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Activity for Monica Cellio‭

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Comment Post #276897 We'd need to make it clear that the two categories are not merely translations of the same content, as a naive browser might assume otherwise. (And should somebody be motivated to translate a question to the "other" language, we'd want them to be linked together.)
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276858 We don't have a large body of existing tags here like Mi Yodeya has, so we're going to need to create new ones. (And then when we import questions later we'll need to reconcile differences -- another reason to do imports in smaller batches.)
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276800 @magicker72 sounds like a new question to me.
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276782 @manassehkatz better to add date-range support to search, and then anybody can use it to populate this list *or for other purposes*. (On other sites I've sometimes wanted to constrain a search by time.)
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276839 @manassehkatz thanks for the data points. I hope someone will be able to bring sources for the various positions in an answer.
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Edit Post #276839 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question What is the status of a-capella music during the three weeks?
I've heard (but don't remember where) that the music that is prohibited during the three weeks is one or both of: music with instruments, recorded music. I've heard conflicting things about a capella music. What is the status of a capella music? Does it matter if it is live or recorded? Does it...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276800 @rosends my question is more about whether you can use the trop *in* shul in this context. I've edited to clarify, thanks.
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #276800 Post edited:
clarified that the public aspect is a factor, versus chanting in private study
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Edit Post #276794 Post edited:
just deleted a post and noticed it affected this too
over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276800 @manassehkatz I assume we can do this privately, but, as you said and I tried to get at (maybe not clearly enough), doing it in public as part of a service might be different.
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276429 @DonielF looks like! Please let us know if you encounter any issues with this.
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #276800 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question If a Zoom minyan reads torah (without blessings, as study), should the reader still chant?
Due to the pandemic some communities are having weekday services on Zoom. (There seem to be leniencies that support this. That is not what this question is about.) We can't read from the torah scroll except in the presence of a minyan, and the communities I know about who are meeting on Zoom are h...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276422 @DonielF I think we need to address the question in @msh210's answer: are we building a glossary or a dictionary? Once we know what the goal is we can decide how best to implement it. That question might need to be raised more prominently.
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Edit Post #276794 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: "Last Activity"
Last activity tracks changes to (or creation of) posts -- asking a question, adding an answer, editing, or deleting. I'm not sure about closing and reopening questions, which are also events affecting posts. It doesn't track comments or votes. On SE there is a bot that also randomly bumps some...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276782 @manassekatz I don't think meta-tags like challenge-1 on main-site questions are a good idea. Q&A is for posterity; challenges are interesting for a short time. I think it's better to build an index to record the challenge.
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #276779 Post edited:
suggestion from AA in a comment
over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276779 @AA that's a good idea, especially about not bumping.
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276779 @Dani I don't think we need a category or even one post per request -- a single list that everyone edits would be ideal, or, worst case, one list per requester. I want to make this easy on the developer who's going to say "give me the next 50" or whatever. I think we can do this on meta.
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Edit Post #276779 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya?
Regardless of what general criteria we come up with for importing data, we should accept requests for specific questions to import. I re-asked a couple of my unanswered questions here, because we didn't have data import, but that's not ideal (and will create duplicates if we ever do import the origi...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276775 This is beautiful. Thank you for your servitude, both past and future!
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276742 @Harel13 I think people are defaulting to "like Mi Yodeya" because it's a baseline many here share. But that doesn't mean that's static; it means things haven't been worked out yet. There are several meta threads (in addition to this one) on various aspects of this question. Please help shape the o...
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Edit Post #276764 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: How will Judaism Codidact be better than Mi Yodeya?
As Isaac said, let's not think in terms of "better", as if there can be only one strong online community for rich knowledge-sharing and Q&A. Mi Yodeya is an important community and we should not seek to diminish it. We should assume that many people will participate on both. If this site helps to ...
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over 4 years ago
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Edit Post #276761 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question Welcome to our new pro-tem moderators!
Welcome to our pro-tem moderators, Isaac Moses and DonielF. Isaac joined the team two weeks ago and I was negligent in not announcing it at the time, and DonielF has joined today. Thank you both for taking on these extra caretaking duties alongside the work you are already doing to help this new co...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276718 When I saw "female kohen" in the title I thought you meant a *bat kohen*, but it looks like you're asking about wives. Or are you asking about both? (I don't know if Mrs. Kohen is "a (female) kohen".)
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over 4 years ago
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Edit Post #276699 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Proposal: Weekly Topic Challenge
I like the idea of returning to our weekly topic challenges! Instead of collecting new suggestions each week, which would mean either lots of repetition or suggestions getting dropped, I suggest reusing a single post to collect suggestions for a while, and each week the person running the challeng...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276651 @robev thanks, edited.
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #276651 Post edited:
explained "kallah" (requested in comment)
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Edit Post #276655 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Custom Community Name?
To answer the technical questions, a site's name is reflected in: - the logo - the URL(s) - the short description in the list of communities Changing the logo is a matter of replacing one graphic with another; it'll take longer for someone to make it than to deploy it. For URLs, I would sugg...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276652 There was also some [discussion of names](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276280#answer-276301) on the proposal that led to the creation of this community. (Other answers there address it too; I'm linking to the one with actual suggestions.)
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Edit Post #276651 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question When (if ever) can you read a non-standard haftarah, and how far afield can it go?
Years ago, in a year when US Independence Day fell on Shabbat, I was away at a kallah, a week-long retreat for people from many communities with study, social activities, and, of course, davening. During the torah service on that Shabbat, the people leading the service said that in honor of "yom tov...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276622 Isaac no, and we really ought to talk about that (I guess on main Meta). Now that you mention it, I'm a little surprised it hasn't come up yet. I think everyone's just winging it. :-)
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276622 This is the flip side of the branding discussion we were having on the proposal when naming the site, yeah. We're not the only site that could use better wording here.
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276615 Or set the threshold higher for answers. Some questions collect several answers that are all quality answers (I know I've asked questions that have produced this effect); I'd rather have absolute criteria than grade on a curve where an answer's results depend not on that answer but on what else is t...
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over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276613 That sounds helpful. I would benefit from some extra learning time; we're not all so fluent that we can look at a *luach* and say "ok, got it". :-)
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Edit Post #276613 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question How does one pray Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur alone?
I'm somewhat competent in praying alone on weekdays and Shabbat, with the current pandemic providing a forcing function. I prefer to be part of a community and be able to rely on the sh'liach tzibbur for certain things, but I don't have to. I've always been slow, so I don't mind skipping things tha...
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over 4 years ago
Edit Post #276612 Post edited:
suggested in a comment
over 4 years ago
Comment Post #276605 This is an important distinction to make, thank you. As for the help, I only mentioned that because the question raised it; I don't think the help is the right place for either type of content.
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over 4 years ago