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Why is Area51's format so different than any other site?
I was just at Area 51, and noticed that:
The buttons to access my inbox and sites were on the left side
The user's box to access the profile is a lot smaller
When going into the profile, Area 51 ...
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Would hiring/outsourcing temporary employees help rebuild Area 51 and create designs for the remaining unthemed sites?
I'm generally interested in how "in on the things" a person has to be so that the core employees of Stack Exchange would be happy with their results in terms of redoing Area 51, making site ...
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Site for asking questions about Requestly (or in general some specific web browser tool)
Requestly is a Chrome and Firefox extension for modifying network requests with ~50K users on Chrome and ~10K on Firefox. Can some Stack Exchange site be used by Requestly users to ask their questions ...
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Can we set better expectations for private beta?
When an Area 51 proposal makes it to private beta, the site has 2-3 weeks to show viability or be closed instead of advancing to public beta. I agree with that, but I wonder if we're being clear ...
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Why has the 'total users' count of several beta sites (as listed in Area51) gone down?
I'm keeping track of some statistics on 3 beta sites I participate on, by listing bi-weekly the site's statistics from Area 51. I've been doing this for about 4 years but today I noticed that for the ...
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Can we reorganize the categories?
Some of the category "assignments" don't seem to make sense. Why is DIY under Life/Arts but Motor Vehicle Repair under Culture/Recreation? Why is Cooking under Life/Arts vs. Culture/Recreation? Why ...
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When are specific site proposals off-topic on Area 51 Discussions?
I noted that we have a specific-proposal tag. Looking at the questions, I found that it is for specific Area 51 site proposals.
I decided to write some tag wiki contents, but got stuck when I ...
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Is it okay to ask friends to contribute to an Area 51 proposal?
I started a proposal on Area 51, Latin Hebrew, and then I went to some friends and relatives, who were originally not interested in the Hebrew Language, to tell them about this new proposal.
I ...
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What is the point of having different sites for each service in the same or similar domain?
I am talking about the cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
We have pending proposals
Blockchain Technology - commitment phase with 51% commitment.
for discussing about Blockchain ...
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Is it possible to move a site proposal to a different category?
Let's suppose that at some point the Community of a site proposal decides it would be a better fit on a different category (if it moves from a professional to a general audience and vice versa).
Is ...
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Should we create a MATLAB new community? [duplicate]
In the Stack Overflow community I see many questions related to MATLAB programs. I use both it and Mathematica for work, and I see that Mathematica has a separate community for its questions, that are ...
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What does "referred" mean in the commitment phase page in Area 51?
I see that in the commitment phase page in a proposed Stack Exchange site in Area 51 associated with each committed user, there is a "referred" counter and sometimes a "referred by" indicator.
What ...
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PSA: When linking to an Area 51 proposal, don't link directly to "follow"!
I recently realized1 that some users, when linking to an Area 51 proposal in their profiles, link directly to the "follow" link. This means that simply clicking on the profile link will automatically ...
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Is Area 51 dying? Does it deserve it?
I wrote a query to calculate the number of the started sites per year. Here is the result:
Note, the data for 2017 is scaled up by 12/5, because it is yet end of May.
The graph shows
a strong, ...
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Should a Stack Exchange site be created exclusively for machine learning?
I found in this question:
Which Stack Exchange website for machine learning and computational algorithms?
When trying to ask a Machine learning question it is not entirely clear where to ask it. It ...
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Why is Area 51 excluded from Universal Login?
The announcement post for universal login states the following.
When you log into any Q&A site on the stackexchange.com domain, you
will be automatically logged into all other Q&A sites ...
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Merging all CMS proposals/sites into one?
Currently there are CMS sites for a number of popular Content Management Systems and even more proposals for other CMS sites. Would it not be beneficial to the community to merge all CMS site into one ...
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Why do beta sites typically launch on Tuesday?
In an answer on Area 51, Robert Cartaino mentions that beta sites usually launch on a Tuesday. A cursory review of beta site history seems to show that, somewhat surprisingly, this is actually true.
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Why do some SE sites have looser policy than others
I know that Stack Exchange requires questions to be specific, unambiguous, and having single-solution.
For example, in the tour page (my emphasis):
Ask about...
Specific issues within each site's ...
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Is it ideal for SE to prematurely close area51 proposals attracting new users?
Stack Exchange is based on having a big and increasing community of people who are interested in new things, in asking new questions and in answering new questions.
Sometimes a new community out ...
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Which Stack Exchange sites weren't proposed in Area 51?
Recently I found some sites that are a part of the Stack Exchange network but were not proposed. In other words, I'm talking about sites that are not established through Area51, like Super User.
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Who really has the expertise regarding how new Area 51 communities should organize?
A large community proposal was very recently closed in Area 51: Neuroscience (update: in fact it has just been deleted and all data permanently erased, see below).
150 early supporters gathered in ...
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Plant Identification questions
Plant ID questions have been discussed, accepted and rejected on both http://biology.stackexchange.com and http://gardening.stackexchange.com.
And here someone suggested to make an SE proposal - but ...
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Should I flag close-worthy proposals on Area 51?
I came across a clearly non-viable proposal on Area 51, and I considered flagging it as such. The only options in the flag dialog, however, were spam, offensive, or a custom mod attention reason. ...
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At what point does it become necessary to create a new community for a topic?
I have noticed recently that in certain communities, anywhere from 10-50% of the questions are about the same thing. (having the same tags) When this happens, should I attempt creating a new community ...
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Could there ever be a Stack Exchange site that would be willing to answer any question? [duplicate]
Obviously not all questions can be considered questions of the criteria of one of the existing sites, and while Area 51 is allowing users to create new sites to help fix this, I feel that it will ...
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Area 51 private beta invitation mail contains outdated FAQ
I have a few issues with the Area 51 private beta invitation mail.
Q: Who can access the site during the private beta?
A: Only the 202 people who committed to it.
That's not really true. One can ...
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Advertising an Area 51 proposal in Community Ads
I understand that posting comments to existing SE sites advertising an Area 51 proposal is not allowed.
However, I'm not sure if the same applies to Community Ads. Since these are only shown on the ...
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Could there be a Wikipedia Stack Exchange site?
Sometimes I'm editing on Wikipedia. Since I'm very new, I still have a lot of problems. It's hard for my to find information about editing on Wikipedia.
I would like a Wikipedia Stack Exchange site, ...
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Who proposed Ask Ubuntu? [closed]
I heard that Ask Ubuntu is part of Stack Exchange so I want to know who proposed Ask Ubuntu?
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What does "follow through on your commitment" actually mean?
I am having trouble ascertaining exactly what the commitment means, when referring to the ten questions/answers:
Do they have to be in private beta, or does public beta count as well?
Can the ...
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Remove precognitive & beta badges on meta [duplicate]
"Quorum" and "Convention" participation badges are listed on non-meta sites but not on the meta sites, sensibly (they are for participation on meta). "Precognitive" and "beta" should also be not ...
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Should the area51 tag description be updated?
The area51 tag on MSE stats that
... Area 51 has its own discussion site which acts as its own meta site. If a question is only related to Area 51, then it is better to ask it there.
If someone ...
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Add a Trending Proposals tab to the sidebar like Hottest Questions
I think that currently there is very little exposure for new site proposals (considering how much traffic sites like Stack Overflow generate). I'm not sure that a large amount of the user base even ...
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Why do visitors need to click on help button on discuss.Area51 to get back to the main proposal site?
I wonder if there is actually a good reason, why visitors of discuss.Area51 need to click on the "help" menu button first in order to get back to the main Area51 site:
In words, this seems to me more ...
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Is it okay to link to a new proposal on Area51 inside an existing tag wiki description of another site?
On Stack Overflow just stumbled over the tag wiki entry for concrete5 where a link to the "concrete5" proposal from Area51 was included to the wiki entry:
Now I wonder if this okay, because ...
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Suspicious activity in the Area 51 proposal for Roblox
It is interesting to notice that a similar suspicious activity for the same proposal has already been reported in 2013
Yet, it has started again. It is the Roblox proposal again. It has surprisingly ...
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Is there a site for books? Does this topic belong in Area 51?
Is there an SE site where it would be appropriate to ask a question pertaining to a book? The thought came up because I'm searching for a book I've heard about, but I don't have much information about ...
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Why Area 51's Top Beta user profiles are actually images?
I was surprised when I've figured out that profiles in the list of top users on Area 51 are actually images (this gray recаtangles):
But why? I can not think of any case when this kind of data is ...
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Why don't we add a question with the same tag on multiple Stack Exchange sites?
At first I thought my question might be a duplicate of View questions with the same tag across multiple SE sites, but it's different. In fact it's the reverse.
Most of the time users encounter with ...
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When do we merge the content of a closed beta site with an existing site?
I was searching for closed beta sites and I found them.
These are the beta sites that were closed and their data dump of questions is downloadable on Area 51
Open Science
Machine Learning
Game Theory
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Chat room owner should be able to change the room's associated SE site
I propose that a chatroom owner should be able to change the chatroom's associated SE site. I recently created a chatroom to promote the Korean Language proposal at
https://chat.stackexchange.com/...
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How can I change the related site for a chatroom after the room is created?
We have a chatroom for the Korean Language Proposal at Area51 at
https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/30769/korean-language-discussion-room-commit-stage
During creation it got associated with TeX ...
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SE sites to provide official product support (or "The case of Ask Ubuntu")
Firstly, I think that I understand the relation between Stack Overflow and Canonical and the roles of each one in the management of Ask Ubuntu site. Here are some related questions:
Does Canonical ...
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How did a community ad show up in a stackexchange where it was not promoted? [duplicate]
I recently saw the Korean Language and Usage Area51 proposal community ad show up at the new Law stackexchange
However the Korean Language proposal was not added as a community ad in the related ...
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Are robots or aliens waiting in Area 51?
It is widely known that aliens is waiting for me in Area 51. However, when I visit the list of public sites, in the footer it says:
So officially who is waiting for me there?
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What is the origin of "area51"? [duplicate]
This tag is about discussion on creating new StackExchange sites. Why is this tag named area51. Does it have anything to do with the US Air Force Facility in Nevada? How did the tag name originate for ...
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Is it frowned upon to not manage my own Area 51 proposal?
I want to propose a site on Area 51, but I don't have the time to manage it, or at least to manage it effectively.
Would it be bad etiquette to create my proposal, participate in the discussion on ...
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Can Q&A be imported into new beta from the previous closed beta dump?
Is it possible or common that questions and answers from the dump of previous closed beta can be imported again into the new fresh/restarted private beta (like after the next year)?
Is it something ...
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Should Area51 questions go here?
Should Area51 questions go here or on discuss.A51.SE? It seems that there are many questions here:
https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request
And none have been moved to ...
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