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My first question in Chinese.SE got -2 and closed with only five views? Can voters tell me why?
I have a question about my Chinese Language Stack Exchange post: Is there any composition in other language of the same period as good as this Chinese classics rendered into English?
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Ads test beginning week of January 13th, 2025
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Defacto rule to use both Simplified and Traditional Chinese in Chinese Language SE
大家好 (Hello everyone),
I am a non-Native Chinese speaker, who only knows Simplified version of the language as I learned the language in mainland China. I hope there might be my fellow non-Native ...
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We now have an AI policy
There's now an AI policy. What you need to know:
At this stage, we haven't banned AI posts (like many other sites).
If you use AI-generated content, it needs to properly referenced.
The thing is, ...
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I cannot ask questions on OS. 15.7.1
That happens on iPad 6, OS 15.7.1. For both the site and this meta.
The „review your question“ button is irresponsive. No difference observed between safari and freshly updated chrome on said iPad.
I ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Would there be any interest in 看图写话 (look at an image, and write about it) questions?
I'm mulling over the possibility of asking 看图写话 questions like:
看图写话
Welcome to this week's 看图写话. Please use answers to write about the following image in Chinese:
Image source: Binyamina train ...
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New voting buttons: anyone else find it hard to see if they've voted?
I find the new voting buttons at Chinese.SE hard to see:
At least compared to, say, Meta.SE:
My eyesight is not that bad, but I really have to pay attention to be able to determine whether or not I'...
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Examples of an AI (Sage) answering questions at Chinese.SE [reference post]
[Note: This is intended as a reference post---it'll take me some time to complete it.]
In order to have a better informed conversations here Do we want to allow answers written wholly by e.g. ChatGPT?,...
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Do we want to allow answers written wholly by e.g. ChatGPT?
At this stage, we don't have a policy relating to answers written by ChatGPT or similar AI.
On one hand, ChatGPT is often able to correctly answer questions. So it can be used as a time-saving ...
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Where does one comment on one's own post?
I know that I can comment on my own posts (subject to qualification), but where do I do it (either on Meta or Chinese Stack Exchange)? Comment boxes, as far as I can see, are under other people's ...
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What do I do if my 'question' had more than one part and people have only replied to one part and not another?
Here, I am referring to the translating or parsing of a phrase or sentence, for example.
Do I comment on his or her answer or am I only allowed to comment about someone else's comment?
Do I make a ...
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"google-translate" is a tag, but it has 1 question only. Should we have a Wiktionary tag? Should we even have "google-translate"?
google-translate - One question tagged, but a search gets more than 350 questions.
https://chinese.stackexchange.com/search?q=wiktionary+is%3Aquestion - almost 150 questions.
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How should we sort out the "traditional-chinese" and "simplified-chinese" tags?
Let's talk about these tags: traditional-chinese, simplified-chinese.
It seems they're intended to be about traditional/simplified Chinese characters. I don't believe "simplified Chinese" ...
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2022: 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 preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How should we polish the first paragraph of the tour page?
There was a meta.SE post about the site's name which drew my attention to this paragraph of the tour page:
Chinese Language and Usage is a question and answer site for experts, language enthusiasts, ...
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What questions should be tagged [hsk]?
There's a tag hsk which refers to the HSK exam.
HSK or 汉语水平考试 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì) is a standardised Chinese proficiency test for non-native speakers of Chinese. The test is administered by the ...
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Is the question about changing ruby text in Microsoft Word off-topic?
How do I change the ruby text language in Microsoft Word for Hanyu Pinyin?
The question asks how to use features in Word related to pinyin.
One on hand, it's inherently about features of some ...
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Let's look at replacing the custom close reasons
TL;DR: I suggest we ditch the current custom close reasons, and replace them by something in the spirit of:
This question is not sufficiently related to the Chinese family of languages to be ...
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Phrase-usage tag?
Looking through the tags of this site, I don't see a tag named [phrase-usage] although it should be included with other tags like [phrase].
Additional question, can we change [phrase] to [phrases]? It ...
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Similar questions
Some of you may have noticed recently I have started asking questions on translation a lot. Is this alright to ask questions of the same topic so many times? Or should I ask different questions?
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17 examples of image-transcription requests: how on/off-topic are they?
Continuing from Are image transcription requests on-topic? ("What does this image say?"), here is a diverse collection of image-transcription requests found throughout the site (click to see ...
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Are image transcription requests on-topic? ("What does this image say?")
Identification questions are an issue throughout Stack Exchange. Movies.SE banned movie identification questions and EarthScience.SE banned rock identification questions, while many other sites allow ...
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How do we decide if a question is on/off topic?
There are many people here from diverse backgrounds, and we need to allow for the real possibility that some questions may be considered off-topic by one person, but considered on-topic by another. ...
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Are demographics questions, like "How many Cantonese speakers who don't speak Mandarin exist", on- or off-topic?
We recently had the question How many Cantonese speakers who don't speak Mandarin exist?. To my knowledge, comparable "demographics" questions haven't been closed previously, such as
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Your friendly reminder to vote (!)
I'm not meaning to nag here, but I thought I might remind/encourage everyone to vote. Vote Early, Vote Often. Oh, and thank you to those who are voting!
Everyone has their own voting philosophy; I'm ...
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What would you want the site's design to include (and not include)?
Chinese.SE has been around for over 10 years; back in 2019 it graduated from beta (along with 28 other sites). There's been a bit of a wait for site design, i.e., professionally designed banners, ...
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an article about language vs dialect
this morning, i read an article, written by an Assistant Professor Joshua Holzer, from scroll.in
Is Ukrainian a dialect of Russian or an altogether different language?
nearly half of it talked about ...
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