Unanswered Questions
65 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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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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5answers
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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0answers
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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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0answers
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July 2020: survey of comments on questions containing the substring "close"
Using this Data Explorer query, I searched for comments that contain the string close on questions. I went through them manually, and took a snippet from each relevant comment.
This is just a ...
5
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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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0answers
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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, ...