Unanswered Questions
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The FAQ doesn't discuss answering
When looking for a link to give to someone new to the site about what kind of answers we look for I noticed the FAQ talks a lot about how to ask good questions but not about good answers.
Kind of a ...
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Need easier way to see questions flagged as community wiki
I was wanting to see all posts at GIS.SE that have been flagged as community wiki. I found the solution here - it's an advanced search option:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/search?q=wiki%3A1
IMO, ...
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Guiding authors of code related questions to post actual code
I've noticed that in code related questions on gis.stackexchange, particularly OpenLayers / Leaflet / Javascript ones, that new people are not posting up any code examples.
The example that ...
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Can we get the option to sort favourites into categories?
My favourites list is getting large, well not that large - only 57.
It's large enough for me that I often don't bother looking through it to find one of my favourites. I mostly use the site search or ...
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Why was this Question closed?
I saw this question:
When the Community edition of Open Geo suite is allowed?
which I felt was a very good fit to this site.
Unfortunately it was closed as off topic.
I am having trouble ...
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Can GIS.se place the RSS feed button for questions somewhere more obvious?
When I read the question "Is there a way to subscribe to someones question?" I discovered there is an RSS feed button!
But unfortunately, it is tucked away in the bottom right of the page.
This is ...
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Information on the moderator candidates
Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack Overflow API to display information on the moderator candidates.
Click here to see all the information.
The information presented is:
What ...
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Do questions referencing blogs generate trackbacks?
This is a test to see if a trackback is created for a posting at my blog if I reference it in SE.
Update: OK, it doesn't look like this happens, so I'm changing this to a feature request.
There are ...
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“Creating Online Communities of Practice for Mentoring.”
This is apropros threads like Recommend topics to be included in a Computer Science for Geospatial Technologies course and How much math does a GIS Analyst need to know?. People interested in such ...
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Should the author link in GIS.se blog posts link to user profile on GIS.se?
Looking at Kirk's latest post, I noticed the author name and link:
When you click on this link, it takes you to a archive of all posts by that author, which if I'm not mistaken, is a default ...
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Washing GIS.se T-shirt
Some of you have received your swag packages. Grats!
I just want to stress that, when you wash your GIS.se t-shirt, PLEASE make sure you turn it inside out, use cold water and non-bleach detergent. ...
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line-height bug on comment
Hi,
Here comes a snapshot of a small css line-height bug due to background color on username in comment :
I'm running FF4 under ubuntu 10.04
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Time Zone used for the “days visited” profile notation
Although I visit this site every day, sometimes it is in the morning, sometimes the afternoon and sometimes at night. I regularly get my "days visited" information getting reset because I have ...
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What to do when a post appears in multiple places in the Review Queue?
I've seen the following behavior several times while going through the review queue.
A new user comes along and posts a short answer to an old question (usually a comment like I'm facing the same ...
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Q/A of a deleted user showed up in the review queue
I was clearing the review queue (first answers) and besides it being larger than usual, I soon noticed about half of it was related to questions or answers of a (newly?) deleted user — user13395.
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