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Are questions about dialects on topic?
Given a great variety of local dialects (and small languages) in Italy, should we allow questions about a specific way of saying things?
If a question appears about lu sicilianu (Sicilian language) or ...
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Should we allow questions/answers to be in Italian?
I'm afraid questions written in Italian won't be beneficials for people whose Italian skills are not developed enough.
Should we allow to write question/answers in Italian, or should we rather ...
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What good reference works on Italian are available online?
Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references might be off-topic. What good reference works on Italian language are freely available online, and what kinds of questions are they ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Are questions about translation requests on topic?
Sarebbe opportuno supportare domande inerenti richieste di traduzione in Italiano?
Are questions about translation requests on topic?
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Ci diamo del tu?
Mi sembra comune darsi del tu nelle comunita' online, ma vorrei che formalizzassimo questa convenzione qui su meta in caso dei nuovi utenti abbiano dubbi o abbiamo ospiti illustri come ad esemprio ...
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Help ensure English speakers can participate on meta
This site has surfaced several back-to-back meta posts written only in Italian. It's an understandable tendency, since your focus is Italian Language, but this creates some problems. The Stack ...
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Italian.SE to remain in private beta for another week
Update: After a week's worth of solid work from this community, the team has reconvened and agreed to move Italian.SE to public beta. Nice job!
The public beta switch should get flipped some time ...
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Attempts at English to Italian translation In questions
I am an English speaker who is slowly learning Italian through textbooks and sites like this, but I have little command over the Italian language itself.
I am wondering if it is alright to ask for a ...
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Why is this language Stack Exchange site named "Italian Language", while all others similar sites are called "X Language & Usage?
Why is this language Stack Exchange site named "Italian Language", while all others similar sites are called "X Language & Usage"?
In other terms, why does the site's name lack of "& Usage"?
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Winterbash 2016
Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event SE runs every year as a way of celebrating the many amazing people who make the communities awesome. It's open to any Stack Exchange site that chooses to ...
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Should we admit “easily” answerable questions?
A question about the spelling of an Italian word prompted me to think that perhaps we might want to limit questions whose answer can be quickly found just by looking up a word in a dictionary. 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, ...
Denis NardinMod
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Why do most users, including experienced ones, keep commenting instead of answering?
I am quite new here so I may missing something obvious, however I have quite a bit of experience from the technical communities (Ask Ubuntu and StackOverflow). Therefore, I try to understand the best ...
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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 ...
Denis NardinMod
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