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"@" ping doesn't work in the Example Questions?
In the example questions the "@" ping doesn't work in the comments. Meaning you don't get the usual suggestions of who you want to ping.
Is that by-design or a bug?
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Standardizing & Simplifying SE Site Names
This is a repost of an announcement/discussion on Meta Stack Overflow. I'm cross-posting here since this is where new sites are born and named, and because you may notice some proposal names ...
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Area 51 "Days in Beta" count is incorrect [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dates on the private beta
On the Area 51 page for LEGO Answers, the Days in Beta count is currently 57:
However, on my profile, I've been on the site for 59 days (i.e. since ...
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This proposal is not a dupe
Proposal: French language
I don't agree that this is a duplicate of 'correct French usage'. It's a more generic forum that covers that, and translations. It seems too granular to split French ...
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What to we need to do to help this proposal succeed?
Proposal: Geography
From my limited observations - the previous iteration of this proposal ran out of steam, then ran out of time.
What can we do to ensure that this proposal sees success?
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Is it OK for my whole department to commit to a site?
I sent out a link to the other programmers and support dudes in my department for the health care IT site, I think we hit some sort of trigger because only the first two guys showed up as committed ...
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Are question about lyrics is allowed?
Proposal: Music fans
There are many songs in which some nice, funny, touching, etc lyrics is used. Are question about them is allowed?
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Adventures in Odyssey [closed]
Proposal: Adventures in Odyssey
First, StackExchange is not for discussion, it's only for Question and Answer, an issue that can be fixed with a simple change of the description.
Second this ...
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Are meta-questions which link to deleted sites autodeleted?
I recently asked a meta question which linked to several site proposals. One of those proposals was deleted and the meta question was also marked deleted by the Community user. Was this automatic as ...
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Should more Arts areas be added to this proposal?
Proposal: Arts and Crafts
From here: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/art-types.htm
Basic Definitions of Art
• Art: Definition and Meaning
The meaning of beauty and art is explored in the branch of ...
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Will Sudoku and Str8ts questions be on topic for Puzzling?
Proposal: Puzzling
I see the proposal for Puzzling has already made it through the definition stage, so I was wondering: are number puzzle games, e.g. Sudoku and Str8ts, on-topic, or did I just ...
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How does the Area 51 site work?
I learned that Area 51 is also a website of this network. I have visited it for several days, and I studied the FAQ and the privilege page. I also see some questions in different stages, but I'm not ...
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Is Behaviorism within our scope?
Proposal: Cognitive Sciences
Behaviorism has widely been regarded as an affront to Cognitive Psychology but many findings of Behaviorism are still extremely relevant to psychology today.
Are ...
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Would a Grilling/outdoor cooking proposal be redundant with cooking?
We already have Cooking.SE, and I have noticed a number of grilling/smoking questions on there, but they are hardly common. Would a grilling/smoking/general outdoor cooking proposal be redundant or ...
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What does 'answered' stat in Beta of any website indicate?
What does the below stat for a beta website indicate?
Accepted answers percentage? Or
Percentage of questions with answers?
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The last 10 yards ( 10 more commitments needed )
Proposal: 3D Printing
With now just 6 more commitments needed to bring this site to beta it is looking like we are going to make it; with that being said, we are going to need to start spreading the ...
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How do I support a proposal in Area 51?
In area 51 there is this proposal that has been there for 9 months it has 52 followers and I want to know is there any other way besides following it I can help support it and make it a site?
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How specific should poker questions be without being "too localized"?
Proposal: Poker
Poker questions can be very specific, so I was wondering whether or not it is appropriate to allow arbitrarily detailed questions or would they be considered "too localized." For ...
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Should voting be measured as part of site health?
I've been active on Code Review and I think that the site has potential, but voting is very uneven and I am not at all convinced that questions and answers are getting enough votes to encourage users.
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Why Was The Name Area51 Chosen? [duplicate]
I love the name Area51, but I keep wondering what the thinking was behind naming a proposal site after a top secret military base famous for allegedly harbouring recovered UFOs!
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Red color gives feeling that an error has occured when closing an example question
Closing an example questions makes red pop-up to show how many more users left.It gives feeling that error as received.
This should be changed to different color like: If needs 4 more users , color = ...
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Grammar errors in launched proposals excerpt
I noticed the launched proposals tab on area51. The excerpts of Mi Yodeya has a grammatical error.
The excerpt is
For launched Q&A site for those who base their lives on Jewish law and ...
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How to deal with low engagement?
If a proposal is progressing at the rate of 2-3 followers added per day, but the followers are not participating in question creation or discussions, is it a bad sign ? The followers are using their ...
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Are Historians interested in future? [closed]
Proposal: Futurology
I hope this is a rhetoric question ;) I just want to announce the futurology proposal here, as both proposals would imo benefit from each other and future studies are often ...
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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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Differences with EE
Proposal: Amateur Radio
See the announcement on the Arduino proposal:
Questions on the electronics engineering aspects of Arduino? Ask on Electrical Engineering.SE!
Should we have something ...
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Why is there a character limit on questions?
The best questions on stack exchange are well-researched, specific and detailed, but on area 51, I'm limited to 150 characters. It's hard to show off what great, well-informed questions could get ...
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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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Stack Overflow In Portuguese still show as in commitment phase
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Portuguese)
This proposal is still show as being on hold in the commitment phase. Shouldn't it be show as private beta, since it was already launched in beta a few hours ...
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Reputation not being added to the referrer when a proposal is followed
I do not know if this is intended but I know for a fact my referral link was used to follow a proposal but I did not get any reputation for it. How does it work? Is that a bug? Or is it intended?
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Would questions regarding security be allowed on Hacking and Hackers?
Proposal: Hacking and Hackers
Would questions regarding security be allowed here / good to ask here? IE:
How can I protect against WPA2 handshake sniffing?
I see that you can break WEP ...
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How are spam content in commitments handled?
A user by the username 25887 committed to my proposal and added a link in the text field. After inspecting the link I found out that it takes me to some online store or something selling an insect ...
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Would it be possible to create a language to describe worlds in?
I am heavily influenced by the Myst-Series with this thought.
There, the D'Ni found a way to use write symbols into special books, which then would open a portal to the described world.
Of course ...
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Any information on the new Area 51?
I've seen in a few places the Stack Exchange staff have alluded to the fact (or sometimes said directly) that the current Area 51 model is broken, not effective and needs a massive overhaul, ...
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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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Cross-over with gardening
Proposal: Sustainable Living
I figured we should probably discuss this sooner rather than later - there's a fair few example questions that relate to sustainability which have been proposed, such as ...
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Are questions about narrow AIs allowed?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
The title says it all. Are we allowing questions about AGI -- as in, attempting to replicate the intelligence of humans with computers -- or any AI, including narrow ...
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Isn't it too localized
Proposal: Where to get
The proposal is about where to get stuffs, but the stuffs can be found at different places in different countries/regions. So all answers would be localized.
What do you think?
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Shouldn't Health and Fitness/Nutrition be merged?
In English you rarely hear the word 'health' without the accompaniment 'fitness'. This is for a good reason - the two topics are usually closely linked. I suspect there will be many questions that ...
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What makes a proposal a duplicate?
When I made a proposal for Minecraft, it was listed as a duplicate of the Gaming site. Despite this, there are a whole lot of sites about programing such as Software Engineering, Theoretical Computer ...
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Around 1000 of my Area51 reputation suddenly disappeared, what happened? [duplicate]
Btw, it is not really a traumatic experience to me, because I would like more to have more professional accounts in my firsts. I've even planned to ask the SE to separate my area51 and MSE accounts to ...
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How to advertise Arts and Crafts site?
Proposal: Arts and Crafts
I can see advertisements of other sites on the sites I frequent.
How can we create such an advertisement for our site?
In which sites are we permitted to advertise?
What ...
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Community moderation on discuss.area51?
Everybody over 500 rep can see, that the "review" option on the discuss.area51 site lives, similarly to the meta site on the SE. It seems, even some like a community moderation also happened in the ...
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Would a site for free software creation make sense?
I'm asking for opinions on this. Regarding whether it's a good idea, if it fits with the spirit of SE and whether you think it would work.
There are many pieces of free software being written. You ...
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does this site include questions about developing emacs?
NOTICE:
Since this site is now in beta, it is time to have these conversations with the folks who are actually building this site. Please bring your comments and discussions to this site's 'meta' ...
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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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Has anyone studied other potential Area51 criteria, that might be a better indication of a site's potential success?
I have looked at some of the most recent proposals that managed to survive the gruelling Area 51 processes. I will use the short form: q/d = questions/day (I'm trying to fit everythin on one line each)...
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Is anyone interested in creating a Q&A for Greek language & Usage? [duplicate]
I think that the Greek would make a good addition to the Stack Exchange culture.
In my opinion, Greek is a rich language and there are also some schools in various countries which teach Greek to ...
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How to get people to visit newly created Area51 proposal?
I have an idea for a new proposal, and I think it's quite cool (don't we all?). But I am worried that I would not be able to attract traffic to the proposal. Having a cool proposal is one thing. But ...
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Questions of closed area51 proposals
How can I access the questions and answers of a closed Stackexchange beta site? Particularly, I am looking for http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40518/big-data
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