I was wondering if anybody else wanted to create a Stack Exchange site on Cubing.
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I have an idea or subject that should have a Q&amp;A, and want to propose a new site. How can I do this?  Related:
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Is this a StackExchange site? It looks and seems to function the exact same, but seems to have its own user system, and doesn't contain links to all of the other SE sites at the bottom like all the ones I've seen do.  If this is not an "official" SE site is it acceptable for third party sites to "copy" the look &amp; feel of SE to this extent or is this site in violation of something?
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Has the Stack Overflow crew considered partnering with other existing, more traditional forums to support open ended discussion?  I understand Stack Overflow is strictly a Q&amp;A site. We all know the drill. We also all know that when a more 'discussion-y' question is asked it's either coerced into Community Wiki mode or out right closed by the moderators. And that's fair enough I suppose but sometimes a question is open ended or spawns many, many comments. With Stack Overflow's lack of threads it can be difficult to follow anything of length. So, on to the my feature request!  Partner with other forums such as Reddit (stackoverflow.reddit.com?) so if open discussion is wanted it can happen easily. And by easily I mean provide a link on each question page saying something like "Open an official discussion at $forum_name", or if the discussion was already opened then "Join the official discussion at $forum_name". And of course on the forum posts provide a link back to the SO question for reference. When clicking the outgoing link a bunch of heavy lifting is automatically taken care of such as signing into the forum (As who? Obviously that will have to be figured out) and filling in the various post fields with data from the question and submitting it.  As to which forums would be official partners I only came up with Slashdot and Reddit as possible candidates but I imagine that there should be a number to choose from depending on the topic of the question. Select the best forum for the topic.  The key part is to still let SO be really good at Q&amp;A and still let the various forums be really good at being forums while providing a little bit of official integration between the two. Additionally if the discussion devolves into nothing worth while then it's only related to SO and not actually a part of it. No harm, no foul.  So at the risk of making this sound too 'discussion-y', what do you people think? ;)  PS, And on second thought maybe this would be better implemented as a browser plugin or Greasemonkey script. :P  PPS, Or perhaps the focus should be a little narrower. One of the options for closing a question could be to migrate it to a forum area. That way the Q&amp;A isn't polluted with discussion questions and the actually discussion could be isolated to a discussion area.
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Today I came across a situation where I knew that I'd answered another similar question some time ago, but couldn't remember on which Stack Exchange site it was. I ended up doing multiple searches on several different Stack Exchange sites before giving up and just doing the research again - answering the question from scratch.  As such, I wonder if it would be possible to implement  on the  mechanism.  If this had already been implemented then it would have given me a single place to try out the different sets of keywords that I thought might help me find my answer.  Note, this question goes one step further than  and I can see that there might be implementation issues with it due to issues raised , but couldn't the OpenID for the Stack Exchange account be used to filter the questions and answers from other Stack Exchange sites?
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Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to vote for questions to be moved to any Stack Exchange site? For example, I just voted  as off topic, but that was all I could do. I wish I could've voted it be moved to .  It's OK to have the predefined list of sites that is now when voting to move, but it would be nice to have a more link, where we could pick any Stack Exchange site.  Here's a quick mockup of how I see this implemented:    When the more link is clicked, a list of all the Stack Exchange sites should appear.
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Questions like looking for css templates, blog templates, icons ... In general, resources (let's leave the licensing terms aside for now) which you might need when building a project of your own. Where should those questions go?  They're definitely not on-topic on Stack', SuperUser maybe although I doubt it. Webapps? Hmm, probably not.  Is there a place where they would be on-topic on the SE network?
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Since the source code for this site isn't available for purchase or external use, I'm looking for software that can run a Q&amp;A environment similar to Stack Exchange. Are there any such pieces of software available?
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So at my university (Aberystwyth) we all seem to have Q&amp;A groups on Facebook for all the various courses and disciplines. Alongside societies, websites and all the rest.  I think it would be fantastic if universities could own their own set of Stack Exchange sites, setting up a separate exchange for each discipline. If this is done correctly it provides an education in Stack Exchange etiquette and removes (hopefully!) the vast majority of homework questions that seem to flood at the very least, Stack Overflow.  The best part about this is that it gives courses a great way to communicate their help on what I find the best platform ever for any kind of help. Of course it would require the universities (or at least institutes) to get behind this, as well as the lecturers and hopefully the alumni too.  What do you guys think of the idea? An overall yae or nae on the core of it?  I'm not flat out suggesting this is something that should be done, I'm wondering if it's: a) Something that should be done b) Something that would work well for both the universities &amp; the Stack Exchange communities  What are your opinions?
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At the moment, I actively participate in Stack Overflow. I would like to be able to participate in others (Project Management for instance). I can do this but I have to watch two "Interesting" lists. Imagine wanting to participate actively in 10 sites. How would you manage?  I think it would be great if, alongside tags, I could also select sites to include questions for.
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As we , we are kicking off a project to begin tackling the issue of outdated answers. That post goes into detail on the initiative and our approach. We are focusing our initial research efforts on Stack Overflow, and not on other sites on the Stack Exchange network. We understand that the issue with outdated answers is not exclusive to Stack Overflow and other technical sites may have similar issues. However, none of the other sites operate at the scale of Stack Overflow:  more than 31 million answers, compared to 11 million for the rest of the network. And Stack Overflow is our oldest site, so it is the site where the pain is most acute. Rather than trying to shoot for a one-size-fits-all solution that may actually fit none, we are laser-focused on uncovering the Stack Overflow use cases and coming up with initial solutions that work really well for Stack Overflow.  We are optimistic that many of the learnings from Stack Overflow will also be relevant and helpful for similar issues faced by other sites on the network. As we get further down the road, we will evaluate whether the Stack Overflow solution can also work for other sites and solicit your feedback here on Meta Stack Exchange. With this in mind, feel free to share any initial thoughts on how you've experienced outdated answers on other Stack Exchange sites and any ideas you have about ways to attack this problem.
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And that's a good idea!  We have a lot of high quality content here, certainly enough for a small book.   I'm not saying that it necessarily has to be integrated into the main site, but this is just a suggestion if anyone wants to implement it.   Stack Exchange probably could make money selling the physical books though. CC-BY-SA allows selling, as long as you allow others to make copies of your book, and credit the author.  What Wikipedia does is you can custom order any set of articles as a book (it even has a nice set of authors at the end, to satisfy the BY part of CC-BY-SA).  This could even tie into the docs feature.
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Because the perl section is looking like that right now. I believe that Stack Overflow is going out of it's charter in becoming a newbie FAQ when as far as the original reasoning it was meant to be something along the lines of an expert site.   is a good example of what I mean in Perl. It probably could be closed because it's a duplicate, or some other reason.   I would also like to indicate that I don't hold back answering newbie questions. It's just when I think of an obscure "stack overflow" error that's beating you some 3 am close to deadline, that's not "Howcum Perl print ..." and follows with something that causes a vast majority of Perl programmers to say oops, because they know exactly what's going on.   So the proposal is   A new site. "Move to Newbieville" A new "section" A new status somewhat similar to Closed ("Newbied") but still can be updated all the same as an open question.   I'm not against giving some newbies an assist, but I feel a FAQ for rank newbieism is not something that SO started out to be, based on the original concept of a Expert Site.   Including comment to Gnoupi:   I said nothing about making newbies unwelcome. Like I said. I answer them--heck, I think I've even answer homework questions. I've answered on the vague impressions that I can glean from posts that have 4 close votes. It can even lead to avoiding downvoting or yelling at newbies by more established curmudgeons if there is a special action you can do to gently inform newbies that this is a real newbie question.  However, you have to know that to some people newbies are already unwelcome. There is a site ethic, but the individual is also going to decide how much they welcome newbies. And people do post RTFM answers already.   Anyway, I'm one vote away from a peer pressure badge it seems. (Nope, nailed it.)    EDIT  For somebody jumping to the conclusion that I'm hostile to newbies:  just earlier
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I'm currently working on many machine learning and computational algorithms, such as Singular Value Decomposition, Support Vector Machines, and others.  I'd like to ask questions about these topics, but I don't know which Stack Exchange website to use to post my questions.   Should I use ? Should I use ? Should I use ? Should I use ?   How do I tell?  What criteria do I use?
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I've been looking around and I can't seem to find an automatic (i.e. buzz- or Twitter-like) way to follow users inside Stack Exchange. Why haven't the developers added such a feature? It could help beginner users follow other beginners with the same interests. We would be able to learn from each others' questions and pitfalls. Also, it would reduce double posting.
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Changes  to how Area 51 works in the future. Robert describes how the goal is to bring an existing and active community to Area 51 and start building their new Stack Exchange site, not to start the community building process at Area 51. I left a comment there, but I think the matter is worth more elaboration.  If I can't start building the community at Area 51, where and how could I create a community that I could bring there? There typically is no pre-existing community. And even if there was, it's hard to start building a Q&amp;A community if we first have to get somehow magically organized before we can come to Area 51 and even propose having a Q&amp;A site. If nothing else, it would be useful to have some hints or suggestions to start building a community &mdash; and know whether the SE network wants to be a part of that early stage.  For example, I am a Finn and I would much like to see a site for . I am not interested in starting just any online community concerning the Finnish language, but a Q&amp;A site at SE. It's hard to find followers if I can't show them something they can act on.  As I understand from the announcement, this aspect of community building is outside the scope of Area 51. Therefore I brought this up here on the general meta. My point is not to rant but to make clear what I do not understand about the new site building process; I genuinely don't know how the system is supposed to work at the very beginning.
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Update 2014-04-17 04:47 UTC: Stable, with some odds and ends to clean up      The main MSO/MSE sites are stable, but there are plenty of corners left to sweep. For details, see:    Not all of them mind you, just Meta Stack Overflow into Meta Stack Exchange.  I'll have you know, factually, that we really did believe this would take place in six-to-eight weeks when it was , but we've finally got a tentative date established.  If things go according to plan, we'll begin the operation shortly after 8:30 PM EDT on the 16th, completing everything within a few hour window. Ideally, all service disrupting endeavors will be completed within the first hour, which include:   The availability of Meta Stack Overflow The availability of Stack Overflow (more on this shortly) The availability of Chat on Meta Stack Overflow   As you know, we'll be bolting on a standard issue per-site meta on Stack Overflow, while breaking the link between what will have become Meta Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow. There's some irritable innards in that particular region, so we'll be asking folks to expect the unexpected during the maintenance window. Affected sites will be in and out of read-only mode, or quite possibly just down for maintenance while we're doing the actual break.  I'll be posting a system message on both Meta Stack Overflow as well as Stack Overflow itself 24 hours before we begin the actual work.   Did I say tentative in a six-to-eight-something time frame again? Why yes, I did - we're currently running some tests on the dev tier to simulate the split as closely as possible, so that we can better anticipate quirks that we need to address prior to actually doing it.  Once the sites have actually been stood up functionally on the production tier, we're going to get to work on finishing touches. This will include things like site settings (which determine bits of text you see in the question prompts, rep thresholds, etc) and all sorts of other fine tuning.  Once we're done:   Stack Overflow will have a blank, empty child meta site just like every other site The new Meta Stack Exchange will be up and running All rooms on Chat Meta Stack Overflow will be moved to Chat Meta Stack Exchange  I'll send over about 150 - 200 questions from MSE to MSO, most of which will be tag or SO-specific feature related posts that got buried by the network stuff without resolution.   If the tentative date moves, I'll update this post with the new date. However, we do not anticipate this happening any later than Saturday, April 19 - in the case that we see down time we can't mitigate and need to do it on a weekend.  The ground work is basically done, we're finishing up sanity now with a great deal of confidence, and we're pretty certain that we'll hit between those dates, if not directly on the tentative 16th.  Questions? Kvetch? Anonymous confessions? Answer below, and I'll address each in comments.
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Is there a video that explains how Stack Overflow works and can be used? I.e. a short tutorial to get new users started. If there isn't, then the people behind this site or others who know how it works should make one, because it's overwhelmingly different from other sites and thus difficult for beginners.