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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Edit | Post #276452 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #276420 |
Maybe it should just include native posts (which can mean new, native answers to imported questions, too). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276417 |
Yes, we want different kinds of guidance that are more targeted and thus (I hope) more useful for *that thing I'm trying to do right now*, alongside more general help. A new-user tour seems helpful if it shows the things one needs right away (and points out the help for more info). In time it will ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276393 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #276209 |
I think this approach would simplify things for all involved. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276330 |
Menorah? And I had the same thought about Jin over Shabbat! It'd be great if we could hire him to do a logo and banner for us. (Right now sites just have the small logos, but our design folks are exploring layouts that would give sites a full-width banner at the top, recognizing that we have to ac... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276334 |
We are planning to show user info (a la the "user card" on SE) that has better stats that just one number. Something like: number of posts of each type (or maybe just number of posts), approximate total score of answers (as a range not a precise number that people angst over when it goes down by 1), ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276301 |
Thanks for the brainstorming! And also the suggestion for the platform; I agree we should explore this. I like your brand suggestions, especially the cheeky one. :-) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276301 |
I agree in general, but I note that when *talking* about the site to prospective participants, a generic name doesn't work as well in phrases like "there's a great site that could help you with that, ..." or "I participate on ... and I think you'd really like it". Granted, this is a problem other Co... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276300 |
@binyomin yes, definitely tags! Tags are essential to organizing content. If you look at any of the sites in [our network](https://codidact.com/), you'll see tags in use. And for content we import, we'll import the original tags too. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276300 |
And SO *is* one programming site, with questions about Java and C# and PHP and Visual Basic and SQL and FranzLisp and... and most people ignore most of it. Sometimes there's critical mass for a specialization to spin off, but that doesn't mean those questions are no longer welcome on SO. SO is a bi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276300 |
@binyomin yes there's a difference; not everybody is going to have the same level of interest in all questions. That applies within "groupings" too; maybe you're focused on that gemara and don't really care all that much about this zohar or that Ibn Ezra on an obscure point of grammar in Vayikra or ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276292 |
@Harel13 if we put Purim Torah in a separate category, I think we can be a lot more flexible about timing. On Mi Yodeya we limited it because it sits alongside the serious Q&A; on Codidact we can do it differently if we want to. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276300 |
@binyomin text study, from the *pshat* from the *parsha* to understanding the *kal v'chomer* used in such-and-such place in the *g'mara* to the nuances of a Rambam etc -- that's all clearly Jewish. You expect to see it in a *beit midrash*. Questions about kashrut or Shabbat hospitality or *t'filah* o... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276300 |
We clearly want to support text and talmud questions; they're pretty core to Jewish study, as we've seen on Mi Yodeya. Could you say more about how narrowing the scope to only that helps? Is the concern that you can't find the content you want, that people will be distracted by other stuff and won't ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276280 |
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| Comment | Post #276289 |
If the issue with the referencer is that it has a lot of SE-specific stuff -- i.e. it needs to be updated to run here -- then perhaps this is an area where the community could help? It's a userscript (on SE) now; if somebody can turn it into a userscript that runs here, that's no greater a burden fo... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276296 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Edit | Post #276292 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Edit | Post #276260 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #276236 |
On your last paragraph, could you give an example? I'm trying to understand the granularity. Do you envision a question about, say, doing or faking multiple inheritance, with variations for C++, Java, Python, etc? Or do you mean something finer-grained, like a question about how to do something in... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276222 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #276214 |
@ArtOfCode I don't think we should be auto-creating per-site accounts; that should be an intentional action by the user. Adding an answer to elaborate. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276183 |
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| Edit | Post #276183 | Post edited | — | over 4 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #276183 |
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| Edit | Post #276183 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Edit | Post #276181 |
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| Edit | Post #276181 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Edit | Post #276180 |
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| Edit | Post #276180 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Comment | Post #276175 |
@Lundin there's a default license on all posts, which is what you get if you do nothing. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276175 |
Whoops, I thought we had that. Investigating. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276168 |
On SE I once proposed something to help the OP re-ask the question without all the cut/paste -- basically, show the on-topic info, user says "yes ask there", and we open the "create post" interface on the other site with the existing content pre-populated. There are some complications that have to b... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276163 |
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| Edit | Post #276163 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| Edit | Post #276139 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |