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What are the advantages of single language sites over collective ones?
The thing is that Stack Exchange sites are generally defined by an audience and what they approve of/want to here. A good read would be the blog post on the Ubuntu/Linux βschismβ or the many answers ...
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Do programming languages have a place within Conlang discussion, and why or why not?
Possibly… but probably not in way you are implying.
I think calling a conventional programming syntax a "language" in the context of this subject space is playing a bit fast and loose with the ...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
Yes, please. This is a very good idea.
Sure, a question tagged samoan or greenlandic might not get much attention, but as long as there are enough people passing by to get rid of spam and poor ...
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Do programming languages have a place within Conlang discussion, and why or why not?
The problem is that all programming languages are constructed (yes, even Common Lisp), so basically anything about programming would be on-topic in this case, since all have to use a (constructed) ...
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Native language should be allow at least in chat groups
This proposal will not work, for several reasons. As mentioned by Ashish and magisch in the comments, it would take a huge amount of money to cover all conceivable languages spoken on Earth (including ...
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Should questions about Ukrainian written in Russian be allowed here?
Well, since the question was updated (and other issues arose), I updated my answer.
First of all, I am not sure whether using Russian language in questions and answers at all is allowed by higher-...
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How is this different from individual language sites?
I believe the main purpose isn't the language questions itself, but the language acquisition and learning techniques, tools and methods.
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Why was a proposal for a non-English site closed, based on a policy from 6 years ago?
There are more considerations to be had than just having some existing tooling in place to support it (e.g. do we use something like es.cooking.se.com or different domains entirely, and what happens ...
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Will another proposal for Stack Overflow in another language be acceptable now?
No, nothing has changed since then and there is still nothing planned. We will not accept entirely non-English site proposals.
For future readers: we will announce if this ever changes. We won't ...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
Yes, this would work.
Let's take an example of Engineering Stack Exchange which is a generic Engineering site accepting questions from all branches of Engineering. (There are some core branches of ...
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es.stackoverflow.com is a working site, why this proposal isn't in beta status?
It's not quite a working site. Work surrounding getting the translations done was mostly coordinated in chat; they reached the point where they really need a meta site to continue at the same awesome ...
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Are recommendations for language learning resources on topic?
Here's the most recent thing I can find on Meta.SE on this perennial question. It's specific to books but the same principles apply.
Basically, the rule/practice seems to be, individual sites can ...
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What are the advantages of single language sites over collective ones?
From a linguistic perspective, it would definitely make a lot of sense to group smaller languages into a single Q&A site based on their linguistic proximity.
None of the problems mentioned by @...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
It seems that this idea would also be valuable for cryptocurrency stack exchanges, since there's so many stack exchanges for cryptocurrencies now. In your screenshot, we could have questions from ...
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Would it be a better idea to propose "Indian Languages"?
The best way to find out is to try.
Sanskrit is 10 months old and Hindi is 5 months old, neither is doing really well.
Go ahead and Make the proposal
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Proposal: Telugu Stack Exchange
There is already a proposal for Dravidian and Sanskritic Languages in the definition stage and Telugu being a Dravidian language is on-topic there. You have already started following that proposal and ...
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Why were sites in other languages accepted before?
The original plan
Most of the internationalization work took place before I was hired, so I am only privy to the details that were shared publicly. Part of the detail that I am familiar with is that ...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
I'd be happy if such a site could take off.
My experiences with the last two or three Arabic proposals (after closure of the Beta) were really disappointing.
It seems either the community has resigned ...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
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About me: I'm a native English speaker. I've traveled to maybe 30 countries.
I live in China and I'm actively learning Chinese. I'm an ...
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Are more basic Ukrainian questions allowed?
I think, they should be allowed. I see no reason to forbid them. Something, that is easy-too-google for native speaker, may be almost-impossible-to-google for novice learner (IMO, successful googling ...
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Should questions about Ukrainian written in Russian be allowed here?
Stack Exchange is an English language-based network. Every site uses English for all purposes, with the sole exceptions of
Stack Overflow in non-English languages: the sheer volume of non-English ...
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Can we open proposals to complete the "Trilogy" sites in languages already having StackOverflow?
Not yet.
There are two barriers to accomplishing this. One of them relates to why we'd see value in expanding the trilogy in different languages, and the other relates to our ability to allow those ...
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What are the advantages of single language sites over collective ones?
i am not sure putting all constructed languages into one site is a good idea since most constructed languages are academic exercises. esperanto stands out as a language that is actively and ...
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Using Tags in Language Learning
We need 2 language tags minimum to indicate the known language, and willing to learn language.
For many questions, I disagree with you. Looking at the questions from the definition phase, for very ...
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Welsh Language / Cymraeg
If you know of a community to support your cause, you should contact them to see if there is interest in building a site. There isn't a large enough cross section of users sitting here now to ...
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Would a shared SE for Scandinavian languages make sense?
Unfortunately, you're not really going to be able to answer that question here. The community you should ask is the people who would actually build and use this site. That community is not here, and ...
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A "translation exchange" site?
Stack Exchange is currently accepting proposals for sites focused on very specific areas of study or expertise. Unfortunately, this type of solicitation of work is not really appropriate for a Stack ...
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How would it be if a SE site is created on Bangla (=Bengali) language?
There is currently a proposal for Dravidian and Sanskritic Languages which includes Bengali in its scope. The proposal got some early strong support but appears to be flagging. Support the proposal if ...
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Latin Language Proposal: Beginners and experts?
As a Latin beginner (well, I've forgotten most of what I learnt at school) I would hope it would welcome good beginner questions. Not, obviously, the "Can you do my Latin homework for me" type ...
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