Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Using h-index style score as SE users performance indicator
I suggest to use an h-index-style to indicate SE users performance. As with publications, it gives a direct indication of activity level and users interest.
The h-index for answers (for example) is ...
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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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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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Advertising academic jobs in Academic SE
I've seen that stackoverflow has one section for advertising jobs. I think it would be very interesting to have a similar thing here for academic open positions.
Please check http://careers....
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More options for low quality posts
As I have recently passed the 10k reputation threshold, Stack Exchange is now asking me for more moderation work, including handling low quality posts. The interface for this task seems inadequate to ...
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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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Wording of close reason off-topic as "problems facing undergraduate students" seems not ideal
I realize that there is always an 'Other' option, allowing to specify why one believes a question should be closed. However, there is a reason why boilerplate suggestions are used - to streamline 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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How is a question or answer is sent to First Question and Late Answer review queues?
How are these queues maintained? It seems to be always empty whenever I get to them. Could there be a facility to notify the moderator with this right as soon as this queue fills up? Is it possible to ...
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Saying thanks to comments and answers?
Hope that my question fits to this site (as it is the first time that I ask a question here.)
I feel guilty when I don't say thanks to a very good comment or answer given by users on academia....
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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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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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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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Burninate the [study] tag
The tag wiki excerprt for study reads:
Selecting a field of study, preparing for exams or assignments, or pertaining to designing research studies
With other words, the creator of this excerpt ...
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Why is there no way to vote on a post in the "Review Low Quality Posts" review queue?
In the "low quality" review queue:
Most of the time what I really want to be doing is downvote the answer. Look specifically at this example. The post is (sorry to the poster) just bad. I don't want ...
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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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Creation of a Wikipedia tag
sorry to bother you for this little thing, but I would ask you if it is possible to create a "Wikipedia" tag.
I see 71 results querying for Wikipedia in academia.SE questions.
I don't think it's ...
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Not enough contrast for link text
I like Academia's site design. It is very pretty.
I don't like the link text color. It does not stand out very well. Perhaps it is my computer so here's a snapshot Tell me if you can see the link ...
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Financial Aid Tag?
This recent post is pretty short on tags, and the one it has really isn't that great for it, so I was hoping to add a financial-aid tag since I felt like it is relevant, at the very least, to academia,...
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Sort questions by number of views
The available options to sort the questions on academia.stackexchange.com are newest, featured, frequent, votes, active, and unanswered. While the option votes does reflect quite well what are the ...
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Messaging system for moderators
I just wanted to ask, why there does not exist any personal messaging system in this site, just to be able to contact users? At least, moderators should have this ability to contact users personally ...
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Unfair and emotional moderator decisions
My question is about how the moderators decide on the questions and comments.
Every person has the right to express his opinion. In case of the questions posted on this site, the opinions can be ...
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Text shade is too light
I don't know if I share this experience with other members of the Academia.SE community, but for me text shade is way too light. For me, it makes it harder to read (and focus on content) plus, after ...
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Academia's question listing is taller
The entries in the question listing on Academia.SE are much bigger vertically than other SE sites. There appears to be a lot more spacing above and below each question entry.
Is there a reason ...
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Highly-voted comments have less contrast than low vote ones
The current CSS rules for the main site have highly-voted comments appearing in grey, while low-vote comments are displaying in bright red:
Not sure what the standard is, but I'm pretty sure that'...
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Is it possible to get usage data from SE?
After having gone through some old questions that I have participated in, I have come to think what we are accumulating here is pretty useful data on demographics and usage of the site. I was hoping ...
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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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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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MathJax on Academia?
Should we have MathJax support on Academia?
I think it would be useful if questions about math in academic writing are common here.
I just asked this question and there it would have been nice (but ...
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Tag Synonym Request [citations] [references]
Should references, 51 questions, no tag wiki,
and citations 151 questions, with a tag wiki,
be merged?
There is a overlap of 13 posts.
See also Merge “Citations” and “bibliography” tags?
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Is it possile to search for text in comments?
I read a comment that was interesting to me and lost track of where it occurred. I cannot seem to search for key words I know were part of the comment to locate it. All that appears are the usual Q ...
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If I do not have enough reputation yet and need to add an important tag, what to do?
I tried adding the tag: 'proposal' or 'research-proposal' but could not as I do not have enough reputation yet.
What should I do?
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Do we have spell checker?
There is at least one user on our site who constantly provides good/excellent answers. However, I can almost always find typos in his answers. Those typos do not impact the overall quality of 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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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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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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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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Migrate question
I asked to migrate a question from Philosophy to Academia. However, the links to my account have been removed from my comments, although I have Academia account. I think this might be a potential bug.
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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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How to encourage tag creators to edit tag wiki as well?
Some users create tags while adding question; some are highly useful and some are simply meaningless. Do SE have any mechanism to encourage users to add tag wiki as well, on creating tags?
Esp. see ...
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How can I move a user's comment to the appropriate place?
Here a new user should have added a comment, but mistakenly started a new answer. Charles (correctly) moved the user's response to be a comment rather than an answer. I know Charles is a moderator, ...
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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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Questions with "assignment" in them should have automatic warning
On the main SO site, any questions with the word "best" in them have a warning automatically displayed:
Based on some recent questions [1][2], I want to propose a similar warning for our site if ...
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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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