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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 a ...
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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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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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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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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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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 page ...
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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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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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