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What should we do for the tag wiki of [pre] tag?
We have a pre tag on this site.
This tag was previously used in this question: What is a pre vote? , but a user deleted this tag and mentioned that this tag does lack a tag wiki. (see here)
I have ...
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Dramatic increase in New User accounts - why?
I've noticed a big uptick in "new user" account creation on Bicycles:
Zooming in, we can see a cliff between 5 and 12 June 2024.
Before that, new users were steady at 6-15 a day. After ...
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New tag for the internal image hosting
Now that imgur will soon no longer host our images, the imgur tag would become obsolete.
However, I doubt the new upload process, that would host the images internally in Stack Exchange, would work ...
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Cookie consent going down hill
SE's cookie reject seems to have just got a lot worse.
I now have to both opt-out, and then reject "legitimate interest". But that is not enough; I have to then go through all the vendors, ...
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Does the Code of Conduct prohibit content justifying war crimes?
In war it is generally not acceptable to intentionally target civilians. This is usually addressed by either customary international law or by actual international treaty law. Intentionally killing ...
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There is a problem with the [problem-user] tag
We have the problem-user tag, with excerpt that reads:
This tag should be used in a question about a user who has been causing problems like spamming, unproductive answers, using abusive language and ...
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Possible delay in Data Dump release - now targeting September 5th
As you probably know, it’s time for the quarterly publication of our data (affectionately known as the “data dumps”). The process of copying, uploading, and publishing the data over a notoriously ...
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This tag has no [description]; should it be removed?
The description tag here on this site seems to have no clear use. It also has no tag wiki description, hence the title.
Looking through the current uses, I see that many of its uses are covered by the ...
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The current SEDE refresh was delayed overnight
On Saturday, January 22nd, we had a failure on a backup share that won't be fully resolved until Monday.
We've immediately re-routed backups to multiple secondary locations, so that concern has been ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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With Stack Overflow Teams moved, where do Meta questions about it belong?
Last year, Journeyman Geek asked this question about where Stack Overflow Teams questions belong. I tend to agree with most of Catija's reasoning at the time
Teams is still predominantly a Stack ...
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Green reputation badges on Summary page have black text
There has been change in style for reputation badges on Profile Summary page which makes text harder to read.
What used to be white text on green background has changed into black text on green ...
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Should the [registration] and [sign-up] tags be merged, and if so, what should be the canonical tag?
Here on this site, we have two tags registration and sign-up, which mean essentially the same thing: registering (signing up) for an account on any site on the network.
Looking at the uses for each ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 00:00-03:00 AM UTC (Monday, August 22, 8:00-11:00 PM US/EDT)
tl;dr
Planned upgrades that will impact Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Network sites including Chat. All sites will be read-only for up to 3 hours beginning shortly after Tuesday, August 23, 2022 ...
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Update wording in subject of automated "100k reputation" email
I recently received an automated email from @juan.garza of the Community Management Team.
Subject: Bicycles Stack Exchange — You're killing it.
Now my immediate thought was "what have I done ...
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"How Rust manages memory using ownership and borrowing" blog post contains numerous errors
First, a quick disclaimer: I don't know Rust (or Go). So I'm going to focus on only things that are obvious to a programmer unfamiliar with the languages discussed in the post. I'm sure a Rust or Go ...
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This tag is hurting my [workflow]
The workflow tag has no tag wiki or excerpt, 11 questions, and is used for various kinds of workflows: those of users on Stack Exchange for many different scenarios, and even those of staff members. ...
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Should this site have a tag for "default tags"?
When a new Stack Exchange site is created, some tags are automatically created on its corresponding meta site. (I don't think there are any such tags on the main/regular Stack Exchange site itself.) ...
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Some sites are offline, but no blog or Twitter information. Is all OK?
Worldbuilding and Biology, for example, have been offline for about 15 minutes, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Psychology & Neuroscience for somewhat less. Meta disappeared for a bit, but it is ...
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Rename [deleted-recent-posts] to [deleted-posts-page]
The tag deleted-recent-posts was created for the pages that contained lists of a given user's deleted questions or answers, and which formerly constrained themselves to only those posts made in the ...
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How is the consecutiveness determined for the Consensus, Rapport and Harmony hats?
This is related to Why am I not getting the Harmony hat?, but it's not a duplicate of that question.
I completed 25 suggested edit review tasks where my Reject/Approve decision matched the majority of ...
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Please add a corresponding hat for casting downvotes
People will hunt for the gem watcher hat and this will lead to a decreased quality of questions. To offset this, please add hats for casting downvotes on questions that stay closed or deleted after 4 ...
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Should we rename this tag to [improve] its usage?
The improve tag (33 questions) has a clear excerpt explaining its intended usage:
For questions about the Improve Edit button that lets you perform further editing to a pending suggested edit. For ...
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What is the future for Imgur and SE? [duplicate]
SE relies on Imgur for hosting images and avatars on public sites. Most of the content is text, but the images are often important as well. So the part that is delegated to Imgur is a pretty important ...
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Ensure that all relevant elections details are available on all screen sizes
Gardening & Landscaping is running an election at the moment.
Users that log into …/elections from devices with differently-sized screens get vastly different levels of information regarding the ...
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Should we burn this [browser-enhancement]?
The browser-enhancement has 32 questions, no tag wiki or excerpt. A quarter of those are questions about Greasemonkey scripts that have been closed and should've been posted on StackApps. For those ...
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"Other action" in "First answers" doesn't fully complete the review
Following community feedback to the recent changes in review queues, as in this answer (and some other, very similar requests on that post), the UI team have now added an "Other action" ...
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Should the [software] tag be uninstalled?
The tag software here on this site doesn't seem to serve much purpose in categorization.
The excerpt for the tag states the following:
Use this tag for questions about the software that powers the ...
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Proposal for awarding credit towards First Questions/Answers badges based on First Posts activity
Update (2021-09-14): This is now live
See below for details on how it works. Carryover credit for First posts review work is now being taken into account when calculating eligibility for the Reviewer ...
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Disambiguate [duplicate-proposal]
We have a duplicate-proposal tag (17 questions, no excerpt) which is ambiguously used for proposals about duplicate questions/proposed duplicate questions and duplicate Area 51 site proposals. I ...
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Deprecating our mobile views
Update 2
On March 2, 2022 we removed the Mobile button from the footer. This means the mobile views are removed entirely from Stack Overflow. Last week, we also removed the Disable Responsiveness ...
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I'm having some [difficulty] discerning what we could use this tag for
The difficulty has 13 questions, no wiki or excerpt, and could be used for a lot of things: Having difficulty deleting crap posts, burning tags, making waffles, etc. etc. etc. There are a few posts ...
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Why are we [merging] all of these concepts together?
The tag merging has 47 questions and no excerpt or wiki. It seems to be used for the concept of merging things together, or when talking about merging things. However, we already have more specific ...
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Let's update our "only applicable to one specific site" close reason to utilize the five available close fields!
Current Proposal:
The currently accepted answer by Catija reflects the currently preferred proposal.
Journeyman Geek, seemingly speaking for the Meta Stack Exchange mod team at the time, brought ...
SpevacusMod
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When will the new Stack Overflow badge design come to other sites?
It looks like Stack Overflow has a new box for badges on the profile page:
However, it appears this has not been rolled out to other sites, such as Code Golf. This is quite a nice design, so when can ...
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Is this [text] useful?
There’s a tag text, with 24 questions and no excerpt or wiki. It seems to be used to refer to… text, somewhere on the site. This is a wee bit broad - there are a lot of different places text is ...
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User data in light of Stack Overflow's / Stack Exchange, Inc.'s acquisition
I would like to know how the acquisition impacts our user data, and specifically private user data.
I am aware that a large part of our contributions could be scraped from the outside (or even, ...
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Meta needs to be agnostic of the [language-agnostic] tag
(Note: this is not a duplicate of Why does the [language-agnostic] tag exist? or Is [language-agnostic] a meta tag? those pertain to the use of the tag on Stack Overflow)
The language-agnostic tag on ...
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What about make site icon better for browser dark mode?
I just found some icons of Stack Exchange Network have problems in dark mode as in example https://cardano.meta.stackexchange.com/. have color problems. see image below.
So what about changing the ...
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Is Stack Exchange contributing back to ProseMirror?
Stack Exchange has released an alpha version of a new WYSIWYG editor based on the open source project ProseMirror.
In addition to benefitting from this open source work, is SE giving back to it and ...
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Should we be replacing the blacklist tag with blocklist to reflect current SE standards?
I came across the blacklist tag in a post, and SE's moved over to calling them "blocklists". In the interests of accuracy, I'd propose creating a blocklist tag, and synonymising or merging ...
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Should [careers] be a synonym of [jobs]?
Previously the functionality we currently know as Jobs was known as Careers.
Seeing that most of the questions regarding this topic are off-topic to MSE in the first place, I don't see any value in ...
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Does this tag have the correct [syntax]?
The tag syntax here on this site seems to have no clear, specific purpose, and it's been used to refer to many different things on the 20 uses it has so far.
Most of its current uses are already well-...
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Hat display bug [duplicate]
My "hat" is shown twice in my answer, once in my sig, and again above.
MacOS 10.14.6; Safari Version 14.0.2 (14610.3.7.1.10)
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Is 2020 really great?
Before you participate on Winter Bash the popup looks like this:
Is it ethically to name 2020 a great year despite global wide COVID-19 pandemic which took so many lives?
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Potential problem with the "Edward" hat
So the "Edward" hat on the Winter Bash page says that we have to earn the Curious badge. However, I have already earned it on one of the sites before the Winter Bash and haven't gotten the ...
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Why exactly is *German* a requirement for a role that is India based?
Amusingly, I'm not actually sure if this goes on meta, but this is probably the place it's most likely to be seen.
I was looking through the "work here" page and looking at one of the roles -...
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The existence of these tags reduce my [efficiency] and [productivity]
The efficiency and productivity tags have no tag wiki, only 5 resp. 8 questions, and (especially the first one) are not used in a consistent way. I can see some point in focusing productivity on tips &...
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Will yearly moderation statistics be published on all sites this year, and future years?
For the last couple years, at the beginning of every new year, Stack Exchange has posted annual moderation statistics on all meta sites in the network. These posts include a full table on how many of ...
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Could we include the Stack Exchange Highlight.js theme in the Highlight.js core package?
Once the final theme is agreed upon would Stack Exchange be open to submitting a PR to add the theme "officially" to the core project so smaller sites who enjoyed your theme could use it on ...
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Imgur image processing takes too long
Image uploads are slow. It takes at least 6-8 seconds to upload one image (demo: https://youtu.be/laNmsiLhcFY). This is not due to upload speed, but because Imgur processing is slow (in the YouTube ...
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