Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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For which tags (if any) do we want tag warnings?
Introduction
In another discussion, a Stack Exchange employee indicated that we might get so-called tag warnings, if we want them.
These warnings are meant to provide users with just-in-time ...
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Keeping track of our stats
Moderators have a view of the site's statistics, but they cannot share the specifics. So, I'm starting this post to keep track of the evolution of our statistics over time. Please feel free to update ...
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Modifying the "Ask Question" page to include tagging recommendation
Based on my answer in this question, I propose that we modify the tag placeholder text (currently "at least one tag (graduate-school note-taking science), max 5 tags") to strongly encourage the poster ...
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UPDATED (APRIL 14): Design for Academia.se
I’m Stéphane, senior product designer at Stack Exchange. First, I wanted to congratulate you because this site is now starting the process of moving out of beta to become a fully-graduated site! Well ...
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Do we need a post notice for possibly controversial questions?
According to this meta post, the SE staff has implemented for a couple of communities a post notice for sensitive, possibly controversial topics.
The notice recites:
Controversial Post — You may ...
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Better use of the chat room: Discussion groups proposal?
I noticed that there are quite a few users with questions that are little open-ended, which is not a good fit for the Q/A format that we have on SE sites. I suppose a lot of us, grad students, would ...
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Are upvotes skewed towards the first answer to a question?
We often see that upvotes are skewed towards the first answer to any question. I have observed the following reason in this regard:
There are many random visitors -- They just click upvote for the ...
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Updating our "What topics can I ask about here?" help center page to be explicit about what **not** to ask
When recently voting to close an off-topic undergraduate question, I saw this screen:
with the phrase:
Questions about problems facing undergraduate students are off-topic unless they can also ...
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Create a predefined closing reason for questions about the contents of an academic discipline?
Since I obtained closing priviledges and can thus use custom close reasons, I find myself typing the following sentence on a daily basis (and before, I flagged questions to which this would have ...
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Closure while writing an answer – can it be delayed?
I have fairly frequently been in the situation of being in the middle of providing an answer to a question when it is closed, leaving me no option but to discard my contribution or hope that the ...
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Do we want a canonical question for general journal workflows?
We often get questions from people who are not aware how a journal works and do not understand some step in the editiorial process¹, think some step takes too long² or are just very worried³. We also ...
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Should we have a canonical question about degree revocation?
A first draft of the requested canonical question is now live here. Please help us out by editing the wiki and adding information.
Can public political criticism of my alma mater result in my BA being ...
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How can we encourage posters to mention their country of study/work?
Academic systems and cultures vary widely between countries, and answers will depend heavily on this context.
I have come across many questions, where the country has not been stated – presumably ...
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What happens if there are too few candidates for moderator?
At the moment there are fewer candidates for moderator than there are slots. What happens if this remains so?
There are, potentially, a few members here that others, including myself, would not like ...
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Reorganising research-related tags a bit
Proposal
I would like to implement the following tag structure as already suggested and reasoned in this answer. An arrow means that the respective tags are merged and synonymised, with the right tag ...
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Replace “undergraduate” with a more general out-of-scope close reason
Statistical background
The following is extracted from the question close stats (10 k only).
In the last three months:
the undergraduate close reason¹ was used 18 times (that’s only about 3 % of ...
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Removing emphasis from blockquotes
Currently, quoted text (paragraphs starting with > in Markdown) is displayed with a wider margin and a very visible yellowish background in the main site. This has led some users to think that it ...
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Why no link in the header of the main site to our 'About' page?
On the main site, we have a lovely new About page. Five of us have found it (it's linked from the footer of the main site) and read it, and so got the Informed Badge
All the other sites I've seen, ...
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Sorting according to the score introduces an unwanted bias
I noticed that:
answers on this site usually get sorted descendingly according to their score,
in general, answers are either upvoted or left untouched rather than downvoted, and
I (and, presumably, ...
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Contacting/Referring to another member of SE outside of a comment thread
I've noticed that it's only possible to mention another SE user using the "@" symbol in a comment thread where the user appears, and I was wondering if it was a feature or a bug. In particular, I ...
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Moderator-only tags, such as "canonical-question"
Some (perhaps many) questions get asked over and over and we have an informal concept of a canonical-question. I've been trying to think of a way for people to find those more easily. I'm terrible at ...
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Can visibility and responsiveness of tag warnings be improved?
As per this feature request we now have a warning for the graduate-admissions tag.
I'm happy for the warning, and I thank all those who have contributed, but I'm concerned by its low visibility. Most ...
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Rename [research] to [researching]
research is frequently used for almost all sorts of questions only marginally related to research, such as publishing a research paper.
In hope to reduce this misuse, I suggest to rename it to ...
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Migration paths for off-topic questions
Now that we're out of beta, will we get access to the full set of stackexchange sites for migrations ?
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Can we add something to the how-to-tag help box that warns askers not to misuse certain tags?
When you try to edit the tags when asking a question (or edit the tags of a question when having less than 2 k), a box how to tag appears on the right, showing some general help on tagging. The ...
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We should introduce a set of field tags - e.g., medicine, mathematics, economics [duplicate]
Let's get real here. Academics in mathematics ARE different from acedemics in medicine. We should embrace the real world !
This is not to prevent general questions.
For example a general tag of ...
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Would like to add "faq" and/or "canonical-question" and/or "canonical-post" tag to these questions
We have a helpful list of standard Q&As, which makes it easier for questioners to find out what they want to know, and write non-duplicate questions. The list also helps with identifying ...
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