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What statistics would be interesting for a usage report?
Suppose MathOverflow were to start having quarterly or annual usage reports. What statistics would you like to see reported there?
Some are obvious — new questions, new answers, new users, etc. ...
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What does the graph of MO questions-and-links look like?
Consider the graph $G$ whose vertices are MO questions and edges are links between the questions. What does $G$ look like?
I'm happy to define a "link" in the same way the SE software seems ...
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Trackbacks are no longer being generated for the arXiv
(Although this is a bug report, I or Anton are likely the people who need to fix it; this post is a bug tracking item, not necessarily a plea for help :-)
We previously been scraping the front page ...
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Withdrawn question
I have just noticed that this question, which I have found quite exciting (and so have at least 14 other users who have voted for it) has been withdrawn by the OP. Is there any way to figure out the ...
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Enabling arXiv trackbacks for [other] SE communities
I recently became aware of MathOverflow arXiv trackback feature that was custom implemented by @ScottMorrison. This is just awesome and certainly serves very well MathOverflow community.
I was ...
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Feature request: add short "about MathOverflow" section to the front page
Until a few years ago MathOverflow front page had a short section at the top describing what the site is for. I am not sure when it disappeared or why but I would like to see it restored. Currently ...
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History of Math and Science SE is in commit stage
This is to announce that the History of Math and Science StackExchange proposal on Area 51 has entered the "commit" stage. You can read more about the proposal here and see the proposal itself here.
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Correcting links with university proxy (especially MathSciNet links)
Let me first say, that I consider links to papers referenced in MO posts a useful things. And so do other users, judging by an older discussion on this topic: Is it worth editing old posts to add ...
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Suspected foul play with a triple of questions
A little while ago someone asked (now deleted, but link still here: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/314572/advice-on-how-i-can-i-publish-my-solution-of-the-riemann-hypothesis?noredirect=1#...
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The existing deprecated tags should be blacklisted
TL;DR: I suggest to blacklist the deprecated tags that still exist on some questions, in order to prevent them from being added to new questions.
There are a few tags which are deprecated and should ...
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How to re-ask an old question?
I would like to know whether there has been progress in the last five years on the 2011 question H^4 of the Monster. Given the discussion there (and also given what else I know of the field), it seems ...
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Question was deleted, I'd like to know the answer or contact the poster
This question (now deleted) asked for a way to compute generators for $I \cap \mathbb{Z}[z_1,\ldots,z_n]$ as an ideal of $\mathbb{Z}[z_1,\ldots,z_n]$, given generators $f_1,\ldots,f_m \in \mathbb{Z}[...
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"Questions" of the type "I have written something, please give me feedback"
I have now today seen several questions (this and this)
which asks for feedback on research articles, rather than stating explictit questions.
There is of course a gray zone, but I wonder a bit what ...
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Area 51 proposal: History of Science And Mathematics
I've created a new proposal on Area 51 for a Stack Exchange focusing on the history of mathematics and science.
As a math student, I am constantly studying the history of the subject. I feel that ...
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Converting a too-long answer in a comment should generate an error message
I just tried to convert an answer into a comment; it was too long for a comment, and the software just truncated the text.
I think it would be better to either generate an error message, ask for ...
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The 6 semi-essential meta questions of every SE 2.0 upgrade
In the spirit of The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta
I realized that there were a few things that needed to be decided by a large site that has suddenly gone SE 2.0. Initially I planned to ...
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Allow questions to be closed as duplicates of questions on math.stackexchange.com
We frequently have questions that are crossposted, e.g. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/137414/systems-of-parameters-for-algebra-a#question.
The only options for now are to close as off-topic, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
MathOverflow is scheduled for an election next week, 29 March, 2021....
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Should there be any concern about the number of questions imported into PhysicsOverflow?
I just happened to note that http://www.physicsoverflow.org/ now exists; this isn't a stackexchange website, but seems to run on similar software, and with similar goals to mathoverflow, which seems ...
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What is our policy on asking about correctness of preprints?
We talked about this a lot on the old meta 1, 2 but I don't see a concise statement of policy that I can link to, so I'm asking a meta question in hope of generating consensus on such a statement.
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Scope and mission of MathOverflow
I followed with much interest the recent discussions on Meta about the community being perceived as unwelcoming to outsiders and the importance of looking for solutions (if any).
In order to do this, ...
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Is it OK to abuse Mathjax for emphasis?
The author of this question uses Mathjax (in a way different from its intended usage) to make parts of his question stand out more; for instance, to display some headers in red or to alter the spacing ...
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Frequently Asked Questions: MathOverflow FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions for MathOverflow
What kind of questions can I ask here?
What kind of questions should I not ask here?
What about open problems?
Where's the rule that says I have to wear ...
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How to deal with questions referencing/promoting questionable/'fake' research?
This morning, the following question involving the Riemann Hypothesis was posted:
The Riemann Hypothesis Proof
(in case it gets deleted: here is its content, albeit in a less readable form)
It was ...
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Should we try to re-start manual deletions or is the situation fine anyway?
On MO 1.0 we had, after some discussions and conflicts but still, what I think was a quite smoothly and efficiently working process of deleting "bad" content.
It seems with the move to MO 2.0 this ...
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What about the question "does Grothendieck have any pseudonymous paper"
There is a beginning of close war about that question. It has 25 votes, just got closed, but has already 3 "reopen" votes only three hours after it was closed.
Only quiz has given in comments a reason ...
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How to wake up an old question?
Suppose there is an old question on mathOverflow, asked by someone else, which has been voted up a quite decent number of times, and received several answers which have also been voted up, but no ...
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MO answers that are Google top hits
The question "Who is L. A. Balashov?" shows the following curious behavior: Only a few minutes after posting, it became a Google top-hit for the search terms "mathematician balashov":
https://www....
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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When questions are migrated, so are comments, and this can cause misconceptions
I recently noticed a question posted to MO that was migrated to MSE. Furthermore the comment was also migrated along with the question. The content of the comment was "This is not the right site for ...
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Is it appropriate to edit a question for the sole purpose of having it highlighted?
I recently asked this question on the main site; after one day it didn't receive much attention and I decided to completely restyle it to make it more appealing, it got to the top of the "Recently ...
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Any policies around Dead links?
I have been reviewing a lot of older posts (~10 years old) and there are quite a few with links that are either dead or links that point to sites that no longer contain the relevant information that ...
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Recent suggested tag wiki edits
Today [Apr 21 '16] and yesterday there were a considerable number of suggested edits
to previously empty tag wikis and tag wiki excerpts (browse here;
viewing the full list requires >=10K points, I ...
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Illustrating posts of others
This issue arose in connection to the question Is this a $C^0$ foliation of $\mathbb{R}^2$? where a foliation is described formally. I thought it would help to have a picture of it. Initially I wanted ...
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tea.mathoverflow.net deprecated
The Stack Exchange staff have asked us to remove tea (what came before meta) from the *.mathoverflow.net domain, for security reasons.
The content of tea will ...
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Why can't we close questions that have a bounty?
I just cast the 5th vote to close the question
Was Cauchy so obstinate?, but the system said that it's impossible to close a question with an open bounty.
It seems to me that this question is ...
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Color of links (both in posts and comments)
I know the issue has been discussed before in the last couple of years (here, here and kind of here), but nothing has been done to solve it, so I thought it would make sense to bring it up again. If ...
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How to @ a user with non-Latin characters?
When typing comments, it's useful to use the "@" system to alert a user to a comment (and also to make it clear to a 3rd party who you are addressing a comment to, as comments have no "...
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Is there left any way to highlight part of text after all?
Currently we have quotes, but
the quoted text looks more faint than the surrounding text
The vertical bar hardly helps, I believe. In fact I think (although I cannot explain it) that this bar ...
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Request for help with javascript for the citation search feature
I would like to switch over the citation helper from the current kludged together back-end based on MathSciNet data, to an officially supported back-end (very kindly!) provided by Zentralblatt.
We'll ...
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Who are the MathOverflow moderators?
Where can I find the list of MathOverflow moderators? How can I contact them?
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List of recurrent technical problems involving MathJax
Edit: I have retagged this question 'feature-request' in an attempt to expedite action on these issues. I request that the MathOverflow developers implement an automatic fix of the issues in the ...
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Links with IP adresses rather than website names
I have noticed several posts with links to pdf files where IP address is used instead of domain name the url.1 (I will list them below.) Several of them seem to be dead. Moreover, this type of url ...
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Why is it not possible to offer a bounty for longer than 7 days?
I had offered a bounty for the following question that expires in 7 hours:
What did Gelfand mean by suggesting to study "Heredity Principle" structures instead of categories?
The results ...
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Would disallowing displayed equations ("double dollars") in titles be useful?
If a poster includes in the title some formula in enclosed between $$, like $$x^2+y^2=z^2$$
$$x^2+y^2=z^2$$
the title of the ...
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Using bounty to prevent a question from being closed
There is a recent question Which universities teach true infinitesimal calculus? , suitability of which has been questioned by several users [I personally do not see in this question anything related ...
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Tumbleweed Badge: Proper Response
Being a European, I doubtless do not fully understand the associations of the Tumbleweed badge that I have just received. Is there a MO consensus about the appropriate reaction?
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Can I retag questions to get a topic badge?
This is just something I was wondering: I currently have 19 non-CW answers in real-analysis. Could I just go through my old answers looking for a question which involves real analysis but hasn't been ...
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Copyright of MathOverflow logo?
What is the copyright of the MathOverflow logo? Is it in the public domain? In this site they say that "most simple logos simply do not have the required level of creativity to be considered ...
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Interpretation of Time-limit for Editing Comments
Yesterday I had written a comment and, after 4 minutes began editing it.
After having finished my editing, I tried to save the comment and was prompted with the message, that editing is only possible ...
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