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When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
I have linked my Codidact account to my Stack Exchange account. This account has a Mi Yodeya account. Maybe I misunderstand what the feature is supposed to do, but when I click on "Claim content"...
TL;DR Is Shaimos an issue to be concerned about in posts, and if so, what policy should we set? This question contains (at the moment) a name of God in Hebrew that is considered Shaimos, requiring...
One can see from this chat why one needs it on a question and answer site such as this. It is impossible to fully discuss a subject without one. https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/123299/discuss...
It's almost that time of year! Who's ready for some Purim Torah? Before we begin the season, we need to set some ground rules. In this thread, I'd like to discuss how exactly this will run. Below ...
I saw in my notifications that there was an answer to my question, so I clicked and was transported to my question. I read the answer and upvoted it. It was good. I then looked and saw 4 more noti...
Sefaria has just announced this year's Powered by Sefaria contest. The goal is to attract projects that are interesting and creative and that make use of Sefaria's library of texts and/or open API...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
There are many many more posts on the SE Judaism site than here. One should be asking the question why? Many people belong to both and still regularly post questions and answers there and not here....
There is a post asking about "Plants before the Sun in the Order of Creation." On my screen, it registers as having no answers, but when I look at the question, I see 4 answers. Do imported answers...
We've run data import for the first time on this community, which means some of your content might be here but be attributed to a stub user created for the sake of attribution. This post is about ...
The Purim Torah category is scheduled to disappear at the end of Adar. All its posts will disappear also: not even their respective authors will be able to see them. (Moderators will.) I recommend...
On Mi Yodeya, questions about the State/Land of Israel that aren't clearly about Judaism are considered out of scope. Should that be the case here, or should questions about Israel be ipso facto on...
When i had seen the community first time. Lot of questions came to my mind. So, i became interested to know about Judaism. I am not a Jews. I had a religion. But, later i became atheist. And, now i...
It's been previously suggested to create a Divrei Torah category. With Elul coming up I'm sure there's lots that the community has to share — should we create this forum in which people can do so? ...
I’ve been looking around to see if there are any major differences between Mi Yodeya and Judaism Codidact. So far, it seems like the two sites are pretty much (in fact almost exactly) the same. Did...
Does this Judaism site on Codidact offer personal guidance in response to practical questions about Jewish law or attitudes, as a rabbi would?
When using the sefaria linker in a comment, as long as you dont press "see the whole thread", the source wont get recognized. When you do click on that button, it works.
Is the landing page broken for everyone? I'm getting a 500 error with uuid: 40ff0d47-3b9f-4eaf-839e-ad085d2382ca
"Too broad" is currently a close reason. How broad is too broad? "Cannot be answered in just a few paragraphs" seems too vague to be meaningful, and some questions can be very narrow yet require l...
We have learned by experience that the data-import process gets tripped up by some character encodings... like Hebrew. (Oops!) The mix of HTML (what we can get from SE) and Markdown and character...
We need to work on defining our mission. There are a bunch of questions to resolve about particular scope boundaries. (The first is on language questions, and more should come.), and we also need t...
How about a Wiki-style Dictionary or Encyclopedia of Jewish terms? This could either be a Category or maybe part of Community-specific Help. Instead of each reference to a Jewish/Hebrew/Aramaic/etc...
Currently, I don't see that keyboard shortcuts would work in the text editing window. I suppose the usual ones would be particularly useful: Ctrl-I for italics Ctrl-B for bold Ctrl-K for hyper...
Monica Cellio wrote in a comment: @msh210 categories and post types are orthogonal. We can create a Purim Torah category that supports both Q&A and articles. (The "create post" page has a sele...
I cannot get number lists to work I press the icon and get a 1. next to which I add copy and hit enter. It does not automatically add a 2. so I hit the icon again and I get another 1. Any ideas on ...
Maybe the "Jews not Judaism" questions should also have their own category, or a separate tag structure (including date ranges and locations) And a clear division between biography ("Where did the ...
I received an edit suggestion yesterday. a. I am unable to tell what was changed. Is there a way to highlight the changes? b. I eventually assumed that the edit was of a minor spelling mistake, s...
Points question -- I'm not sure how points work here. I'm not in it for the points but am curious. My point total went down 4 between yesterday and today and there is no notice or explanation for w...
Should we allow users to write questions in non-English languages? Should we allow users to write questions in specifically Hebrew or other Jewish languages like Judeo-Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino...
As of a few hours ago, an Omer counter is now live on Judaism Codidact! The counter appears on the right side of the site, and shows the Hebrew date, the day of the Omer, and the day of the week. ...
What exactly counts as "Last Activity"? Does that include comments or edits or votes, or just answers? And what kind of activity prompts moving a question up higher in the list that I see (since it...
For those of us who were or still are a part of the Judaism StackExchange community, you'll know that they don't call themselves "Judaism Stack Exchange" – it's Mi Yodeya. Here, we're just "Judaism...
I know that there are some customary "categories" of daily contemplation during the Omer -- combinations of Chesed, Hod, etc. I know that each week has one of these as a theme, and then within tha...
Judaism Codidact is founded on being a site where people can turn to learn more about Judaism. While our heritage has what to say on intimate themes, it also emphasizes the importance of modesty. W...
I really don't like the vote count representation. Positive count, negative count AND a bar? That feels messy to me. If we want to differ a post with zero votes, and a post with 10 upvotes and 10 d...
On Mi Yodeya, questions about Hebrew that aren't clearly about Judaism are considered out of scope. Should that be the case here, or should questions about the Hebrew language be ipso facto on-topi...
From https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/277877/history:
Should we have a policy in place regarding trivia or riddle questions? Things like: There are exactly nine women in Tanach about whom the passuk relates their deaths. Who are they? What is the lon...
I asked a question about a passage from Ezekiel, creating the "ezekiel-book-of" tag in the process. (I followed the pattern I saw with other book tags.) I saw that we also have a "prophets" tag, ...
On Mi Yodeya, questions about Jews or their history that aren't clearly about Judaism are considered out of scope. Should that be the case here, or should questions about Jews and their history be ...
Is it worthwhile to include a sidebar widget with some useful links for learning about Judaism and Jewish practice and law, such as Sefaria, Hebrew Books, etc.? If yes, what links, specifically, wo...
I feel a bit confused. On the one hand, I suppose we all supported Monica and her case against Stack Exchange, but obviously it's hard to ignore that Mi Yodeya is (at least in my view) the best thi...
We've had some discussions about importing data from Mi Yodeya. The community hasn't yet decided what, if any, bulk imports to do, but we've had some requests to import specific questions and we'd...
According to the help center, to ask a "great question," you should "Do some research...In addition to just making sure your question hasn't been asked already here on Codidact, take a few moments ...
An oft-requested feature for this community is a forum in which people can post their own Chiddushei Torah, their own Torah novelties — their own Divrei Torah. We are excited to announce that the D...
There are a bunch of new tags being added, and many of them are synonyms of each other. This happens because some people put a tag of "prayer" and some put the Hebrew word "tefillah" or the Yiddish...
When I am asking a question, and use the sefaria linker, the link goes in the preview (as it should). When I click on it, it pops up, but this happens, with the "tag" bar on top of the information....
We do not expound...upon Creation in a group of two, nor upon the 'Matter of the Divine Chariot' even to an individual, unless he is wise and can intuit on his own. Whoever delves into four topics...
I guess this is more personal preference than anything else, but I think Hebrew in the post titles in the Q&A category uses quite an ugly font. The code seems to be h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{ font-fa...
