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Ask Ubuntu Review Tasks (beta)
I think that the new Review Tasks is an excellent idea to clean the system of duplicates, dead questions, low quality, etc.
I have noticed while reviewing, that some answers have already been ...
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Tag synonym request: [library]->[libraries]
library has 15 posts, and libraries also has 15 posts. They should be merged into libraries, as both tags have fairly similar questions about missing libaries.
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Should there be a vtc option for "I'm convinced this user is a sockpuppet"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it allowed to have multiple AU accounts, intentionally, without having them merged?
For example I provide chat logs:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/...
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Include number of comments in question preview
I suggest the following change to the way questions are displayed on the homepage: In addition to showing the number of upvotes, number of answers, and number of views, we also include the number of ...
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Why don't we have a Community Wiki Section or a Community wiki tag in Questions menu for their easier access
There are questions with excellent answers and descriptions marked as Community wiki. The problem I found,
How to search and access them in Ask Ubuntu or for that matter in Meta too. (don't suggest "...
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Using Wayback Machine of internet archive
I have read on a different meta post that there is a system being implemented to fix bad links systematically. Could it be set up to automatically use the Wayback machine to automatically redirect ...
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Flag Declining: Use of the Stock Canned Responses
To be extremely precise in what I'm targetting this to, so you know I'm not against all the canned responses:
I agree with the first and third canned responses. I have a problem with the use of the ...
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Answered tab in the home page of Ask Ubuntu
Can we have a tab labeled "Accepted", like "Active", which will show recently accepted answers (including all at the end).
I am asking this because in heavy moderation time, there are questions ...
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Official canonical questions list
Could there possibly be a [canonical-answer] moderator-only(or otherwise officiated) tag on the main site to single out good canonical questions? Currently, a list of canonical questions is hidden ...
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Community Wiki bounties should be split
I believe that bounties that are awarded to community wiki questions should be split according to the work done by each user(See the percentages under any community wiki answer to get this data) ...
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Line breaks in markdown
I have been seeing new users who copy/paste code or information into posts not add extra newlines(or even type without extra newlines) and make posts hard to read, wasting the time of a moderator or ...
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Mentor program for Ask Ubuntu(Read: StackExchange)
Is there a possibility of creating a mentor program where an experienced user helps one or two specific users to get used to the site and its operations? When I had signed up, the complex reputation ...
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Finding questions that other questions have been closed as a dupe of
Is there a way to find questions with a high closed as dupe points here count?
If there were, I think it would be a great way to get a list of questions for people with close-votes without as much ...
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Chat bot to annoy us with questions from SU
This is a proposal. We have chat bots that annoy us in feed AUGR with new questions tagged ubuntu from U&L. Why not have one that feeds from SU.
I noticed some useful questions on SU tagged ...
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How to proceed with a feature request?
I have made a feature request recently in meta. You can find it at How about page numbers on the top of pages as well? .
Do I just leave it there or are there any specific steps that I should do in ...
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Should users be able to flag comments as obsolete that they have previously upvoted?
I understand why I cannot flag a comment I've upvoted. When I upvote a comment, it means I think it is of especially high quality.
But an especially high quality comment can become obsolete (for ...
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Name change history
It would be nice if there was something like a name change history. Many users change their display names and then it becomes difficult to recognise them. So having such a feature will be certainly ...
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Should new users be restricted from using comments within the questions they ask?
The faq for Ask Ubuntu ... as well as, I assume, all of the Stack Exchange sites (?) ... states in the "How Do I Ask Questions Here?" section
If other users ask you for more information in the ...
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Can we add 'Vote History' back to our Ask Ubuntu profile page?
I want to view my voting history on my profile page here on Ask Ubuntu. How do I do this?
Judging from this Meta Stack Overflow question, this functionality existed and was removed 'for some reason'....
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Should there be a tab in the review pane for 'someone voted to close'
Should there be a tab in the review pane for 'someone voted to close'/'needs close votes'/'partially closed' or something?
It would make finding the partially closed questions a lot easier before ...
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Wouldn't it make sense to create and promote a 'new-user' tag?
With the upcoming release of Ubuntu 12.04 and the attention ubuntu got on tech blogs lately it's very likely IMO, that ubuntu will get a lot of new users (even if it's just people trying).
Since a ...
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Social Networks: Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?
Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?
For instance:
gwibber (notifications)
facebook, google+ (as new on my wall)
twitter (as tweets)
email (ugh.. all that spam)
rss......
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Google Code Prettify support for Ask Ubuntu?
Reading this answer I've realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on Ask Ubuntu like we have on Stack Overflow.
Since we agreed that we welcome Ubuntu development questions I think we ...
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Could a suggestion appear when users type a non-question title?
A problem
Looking at titles on the Newest Questions page today, I'm not seeing many questions:
"I have two top panels in Ubuntu for some reason"
"Performance Test Software"
"Feedback for 11.10"
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Should tags without description be allowed?
I just earned the create new tag privilege and this made me curious to check out the current NEW tags created. For my surprise I noticed that there are quite a few tags without description.
I know ...
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Notifications of flags
I want to get notifications of stuff that I flagged.
I would like to know:
What question/answer it's about
If it was declined or accepted
I want this notification on askubuntu.com
Possible ...
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What about using a "poor-english" tag?
I'm not sure if the Meta is the right place for sharing ideas, but I couldn't find any better one (let me know if I should have proposed it somewhere else).
What I would like to suggest is to mark ...
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Possible to split a bounty or award a partial bounty?
How do we award a partial bounty?
And how would we split a bounty up between several users?
And (3): I believe the two above are not possible, so is this the right place to ask for an enhancement of ...
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"Revision History" link
Rather than having the current system, where in a question or answer the revision history link is the "Edited ago" text, wouldn't it be less confusing to add a link called "Revisions" or "Revision ...
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moving question-related discussions from comments to chat seems pointless, destroys clarifying information
After a bit of fact finding back and forth in the comments about a fix-it question, the site will now display something like:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to
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Ask Ubuntu for mobile
I was away from my home computer and I wanted to check Ask Ubuntu for any notifications, so I decided to check from my mobile phone. The interface isn't too bad for browsing on a mobile phone but it ...
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How to defend against negative incorrect votes
I have received a negative vote today for no apparent reason (Sorry for my English written skill, am from Venezuela) and i was wondering is there some kind of anti vote system that checks or at least ...
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How can we make citing AskUbuntu easier?
With Ubuntu redirecting Ubuntu wiki pages to AskUbuntu, we have an issue regarding copyright and attribution. Supposedly AskUbuntu, the Ubuntu wikis, the Ubuntu Manual, and the Ubuntu Desktop Guide ...
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Clean-Up Week - Event planning
We (your moderators) have been mulling over an idea for a good way to deal with old, unanswered and unanswerable posts. We've been in discussion with the StackExchange team and while we're a long way ...
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Can we have a community blog?
Can we also have an AskUbuntu community blog like superuser.com?
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Show asker AND editor
This is a suggestion: when we have the list of questions on screen, we can see below each of them the name of the asker, unless it has been editted by someone, situation in which we can read the name ...
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Should we add OSS ads (targeted at users)?
There is this question "Should we add the SE network OSS ads?" about whether to re-use the SE ads which aim at gathering new developers. One of the comments is that those ads aren't a good match for ...
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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?
Stack Overflow offers free, vote based ads for open source projects. They seem to refresh them regularly, here's the latest thread for this iteration.
I tried 2 experiments when they opened this time ...
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Should we create a wish-list tag?
I know that its not the scope of this forum, but I see some answers being provided by developers of the said applications, and it would be a good place for the average user to post them, and another ...
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Please disable displaying a tag at the start of page titles
I'm sure many of us have noticed this recent change across all Stack Exchange site, where the most popular tag is displayed at the front of page titles (as displayed in search engines, and in the ...
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HTML in questions but not comments?
Why is it that we can use HTML markup and entities in questions but not in comments? Shouldn't they be the same?
Testing markdown here, italic, bold... well, that seems to work.
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Migration Paths?
Migration paths allow for questions to be moved from Ask Ubuntu to other sites in the Stack Exchange network. The idea is that rather than simply closing questions as being "off-topic", then the ...
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Comes ask Ubuntu in different languages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
I am native speaking german. Would be great to have this site in my language.
What should I do?
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Stack Exchange chat via Pidgin, Empathy, etc?
Is there any way to connect to Stack Exchange chat rooms in Pidgin or Empathy or a different chat program?
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Allow formatting in tag wiki headers.
(This might be stack generic so this might belong on meta.SO, but then again it might only be interesting to AU so...)
In my never ending quest to get more existing teams in Ubuntu to use Ask I am ...
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Twitter question intro too long and wordy
I want to start tweeting the good questions and answers, when I did one the tweet text came out like this:
Stack Exchange Ubuntu Q: Unity crashes when I move the cursor over it. http://t.co/AnkE8RL
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Software package installation Icon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change the software icon
In regards to The package installation problem. it's become clear we would like to add a custom launching icon that can be used to open the apt.ubuntu....
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Per tag sidebar links?
I've noticed that on this page on stackapp there's a handy sidebar with links under "Get Started"
I was wondering if it was possible to get on Ubuntu SE with individual tags, so that for example when ...
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Should we target Social Media?
Update
This project as been added to GitHub the current planning board is on PivotalTracker
With the recent addition of this question: Gwibber and OAuthcalypse I began realizing an opportunity to ...
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Where is the link back?
Where is the link back to ubuntu.stackexchange.com from meta.ubuntu.stackexchange.com?
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