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Should we add the enhancement from japanese.SE for furigana/ruby text here for adding Pinyin to hanzi?
Early in the history of japanese.SE one user created an enhancement that made it easy for editors to include phonetic spelling with Han characters. It was so popular that Stack Exchange took it and ...
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What's the future for the “Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese” page?
I've been pretty clear about my attitude towards the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese page for a while now.
It's obsolete. (It had many broken links, but I just edited.)
It's full of non-...
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What resources do you actively use to study Chinese, and why?
Resource questions are sometimes closed and redirected to Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese, but the number of links is a bit overwhelming. So...
Q: What resources do you actively use to study ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Alternative Stack Exchange sites for “not really about the Chinese language” questions
I thought I'd make a list of Stack Exchange sites which have questions related to the Chinese language.
Language-related...
--> Language Learning (+tag)
Language Learning Stack Exchange is for ...
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How do I make the following puzzle on-topic?
How do I make the following puzzle on-topic?
a. Just ask people to solve it.
b. Post the puzzle with the answer and ask which hint is not accurate
Recklessly run around
Make things up
A big mistake ...
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Weekly chatroom discussions/talk session(s)
The chat room has been quite ronery these days.
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in organizing a weekly discussions/talk sessions about things related to the Chinese language and ...
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What is the purpose, mission, or goal of Chinese Language SE?
I am a fairly new user of this stack exchange (active for only 1 week) and wish to ask a few re-occurring questions.
What is the purpose of this Stack Exchange?
What is this SE used for? Is it to be ...
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Resources for learning Chinese dialects: Should we centralize this like we did mandarin chinese
This is a question in the same light as Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: should we have it at all?
Most of these questions are scattered and not formatted or maintained to the same standard ...
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Dark mode for Chinese @ SE?
I was looking over Winter Bash 2020 on the Stack Exchange site. I noticed the following hat and requirement:
Flashlight.
Try Dark Mode
When you click about this hat the description says:
Have Dark ...
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Low Quality Score on Chinese
Some time ago, a question has been asked on JL&U stating that Writing a question in Japanese does not pass quality standards.
Well, I think we might have the same situation on this site, so I'd ...
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The new ask page “Step 1: Draft your question” has a few problems: what should we change it to?
When asking questions, we now have this message:
The community is here to help you with questions about Chinese language. Provide details and share research with your question.
See The new ask ...
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Why am I blocked for posting question?
When I want to post a question, I faced this page. I went through deeper, I recommended that I should edit my previous questions by checking all of them and make them better. I was shocked. My ...
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Are all questions checked and/or edited by moderators or editor before being posted?
I experienced once that someone asked me to reconsider my question before posting. I don't know "who" did that because I have a logical question to ask after I am sure about his.
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How can we request audio pronunciations?
Stack Exchange doesn't feature Soundcloud or audio. No offense, but Stack Exchange takes long time to add new features! Can we ask users to upload audio to websites like forvo.com?
For example, I want ...
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What languages count as Chinese?
In light of this question being hot on the meta now, my question is which languages/dialects/varieties are considered as 'Chinese language'? Obviously we include Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, etc. I'm ...
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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: resource eviction
In the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese thread, there are useless resources, e.g.: (a) some guy wrote an app back in 2004, and it hasn't been maintained since, or (b) a predatory company copies ...
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Synonymize [taiwan] and [taiwanese] tags?
The two tags seem definitely redundant.
taiwan, 53 questions, tag excerpt: "Questions related to the varieties of Chinese spoken in Taiwan."
taiwanese, 10 questions, tag excerpt: "...
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Can we have more relevant options to the “belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network” close reason?
Currently the only option available in the "belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" menu is chinese.meta.stackexchange.com.
That's definitely not exhaustive. Other items in ...
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Can we have a “Not about the Chinese language” close reason?
As the title says.
Questions that are not about Chinese are infrequent, but they do pop up from time to time. Some common cases are:
askers who are unfamiliar with asian languages and ask questions ...
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Why were these two flags declined?
I raised a "comment no longer needed" flag on the comment to this question: How is “戚” Being Used as a Standalone Verb to Mean “Feel”? [closed]
I will once the system lets me- there's ...
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PSA : Taiwan's Ministry of Education's 國語辭典 comprises mistakes
I thought to blazon this warning.
I use 國語辭典 often but would not call it "authoritative." It contains a lot of mistakes. Be aware of this fact when consulting the dictionary. I might still ...
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Why don't users cast votes?
Prompted by this question, I considered that there is an abysmal lack of vote-casting in Chinese.SE
By looking at the voters stats, it looks like there's basically two active voters on Chinese.SE. Two....
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Synonimize [word-order] to [syntax]?
Syntax is defined as (emphasis mine):
[...] the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences (sentence structure) in a given language, usually including word order.
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New tag: academic?
There was a request to add the tag "academic" with this explanation:
Questions related specifically to the process of Chinese language studying, e.g. in a school or university.
"academic" sounds ...
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Should we add a Classical (and/or Literary) Chinese resource section to “Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese”?
The current central resource question is focussed on Modern Chinese. Should we add a Literary and/or Classical Chinese section?
Alternatively, should we just add a link to the current Classical ...
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Is there a way to typeset the variants of 起?
I'd like to edit both the Mainland and Taiwanese 起 variants into the title of Can 起 be written in two different ways? to make it clear what the question is about from reading the title. However, I ...
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Is preforming a survey on topic?
From time to time, some users would post a survey to gather some statistics. For example, "How many Chinese characters an average Chinese know?"
The table below contains 71 idioms. Native ...
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Are requests for resources on-topic?
It seems there is mixed guidance about this.
Current situation
On meta, it's possible to find a few, very old threads about this:
Questions about resources for learning chinese
FAQ: What is On topic ...
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FAQ: What is On topic and Off topic on this site?
On this site, what questions are considered to be on-topic and what questions are instead off-topic?
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How Physics.SE handles “resource recommendation question”
This post is just a reference, and food for thought. Maybe we can adapt some of these ideas.
Their policy is described here:
See my answer here for the
rationale behind this policy
Note that this ...
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August 2020: survey of the off-topic close reasons at language-related Stack Exchange sites
Heading towards streamlining closure, I went through and categorized the current off-topic the close reasons at the language-related sites (using this Data Explorer query thanks to Glorfindel).
Take-...
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Merge [structure] into [sentence-structure]? What about [constructs]?
It seems to me that these tags are about the same thing. The dominant tag is sentence-structure with 243 questions and a tag wiki excerpt:
Questions concerning the types of words and phrases which ...
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Reaffirming consensus: Posts are permitted in both English and Chinese
I'd like to reaffirm an 8-year-old consensus [+4/-0] about posting in Chinese and English, which led to this on the on-topic page:
Should I post in English or Chinese?
Questions and answers can be ...
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Are questions on specific topolects on topic?
I am thinking about researching some various Chinese topolects (方言).
Are questions on the grammars and vocabularies of Wu, Hakka, Cantonese etc on topic here?
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Chinese Language's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the three new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Is Tangut (“an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language”) on-topic?
This is motivated by the question here: How to solve the final round of 2020 China National Linguistics Olympiad?
Question: Is Tangut on-topic?
Chinese.SE Meta (here) is the appropriate place to have ...
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Is idiom puzzle game on-topic?
I posted 2 idiom puzzle games and asked for suggestions on improving the hints because I am a native Chinese speaker, some hints I feel are obvious may be too hard for non-native speakers. A user ...
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When editing posts, is it okay to remove expressions like “I'm a native Chinese”?
While editing, I frequently come across posts introduced by the typical disclosure:
I'm a native Chinese speaker
...or one of the many variants. Then the post proceeds to answer the original ...
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Burninate [readers] tag?
The readers tag has 5 questions, and no tag wiki excerpt:
Is there a place to find extremely simple stories?
What book is this passage from?
https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/21525
What ...
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Synonymize [regional-variation] to [topolect]?
The current tag wiki excerpt of topolect is:
Questions regarding regional variants of the Chinese language.
which is spot-on. The definition of the word "topolect", specifically applied to ...
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Merge [poem] into [poetry]?
I propose merging the tag poem (4 Qs) into poetry (48 Qs) (thereby getting rid of the poem tag). Again, this seems about as obvious as it gets. I'm mostly just posting this for the record.
I guess ...
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Merge and synonymize: [personal-pronouns] -> [pronouns]
I propose merging and synonymizing personal-pronouns (5 Qs) into pronouns (19 Qs) (thereby getting rid of the personal-pronouns tag).
To me, this seems about as obvious as it gets. I'm mostly just ...
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Can we pick another question for the tour page?
The current question on the tour page is was What are the common ice-breaker sentences in Chinese?. I see multiple issues with it:
It functions as an advert for ChineseHulu.com.
The question is ...
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Streamlining question closure: approximate roadmap
This is a rough outline of what I'd like to see in terms of closure reform. It will take time. It'll probably evolve with feedback as the process proceeds.
Stage 1: collate available information.
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Burninate [doraemon] tag?
I'm going to bet that this burnination request is not controversial. Nevertheless I'll pay my respects to my fellow users.
This tag is used in 7 questions (4 of which are closed) by the same asker, ...
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Burninate [gender] tag?
Currently there are 6 questions tagged gender.
I feel the tag is very narrow and used in a somewhat inconsistent way (see below). It can be better represented by other tags. In particular:
Does ...
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How can we tidy up the [etiquette], [politeness], [social-norm], and [formalities] tags?
I don't think we need all of the tags: etiquette (9 Qs), politeness (20 Qs), social-norm (9 Qs), and formalities (20 Qs). I'd like to get it down to one tag that encompasses all these concepts, if ...
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Which topics should be redirected to other SE sites?
This post is about deciding which topics should be asked in Chinese Language SE. There are several colliding topics with other SE sites.
These correspond to the following tags in the Chinese Language ...
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Why are questions asking for personal opinions (opinion-based) off-topic?
I would like to understand the reasons why questions asking for subjective opinions such as personal approaches for learning Chinese (see for example Is it common to learn individual characters before ...