User disccussions and talks.
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Superuser on-topicness
Proposal: Retrocomputing
For what it's worth, I asked last year if vintage computers were on topic at SuperUser and got an affirmative answer. Here's the meta post about it.
While something being ...
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Is there somewhere we can see overall statistics of Area 51 proposals?
Are there any pages and links that I might have missed to check, which gives overall statistics comparing the total time a proposal was in definition, commitment, and beta phase, number of followers ...
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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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Where can were advertise Internet culture stackexchange?
Proposal: Internet Culture and Memes
Is there any particular site this could go onto? I think Reddit would be a good place to start, but I don't know the best way to post it up there. It there ...
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Geoscience scope — include planetary, solar system, solar-terrestrial sciences?
Proposal: Geoscience
Interpretations differ as to whether geosciences include space and planetary science. From the list of AGU journals or the 2012 list of EGU General Assembly sessions, it probably ...
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Whisky proposal / joining with wines, beers, and other spirits (mixology)
Proposal: Whisky |
Proposal: Mixology |
Proposal: Wine
How would whisky enthusiasts feel about sharing a stack site with, for example, wine, beer, and other spirits? Would there be cross over between ...
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Chat area for Genealogy & Family History
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
A chat area for this proposal has been created, called: "Roots"
Visit it at: http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/6003/roots
where you can talk live to other ...
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Suggestions for spreading the word to people that care
Proposal: Stack Overflow in Spanish
Beyond the obvious of share to social networks, what are some ways to get people that would already be interested in this proposal to come and support it? (see my ...
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how to get new questions voted
Proposal: Italian Language & Usage
I think we are doing fine as far as the number of followers is concerned (although I admit the increase pace has slowed down somewhat), but the problem of ...
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Rename “Repurpose Hacking” to something else
Proposal: Repurpose Hacking
I've never heard anyone call the act of repurposing a device "repurpose hacking" - either repurposing or hardware hacking. At the moment, it's a clunky and misleading ...
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Can proposal “Microsoft” be closed?
I recently viewed the Microsoft site proposal on area51.stackexchange sites
my opinions were two
if the question related to microsoft software products we can ask at superuser.se
if the question ...
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How should we define the scope of 'Circus Skills'?
Proposal: Circus Skills
What counts as a 'circus skill'?
Who are our intended experts?
What is not in scope for this Q&A?
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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 it allowed to invite people?
I am proposing an area to discuss about GeoGebra software. But I would like to know if is allowed to invite people to follow me.
And what about other areas? I am a member in Mathematics, but I would ...
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does proposal to open websites with matured content welcome here?
i like to make a proposal for an site "sex games & toys" which can deal with adult games which revolve around the world since its an growing field and there were many users whom don't know where ...
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Get active on other Stack Exchange sites?
Proposal: Digital Preservation
I was noticing that this proposal has everything it needs to get started except it's short of people with reputation on other Stack Exchange sites.
It's great that ...
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Are freshwater ponds on topic?
Proposal: Aquarium Hobbyist
Great to see the Aquarium topic get started up again. In the old proposal, freshwater ponds were considered to be on topic, since many of the techniques are used both in ...
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How does a merge take place in Area 51?
I have seen many suggestions to merge proposals. How is this done?
I get the impression that, even on very popular merge proposals, everyone's waiting for "the powers that be" to do a merge. Do the ...
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How do we handle questions regarding Unknown Caches?
A lot of interesting geochaches are unknown caches. I think they will be plenty of questions regarding these kind of puzzles. I see the danger, that the site will be full of spoilers. What can be done ...
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Are questions going to be limited to Japanese animation and manga?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
I realize a lot of Japanese animated shows have a lot of Korean or Chinese studios working under the main animation production studio, but the focus is still going to be ...
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Related Stack Exchange sites to information retrieval and search engines
Proposal: Information retrieval and search engines
You should at least have a look for related Stack Exchange communities and consider joining them. Webmasters.SE for search engine optimization has ...
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Promoting Stack Overflow in German
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in German)
As the title already says, what can we do, to promote this proposal, so we get more commitments? Stack Overflow (in Turkish) already completed the commitment ...
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Can language based Stack Overflow proposal regrouped the most popular stack exchange sites (SO, SU, SF…) using tags
There's many stack overflow languages based proposal on area51
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in Persian)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow in Polish
Stack Overflow (in Chinese)
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Any information on the new area51?
I've seen in a few places the SE staff have alluded to the fact (or sometimes said directly) that the current area51 model is broken, not effective and needs a massive overhaul, and that it's in the ...
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Proposal on Book Review
Proposal: *Book Review *
A sample question:
Did anybody read the book: Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition, by
Kimberly Elam? Requesting for concise review.
Another could ...
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How do we separate this site from the already existing English Language & Usage site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Defining topicality
Proposal: English Language Learners
The proposal of this site seems very similar to the English Language & Usage site. How do we differentiate ...
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Would a Demoscene Q&A site proposal be acceptable?
I thought that this question/topic wouldn't be appropriate for Area51's chat and I couldn't find any topic mentioning Demoscene, so I started this discussion.
So, would a Demoscene.SE be a valid ...
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How about starting UI and Design Q/A site
Proposal: *User Interface (UI) & Design *
This will cover design of every thing from table chair to computers, robots & Websites, to airplane and helicopters, to bridges and flyovers, to ...
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All healthcare related area 51 proposals. Differences? Similarities? Can they co-exist? How can members of all proposals benefit?
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Proposal: Biomedical Informatics
Proposal: Biomedical engineering
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
Proposal: Public Health & Epidemiology
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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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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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What will be the icon of this community? [closed]
Proposal: Islam
As you know, all of the Stack Exchange communities have a unique icon.
For example, the icon of the Stack Overflow community is this:
.
The problem is that Islam has no icon, ...
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Sunnah and Shia questions
Proposal: Islam
All Muslims know that Sunnah and Shia topics are so sensitive. In real life things got pretty ugly and these topics between Sunnah and Shia ended up in armed conflicts in some cases. ...
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What is the line between the feature-request and change-request tags?
There are no wiki descriptions for either. I recently posted a question that is sort of a feature but also sort of a change. Should feature-request only be used for new feature requests and ...
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Which one to use: “Stack Overflow” or “Software Development” in the title?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Turkish)
There's a confusion with the title of the local software development site proposals. The main confusion is in that: Should it involve the term "Stack Overflow" ...
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Why should Tridion Developers still support the Tridion Forum?
Proposal: Tridion
I have pretty much ignored the Tridion Forum for a while now, since all the questions can be answered on StackOverflow because of the type of Tridion developers who actively use ...
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Would it be worth including space & planetary sciences?
Proposal: Astronomy & Astrophysics
As the Astronomy proposal didn't get enough participation, would it make more sense to broaden the proposal even further to specifically include:
Solar ...
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Scope of questions on a particular project
Proposal: Distributed Systems
Are questions that relate specifically to Hadoop and its internals on topic here? And also about its related projects, like Pig, Hive, ... ?
I've been having trouble ...
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Is cue sports a duplicate of sports?
Proposal: Cue Sports
It seems we already have a sports proposal in beta, would cue sports not be a direct subset?
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Shouldn't this be “Statistics Data”?
Proposal: Data
If you're going to call it 'Data', why does it have to be all about statistics data?
There's plenty of other stuff out there that's not always the easiest to find / use / etc. I ...
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Big Data is not reasonably scoped
Proposal: Big Data is not reasonably scoped
While I like the idea of having a community centered around Big Data I believe this is not a good fit to the StackExchange model in its current state and ...
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Differences between “dedicated” and “sub” communites on Stack Exchange
Putting aside the reasons why a given community might exists within dedicated community site, or as a "sub-community" within an existing site, what are the benefits and constraints that result from a ...
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Pharmaceutical SE?
This idea just stroke me: isn't pharma a perfect area of knowledge to benefit from a stackexchange site? I am not into that field, but supposedly it is pretty complicated with a lot of different ...
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Intended content for this proposal and possible renaming
Proposal: Marijuana
To clarify something, my intent for this (though I know it is now in the hands of the community) was to create a sophisticated Q&A site for cannabis and its more objective ...
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RE: Possible duplicate of Stack Overflow
My reading of the question "Why has a proposal for Zend Framework been closed?" is that if there's a community demand for the site, then it's okay for a sub-topic to become it's own site.
What's not ...
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Is a lack of high-quality daily visitors to a beta site the number one cause of their failure?
In finding an answer for "Is there a list of failed/closed betas?", I decided to look through the results to see if there appeared to be a common cause of failure in a beta site.
Based on my ...
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Complete list of vote-to-close and auto-close reasons on Area 51
To be clear, I'm just attempting to get a complete idea of the potential lifecycle of a proposal, which includes it being closed. I'm looking for a complete list of vote-to-close and auto-close ...
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Minor inconsistency in Area 51 beta stats display
There is a minor inconsistency in the beta stats display on Area 51: It says it's 90% answered, and you need 90% for a healthy beta, but it does not display "Excellent" indicating it's a healthy beta ...
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How much should this site crossover into vehicle maintenance and repair?
Proposal: Off Roading
Obviously maintaining your vehicle comes into play heavily with this sort of an activity, as the stresses and strains can be a lot more than normal road use, as is the potential ...
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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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