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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Discussions about proposals or the proposal process.

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Isolated letters in a code block are sometimes incorrectly bolded.

There seems to be a bug in how some isolated letters are displayed in a code block. This bug affects how the letters a b i p q are displayed. These letters are being bolded without even bolding b...

2 answers  ·  posted 1h ago by will.octagon.gibson‭  ·  last activity 8m ago by trichoplax‭

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Incorrect post times are shown

Sometimes in the Puzzles incubator, post times are incorrectly shown. Here is an example from my Where is the large cook promotion post. Under Lundin’s answer there are some comment threads (with...

0 answers  ·  posted 2d ago by will.octagon.gibson‭  ·  edited 2d ago by will.octagon.gibson‭

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Home Improvement + Arts & Crafts -> some sort of "makers" community?

In response to a proposal to broaden Home Improvement, an answer counter-proposed merging Home Improvement with Arts & Crafts into a broader DIY community: There is a significant overlap in ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 14d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

discussion Arts-&-Crafts home-improvement
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How do we encourage answerable Philosophy questions?

Philosophy is an academic discipline and also a more informal conversational pursuit. How should the Philosophy community be structured to support and encourage answerable objective questions and ...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 22d ago by Ripheus24‭

discussion philosophy
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Checking in on Webmasters

Our largest proposal (by number of questions) is Webmasters. Most of the questions are well-received, about half are answered, and there has been little recent activity. I'd like to understand th...

1 answer  ·  posted 28d ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 26d ago by Michael‭

discussion Webmasters
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proposal: advance Worldbuilding and merge with Scientific Speculation

We'd like to discuss advancing the proposed worldbuilding community and merging it with Scientific Speculation. A discussion on Sci Spec meta was positive (see also this comment thread on the prop...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Rename Home Improvement to Homes?

A while back, I asked a question about "home stuff" beyond improvements -- things like cleaning, general maintenance, patio gardening, etc. There was some discussion about gardening, but in genera...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Lundin‭

discussion home-improvement
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Where are the hot new questions?

SE and other Q/A answer forums have listings on the main page detailing recent activity in certain groups. I would like to see what communities are asking. Does Codidact have a "hot new" questions ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by bowl0stu‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion feature-request
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How can Worldbuilding successfully support creative exploration?

The Worldbuilding proposal currently includes this bullet: We would accept a fairly broad range of question types. Within reasonable limitations, questions that require focused brainstorming or ...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by VLAZ‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Prevent tags overflow

I just asked a question and created a new tag without warning. Is there a kind of "sweeper" to clean up tags that are similar to each other, or some kind of friendly warning like "xyz" is a new ta...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by watchmaker‭

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Where to put proposal-community-specific help pages?

In a Codidact community there are community-specific help pages, reflecting the fact that each community is different. Over time these help pages can be modified in response to discussions on Meta....

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Potential MathJax section in the formatting help

MathJax is enabled in this community, but it is not mentioned in the formatting help. If MathJax guidance is wanted, there is some in the Mathematics Codidact formatting help (at the end). This co...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts?

Some proposals include categories beyond the defaults of Q&A and Meta. We don't have all those categories here on the proposals site, but we need a way to indicate which category a post is int...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andreas‭

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How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions? [duplicate]

The Worldbuilding proposal has some "conventional" questions and some that are more open-ended or even "idea generation". This happened in the SE Worldbuilding community too, and the latter got sh...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Can we have a Chemistry community?

I noticed that Codidact has very less variety of communities. What about chemistry?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Jayant‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion chemistry
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Is this one fishing for ideas?

There was a very nice question posted recently about an underground society not knowing overground war has ended. Just out of curiosity: The question could be regarded as "too broad", "genera...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Highlighting the games we play with screenshots on Codidact

Something that could give us a bit of life and community beyond information-based content, would be a way for us to share experiences and highlights from our own game-playing experiences. Arqade SE...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Why was the codidact proposals down all day

I tried to post a question on worldbuilding and after I found I wasn't able to get into the site. I kept getting redirected to page telling me that codidact proposals was unavailable and it even to...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Proposal authors can cause disruption by deleting their proposal

There is one specific issue here with one emergency solution. Because of this specific situation, we have discovered a flaw in our system. This flaw needs to be discussed further, and eventually re...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Is Artificial Life alive?

Artificial Life, a community for "the cross-disciplinary study of life and its abstract processes, distinct from but cross-informed by the specific instance of life that is studied as Biology", was...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Antares‭

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What should we do with older proposals that have no incubator activity?

We have several proposals that were made a long time ago but haven't had any incubator posts at all. That wasn't a use case we anticipated; we expected that proposals might be slow to build and th...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Does the Invasive Species proposal have support?

Invasive Species was proposed almost a year ago but has no incubator posts. The proposal includes outlines (titles) of sample questions that would be on-topic, but they haven't been developed into...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Antares‭

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Welcoming a wide range of Artificial Life questions

I'd like to welcome questions at any level of understanding, in particular because Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary field, so even an expert in one field is an outsider in some sense. I'd al...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

discussion artificial-life
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Should Accounting merge into Finance?

Accounting was proposed about a year ago, but there have been no posts in the incubator. A comment on the proposal suggests that accounting should be within the scope of Finance. There is no over...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion finance accounting
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Is the Open Source proposal currently viable?

Open Source Software was proposed about a year ago. Ten people have joined or are watching, which might be a record here, but there have been no posts in the incubator. The description is: A s...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Is Worldbuilding fit for Q&A?

There is one simple answer to this question: No. No, it does not fit into the current concept of Q&A. The topic of Worldbuilding is fundamentally different to probably all other possible commun...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Allowed types of questions for Worldbuilding

I like the proposal text and have actually very little to add. Should be a solid starting ground. One concern I have is the general thing with "malformed questions". I strongly advocate for not h...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Supporters for a Worldbuilding community on Codidact

I would like to get a picture of the general supporters (those who are "okay" with this) for a Worldbuilding community. Supporters are not meant to be obliged to participate actively. Just interest...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Antares‭

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Can I ask Worldbuilding questions here?

I would like to ask something about a world I am designing. Can I ask that here? Is this like in StackExchange and I get closed and downvoted without help? To the existing members: This is the i...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Antares‭

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Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

I'm looking for a very long and sufficiently detailed list of every possible type of facility that exists in the world today, or perhaps is likely to exist in the future. For example, the list woul...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Link back to the proposal post in the wiki for the proposal's tag

When I'm browsing through questions in the Q/A category, I often want to look closer at the community proposal that the question belongs to. The most obvious path to follow, then, is to click on th...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andreas‭

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On a tag's wiki, list every community proposal using the tag on a question

When looking at a tag in the Incubator Q/A category, I often want to know which community that tag belongs to. As is the case today, tags in that category aren't actually confined to a single commu...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Why can we not vote for community proposals?

Codidact is rather strongly centered around the idea of voting on content. Personally, I am open to revisit the manner in which we rank and asses content on the network, but for the time being, tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How do I object to a community proposal?

Codidact is wide open to have any sort of community proposed. This means that any kind of proposal can also gain a significant backing from either new or existing members. However, that does not me...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Scope discussion for Sports

I have updated and formalized the scope definition of the Sports proposal. This post is intended as a general discussion post regarding site scope. Specifically as of 24-06-27, I would like feedba...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

discussion sports
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Broaden the scope of AI tech into all ML?

I created the AI tech proposal primarily because I thought it would be good to have a place to discuss doing stuff with AI models rather than the details of how they are trained and how they work. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by pbloem‭

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Use a mainstream definition of politics

The current description says: “politics” as human social phenomena which come from humanity’s tendency for subjectivity - that people may have fundamentally different beliefs, preferences, or wi...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Home Improvement versus a more general "home stuff" community?

Would the proposed Home Improvement community be open to questions about "house stuff" more broadly? I have in mind not just home improvement, but household operations more generally. I'd been co...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Make proposed community tags mandatory

Every question in the Incubator Q&A category should have 1 or more tags for a proposed community, so that it is clear which community or communities the question is intended for. Currently it ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How can I propose a new website in Codidact?

I want to propose a new website to be launched at Codidact. How can I formally make this proposal?

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by aminabzz‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Show post views

Hello. I have seen that the post view isn't shown. But it would be very helpful to see post views. Please add it.

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by aminabzz‭

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What happened to Finance questions on Incubator Q&A?

I remember seeing some Finance questions on our Incubator Q&A? Where did they go? I can't find them!

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Ethen‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Is economics on topic for everyday science?

Is economics considered on topic for "everyday science"? There are many everyday situations which seem counterintuitive from an economics perspective, but a closer look reveals interesting forces ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Should recommendation questions be on-topic?

Home Improvement seems like a site where recommendation type questions might happen quite frequently, including product/component recommendations as well as tool recommendations. I think these can ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Add proposals to Codidact.com

We should add proposals.codidact.com to the main site https://codidact.com/. The natural place to put it IMO would be at the end of the listed communities, just after meta.codidact.

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

There are some acronyms related to home improvement that are very well known: OSB, MDF, PVC. Most people who know the material they refer to, know the acronym. In fact, I would guess that a lot of ...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Should proposals all have MathJax or none have MathJax?

Some Codidact communities have MathJax enabled, while others do not. Each community decides whether they want MathJax based on weighing up the advantages and disadvantages. However, Codidact Propo...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

discussion mathjax
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Image upload broken in Incubator Q&A

Meta issue: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288441 I uploaded an image into this question: How accurate are the browser usage statistics at caniuse.com? However it isn't showing up. When I upl...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Would it be possible to enable special features in the Incubator Q&A?

Is it possible to have special features enabled in the Incubator Q&A? I have tried to port one of my an answers for a question on Machine Learning, but it was written for markdown with MathJax...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Experiment: indicating interest and expertise

A healthy community requires both activity and people. The Incubator Q&A category is the place to build activity (and Meta is the place to flesh out issues that come up in doing so), but we'd ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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