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Activity for Monica Cellio
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Help us help you: please show your support for site proposals Our network now has eight sites (plus Meta), and we hope to see many more as we continue to develop both our platform and our communities. As we've worked with communities to build the sites we have now, we've found ourselves adjusting how we go about deciding when a site is ready. We are tryin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why does the title come after the body when writing a question? I made that design decision. If it doesn't work we can of course change it, but the reasoning is pretty much what @pnuts said in another answer. On other sites I've seen a lot of bad titles, ones that didn't match the question that came out at the end of the question body, and I think that's becaus... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Need a mathematics Q&A site Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build a math site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this subtopic within the site's scope... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What are the steps between community idea and community proposal? One thing that's hard for us to gauge, and is important for a new community to get off the ground, is level of interest. People might upvote a proposal out of interest ("I'd read that") or because they think it's a good idea in the abstract ("a site like that should exist") or because they want to a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Factual History Site Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please either edit or leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the si... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Medical science site Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Personal Productivity site Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should there be a community here for Linux users? Note: Please see also How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals?. We are trying to work out how this proposal interacts with others. (It sounds like Linux is probably different and that won't affect this in the end, but I want to make sure folks are aware.) Right no... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Tabletop Role Playing Games Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Single Board Microcontroller/Computer Codidact Site (Arduinos, RPi, etc.) Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, som... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Do we need templates for new posts? We have some posting tips on the "ask question" (or "create post" etc) pages, and we plan to add better contextual help in the future. Another way to guide people would be with templates, a "proto-question" (or proto-blog-post or proto-challenge etc) that you get in the editor. A template could be ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should bugs and feature requests go to local Metas or Meta.Codidact? If you know that a bug or feature request is broader than just your site, it's better to post it on main meta if you can. (Things known to be specific to one site belong on the per-site meta.) Reporting bugs or requesting features on main meta should mean less duplication compared to reports on (po... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Moderation queues for questions and answers By queues I assume you mean review queues like on SE. We haven't designed anything like that yet, though we've discussed the need specifically for a way to see pending suggested edits. (A lot of forum discussions were treating the SE interface as a starting point.) In general, I have been thinking... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Professional coding (Moving this here from another proposal; I forgot about this one and it fits better here.) Discussion here and elsewhere led me to ask How should we approach a programming site or sites?. It currently has 21 upvotes and several answers, which I'll take as interest. There's a lot of discussion ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes? If we show raw Wilson score I think we're going to see a lot of confusion and questions -- "is 0.65 good?" "what does it take to get to 0.8?" etc. Even if we explain that it's a value from 0 to 1 indicating some quality measure, I don't think it's all that meaningful to show that number to most peop... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Notification system improvements I've encountered this too and agree that the current behavior leaves room for improvement. I wouldn't want to see an automatic "dismiss all" action when you look at your notifications. This is what SE does, and if you're active on several sites or just have a lot of stuff come in at once, it's to... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How should we approach a programming site or sites? Based on all the feedback here (and also on the related site proposals), I put forth this proposal: Create a single Software Development site, planning from the start for spinoffs. Here's how I see that working: First, I said "software development", not "programming", because we're not an SO c... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Scoring System for Trust Level Requirements Update: Based on this question, this answer, feedback on both, the original spec for trust levels, and lots of discussion in chat, I've posted a new specification for privileges-(Take-2)) on the wiki. Key differences: - All privileges are derived from scores based on your posts, suggested edits, ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How to remove a given tag from all questions where it is used? Our tag-management UI isn't that advanced yet. (We also don't yet have rename or merge.) Until we can fix that, please make a support request and an admin will make the change. You can make a meta "support" request or ping us in the moderators' chat pointing to the existing meta discussion. (In t... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Post action links that cannot be used should be hidden I'd like to move Close and Delete to the Tools menu (now that we have that menu). This menu is generated based on what you have the privilege to do, so that's a better place for these items. Doing this also reduces the number of options a user has to consider on each post. Flag should stay visib... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Tag updates, including tag hierarchies We have just pushed some updates related to tags. You will now see a "tags" link in the category bar (next to "posts"), which leads to a searchable list of all tags. Selecting an individual tag takes you to that tag's page, showing its description (if any) and the list of posts in that category wit... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Hot Network Questions like feature? I think a system where sites can somehow nominate questions for broader publicity would be helpful, but I don't think we want to repeat the mistakes SE made with hot network questions. We've talked about this some but haven't done anything about it -- there are other features that we think are highe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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The Codidact Vision This was previously posted on the forum and then the project wiki on 2020-02-02. Now that we have this blog, I'm reposting here for more, err, visibility. Codidact's goal is to enable communities of shared interests to come together and determine for themselves how they pool, share, and teach ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: A new Judaism community I think supporting divrei torah as a first-class feature alongside Q&A would be very helpful. On SE the only (on-site) mechanism for that is the self-answered question. Self-answered questions are useful when they are really questions that can thus invite additional answers, and we should continue ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How do we handle overlap? There is a community aspect to this that can be lost if we just think of questions as being things that fit into buckets (sites). A user might choose to ask a question on the "general" site instead of the specialized one because the person is part of the community on the "general" site. It's pretty... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Network-wide sign in created accounts for me on all sites even though I had no accounts there beforehand I don't think that visiting site A while logged in on site B should automatically create an account on site A, for at least two reasons: - Doing it inflates the list of users, making it harder to get a sense of how many people were actually interested enough to take that first step. For sites wit... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Newsletter #2 (June 2020) The following announcement was sent to subscribers of the Codidact announcements mailing list on June 17, 2020. It has been reformatted here. Hello! Thank you for following our project to build a place where communities can come together to share knowledge, a place that puts people first and emp... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Newsletter #1 (May 2020) The following announcement was sent to subscribers of the Codidact announcements mailing list on May 4, 2020. It has been reformatted here. Codidact, the open-source Q&A platform: by the community, for the community. Hello! Thank you for following our project to build a place where communities... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: The list of questions for a user should indicate the category the question is asked in We have a design for this; it's just not implemented yet. The user profile will show selectors (tabs) for each category plus "all" (the default). In the "all" view, posts will be labeled by category. Each post will also show its type -- currently we have questions, answers, and articles. You migh... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: An alternative approach to the view order of answers The Codidact functional specification calls for changes to answer ordering; we just haven't gotten that far in implementation yet. (Scroll down to the "Votes and Scores" section.) > For each question and answer we display raw upvotes and downvotes. This makes controversy visible. > > For each a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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How should we approach a programming site or sites? We have a suggestion for a site for professional coding, and software engineering and computer science also have some interest, and there are overlapping suggestions for cloud technologies and single-board microcontrollers. It seems likely that participants here have interests in other related are... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Help --> Site Information? That topic was meant to be disabled, but we hit a bug. It's gone now. That topic is meant to be an example starting point for people setting up a new site. We'll be making some improvements to the template. On this site, where you've already built out other help, it's redundant. You can now ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: New site setup process? We need to create some better "new community" documentation, but moderators will be able to do most of what you need, so first we have to identify the initial moderators. (Eventually each community will choose its own, but to get started we'll need to appoint two or three pro-tem moderators.) The d... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts I'm photosensitive and bright white backgrounds bother me too. Dark-mode themes tend to fail me in other ways, so I usually try to soften the bombardment of bright white pixels instead. In case it helps, I'll share my workaround. This is the CSS override I use, with the Stylus add-on, for Codidact... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members? We have to build awareness through word of mouth. And that's not about Codidact in general, and isn't always even about specific Codidact communities (though it can be). Sometimes tweeting a link to a specific, interesting question will get people to take a look who wouldn't have come to the such-a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Software Engineering && Mathematics && Computer Science This post covers three different proposed sites and has several upvotes, indicating some level of interest -- but it's hard to tell which parts. See also the recent proposal for Professional Coding, which overlaps two of the three proposed here. I'd love to see some well-developed proposals for tec... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Cooking Codidact site Target audience: explorers and experimenters A vibrant community around cooking will involve a lot of exploration and experimentation -- we're mostly going to be avid amateurs who are doing, or trying to do, great things in our kitchens at home. Sure, if restaurant chefs join us we'll welcome the... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Cooking Codidact site Fresh start I wasn't active on the SE site, so I don't know what the state of things is like there. But this site isn't being founded by SE people who want to emigrate; I see no discussion on their meta about moving, though there was some discussion of unhappiness a few months ago. Rather, this s... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Cooking Codidact site The comments indicate that we have a few people here who would be interested in participating. I think current events could make this a timely site -- more people are cooking more at home than previously and probably have questions. (I know I do, even though I'm an experienced cook.) To move for... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Speculative Science Alternate approach to data import The data-import code has now been improved, and it is now feasible to do multiple imports over time if we want to. I've also learned some lessons from the Writing site, which imported ten years' worth of content somewhat indiscriminately (my fault). I'm therefor... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Body preview of writing a question can appear differently than when posted... This happens because the preview is being rendered client-side by a JavaScript library, while the actual post is being rendered server-side using a Rails library. I've been told it's not feasible to use the exact same library in both places, but finding a way to resolve these differences (so they be... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Bug reports: meta.codidact.com or codidact.org? If you know that an issue is specific to our network and not the code, please use Meta. This could include things like editing the help or changing configuration settings. If you don't know (that's fine!), please report bugs on either Meta or GitHub, whichever you prefer. We monitor both, and if... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What should we do about tagging in Site Proposals? This answer builds on Peter's answer (thanks!). I think we need to approach tags along two axes. One is tracking status of proposals, as suggested by Peter. We did this informally when I added "status-launched" to the Photography post, but we can and should track status through earlier stages to... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Tabletop Role Playing Games I think this is a site that could do well here. RPGs are popular, numerous, and varied, and questions would also be varied -- questions about rules, questions about technique (playing a druid well, maintaining tension as a GM, designing resiliency to avoid TPKs, etc), questions about adventure desig... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Speculative Science Data Import Update: alternate proposal We already know that the data import should exclude questions tagged "magic", of which there are about 1800 (it's the fifth-most-popular tag). Reviewing the tag list there, I spotted a few others that we might want to exclude (this is just based on th... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Speculative Science What should the URL be? speculative-science.codidact.com is a bit of a mouthful. Is that ok? If not, what should we use instead? I'd be hesitant to make the main URL what-if.codidact.com, but that might be a reasonable redirect for whatever we come up with. Update: So far, consensus in c... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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What should we do about tagging in Site Proposals? We need to figure out tags in the "Site Proposals" category. I noticed that some proposals were tagged "suggestion" and some "new-communities" and started to replace the former with the latter, and then I stopped and said "wait, everything here is a suggestion for a new community!". For technical... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Speculative Science Category for (WB.SE) "hard science" questions The Worldbuilding community on SE has a hard-science tag. Use of this tag has special requirements for answerers, as described in a custom post notice: > This question asks for hard science. All answers to this question should be backed up by equat... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Photo-Video Codidact Site Here's where I think we are, based on my reading of all the answers and comments here. Please let me know if I've misunderstood anything. Categories would be basically as in this answer (noting that "blog" might actually be "resources" or something like that). For gear questions you can use the ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Error message contains a bad link for reporting the error I got an error while subscribing to a category and clicked on the "report on meta" link in the message. The link produced another error: Image alt text The link in the first error message points to https://writing.codidact.com/meta/ask. The "ask" button on meta is https://meta.codidact.com/ca... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |