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The community about itself: feedback, governance, wiki maintenance, announcements and feature requests. Moderation decisions are discussed here and logged publicly.

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About the Announcements category Meta › Announcements guidelines trust levels moderation Pinned Wiki Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with…	+3	7	8.7k	4h
Guidelines revision: what changed and why — one year on Meta › Announcements trust levels moderation site feedback guidelines Pinned On the subject in the title: Guidelines revision: what changed and why — one year on Working notes rather than a conclusion. A methods question rather than a substantive one, about Guidelines revision.…	+73	81	3.9k	4mo
About the Feature requests category Meta › Feature requests site feedback wiki post translation Pinned Wiki Closed Requests for platform and documentation features, with the reasoning that justifies them. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its…		4	28k	9mo
About the Site feedback category Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Pinned Wiki Closed Bugs, friction, and the parts of the site that do not work the way you expected. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and…		4	54k	10mo
Request: show the solution author in the topic list Meta › Feature requests translation site feedback wiki post Pinned Posting this under the heading it deserves: Request: show the solution author in the topic list Everything below is what sits behind that. Process question, and I have read the guidelines before asking. I…		2	2.4k	10mo
About the Wiki maintenance category Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post review date maintainership Pinned Wiki Review dates, orphaned pages, maintainer handovers, and revision disputes. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a…		4	42k	15mo
Request: a per-category review queue Meta › Feature requests site feedback translation wiki post Request: a per-category review queue Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Per-category review queue — I have the observation and I do not trust my interpretation…	+121	136	13k	2h
Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search Meta › Feature requests wiki post translation site feedback Solved On the subject in the title: Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search Working notes rather than a conclusion. A follow-up question about tag synonyms surfaced in search that I did not know to ask the first…	+23	27	38k	3h
Mobile reading experience on long topics Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Mobile reading experience on long topics Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Process question, and I have read the guidelines before asking. I understand the…		2	14k	4h
Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — does this still hold? Meta › Announcements trust levels moderation site feedback guidelines Solved Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — does this still hold? Two things I would like separated before anyone answers on Trust level 3…	+77	90	57k	9h
Revisiting: Mobile reading experience on long topics Meta › Site feedback moderation guidelines site feedback Solved Posting this under the heading it deserves: Revisiting: Mobile reading experience on long topics Everything below is what sits behind that. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process…	+10	15	34k	10h
A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post maintainership moderation citation check A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Proposing that revision dispute resolved deserves a…	+10	15	40k	16h
Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — what changed since Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Solved Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — what changed since I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. What changes if the standard account of…	+77	81	4k	2d
Search filters: what is missing Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Search filters: what is missing — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Search filters — I have the observation and I do not trust my interpretation of it, so I am posting the…	+72	84	15k	3d
Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? Meta › Wiki maintenance review date moderation maintainership wiki post Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? I have spent a fortnight trying to pin Pages past down and I want to set out where I…	+49	56	39k	11d
Follow-up: Search filters: what is missing Meta › Site feedback guidelines site feedback moderation On the subject in the title: Search filters: what is missing Working notes rather than a conclusion. A follow-up question about Search filters that I did not know to ask the first time. The earlier thread…	+119	141	1.6k	29d
Moderation log format change Meta › Announcements trust levels guidelines site feedback moderation Posting this under the heading it deserves: Moderation log format change Everything below is what sits behind that. Moderation log format change keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because the…	+53	57	4.8k	2mo
Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Meta › Wiki maintenance moderation maintainership citation check wiki post On the subject in the title: Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Working notes rather than a conclusion. What changes if the standard account of citation sweep results is…	+92	101	2.9k	2mo
Request declined, with reasoning — what changed since Meta › Feature requests wiki post site feedback translation Posting this under the heading it deserves: Request declined, with reasoning — what changed since Everything below is what sits behind that. What changes if the standard account of Request declined is wrong?…	+33	38	9.4k	2mo
Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since Meta › Feature requests site feedback wiki post translation Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process…	+79	91	20k	3mo
Request: export my own posts — one year on Meta › Feature requests site feedback wiki post translation Request: export my own posts — one year on — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. A methods question rather than a substantive one, about export. Everyone quotes the same figure…	+61	70	14k	4mo
Follow-up: Request: a per-category review queue Meta › Feature requests translation site feedback wiki post Closed On the subject in the title: Request: a per-category review queue Working notes rather than a conclusion. A follow-up question about per-category review queue that I did not know to ask the first time. The…		2	14k	4mo
Second pass at: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Solved Second pass at: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. Posting a small dataset on topic list. It is mine, it is…	+101	108	8.4k	4mo
A staff appointment, and what the role involves Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback moderation Closed On the subject in the title: A staff appointment, and what the role involves Working notes rather than a conclusion. Asking about staff appointment on behalf of the question I keep seeing asked badly,…		2	1.8k	4mo
Revisiting: Maintainer handover: how it works Meta › Wiki maintenance maintainership review date wiki post moderation Solved Revisiting: Maintainer handover: how it works Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Maintainer handover keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because the…	+53	57	664	4mo
Tag proliferation and whether we should prune — what changed since Meta › Site feedback site feedback guidelines moderation Tag proliferation and whether we should prune — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. What changes if the standard account of Tag proliferation is wrong? I…	+5	9	709	5mo
Request: export my own posts Meta › Feature requests translation site feedback wiki post Posting this under the heading it deserves: Request: export my own posts Everything below is what sits behind that. I have spent a fortnight trying to pin export down and I want to set out where I have got…		2	57k	6mo
Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — the long version Meta › Feature requests translation site feedback wiki post Solved Posting this under the heading it deserves: Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — the long version Everything below is what sits behind that. A narrow question about diff view for wiki revisions,…	+90	104	61k	6mo
Guidelines revision: what changed and why — does this still hold? Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback guidelines moderation Guidelines revision: what changed and why — does this still hold? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. I was wrong about Guidelines revision in a thread…		2	58k	7mo
[2026 update] Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback guidelines Posting this under the heading it deserves: Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Everything below is what sits behind that. Scheduled maintenance: setting out the arithmetic in full, because I…	+18	22	400	8mo

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