Questions tagged [area51-meta]
For questions about Area 51 itself (or about Area 51 Discussions, i.e. this site).
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Why do the accounts on Area51 profile differ from those on StackExchange/network profile?
I just noticed that the listed accounts on my Area51 profile differ from the accounts on my network profile.
For example, Stack Overflow is not listed on my profile here.
Is this a bug or is there ...
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I committed to beta: now what?
I have come here and committed to a new proposal. But it is the first time I participate in the creation of another community inside StackExchange. Is there any guide about how does that work. Things ...
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how does naming work for new sites?
For new proposals, how are names and URLs selected? For example, Cross Validated is at https://stats.stackexchange.com/ so this is not an fully automated process, since the name and URL do not match.
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Can't upvote questions on area51 proposals on bioinformatics
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Why I can't upvote any question in this Area51 proposal?
Whenever I trying to upvote a question; I'm getting a flashcard but that doesn't tell anything about the questions ...
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What counts as “200+ rep” in the commitment phase?
Proposals need “100 committers with 200+ rep on any other site”.
What exactly does this mean?
I am specifically asking because I’m closely monitoring the Bioinformatics proposal, which is currently ...
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Is it alright to try and recruit people from other sites?
I put up a proposal for a site: "Sign Languages", about any and all sign languages.
That proposal, it didn't get enough followers in the first three days, so it was pruned. My question is if it's ...
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Is it possible to view a full follower list for a proposal?
On the sidebar of any proposal is a section listing the site's recent followers.
Is there any way to view the full list of followers for a proposal?
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Saving questions in proposals?
I've seen many fantastic questions in proposals that wound up lost when the proposal was deleted (such as due to inactivity). Often only to see the concept restarted with a new name, perhaps a ...
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Is Area51 still insecure?
I know SE is going through updating their sites to secure pages, so I guess I'm just raising awareness that I encountered an Insecure Connection warning for the following domain:
discuss.area51....
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Who is this person?
I've clicked around a bit as I do when I try to get the feel of a site, and apart from several broken links in the Users section I came across this guy:
https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/users/...
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What are the best and worst days of the week to make an Area51 Proposal?
With the current Minimum Activity Requirements for Area 51 a new proposal has 3 days to get 5 followers and 5 example questions. The proposer can ask the 5 questions, so that is not much of a hurdle. ...
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Is there built-in solution for linking pre-beta hub question to same question with answers in existing hub?
This is my sequence:
Try to find answer to question in the internet
Find the most appropriate hub at StackExchange (may be a little change the question for completely correspond to that hub)
Get my ...
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Repeated proposals by the same user
I understand that proposals are deleted after a period of inactivity. My impression is that this allows someone else to come along with a new take on a similar idea that may work. But what about a ...
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Why different SE sites do not merge than their broader analog appears?
There are already sites for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Now emerges new site about all of the Blockchains. I have seen such situations many times, but as far as I have seen sub-sites do not join in to more ...
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Is there a way to graph the commitment score of a proposal?
I did found a bunch of information about when the proposal turn from 100% commitment to beta, usual information is Tuesday of Wednesday the week after the proposal gets at 100%.
That's absolutely fine,...
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What is the definition of "fulfilled commitment"? [duplicate]
Fulfilled commitment is a term used but never actually explained. I'd like to know what it consists of because it is a an important aspect of this launching site. It clearly differs from "Commitment" ...
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Disallow Abandonment [duplicate]
That's basically it, in a nutshell.
There are currently two proposals on the front page of Area 51 with 0 followers. You read that correctly - zero, none, nil, nobody at all. This looks absolutely ...
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The reputation page shows the 'Fulfilled commitment' and 'Referred user fulfilled commitment' backwards
Under "What is reputation?" in Area 51's FAQ, it states that you receive +50 for fulfilling commitment and +25 for a referred user fulfilling their commitment:
However, on my reputation ...
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Slight Inconsistencies in the Proposal Commitment Score Percentages
While watching the progress of the DevOps proposal in its Commitment phase I noticed some occasional inconsistencies in the percentages displayed when more info option is selected (small ones, equal ...
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Whitespace lost on login redirection
I followed a link from an email, sending me to the proposal http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97295/devops
Here, I wrote my commitment message for the proposal and was told to log in (I had ...
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Is there any "bonus" for being the original proposer?
If you propose a site and it goes into beta and becomes a real site does the original proposer get some "bonus" I.E. rep on that site?
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Customizable referral links
I noticed that pressing "Share This" under "Commit!" button produces a referral link.
While itself it's good (it allows to see who invited a new user), IMHO it can be even better. I'd like to see the ...
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What are the requirements for leaving the Public Beta? [closed]
I have read How long does a SE site stay in Beta?, and several other relevant threads, but these articles do not explain the following use cases [all stats excellent unless otherwise specified]:
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Can we please have a Magic Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Though i know that there is probably nothing like magic. Everything is a kind of illusion. Can we please have a site for discussing various illusions and perspective including tricks by famous ...
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Is there some information about the beta site statistics?
I'm a bit irritated by some of the stats for some of the beta sites. For example this from the IoT site stats. The last line says on pace for 0 users [3,000+ rep] at 90 days. Although the highest rep ...
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Should the default sort be changed to newest?
I have been on Area51 for years, you can change the sort order of example questions between "my votes", "activity", "newest" or "votes"; with first not available to new users. Once you make a ...
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Cannot find one beta site
The https://rus.stackexchange.com/ is a beta StackExchange site, but I can't find it at main Area51 page http://area51.stackexchange.com/ to look up its statistics.
Can anyone tell me why? So I ...
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Regularly logged out of Area51 main site (but not other SE sites)
On other StackExchange sites, I remain logged in for months at a time. It's very rare I get asked to log in again. And a long time ago, it was the same with Area51. But in recent months, I'm regularly ...
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Can ask patents be referred back to Area 51?
The ask patents subsite has almost died out. I don't think there is a way to intrinsically revive it, if it were a question, I'd say it needs severe moderator intervention. Out of the last 15 ...
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Can we please capitalize the text when you go to ask a new question here on Discussions?
Here on Discussions, when you go to ask a new question, you see this:
It currently says
what's your question abut a proposal or proposals on Area 51? be specific.
However, this looks... ...
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My floating reputation score
On Area 51 yesterday my score was 258 points.
From yesterday I've gained 35 points, but today my score is... 190!
How is it possible?
I attach my point by post (screenshot from Area 51).
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How do i undelete deleted questions? or i can't?
I want to undelete deleted question, but it is not displaying. So i don't know how do i undelete the questions. I saw the faq, but it is not written.
How do i undelete deleted questions? or i can't?
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Can I make a proposal for a subject I am not an expert in?
I think this is a great idea but I am by no means an expert so I don't know if it is okay to propose this or if I need to try and find one or more experts first...
With all the current brouhaha about ...
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How to delete my account? [duplicate]
I think this question was already asked but it didn't help at all. I tried to fill the form but it says "This operation can't be done on meta. Try on main site." But I can't find a help option on main ...
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Role of proposer when site launches to private beta
I have great interest in Internet of things(IOT) and wanted to have the community of the same on SE.
So i proposed it in Area51 and now this proposal has reached 100% commitment.
Soon its private ...
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When does the proposal what reached beta start private-beta in general?
Internet of Things reached Beta. It is written the following on the above.
This proposal has reached 100% commitment. We are preparing for its launch and expect to create it soon.
When does the ...
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How to share for more support on social media platform
How to share for more support on social media platform.I have suggested a proposal for which I've not been able to get suitable audience.So I have many friends that have same intrest as me in my ...
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Deleted two -3 scored questions but not got the peer-pressure badge. Why?
The badges page says that the peer presure badge is awerded by deleted a own question with a score of -3 or less. I just deleted two questions with -3 but didn't got the peer-pressure badge.
I ...
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Area51 commitment
What if I failed with my commitments?
I'm asking this because at the time of registration, I went through email confirmation and various questionnaire. So, I just wanted check whether there will be ...
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What percentage of followers is completely new to the Stack Exchange network?
I would like to know what percentage of followers and committers is completely new to the Stack Exchange network.
When proposing a new Stack, we should try to attract experts in that field. However, ...
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Is there any way for a simple mortal to see all of the Area51 proposals ever existed?
I would like to browse it, and do some nice restarts from the forgotten ones nearly reached the private beta. Furthermore, I consider their deletion as an irrecoverable major information loss, and my ...
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I can't log in to Area 51 anymore
I tried to log in with StackExchange, Google, sign up for a new account, recover my account, but everything seems to result in this error screen. Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. Apologies if I ...
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Who is this site for?
Robert, I believe I have seen you argue that defining the audience of a proposal is not the best solution for creating an Area51 proposal description.
When you create a site, the description field is ...
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Overlap with The Workplace
Proposal: Interpersonal Skills
There seems to be some overlap between the territories of Interpersonal Skills StackExchange and The Workplace. Does a question being on-topic for The Workplace ...
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Suggestions and discussions for improvements of all Stack Exchange sites
I cannot find an arena where suggestions can be made and discussed for global changes to the SE system.
I strongly believe that the SE system is somewhat flawed and is in desperate need of some ...
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Why was my question on expertise in astrology deleted?
A couple of months ago, I asked a question about expertise in astrology, and I can't find it any more.
I understand that the proposal it mentioned has since been deleted, but the question is ...
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Edge-case example question badge
The purpose of the example questions is to define what is on-topic, right? I notice that there are badges for high-scoring questions—but none for those ever-so-important edge-case questions. Thus, I ...
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What is the correct workflow to create a new StackExchange site?
The TYPO3 community wants to gather all questions and answers at one place.
As there are already a lot of questions in the general area tagged with TYPO3 there should be enough questions.
I tried ...
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An old Machine Learning proposal is missing its data dump
One of the old closed Machine Learning proposals doesn't appear to have a data dump available. If that data still exists, could it be published please?
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I didn't take part in the private beta phase of a new site to what I was committed to. Can I still fulfill my commitment?
In the site-starts I was committed to, I was always present already in the private beta phase. But now, in the case of the http://ai.stackexchange.com, I couldn't.
Can my commitment still be ...
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