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Activity for Mithical
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A: Pluralization typo in Help Center page "Guidelines for referencing and quoting" Fixed, thanks. I also took the opportunity to add a line about AI-generated content while I was editing that page. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
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A: Buggy text in Cooking site's help center I've fixed this - it looks like either that placeholder was never replaced or it was overwritten at some point and we didn't notice (we had an overwriting issue a few months or so ago that possibly could have caused this). As a side note, for anything only applicable to one Codidact community, suc... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Could we adopt the domain “.cd”? This would require that we purchase a new domain for each community hosted on our network. As a non-profit project funded by donations, that's not a commitment we can make, nor the best use of the resources we do have. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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Add pending suggested edits to the dashboard The Dashboard is an easy way to get an overview of the whole network at a glance; on a single page, you can see where there's been new activity that you haven't seen yet, on a category-by-category basis, and global moderators and admins get an overview of all flags on the network. It'd be great if... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
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How do we want to organize the help center? Jon Ericson raised an interesting point in a recent Meta post: > I don't understand how the help page is organized. Oh wait! It's alphabetical by the title of the article. That's why "Advanced formatting help" comes before "Formatting Posts". I can sorta understand the difference between "Site Inf... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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Recent outages and site reliability improvements We've recently been having some trouble with the uptime of the Codidact Network, with the entire network going down and becoming unavailable for stretches of time. The most egregious case was from November 17–18, 2023, when the network was down for a period of roughly 15 hours. Since then, we'v... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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Please review a new Accessibility Statement and Accessibility Policy Here at Codidact, we believe that everyone deserves to have access to information and to be a part of a community. "Everyone" includes people with disabilities, and so that means making our site and posts as accessible as possible. To make that clear to everyone, I've put together the following do... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: How do I "answer" a feature request or a bug report? In addition to what Monica wrote, yes, a bug report or a feature request is indeed a "call-to-action to the developers", and as such can only really be answered by the developers. Let me introduce you to the developers of the network: You. The entire platform is open-source and volunteer-devel... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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Add an explicit Markdown syntax for decorative images When uploading an image on a Codidact community, users are prompted to add alt text - a text alternative to an image - for that image. If they go to submit a post without doing so, or when submitting a post with blank alt text, they are reminded with a link to the help center page on alt text. How... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: How to import my StackExchange questions into Codidact? Welcome to Codidact! This option refers to large-scale data imports that we performed on a couple communities - such as Writing and Outdoors - when we first started in 2019. However, we soon discovered that importing content wasn't good for us for multiple reasons, including making community-build... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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A: Probationary shadowban for new accounts I'm not quite sure what you mean by "shadowban", but this does pretty much exist already. Most communities on the network - I believe all of them except for Electrical Engineering at the moment - currently have "new site mode" enabled, which grants all new users the Participate Everywhere ability,... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
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Advanced formatting help Posts on Codidact, including questions, answers, articles, tag wikis, help pages, and user profiles, support the use of the following HTML tags: - `a` - `p` - `span` - `b` - `i` - `em` - `s` - `strong` - `hr` - `h1`, `h2`, `h3`, `h4`, `h5`, `h6` - `blockquote` - `img` - `strike` - `de... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Referencing Stack Exchange progress on profiles We are not Stack Exchange. While we share some ideals with SE, and have a similar Q&A-based system, the two platforms operate differently and with differing goals. The feature sets are different, certain policies are different, and experience from one will not directly translate into experience on... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center Done. I've also fixed several typos while I was at it, as well as some general rewording for clarity. I've also added a section to that doc about why some users may earn the "Participate Everywhere" Ability immediately upon joining the community. As far as I'm aware, all communities except for Ele... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: After I logged in, 418 STAT ERROR. "Please re-enable the encryption protocol." You seem to have run afoul of one of our system blocks. This particular system is usually engaged by a pattern of poor behavior across multiple accounts. While I can't detail exactly how this system works, and what causes it, the best way to avoid getting trapped by it is to avoid getting involved... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Feature request: direct messages I don't believe this is something that we're considering for the general userbase, for several reasons. Our mission The mission of the Codidact Network is to provide a space for communities to share, maintain, and curate an information repository, through tooling and support specialized for the... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded This has been fixed, thank you. I've restored it to the version last updated on March 9th, 2023, according to my local files from when we were making changes at the time. (Although since it only went live on the 16th, according to the blog, I've adjusted the date to properly show when the last update... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Do these comments follow our Code of Conduct? No, these comments are not in line with the text or spirit of the Code of Conduct. I've gone ahead and removed or edited these particular cases. A couple notes: Please don't call out individuals in public. The original revision of this question called out the author by name, in public; please ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: What do we do with suspected AI users? As with most other suspected violations of site policy, please raise a moderator flag. The mods can then look into it, and escalate it to the Codidact Team if necessary. The mods and admins can then evaluate if it's actually AI-generated (or if we're confident enough to take action), and then remove ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: What should I do when I come across PII in a post? We've just released a new feature that allows for redaction of revision histories. This feature was originally developed by @Taeir for use in his university's private instance in order to redact cases where students would post exam answers. After some discussion, where we decided that this would b... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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What should I do when I come across PII in a post? Sometimes, posts can accidentally contain personal information that shouldn't be out on the internet, such as real names, real IP addresses, home addresses, or other pieces of PII (Personally Identifiable Information). As a user, I can edit the post to remove it (or suggest an edit), but even then... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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Move featured links to the "inactive" section once their end date has passed When featuring links on the sidebar, moderators have the option of setting a start and end date for when that link will be featured. This works properly; once the stated date is past, that link will no longer show up as featured in the sidebar. However, it does still show up in the "active" sectio... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Inconsistent use of "abilities" and "privileges" I believe that this is actually intentional and not a bug, because these pages serve different purposes. The /abilities page shows the abilities you can earn through your usage of the community. That's user-oriented, and part of the Abilities feature set. The /priveleges page, though, is a bit ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Is there a test community where you can try out Codidact functionality without bothering people? Yes. We have two testing environments, https://a.dev.codidact.org/ and https://b.dev.codidact.org/. These are used for testing out new features and fixes before they go live on production, so you may have a slightly different experience, but it can also be used as a sandbox for testing things out. Th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Images fail to load when previewed or saved We've just done a migration on the backend of where the images are being hosted (moving from old infrastructure to the dedicated Codidact infrastructure). This should just be a caching issue for now; if it lasts much longer, I'll poke the relevant people with sharp sticks. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Clarifying Codidact's position on AI-generated content Given recent controversies on various platforms involving AI-generated content, which have resulted in some attention being directed towards our platform, we wanted to clarify where we stand when it comes to this issue. Presenting AI-generated content as your own work is a violation of our policie... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Contributor Spotlight: samcarter, Power [Users] Moderator It's time for the next edition of our Contributor Spotlight series, in which we highlight community members who contribute to various aspects of our project, as a way of showing appreciation and recognizing the hard work that people are putting into this project. In this round, we're spotlighting sam... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors Writing and Outdoors both originally imported content from Stack Exchange, which was licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0[^1]. As such, they needed to have that license available on those posts. Since then, the vast majority of the imported posts have been removed, and I agree that it doesn't make sense to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Does "site" mean "community" or "Codidact" on License field? "site" in this instance currently refers to the individual community. Yes, this should be standardized; we generally use "community" for each subdomain and "network" for all the communities hosted on .codidact.com (and Collab). "Codidact" can be ambiguous; it can refer to the network, to the organ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Contributor Spotlight: Taeir, open-source dev This is the next installment of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. This time, I'm directing the spotlight at Taeir, who started contributing recen... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Any self-hosting devs here? Questions about self-hosting or running your own Codidact instance can be asked on Codidact Collab. We spun up that site to host questions and answers about the software running our platform. There are definitely people running their own instances of our software; I know that at least @Taeir is do... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Mentioned `d` shortcut not yet showing or working The "d" keyboard shortcut follows the syntax of other keyboard shortcuts that take you to a different page. Pressing the "g" key - the "go to..." shortcut - and then "d" will take you to the dashboard. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Contributor Spotlight: Alexei, Software Development moderator This is the next installment of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. This time, I'm directing the spotlight at Alexei, one of our moderators on Soft... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Process for fixing a typo on codidact.org You can either raise an issue on GitHub or post a bug report here on Meta. Even the smallest of bug reports are appreciated, and that includes typos. You can also make a pull request directly to fix the problem - don't worry that it's a small change. I don't know when it will be deployed, because... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Contributor Spotlight: sau226, sysadmin This is the second of an ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. In this edition, we're putting the spotlight on sau266, one of our more behind-the-scenes... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Contributor Spotlight: Moshi, Languages & Linguistics moderator As a way of highlighting contributions made by our community members, this is the first of a hopefully ongoing series of blog posts highlighting individual contributors to the Codidact Project, as a way of drawing attention to the hard work that people are putting in and saying thank you. In this ina... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content Caveat: This is from my personal perspective and should not be taken as the official Codidact stance on this. Your profile is your personal space: You get to decorate it how you like, more or less. If you want to put up posters of your favorite band, or your preferred political candidate... th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Warn people rather than sending notification for inappropriate link/texts in profile We attempted to reach out via Discord DM to notify you of the issue - doing it publicly, such as via comments, wasn't the way we wanted to go about addressing this. Unfortunately, there was no response to the Discord DMs that were sent, and we really didn't want to leave a link to a porn site live... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: "You need to select a reaction type." But I see no reaction? Languages & Linguistics Codidact does not currently have any reactions enabled. This means that when you go to react to a post, there are no available reactions, and so you can't actually react. I'm aware that it's confusing to show the "react" feature when you can't actually use it; we should pro... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Actively investing in non niche network websites We don't just spin up communities about topics that interest us personally - all new communities go through the Site Proposal process here on Meta. The process includes making sure that there is a minimum number of people committed to using the proposed new community. If you believe that these topics... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Accessibility: What can we do better? As part of our mission to be a place where communities are fully supported, one of our goals is to make sure our site is accessible for everyone. With that in mind... what can we do better, accessibility-wise? What should we keep in mind going forwards? Are there any features that would improve... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Can codidact be used separately from the codidact network with custom local user management? Yes, you can. Codidact’s platform is open-source for a reason. Anyone can clone the repositories and use the software however they want, provided that you follow the terms of the license that the source code is published under. If you have any questions or run into a problem getting your instan... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Why should site proposals require groups? Moderation isn't the only issue, although that's one aspect of it. We don't want to set out to create ghost towns. The point of making sure that there are people who are interested in a proposal before turning it into a full-fledged community is to ensure that there are people who contribute to it... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Proposal for reorganizing the Help Center Mithical here - the other documentation lead along with Sigma. A couple notes on this suggestion: Separating network vs. community help: I like that idea. As Sigma mentioned, there are a couple difficulties when we have help pages such as asking / answering guidance that both have similarities ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Has anyone seen my unicorn? The service we use to generate user avatars - Unicornify - is temporarily down. I've reached out to the person who runs the site, but he as of yet hasn't gotten back to me. Hopefully this'll be fixed soon. If not, we might have to consider either switching services or running Unicornify ourselves ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists I think it's worth showing in some way that there are multiple of each type of notifications - for instance, that there are four new comments in a single thread. It more clearly indicates what's new and what you need to catch up on. Maybe it'd be best to collapse notifications in such a way that y... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Sandbox to test formatting and other features? You can always take a poke around our dev testing site, which is currently located at https://a.dev.codidact.org/. While its main purpose is to serve as a place to test new features and break things, I don't see why it couldn't be used to test out other things. Having more content there of different ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How can I do a search across all of Codidact? Unfortunately, we currently don't have a network-wide search engine. I think this is the first time it's been brought up. If there's interest in such a feature, someone can write a feature request and it'll go through our process for handling those. In the meantime, though, your best bet is pro... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Chat feature for Moderators We eventually do plan on having integrated chat, including different access levels for different user groups (such as moderators). However, we do not have the resources (such as available developer time) currently to build one, so we're using Discord. Whether or not a question should be closed is ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Reputation is disappeared from user's card recently This was intentional; we're testing out deemphasizing reputation here on Meta. This was a decision by the Codidact Team. Of course, if it turns out that it's detrimental somehow to not show the reputation number, or if the community decides that they really want it back, it'll be reinstated. But w... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |