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Are there any plans to graduate any beta sites soon?
It's been more than a year since a beta site was graduated – the latest being Bitcoin in October 2017. Since then, the SE team has been busy with the rolling out of responsive design themes which ...
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Should the wording "Want to start your own Stack Exchange Q&A site?" be changed?
From the bottom of the sites page:
It feels like Want to start your own Stack Exchange Q&A site? is the wrong phrase: people cannot create their own Stack Exchange Q&A site through Area ...
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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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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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What is a good information resource on the SE model?
Prompted by this which I think contains a valid requirement -
Suppose I want to try to convince a (technical/IT/programming/other) mailing list or forum to switch to SO, or a SE site.
What is a ...
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Replace the arbitrary target statistics with ranges from existing, successful betas
On Area 51, each site is evaluated by a set of statistics that look something like the following:
There are several issues with this, the choice of statistics is one, but the issue this post is ...
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How do I advertise an Area 51 proposal?
I'd like to advertise some of the Area 51 proposals. I've already told some of my friends with similar interests about the site. How should I proceed when 'recruiting' acquaintances? Are there any ...
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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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What is the status of support for foreign language SEs?
What is the current status of support for launching foreign-language SE sites?
On the Area51 it is stated that:
This launch is on hold while we add the international features needed
to make it ...
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chat reputation = sum of rep of all sites; flair rep = sum of rep on sites where rep > 200. Is this difference deliberate?
I notice that on chat, a user's reputation equals the sum of their reputations across all SE sites; whereas flair reputation equals the sum of reputations just for those SE sites where reputation is ...
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Should niche sites be allowed to be multi-lingual?
I understand why Stack Overflow is English-only, and agree with this, but in the response from Jeff to an interesting suggestion from Oscar Reyes, he notes that "for Stack Exchange, this is a ...
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Is it acceptable to cross-post here from Area 51 Discussion Zone, seeking advice about the scope of a proposed site?
Is it acceptable to cross-post from Area 51 discussion zone when seeking advice about the scope of a proposed site?
This answer says either is fine, but I wanted to check about cross-posting in ...
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How do I sign up for Area 51 when I get a completing redirect page?
I want to sign up for Area 51 however, I always get stuck with this page, is their something that can be done about this? Is there something I am missing?
I want to propose a new site but ...
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What is the fastest Area 51 proposal to reach the Beta stage?
The site proposal Proof Assistants has gone from Definition to completing Commitment in just over three days. Has any proposal (whether it managed through Beta or not) achieved this in a shorter ...
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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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Some Area51 systems considered harmful
The various recent explanations about Area51 have clarified how the process is supposed to work, but a number of the site mechanisms are not pushing users in the intended direction. The fact that ...
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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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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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How can we determine unique users participating in an Area51 proposal?
I have been active on Area51 for a while now, and I don't think this has ever been a real concern before.
Some background.
In July of this year I noticed that unless blatantly obvious, multiple ...
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Why does the *Moderator ♦* in area 51 not link to A theory of moderation?
Take a look at Tim post ♦ profile on area51. The Moderator ♦ beside the gravatar
doesn't link to A theory of moderation. unlike his meta profile and other profiles.
Was the link purposely removed on ...
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How does new site provisioning work in Area51?
When a new Area 51 Beta site is launched, I reckon it needs a bunch of resources like a subdomain, new web application, possibly an app pool and a DB.
How does SE currently provision these resources? ...
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Should the name of the proposal be in the subject of Area 51 Discussion Zone?
What's the better pattern to identify proposals on Area 51 Discussion Zone?
Looking at question list it's hard to identify proposal related without tags or title.
the name of proposal in title of ...
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What search engine software does Area 51 use?
I was on the Area 51 Stack Exchange site and used the search bar. I was confused as to why it was working so quickly and that's when I realized it was using JavaScript.
Eventually I found that you can ...
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Is there a way of seeing the evolution of the statistics of a site as a function of time?
Is there a way of seeing the evolution of the statistics of a site as a function of time?
For example, I would like to see these statistics (e.g. number of visits, regular users, number of questions,...
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Does Area 51 have its own history or usage stats?
Area51.SE has the usage statistics and other information about all the other Stack Exchange networks except itself. I even searched it on the site and as the screenshot above shows, there is no ...
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Area 51 - can be the tooltip displayed with full description instead of the ellipsis symbol
In the proposal div, if the proposal description is exceeding around 240 characters, the ellipsis symbol is displayed. But when I hover over on the text there is no tooltip.
On hovering over the ...
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What is it about the "Ask Question" button that makes it update my Area51.meta profile?
In Area 51, if my main profile gets some form of update, like an avatar or reputation change, I have to wait a while for my Discussions profile to update (sync) due to caching.
However, I can just ...
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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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We want to know Launching dates of Area52
I and my aliens friends want to know dates. We do not want details about the platform. Shhh... we are planning an invasion and this information is important to our strategy. .. nah.. I'm just joking.
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It seems the Area 51 proposal close/reopen privilege is no longer enabled. What is the new community guidance for high reputation Area 51 users?
I just noticed that the vote to close and vote to reopen privileges no longer exists on Area 51. The last community closure was this "humour" proposal, completed on April 15th, just seven days ...
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Area 51: Influence of increasing reputation
When my overall reputation (through all projects) is growing, does it have an increasing influence on the commitment level of the projects I commited to, or is only taken in account the reputation ...
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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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What is the right place to discuss SE site overlap or definition changes?
I feel I am close to a 3rd rail here, but as a general process question where is the "right" place to discuss overlap between SE sites and/or the possible need for site definition changes?
Area51 is ...
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Include number of fulfilled commitments in the commitment score of a proposal
It has already been several times discussed how it is status-bydesign that Area 51 reputation is not taken into account for the commitment score
But it would perhaps make sense to include in the ...
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Is there any support in separating business process modeling questions into a new community?
I am wondering whether questions relating to business process modeling notations, styles, etc. that are not written from a programming point of but a business and modeling perspective should be dealt ...
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How come a commitment can go down?
We are promoting the Genexus Q&A site... and last friday we were at 10% with 260 committers, and suring the same day we went down to 9% :(
First I tought it might have been a bug or something and ...
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Stack Exchange: Should some communities simply be "sub-communities" of other sites?
While browsing through Area 51 I came across a proposal for an Ubuntu Stack Exchange site, and a similar Linux/UNIX site.
To me, this is obviously a subset of superuser.com. There is a small debate ...
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Effect of right-hand panel adverts, on Area 51 Proposal Commitment Rates
In conjunction with my other related question, my curiosity motivates me to ask about the correlation between advertisement on the right-hand panel on commitment rates. For Economics SE, for example, ...
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Reward system across all stack exchanges for using area 51
Should there be a reward system across all Stack Exchange sites for participating in Area 51 to increase participation in Area 51?
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A proposal's definition/description
The other day I noticed that the Arabic Language proposal's description/definition was edited, here is the discussion I made which still hasn't received an answer, then it was brought up in a comment ...
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Will increasing reputation on sites cause a recalc in the percentage of weight toward a commitment?
As discussed in another question, the amount of weight someone's commitment to a Stack Exchange has is based on their reputation. Now if a user who currently has low rep works their way up, will the ...
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Will there be a proposal for every SO-tag?
Symfony vs. 842 questions tagged symfony* at StackOverflow
cocos2d vs. 342 questions tagged cocos2d at SO and 1 question (yay!) at GameDev Beta
Maven vs. 2k questions tagged maven* at SO
to name ...
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