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Finding tag wikis to vote on
Users with the privilege to vote on tag wikis will start seeing them appear randomly between other posts in the Suggested Edits review task. … For your first tag wiki edit, you receive the bronze Tag Editor badge. After 50 tag wiki edits, you also receive the silver Research Assistant badge. …
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For users with $Privilege-ApproveTagWikiEdits reputation, you may also see tag wiki edit suggestions in this queue. … For more information about handling these reviews, see the approve tag wiki edits privilege page. …
That’s why the first two pages of tags should have excellent tag wiki excerpts at a minimum. If they have great, complete tag wikis, that’s even better, but you have to crawl before you can walk. … Save that for the 30,000+ character Markdown tag wiki. The excerpt should define the shared quality of questions containing this tag — boiled down to a few short sentences. …
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When should I edit a tag wiki?
Any time you feel the community around that tag could benefit from an editor's steady hand.
How do I edit the tag wiki? … the tag wiki is edited? …
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maintenance] tag. … : yes/true/1 returns only community wiki posts; no/false/0 returns only non-community wiki posts. …
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What are tag synonyms?
Tag synonyms allow us to fix incorrect tags by substituting them with the correct tags.
When should I propose a tag synonym? … Users with this privilege and a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synonyms. …
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Each tag has a tag wiki excerpt that should provide brief usage guidance on when the tag should be used on this site; this excerpt is displayed at the top of the page for the tag itself, below the tag … Each tag also has a full tag wiki that may introduce the corresponding topic in more detail. …
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What are Community Wiki posts?
Community wiki posts are more easily editable by all users, and do not confer any reputation.
When should I edit Community Wiki posts? … Take us up on that offer -- whenever you see a community wiki post and have something useful to contribute, edit it!
How do I edit a Community Wiki post? …
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What are Community Wiki posts?
Community wiki posts are more easily editable by all users, and do not confer any reputation.
When should I make my answers Community Wiki? … How do Community Wiki posts work?
You can choose to make any answer you own a community wiki by ticking the checkbox under the edit area to the right. …
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Please note that votes for posts marked “community wiki” do not generate any reputation. … Along the way, you'll naturally earn the privilege to do more if you wish - check your profile now and then for updates on how close you are to earning the next privilege! …
How do I create a new tag?
Simply enter a new tag with your question and it will be created. When creating your new tag, bear in mind that tags ... … What happens when a new tag is created?
The new tag will now be available for all other community members to use, without needing the new tag privilege. …
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These descriptions comprise the tag wiki, which is editable by the community like any other post. … Avoid inserting tags into titles in any of the following formats:
[tag]: [question title]
[question title] -- [tag] [tag] [tag]
[question title] in [tag]
[tag] [tag] [question title] [tag] [tag] [tag] …
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Review suspensions are not penalties, but temporary holds on your reviewing privilege. The purpose of this is to give you time to learn more about how to review correctly. … If you have any questions about the review tasks that led to the suspension, post a question on Meta and use the [review-suspension] tag. …
reputation
Reopen votes – $Privilege-CloseQuestion reputation
Low quality posts – $Privilege-PostEditing reputation
Suggested edits – $Privilege-PostEditing reputation
First answers – $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues … reputation
First questions – $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues reputation
Late answers – $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues reputation
Triage (only on Stack Overflow and a few other sites) – 500 reputation
(Note …
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Once a post has been deleted, it will disappear for all users except the post's author, developers, moderators, and users with this "access to moderator tools" privilege. … Inline tag editing
Finally, you now have the ability to do inline tag edits on questions: a new "Edit tags" link will appear next to the tags on every question; clicking it brings up an inline editor for …
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Once you earn the privilege, you can visit /site-analytics to explore site statistics.
History
Two graphs show a timeline of posts and votes. … Since this is a restricted privilege, we'd prefer you not share the raw data. However, we do hope you will share your analysis of the data with other users on meta. …
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This privilege allows you to view and cast close and reopen votes on your own questions.
What is closing? … With the close/reopen vote privilege, you'll be able to see (and cast) close and reopen votes on all questions.
What happens to closed questions? …
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Suggested edits – $Privilege-PostEditing reputation. Directly editing other people's posts requires $Privilege-PostEditing reputation. … Late answers – $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues reputation. This queue contains answers that were posted much later than the question. …
After achieving this privilege, the two "leaderboard" style ads will be automatically suppressed from question pages when logged in.
The areas in red are the leaderboard ads. … If you decide that you would like to see banner ads because they're useful or interesting to you, then you can disable this privilege in your profile. …
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You must wait 48 hours to accept your own answer.
a community-wiki answer: No reputation is awarded. …
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The categories of questions that may be closed by community members with the close/reopen votes privilege are listed below. … (Note: This option will not be shown in the flagging dialog to users without the close/reopen votes privilege.) …
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If you have at least $Privilege-CloseQuestion reputation points, you can vote to reopen the question yourself. … Users with $Privilege-CloseQuestion reputation can cast up to 24 reopen votes per day. …
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Reviewing suggested edits
In addition, users with this privilege level can also begin reviewing suggested edits (made by users who have not earned this privilege yet). …
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Vote on it (if you have earned the appropriate voting privilege). Vote up answers that are helpful and well-researched, and vote down answers that are not. … As the asker, you have a special privilege: you may accept the answer that you believe is the best solution to your problem. …
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Access earned at $Privilege-CloseQuestion reputation
Any closed question that has received one reopen vote gets added to this queue, as well as any question with significant edits that address the close … Note: If you choose more than one tag to filter by, it will not restrict your queue only to reviews for questions that have both tags – you will be shown all reviews for questions that have at least one …
Moderators can delete any question, and users with $Privilege-ModerationTools reputation can cast delete votes on closed questions. … Once a post has been deleted, it will disappear for all users except staff, moderators, and users with at least $Privilege-ModerationTools reputation. …
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Access earned at $Privilege-CloseQuestion reputation
The Close votes queue includes questions that other users have flagged as needing to be closed. … Note: If you choose more than one tag to filter by, it will not restrict your queue only to reviews for questions that have both tags – you will be shown all reviews for questions that have at least one …
If a user has less than $Privilege-PostEditing reputation, the suggested edit is placed in a review queue. … Users with more than $Privilege-PostEditing reputation are considered trusted community members, and can edit posts without going through the review process. …
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reputation, and thereby gain the privilege to cast close and reopen votes, then selecting any flag option under "needs improvement" will cast a close vote rather than a flag. … (Users with the Moderator Tools privilege cannot view these flags.) We take moderator flags quite seriously; rest assured that they are all followed up on!
Is there any way to remove flags? …
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The upvote privilege comes first because that's what you should focus on: pushing great content to the top. Downvoting is not meant as a substitute for communication and editing. … If the question is a duplicate or off-topic, flag it so that users with the close privilege can vote to close it.
If something is wrong, please leave a comment or edit the post to correct it. …
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Once a post has been deleted, it will disappear for all users except staff, moderators, and users with over $Privilege-ModerationTools reputation. … In addition, users with the moderator tools privilege can search among their own deleted posts by using the search operator deleted:1 (site moderators can use this to find deleted posts by any user on …
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The exception to this is duplicate questions, which can be marked as a duplicate with a single vote from a user who has earned a gold tag badge in one of that question's current tags (unless that user … Reviewing close and reopen votes
This privilege level unlocks two review queues for questions that may need to be closed or reopened. …
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You can share the chat room URL with the broader internet, but bear in mind that only users who hold the chat privilege on the parent site will be able to talk in your room! …
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Any question at least a day old can be protected and unprotected by users that have the privilege, provided the question has received at least one answer from a user with less than 10 reputation. …
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The meta site for this site resides at:
https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com
Why do I need $Privilege-ParticipateInMeta reputation to post there?
Your reputation on meta is the same as your reputation on the parent site. …
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A "wiki" is a question whose answers can be edited by low-reputation users, attributed to multiple authors, and do not grant reputation to the original author. …
Access earned at $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues reputation
The First answers queue contains the first few answers created by new users, who may not fully understand the best way to answer questions. …
Note that:
Community wiki questions are eligible for bounties.
You can accept an answer without awarding a bounty to it.
You can award a bounty on an answer without accepting it. …
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For more information about flagging, please see the flagging privilege page.
Contacting a site moderator
The usual way to contact a moderator is to flag problematic content. …
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The most basic privilege of all – the right to ask a question, and the right to contribute an answer. This is generally available to everyone, regardless of reputation level. …
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Access earned at $Privilege-PostEditing reputation
Posts entering the Low quality posts queue have been flagged as problematic by users or recognized by the system’s quality checks to be potentially low …
However, commenting on other people's posts is a privilege gained from earning reputation - if you haven't earned it yet, try to get comfortable writing answers first.
How do I comment? …
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Access earned at $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues reputation
The Late answers queue contains answers that were posted by new users much later than when the question was asked. …
All official policies on MSE will be tagged with the [mod-agreement-policy] tag, which is a staff-only tag, and will have a policy lock applied. … Is this tag meant to encompass all policies and rules?
No. This is not intended to be seen as an exhaustive rulebook. …
Access earned at $Privilege-AccessReviewQueues reputation
The First questions queue contains the first few questions created by new users, who may not fully understand the best way to ask questions, or …
Tags
To talk about a tag on this site, like-this, use
See the many questions tagged [tag:elephants] to learn more.
The tag will automatically be linked to the corresponding tag info page. … Link text is the name of the tag. meta-tag only works on meta sites.
[about] – link to the About page. Link text is "about" (capitalization is respected).
[help] - link to the Help Center. …
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You must have $Privilege-ParticipateInMeta reputation to participate on meta.
Meta has required tags.
On the main site, we ask that you avoid using meta-tags. …
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At Stack Exchange, asking questions is a privilege, not a right. …
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See also:
The Flag Posts privilege
Why does flag marking as helpful/declined not always correlate with moderator action?
How do I properly use the “Not an Answer” flag? …
In fact, unless your product is brand-new, we may already have some questions about it, and possibly even a tag. In addition, search the site for your product name or other key words. … – ask on Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange (tell them what tags to use – your product tag at minimum, if one exists)
"I got this error; why?" …
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How should we tag questions about {subject}?
Who should the moderators be?
What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
What should our logo and site design look like?
How do we promote our site? …
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(A question can also be closed as duplicate with a single vote from a moderator or from a user who has earned a gold tag badge in one of that question's current tags, unless that user participated in editing … If a question has been closed as a duplicate, moderators and gold tag-badge holders can then edit the duplicate link(s) for that question to replace, add, remove, or rearrange the list of duplicates. …
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Moderators can perform large-scale maintenance actions such as merging questions and tags, tag synonym approvals, and so forth. …