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Edit and undeletion request 14776
I had to ask one question on the Italian site on February 21, 2025. The original version of the question came as an attempt to mimic the similar question from the Spanish site. After that failed, I ...
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Come intervenire sulle tag?
Come si fa a proporre interventi sulle tag? Ce ne sono molte con 0 o 1 domande (anche se alcune di queste sono sinonimi di altre). C'è il piccolo paradosso che anche solo per proporre un sinonimo ...
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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.
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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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Let's agree about tags
Presently there is a flurry of edits, rollbacks, re-edits etc. mostly focussed on tags. Apparently some user seems to think that there are too many of them, or that they are redundant, or something ...
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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.
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Declined NLN flags on old “Welcome to Italian.SE!” comments
I recently joined this site, where so far I’ve mainly been reading posts and making edits. One thing I’ve noticed is that lots and lots of posts have the exact same comment under them:
Welcome to ...
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10th Anniversary of Italian Language SE!
This month (November 2023) italian.stackexchange.com turned 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
Whenever a Stack Exchange site ...
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Perché nessun logo originale?
Ispanoparlanti, francoparlanti, tedescoparlanti, giappoparlanti, angloparlanti. Tutti hanno inventato un logo per i loro siti. Perché ancora abbiamo il logo predefinito? ¡Media pila, gente! Se ...
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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.
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Can I ask questions like these?
Can I ask for examples of words/sentences satisfying a set of requirements?
By words/sentences I truly mean just a sequence of 1 or more words that can be part of a bigger structure.
And by ...
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Perché tutte queste cancellazioni?
Noto che @Gae.S. ha cancellato varie sue risposte. Se mi leggi: perché? Liberissimo/a, ovviamente, ma se c'è qualcosa che non va con questo sito, forse sarebbe più utile anche per altri farlo notare ...
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Luca Serianni (1947-2022)
Sometimes meta can be used to spread news that might be interesting for the community. Unfortunately today a sad one reached the Italian newspapers.
Yesterday, July 21st 2022, the famous Italian ...
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2021: 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.
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Vorrei ringraziare la comunità di questo sito
Buonasera,
Vorrei ringraziare la comunità di questo sito per l'aiuto che mi avete prestato su qualche difficoltà in Il fu Mattia Pascal di Luigi Pirandello. Molti anni fa, mi è venuta l'idea che non ...
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Italian.SE is graduating on December 16th!
Congratulations everyone: after much effort we are finally graduating!
The Community Managers have communicated us that, based on the longevity, number and quality of questions and other parameters, ...
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Is it valid to translate answers which are provided only in Italian?
I'd like to improve the usefulness of certain Italian-only answers by translating them into English — is there a consensus on whether this is welcome, encouraged or discouraged?
I don't want to step ...
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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.
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Do something positive for Italian.SE and have a new look for your avatar
Winter Bash 2020 has just begun. This is an old tradition of Stack Exchange sites, which is done for fun, but I also see it as an opportunity to increase participation in our site, something that I ...
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Can we find some good reasons to vote questions and answers? We need your ideas!
Let's begin this post with some facts.
From the site analytics, which is viewable to any user with 5000 or more reputation points, we can see that, from 1st to 27th August, the total number of posts ...
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Same Question, but in English
I'll be honest: my Italian is limited to what I've picked up as a musician. That is to say, it's not great.
I was typesetting some old music, and I ran into something that I thought was confusing. ...
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Proposal: add custom close reason for questions that are not about Italian language
This is a feature-request post.
Upvoting it means you agree with the proposal.
Downvoting it means you disagree with the proposal.
You can answer or comment if you want, but you don't need to.
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Trasparenza nell'uso del sistema
Traggo spunto da un commento di @linux che è stato cancellato per fare presente che questo sito ormai non ha più nulla a che fare con il suo senso iniziale e che si è ridotto a un sistema di ...
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Quali sono i parametri per sanzionare?
In base a recenti e frequenti diatribe mi chiedo quali siano i parametri per sanzionare e che cosa si intenda per insulto. Visto che sono coinvolto molto direttamente, questa domanda la ritengo ...
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Credete opportuno creare la tag "mathematics"? / Would it be worth to create a "mathematics" tag?
In questo momento ci sono sul sito parecchie domande che hanno a che vedere con la terminologia nell'ambito della matematica. Secondo me, forse sarebbe una buona idea etichettarle con una tag ...
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Si stanno tessendo barriere alla partecipazione in questa comunità?
Su questo post ho letto di uno studio che si è fatto su Stack Overflow in cui si sono riscontrati fatti come
More specifically, we find significant gender gaps in activity: women are more likely to ...
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L'andazzo recente con la votazione
Mi sono deciso nonostante tutti i trascorsi a scrivere questo post. Da un canto ci si lamenta del fatto della scarsa utenza, dall'altro riscontro una serie di downvotes riguardo a domande plausibli (...
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2019: 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:
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Is this question on mathematical notation on topic?
Is this question on mathematical notation on topic?
Why the letter q for the line equation y = mx + q? Is it used only in Italian?
There are many mathematicians here (me included), so we may be ...
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What do you think about doubling points earned on questions?
I’ve just received a mail from SO about the decision they made to increase the value of upvotes to questions.
Starting today, we’re doubling the reputation points earned from
getting an upvote to ...
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List of Italian podcasts / TV shows / movies / TV series
Could we add sections of Italian podcasts, online TV shows and Netflix series/movies to What good reference works on Italian are available online? , as the ones already available at https://spanish....
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Are ads already displayed on Italian SE?
I don’t currently see any ad on Italian SE. Is it just me or is this site not yet involved in the new ad policy?
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Has the recent mess on SE anything to do with our site?
One Mod was fired and many others are leaving their position as a sign of protest. The issue appears to be the alleged misusage of personal pronouns (non-gendered vs gendered). Mods on this site don’...
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Can we have a [elision] tag?
Elision is a common feature of the Italian language and I have just noticed there is no tag for it in Italian Stack Exchange. Could we add it ?
Some questions which could use the new tag:
When do we ...
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Online reference works on Italian dialects/regional terms
We have a very useful Meta question on What good reference works on Italian are available online?. Since this site is also open to some questions on dialects and regional variants of Italian, and we ...
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Why is SE Italian Language so poorly populated?
Italian is not an international language like English or Spanish for instance, but still it’s the language of many cultural activities which are renowned worldwide, such as opera and figurative arts. ...
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Should we allow questions of the form "check my work"?
If you go to the help center, you'll find it written there
don’t ask any questions about [...] [p]roofreading ("are there any mistakes?"), unless the source of concern is clearly specified
but I ...
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When should welcoming comments be removed?
Recently there has been an increase in the amount of flags asking for removal of comments saying "Welcome to Italian.SE". I have a personal rule of thumb for when to accept those flags, and I know my ...
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Italian Stack Exchange moderators’ behavior
Lately I have been visiting the Italian Stack community and I saw a lot of people (moderators included) tend to comment chatty things like “welcome to ...”. I know it’s friendly, nice and whatever, ...
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Can we have a [future-tense] tag?
We have tense and even conditional-mood, but not future-tense. Can we have one, please?
Abbiamo tense e anche conditional-mood, ma non future-tense. La potremmo avere, per favore?
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Potremmo avere le etichette in italiano? / Could we have tags in Italian?
Sui siti Stack Exchange di francese, spagnolo e portoghese, o anche russo, la maggior parte delle etichette (se non sono tutte) sono nelle rispettive lingue. Ma qui abbiamo tutte le etichette in ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
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Splitting [tag:regional] further?
Would it make sense to subdivide further regional, for instance into tags for Northern, Central and Southern Italian (and Swiss-Italian if the need arises)? It feels like in many cases OP already ...
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Just created the neologism tag. Was it worth it?
When adding this question, I created the new neologism tag since none of the existing would fit for the case.
Comments and suggestions, as usual, are welcome.
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Question soliciting original solutions
This question asks about a way to translate “original poster”, i.e. “OP”, into Italian. In its phrasing it seems to solicit original proposals (rather than, say, just asking whether there is already ...
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Add undo button feature on iOS app
I noticed that the iOS app doesn’t have the “undo” button whereas the internet site provides it.
Am I somehow missing to find it?
If this is not the case, would it be possible to add it in future ...
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Copying from comments to answer
I was trying to copy a comment in order to add it to an answer but I couldn’t get this to work.
I can use the copy button from the comments context menu, but when I try to paste it into an answer I ...
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Why don't you vote?
So this is half a rant, half a poll and half an exhortation.
As you can see from the users page, most people in this site do not vote (EDIT: the page shows only the people with more than 10 votes, ...
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Would it be worth to create the "pun" tag?
Considering this question A magma-related lava pun, what do you think about creating the new tag pun, since I think the verb tag doesn't fit very well with the question.
I'm also not sure that the ...
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Una domanda da due mesi fa con i commenti e le risposte da quattro anni fa?
See the image above, the question was asked in July 2, but there are several answers and comments from 2013.
How did that happen?
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