Questions tagged [area-51]
Area 51 is the Stack Exchange Network staging zone. It's where groups of experts come together to build new Q&A sites that work just like Stack Overflow. Area 51 has its own discussion site, Area 51 Discussions. If a question is only related to Area 51, then you may ask it either here on MSE or on Area 51 Discussions (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/323571).
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Remove "democratic, community-driven process" from the site not found page
This is a followup on Remove "democratic, community-driven process" from the Area 51 FAQ.
On the site not found page (e.g. http://pandas.stackexchange.com/) this is still claimed:
You ...
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Why was the main criterion for graduation specifically chosen as 10 questions per day?
Prior to July 2015, site graduation was basically decided subjectively by the SE team, based on the site's Area 51 statistics and the capacity of the design team. From what I recall, it was basically ...
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How can you flag a commitment comment as offensive?
I was wondering if there was a way to flag a Commitment Comment that someone leaves.
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Former(?) staff member still listed as moderator on Area 51
It seems Nicolas Chabanovsky left the company? I am not sure if there will be an announcement like this one – if not, спасибо Nicholas for all the work you've done!
Let me honor you with a bug report: ...
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Why is the Area 51 site no longer showing up on the More Stack Exchange Communities list?
Why is the Area 51 site no longer showing up on the More Stack Exchange Communities list?
Prior to today, the More Stack Exchange Communities list in the top bar contained a link to Area 51.
However, ...
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The top bar on Area 51 is malformed
The top bar on Area 51 seems to be malformed:
For a while now, Area 51 has been using an older version of the top bar on Stack Exchange sites, that better conforms with its 2011 design. However, it ...
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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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Friendly robot is stalking me and won't leave
Take a look on this friendly robot:
Looks innocent, right? Well, he is not.
I just went over the list of question on a proposal on Area51, the home of that robot and tried to upvote a question I ...
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Getting a clear picture on Area 51 beta statistics
This is what the Area 51 stats look like for a certain site I care about:
I've circled the two stats that are "treadmill stats"—they don't build over time, but require constant work to maintain....
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Most links to old, closed Stack Exchange sites don't redirect to their Area 51 proposals anymore
A while ago, old links to Stack Exchange beta sites that were closed would redirect back to their Area 51 proposal, which would serve to inform users that the site didn't have enough activity during ...
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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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Show Area 51 rep with Area 51 Discussions rep
A while ago Nick Craver explained why Area 51 reputation isn't shown in "Your Communities". However, Area 51 Discussions' reputation shows up:
Since Discussions' reputation is equal to Area 51's, why ...
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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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Why do negative scores of example questions on Area 51 get reset to 0 whenever someone votes to close them?
I just cast the final close vote to close some example questions on an Area 51 proposal. Those questions had very low scores, around -3 and -5.
However, as soon as the questions got closed, their vote ...
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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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Total stats on Area 51 commit wrong since the Meta SO/Meta SE split
It looks like the total rep and badges on my Area 51 commitment are being miscalculated. I think it started with the SO/SE meta split.
Should be:
Adding my Meta rep in twice would put my rep in the ...
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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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Robert Cartaino's profile is linked with "moderator on 3 other sites" on the Area 51 page
On the Bioinformatics Area 51 page, I saw Robert Cartaino's profile in the "edited by" section. In his profile I saw that he is "moderator on 3 other sites", so I have searched on ...
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Bug when trying to join Area 51 community
I'm having troubles joining Area 51 community.
From here https://area51.stackexchange.com/ if I click on Log in, I'm redirected on a page saying "Completing log in to Area 51, you will be redirected ...
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Links to questions on metas of closed sites should redirect to the Area 51 proposal (for the main site)
If you click on a link to a question that was on a site that is now closed, you get redirected to the Area 51 proposal page for that site - for example, Why is the timeline of Catch-22 all messed up?, ...
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Require to create example questions before allowing to create a site proposal
I see many new proposals on Area51, where the authors even don't care to provide any example question.
I don't know what's the agenda behind it. Do those people simply have some concept of the site, ...
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Remove Reputation Rewards for Proposal Ownership from Area 51
This is a fix for a problem that is difficult to perceive: No one wants to merge their proposal if they can fight it in any way, because they will lose a significant reputation windfall. Even if ...
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Include area51 in the data dump
Would it be possible to include data from area51 in the data dump? This would be useful for analysing things such as a proposal's growth in followers/commitments over time or whether users with higher ...
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Area 51 Discuss Link Goes to Old Chat Parent
If you go to Area 51 and click on the "chat" link, it redirects to a list of rooms that seems to be parented to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com, while the parent site that is used for new ...
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"More Communities" list magnifying-glass icon doesn't disappear when searching Area 51 and Network Chat
On Area 51, I clicked the "More Stack Exchange communities" to return to Meta, and noticed that the "magnifying-glass" icon in the "More Communities" list, was pasted ...
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When will Stack Exchange begin accepting proposals for non-English sites again?
A proposal for a Stack Overflow in Arabic was just closed with a message referring the creator to a five year old post which refers the reader to another post mentioning (from Tim Post ♦) that the ...
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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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Remove *No example questions yet. Add one below!* from closed proposals
I was viewing a closed proposal today and noticed that the
No example questions yet. Add one below!
was still there.
This should be removed or changed because it is impossible to add an example ...
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Flag count on Area 51
Why is there not a flag count for Area 51? As a user that likes to help out on SO as much as possible, I enjoy to see my flag count on the different sites, so that I can see what I need to improve on, ...
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Glossary / dictionary for SE sites
Unlike in programming where English is the undisputed Lingua Franca - the whole working vocabulary of the profession is English - many of the new Stack Exchange sites will be harder to use for non-...
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Area 51 account disappeared
I tried to login to Area 51 after a long hiatus and got:
Unable to log in:
No user found
I also notice it's now missing from my list of Stack Exchange accounts.
Instead, my Area 51 account is linked ...
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Remove "Your Own" wording from a new site proposed in Area 51
At the end of Stack Exchange sites page it is mentioned:
I know there are many ways of interpreting "own" as like mentioned by Shadow The Kid Wizard over here:
Single user can propose a ...
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Area 51 accounts can't be deleted by the user, but the system prevents users from using the contact form
If a user wants to delete their Area 51 account, it's not possible to do so through the normal settings. The account deletion FAQ says to contact SE if one wants their Area 51 account deleted.
When I ...
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No chat rooms showing for Area 51 (change URL to add "meta")
The chat link from the Stack Exchange (menu) bar or from the bottom panel is not showing any chat rooms for Area 51:
Even the "show frozen/deleted rooms" button doesn't show any rooms.
I ...
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Remove Gravatar requirement from Area 51, Please?
I'm not asking that you merge the avatars on Area 51 with the rest of the Avatar system... I understand that there's not any interest in "improving" Area 51, so if this gets declined - I'll just keep ...
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Change the profile link in top bar from the reputation tab to info tab in Area 51
When I click on my profile link on the top bar in Area51 it takes me to the reputation tab of my profile.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/users/1/username?tab=reputation
I think its more ...
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Can we have a "X days ago" label for sites that passed commitment but haven't entered beta please?
The Gamification proposal has reached 100% commitment and will go into beta "soon". The proposal page reads:
This proposal has reached 100% commitment. We are preparing for its launch and expect to ...
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Add Area 51 Meta to the app
I came across something rather interesting today. I was browsing Area 51 on Chrome when I happened to click on a discussion. To this, I was greeted with a prompt asking:
As Area 51 is not supported, ...
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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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The “Get more details” links and “Password recovery page” for the “I lost my password” option on Area 51 contact form leads to error page
This question is not the same like my recent question.
In the contact form for Area 51, we click “Account Issue—> I lost my password” option, a pop-up will be shown:
Click “Get more details” or “...
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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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Improve the context in the A51 "share proposal" ads
One of the lesser-known features in Area 51 lets you generate little sidebar-ad-sized images to promote proposals you're interested in, like this one:
To use it, click the "Share This" link under the ...
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Area 51 commitment onebox typo
That should be "committers", with an extra t.
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Unlimited downvoting questions on Area51
Every user can cast 5 upvotes on example questions of a proposal. If a proposal has 40 questions with at least 10 upvotes it goes into commitment.
But I just noticed I can downvote as many questions ...
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Add the Consecutive Days calendar to Area 51
On Area 51's profile site, the visited days are correctly displayed. However, I have grown accustomed to having the ability to click on the link and be able to see the days that I have visited. On ...
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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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Improve the vertical spacing of "People reached" in Area 51 Discussions profile
In my profile at Area 51 Discussions, the alignment of the "Estimated number of people reached" label is too close to the "Posts edited" and flagging/voting history labels:
It ...
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If you've got Google, you don't seem to mean much anymore
Disclaimer: I'm writing this from my phone, so a lot of words may be misspelt, or changed due to auto-correct. I've got a cast on my wrist so that will definitely help too. Also, I'm not very happy, I'...
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Select sites on Area 51 are down
Last week, I got the downed flying saucer on Area 51, now I'm getting it again when I try to view proposals. This seems to not affect commitment phase proposals.
Seems to be an issue in both FF and ...
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When does Area 51 proposal start to be advertised on the right-hand panel?
Area51 proposals are being advertised now all over the network? doesn't seem to answer this question. For instance, I recollect that I first saw 'Economics Q&A', under which the Commitment rate ...
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