Timeline for Improving question closed banners for most users - short wording needed for site specific reasons
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| Jan 31 at 16:57 | history | edited | BeastOfCaerbannog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
used quote formatting to make screenshots stand out a bit, otherwise they blend in with the text; added examples and proposals to unordered lists to somewhat break the wall of text; added some formatting to highlight the mentioned cases; separated examples part and proposals part
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| Jan 29 at 12:50 | history | edited | JNatStaffMod |
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| Dec 10, 2021 at 15:32 | answer | added | CatijaStaff | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 10, 2021 at 5:54 | answer | added | CatijaStaff | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 6:56 | history | edited | ZannaMod |
If this seems okay, can we please have https://askubuntu.com/admin/flags/site-specific-close-reasons edited to replace the generic text in "close description" with the "short version" for each reason in this post? If you prefer it can go between "Closed" and "It is not currently accepting answers"
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| Dec 8, 2021 at 2:42 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @RandomPerson the link is already in the long version of the reason. Remember, we're just trying to give people an idea of what's going on - the OP will get the long version with the helpful link that they might need. I don't want to put the same link again in the short version. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 18:32 | comment | added | Random Person | Zanna, probably we can have a detailed post in Ask Ubuntu about how to report bugs and we can link it in the close notice. There's already this post: askubuntu.com/q/5121, but I am not sure if it is up to date and I cannot see anything about snaps in the answers. | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 3:56 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I changed the reason not to mention Launchpad... I don't like this close reason | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 3:56 | history | edited | ZannaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2021 at 14:34 | comment | added | user535733 | @Zanna I think there will be many opinions on "Close: Bug," and no easy solutions. I view the problem as a learning-gap or documentation issue -- we should not need to re-explain to every querant the process of searching for and reporting a bug. The Wiki should be doing that and Tutorials should be doing that. My opinion is that the Ubuntu community seems to lack the documentation for us to link to in the short close blurb. | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 14:17 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @RandomPerson I have added the link for the releases wiki to the EoL short reason | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 14:16 | history | edited | ZannaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2021 at 14:15 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @user535733 is this a bigger problem? Perhaps we could change it to "should be reported as a bug". Or, perhaps we should stop closing such questions since many bugs are long lived and it would be good if people could find workarounds etc here ;) | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 14:13 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @RandomPerson the "off-topic" text in the not about Ubuntu reason already links to the on-topic page, which is the same page that lists the official flavors, so I don't think we should link to it twice. | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 14:04 | comment | added | user535733 | "Bugs should be reported to Launchpad:" Often it is indeed Launchpad, but sometimes --particularly with Snaps-- it's elsewhere. Also, many bugs have already been reported, and re-reporting bugs is wasted effort for everybody. I am concerned that the short version (and the current version) mislead and confuse too often. | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 6:45 | comment | added | Random Person | @Zanna Adding the Ubuntu wiki link would be great. Also, it would be nice if we provide a link regarding Launchpad (like this: askubuntu.com/q/5121). Also, some new users might not know what the official flavours of Ubuntu are. It would be great if we also add a relevant link regarding that. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 17:34 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @RandomPerson I agree with you. Considering the matter under discussion in this post directly, it would be possible for the short text to link to the Ubuntu release schedule wiki page as the long version does. Do you think that would be worthwhile? | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 12:29 | comment | added | Random Person | "old unsupported release"... the question which many might ask is what are the old unsupported releases. Anyway, the help center articles will guide them, but I think it's time we discuss about EoL/EoSS in a different post in the near future. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/1466693707562897411 | ||
| Dec 3, 2021 at 4:58 | comment | added | cocomac | @Zanna Thanks, it looks amazing! I don't mind the pings, they are there for a reason, after all | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 4:56 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @cocomac (sorry for the double ping) I have added the link to the Help Center back into my text for each reason | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 4:56 | history | edited | ZannaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 17:50 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @cocomac yes the text can have links - the current text has one in fact - to the Help Center! Perhaps all of my suggestions should be added to the existing text rather than replace it | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 17:03 | comment | added | cocomac | I fully agree. I don't know if this is possible, but in the short description, having a link to the help center might be useful | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 16:18 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Dec 2, 2021 at 11:18 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | Very good suggestions, and I agree on the wording of each. 👍 | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 9:13 | history | asked | ZannaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |