Unanswered Questions
52 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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1answer
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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 ...
12
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2answers
459 views
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 ...
9
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2answers
178 views
Why is the main site entitled “Chinese Language” rather than “Chinese Languages”?
As there are so many different spoken Chinese languages (i.e. topolects, e.g. Mandarin, Min, Cantonese etc.) and a few written Chinese languages (e.g. classical Chinese and various dialects of written ...
7
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1answer
150 views
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 ...
7
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0answers
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How to keep improving this site
We have had a steady increase in the number of visits to our site over the past few months and I want to highlight some of the ways that we can continue to improve and maintain a healthy site.
Voting
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7
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5answers
287 views
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 ...
6
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0answers
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Improved IME Handling, re-enabling Enter to submit
In the past there was an issue (reported here) where pressing the Enter key to select an IME suggestion would also submit the comment.
The good news is that we believe to have found the proper way to ...
6
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0answers
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Proposal to drop “& Usage” from the site title
Update 11/25: Thanks for your feedback! We're going to go ahead and drop "& Usage" from the site title. The header image and the "official" language around the site (in the help center and about ...
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0answers
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
4
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0answers
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Someone seems to be copy/pasting question titles to Quora without attribution
It seems someone is reposing question titles from Chinese.SE onto Quora. The questions are all "authored" by Dex Jackson at Quora. (This same user was reported months ago on meta.SE.)
The ...
4
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0answers
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Comparing our post scores with our peer sites
I adapted some Data Explorer queries to compare our post scores with our peers (questions and answers): see plots below.
I included posts created since 2019 (i.e., in 2019 or in 2020 up to the last ...
4
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0answers
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Let's edit away “this sentence” from titles
Examples of "this sentence" in titles:
Help in this sentence
Is this sentence ambiguous?
What does this sentence mean
Does this sentence sound awkward?
Help me translate this sentence
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4
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0answers
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Moderator Pro Tem Nouncement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
4
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0answers
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Voice Chat Suggestion
Krazer and I were dicussing in chat today the most important aspects of language learning.
We both agreed that while chat/QA/learning characters is important, it's the ability to speak that will take ...
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0answers
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July 2020: survey of the on/off-topic posts on Chinese.SE meta
This is just a reference post: I went through the Chinese.SE meta posts about on/off-topic-ness, and summarized (what I feel are) the important points below. The mark [****] indicates items I feel we ...
