Frequent Questions
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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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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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Vote Early, Vote Often!
Voting is a very important part of Stack Exchange sites.
It's important to vote for the following reasons:
It draws attention to good quality questions and removes attention from poor ones
It ...
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Asking questions completely in Chinese
Prior to site launch I asked this question during the sites definition:
Will the Chinese Language site allow for questions to be asked completely in Chinese?
Which over time received 20 upvotes.
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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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relaxing the rule of "asking for translations are off-topic"
referring to the blog post : Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change.
i would like to ask, is it possible to relax the rule of asking questions about the meaning of seal / ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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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 ...
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Recommendation questions: let's make some Wikis for future reference
There have been some recommendation questions lately asking for resources of any kind for different levels, mostly beginner-intermediate.
Now, these questions are absolutely interesting, even for me (...
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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...
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