining content out of the div.
I did read Does Area 51 ...
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What happens when the commitment percentage reaches 100%
Proposal: Operations Research
Does the private beta start instantly when the commitment percentage reaches 100%, or a CM needs to take action?
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Please make sure you link your other Stack Exchange accounts!
If you have an account on any other Stack Exchange site (Stack Overflow, tex.SE, math.SE, etc.), please make sure it is linked to your commitment to the OR site on Area 51.
Here's how to check:
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Why can't I see the revision history of a proposal?
I sometimes want to view the revision history of a proposal, since it has been edited by someone. However, this is impossible - at least in new proposals, e.g. this one and generally all of these that ...
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I don't have enough rep, how can I see whether something has already been proposed on Area51?
I wanted to discuss the expansion of a proposal's scope but before doing that I wanted to see whether the topics I'd like to include in the scope expending were already proposed on Area51.
I read ...
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What happened to K-12 Teaching?
I was wondering if there should be such a site and decided to poke around Area 51 for it. I see that there was some discussion, but it's not easy to piece together what took place or to disentangle it ...
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Segregating questions between two SE sites (Stack Overflow and proposed site)
I wanted to expand on my earlier question.
SAP's proprietary programming language, called ABAP, is represented on Stack Overflow in very small proportions. Yet ABAP code questions could belong there. ...
