All Questions
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Why can't we comment on specific edits?
Why can't we comment on specific edits that are made on different questions or answers?
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Hebrew in comments and sidebars is too small to read
The current font used on site (Georgia) renders Hebrew letters smaller than their English counterparts (ooh, fancy word there). In posts, this causes no problems, as 15px is plenty large enough to ...
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Final Vote to name Mi Yodeya's chat room
We've had a number of good suggestions for our chat room's name, and the upvotes and downvotes on each showed that there are five favorites (answers with net vote count greater than one standard ...
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Why is it spelled mi yodeya? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
The name “mi.yodeya” should really be either “mi.yodey.a” or “mi.yodey-a”
Shouldn't it be instead mi yode'a (yodeya')? It is with an ...
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Contrast of the word “search” next to the expanded search box
On both Main and Meta, when you start typing into the Search box, and the box expands, the word "search:" next to the box is in white, which has a very low contrast with the light background.
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Can we have a nice 404 image for mi.yodeya? [closed]
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Design Ideas for 404, Captcha, and Error pages
Can we have a nice 404 image for mi.yodeya?
Right now it is kind of boring....
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formatting controls are missing for posts
In both Firefox 3.6 and IE 7 (yeah, I know -- corporate IT restrictions) on Windows XP, I am no longer seeing the buttons for formatting, link, etc above the textbox where you type posts. In Firefox ...
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Now that we graduated, should we do a blog?
We discussed making a blog in a previous post.
Now that we graduated, what do people think about starting an official Mi Yodeya blog?
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Where'd our community bulletin board go?
Our community bulletin board seems to have disappeared from the site. What happened?
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Favorite tag questions highlighting lacks contrast with tags
When you add a tag to your favorites, any question that has that tag is automatically highlighted in question lists, with the color #faf1e4. Problem is, the tags are almost exactly the same color ...
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Should we populate Shut on this site?
(Almost) by definition, questions found in Shut are the ultimate "on-scope" questions.
Should we populate questions with Shut (like start with Be'er Moshe [Igros Moshe forbade translations of his ...
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How to handle “clothesline for my cute vort” questions?
It's a common yeshivish style that rather than just say:
Rabbi X reads the verse as Y.
or:
Rabbi X reads the verse as Y. And I think that fits well with the wording of such-and-such.
...
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New Design Launched
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
If you're still seeing the old ...
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Planning Meeting on Monday night, May 7 for a Launch Party
Please come to Chat on Monday, May 7 at 10:00 pm EDT for a planning meeting for our Launch Party. You can register for the chat and get a doodad for your calendar here.
Purpose:
Plan a party to ...
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Can I recover the tags of my question before they were edited?
I would like to improve the tagging of my questions as I see that the tags are edited many times. Is there a way of comparing the new tags with the original tags without keeping a record of the ...
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Timely tags on the bulletin board
Inspired by the ideas presented at "A way to bring attention to timely questions?" and by the new existence of the "Community Bulletin" board, I've taken the liberty of combining the two ideas: ...
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The Privilege Page should show Rep Requirements for Post-Beta
There's a really informative page that anyone can visit describing the various levels of reputation along with the benefits conferred by reaching each milestone. Currently, because we are in beta, the ...
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Adding to a bounty
Suppose someone offers a bounty and i want to increase that bounty - is there a way to do that? If not is it possible to set it up that others can increase a bounty.
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Design for Mi Yodeya
Shalom! I'm Jin, I work on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic and culture. However, all ...
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Name Mi Yodeya's chat room
We've discussed naming our chat room before, but never came to a conclusion. Let's do this again, with two changes:
We now know that this site will be launched out of beta in about a week, B"H, ...
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Design Ideas for 404, Captcha, and Error pages
As you all know, StackExchange's resident designer, Jin, has informed us that our site is due for graduation soon. Jin has been really awesome about getting input and ideas from the community about ...
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Jewish Life and Learning self-evaluation: how ARE you doing? [closed]
Let's do another one of these. :)
There are lots of metrics we can use to "measure" a site, and we do, but none of them matter as much as having a healthy and happy site full of interesting questions ...
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Shall we have a launch party?
To promote our impending launch, I think it would be cool to have a launch party. Some elements that it could include:
Live text chat
Live audio
A call-in show format, using BlogTalkRadio.
People ...
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LAUNCH IS COMING! How shall we promote it?
Dear Fellow Yodeyans1,
I have exciting news for those of you who haven't been following chat for the past few days. It seems that Judaism.SE is slated to launch out of beta within the next few weeks! ...
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Systematic list of tags
As an answer, or perhaps multiple answers, to this question, should be a hierarchy of the tags used on the main site.
Here's a bare list, excluding synonyms, with * meaning the tag has been ...
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How do we review and clean up our tags?
When asking questions I usually take some reasonable guesses on tagging and then, most of the time, somebody comes along and adds tags that I didn't know existed. Part of this, at least for me, is ...
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Sefirat HaOmer tag
Right now the sefirat-ha-omer tag is used for both the mitzva deorayta of counting the Omer, as well as the unrelated period of mourning that happens to coincide with these days. The two are (at least ...
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Undo vote to close
Is there a way to undo a vote to close a question because you thought it was a dupe and then realized it wasn't?
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What is the right way to report follow-up information on a question?
Before Pesach I asked this question about ways to engage people at the seder. I received several good suggestions and attempted to implement some of them. I'd like to -- somehow -- update the ...
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Article about Judaism.SE in the YU Commnetator
Judaism.StackExchange.com and Embracing Online Torah Communities
The web version of the YU commentator was just published, and it includes a very positive article about Judaism.SE! The article was ...
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What does a rep loss for “user was removed” mean?
Today I lost rep with the following notation:
-10 8 mins ago removed User was removed
What does this mean? Some user had up-voted one of my answers (or two of my questions) and ...
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No Revival Badge?
A couple days ago I edited my answer to Shaving on Chol Hamoed, a question originally asked on 16 Oct 2011 and originally answered by me 38 days later on 23 Nov 2011. At the time of my edit both ...
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What to do with the meta tag
Our meta tag is for questions that belong on the main site but are also about it.
A Stack Exchange employee suggested in chat that that name, meta, for the tag is confusing, making it seem like that ...
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Asking unanswerable questions
Sometimes I feel like certain questions may be unanswerable, such as:
Moshe's mask and Purim
Facing Yerushalaim during Kaddish (especially before I revised it)
They are asking for sources that ...
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Is History of Chassidus part of Jewish Life and Learning?
Is History of Chassidus part of Jewish Life and Learning or is it too specific?
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What is our attitude to “list questions”?
There are a few questions on this site that are in the form of "List all ...". Are these questions on topic?
Founders of Jewish movements
Accurate list of Gedolim
List of Techelet Wearers
words ...
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What is the difference between twitter accounts?
What is the difference between http://twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/ and http://twitter.com/#!/mi_yodeya?
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Is a question about the Shetar Mechirat Chametz appropriate on J.SE?
I am in need of your help on a project that I am working on. I am attempting to translate the Yiddish phrases which can be found in the document used to sell chametz to a non-Jew into Hebrew. The ...
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Why can't we use mi.yodeya.com?
Why can't we use mi.yodeya.com in the address bar? It still says J.SE even after the upgrade!
Related to this question on meta.so: How does this SE site (beta) get custom domain & brand?
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Comment links within the same question [closed]
When I link to a comment within the same question, the link doesn't bring me to the comment itself unless I open it in a new tab/window. Can we fix that?
[I'm using Chrome 17.0]
EDIT: See here for ...
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Viability of recent Hebrew Language related question
This question was recently asked on the main site.
The FAQ says:
On the other hand, questions unrelated to Jewish life and learning, even if they are about...
other religions
Hebrew ...
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Need you have reputation to offer a bounty?
I saw the following text after a question, "This question has an open bounty worth +300 reputation from l ' ending in 3 days." I checked the identity of l '. S/he only has reputation of 34. Shouldn't ...
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Pets are animals too
In light of the current Weekly Challenge, two questions have been asked so far about pets. These questions used a new tag, pets. We already have a tag animals. Why both? I think questions about pets ...
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Site chat rooms listed as SE-network rooms
While in our chat room, click "leave", and the page you wind up on will be the "site" page (listing site-related chat rooms), but the site they're listed as being related to will be not JL&L but ...
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Restrict ads based on their content or the content of their linked-to pages?
After some discussion, we have established as site policy the following:
Please respect that in the Jewish tradition certain questions, especially certain questions relating to sexuality, are ...
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Very Few Answered Questions
It seems that at 2012-03-09 15:20 we had -137% of our questions answered. That's a little less than I would have expected, considering I have answered at least one!
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Community Wiki by default?
I've edited this answer 12 times, each time trying to improve it in some way. Suddenly it is marked as community wiki. Did a mod do this, or did I accidentally do this (by clicking on community wiki ...
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limit bounty range
How could it be that a user with reputation of 100 started 3 bounties 500 points each. Shouldn't the system check users reputation and bound his bounty range respectively?
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Why can't I edit posts on meta?
I have the required 500 rep on the main site so that I can edit posts, but why don't I see the edit link here on meta?
Main page screenshot:
Meta page screenshot:
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Auto avatar change and now not able to set it again [closed]
Some days ago one of the Mods removed my e-mail from here and set my avatar as default. I am looking for a strong reason why it happened. If I did anything wrong please let me know. Also, it seems I ...
