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Add "Insert citation" button to editor window
MathOverflow is pretty well integrated at this point. I've enabled the fancier citation option on Computational Science:
I notice the textbox overflows the popup. I'll check with a designer to see if ...
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Questions "poked" by Community
The description on the profile page is misleading -- what actually happens is that the community bot randomly bumps one question per hour from the list of those
scoring >= 0 that have gone at least ...
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Is the use of @ directing my comments?
The owner of the post you are commenting to always gets notified of comments. @-notifications to him/her are not necessary, and SE chose to remove them ...
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Misleading link about MathJax help
Good catch!
I suggest using a link to Meta Math SE. It contains a lot of examples, allows to invoke editing (to grab the relevant MathJax template). This is also the page that is right now used at ...
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Updating doc links?
It might have been preferred to roll out those edits over a slightly longer period of time; however, it is good to have links and materials updated.
There is no way to update the contents of the post ...
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Misleading link about MathJax help
Thanks to Shog, this is now done.
We also noticed that you didn't have MathJax activated on Meta, so we've turned that on and updated the link in the meta help page to also link to the Mathematics ...
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Add "Cross-posting" as a standard reason to close the question
I've never seen a feature of this type on any other SE site, and I don't think one exists at all. I think this is to encourage the OP's to modify their duplicate posts to fit the separate communities ...
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Mark questions 'answered by comments'
This question bothers me a lot. And as far as I understand, there is another option:
Post an answer as a community wiki.
Certainly, if the comment that successfully answered the question has been ...
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Firefox offline "reader view" to show whole scicomp page, including answers
Use "save as pdf" for a complete offline copy:
⋮ menu > Page > Save as PDF
Works in version 53 of Firefox for Android.
You can also use share in that ⋮ ...
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Add "Cross-posting" as a standard reason to close the question
In such situations, it is advised to flag the post for moderator attention explaining the situation and giving the links to the cross-posted copies.
Notice, that not all cross-posts are created ...
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Questions "poked" by Community
There has been a change in January 2019 that
the community user can't rebump a question unless the original bump is more than X days in the past.
Currently (as of Feb 2019), this value X is 120 ...
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Create a Meta-Thread for Drafts of Complex Edits
The sandbox was not created before as MathJax was not enabled on Computational Science SE Meta. As of October 2019, it is no longer the case.
I have created the Sandbox. Feel free to use it and test ...
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miniedit facility
I think this has been discussed already in the main meta SE, and the opinion of the SE staff is that this is not a good idea, as it is. If questions are not bumped when edited, no one sees the edits ...
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get compsci.stackexchange.com site to redirect here
I requested statistics on how many times compsci.stackexchange.com page has been used. As of June 10, 2019, we are looking approximately at 1000 usages per year.
Now, is 1000 usages per year a lot? I ...
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Can I get inbox emails immediately?
Relatively recently, Stack Exchange announced new E-mail settings functionality. However, even in this revision, it is still only possible to get an e-mail every 3 hours.
In general, there were some ...
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