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Will language-specific sites affect the user's contribution to Stack Overflow? [duplicate]

I just stumbled upon the Area51 Stack Exchange sites and happen to see few proposals based entirely on language. For example: Stack Overflow in Portuguese Stack Overflow in German Stack Overflow in ...
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Do posts have to be in English on Stack Exchange?

Otherwise known as 必须用英语吗? ¿Necesito hablar en inglés? ?האם אני חייב לכתוב באנגלית Muss ich auf Englisch schreiben? 英語で書かなければなりませんか? Do I have to use English when posting a question, an answer or a ...
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Allowing images from external sources opens doors to serious security exploits and privacy risks

Note: Please see this answer for more info on how this poses a security risk. I'm sure you guys already know this, but allowing users to put images from any source in questions means that askers can ...
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How can I propose a non-English site?

I want to propose for a Persian version of Super User (I will explain why later) so I want to create a proposal in Area 51, but this means non-English question and answers, Is this OK? P.S: This may ...
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Evaluating the risks of allowing teen moderators on the SE network

I have a David vs Goliath case here involving a teen moderator on Stack Overflow. His display name is BoltClock. I'm a low reputation SO user (less than 150 points) who was recently suspended for ...
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How can we improve the experience for non-native speakers on Stack Overflow?

It's obvious to me that there's a trend now on Stack Overflow of relatively low-quality questions from new users who are non-native speakers with low or intermediate fluency in English, or at least ...
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Why do we need a Stack Overflow in Portuguese? [closed]

I have noticed there is a Stack Overflow in language differs from English which is global and mostly used by programmers. I think there is no need for a site in other languages. Otherwise we will end ...
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Should Spanish SO ( and all the similar variants) be closed? [duplicate]

Area51 has a proposal for Spanish SO. Shouldn't this proposal be killed immediately? I mean, if this proposal were allowed to be flourished, then in no time you will see Hindi SO, Hebrew SO, Chinese ...
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"Add/show 1 other comment" bug strikes again

So I've been experiencing this in the last few days: sometimes when someone replies to my comment, and I reply to the reply, then the "add/show 1 more comment" link appears immediately after I post my ...
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Sharing Stack Overflow Questions

I noticed an interesting quirk in the URL format for sharing questions that I'm curious about. I could be wrong, but the following all appear to be valid links to the same question: http://meta....
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Overflow issues in Android app [duplicate]

Long usernames can overflow and overlap the timestamp: And if there are too many tags, the end gets cut off: The above question has another tag - language, which is completely missing. Tags are ...
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