Questions tagged [site-faq]
This tag is for questions about the (now retired) FAQ pages (URL: /faq) on each site.
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Area 51 notification does not disappear if you visit the FAQ from the topbar
Area 51 has a notification for first-time visitors, which disappears if you click "X" or click on the FAQ link in the notification.
However, if you click on "faq" in the topbar (between "discuss" and ...
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Site moderators can't see the history of the FAQ page [duplicate]
The now-retired FAQ page for SE sites still has a publicly visible revision history, e.g.:
here for SFF SE
here for German SE
etc.
Publicly visible, that is, except to moderators of the site in ...
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Is a Help Center in Arabic possible?
I am follower of the Arabic Language proposal on Area 51. Many people, like me, do not know English; those following the Arabic Language proposal do not know English very well, but we are Arabic.
I ...
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Markdown help is incorrect
With the recent burnination of the FAQ, tell-tale traces of it remain around the network. The markdown help still states:
[faq], [faq#anchor], [meta-faq], [meta-faq#anchor] – link to the FAQ. ...
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No more (easily accessible) FAQ link?
I can't find the FAQ link on SO, where it used to be. Now it may have been moved or something but the fact that I have to look for it disturbs me. I was going to point the OP of this question to the ...
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Allow reputed members of community to suggest edits in the help center
Allow high rep (up for debate what rep requirement could be, maybe 20k+) users to propose edits directly to site help centers which would be only approve-able by site mods.
Stack Exchange is about to ...
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Is there a MarkDown shortcut for the Help Center like there was [faq] for the FAQ?
In the limited markdown (for comments and chat, e.g.) we always had [faq] to link to the FAQ. Now that the FAQ has been changed to Help Center, do we have new syntax for this?
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Flag and close vote description still mentions "FAQ" instead of "help center" [duplicate]
I may be nit-picking right now, but the description for close and flag reasons still say "see the FAQ" instead of "see the help center". This is network-wide.
Can we please fix this?
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Introducing a brand new, consolidated, Help Center
UPDATE: This is now live on all Stack Exchange sites. You can access it at /help or by clicking the "help" link in the top nav or footer of any page.
We can all agree that Stack Exchange is a ...
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Stop scrolling the sidebar at the bottom of the page [duplicate]
Similar to this meta discussion when on the FAQ page scrolling to the bottom of the page causes the sidebar to cover the links at the bottom of the page. It would be nice if it stopped scrolling down, ...
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Require analytical badge before asking questions [closed]
Every day we have new users posting questions like this (10k required, or soon to be). These are not questions that will ever help the site in any way and, as more and more of them show up, more and ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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The heading "Frequently Asked" on this site's sidebar is a misnomer
Instead, the questions found there include the tag featured rather than faq. Accordingly, I think either the heading should be corrected, or only true faq questions should appear on the sidebar.
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Please change the way "Practical, answerable problems that are unique to the programming profession" is presented in the FAQ [closed]
All too often, people see this phrase in the FAQ, and read it as permission to ask their question because it is somehow tangentially related to programming, when they should be reading it as a ...
user102937
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Time standard followed by Stack Exchange [duplicate]
I just saw my today's reputation points earning on english.stackexchange.com to be 10 and that too voted up 7 hours ago, though it's just 50 min. past mid-night (IST).
What time standard is followed ...
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linking between community faq page and faq page [closed]
There's a community FAQ page, a main FAQ page and a meta FAQ page which I would prefer to have links to each other (two way) for the following reasons
The community FAQ page have data that compliment ...
