Meta Stack Exchange Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Top new questions this week: Arabic diacritic unicode characters break title links Arabic diacritics are passing the filter, giving the ability to write almost an empty title or an empty body of a post. I think it has to be filtered before submitting. When writing Arabic and using ... bug status-declined title unicode   asked by Heidel Ber Gensis 54 votes answered by bluefeet 11 votes Should we create a Year in Review? After being inspired to gather some stats for Salesforce.SE, we were discussing it internally and we're wondering if other sites would want to see something similar. If so, then we would look to ... discussion site-statistics   asked by bluefeet 45 votes answered by HDE 226868 22 votes A Not-So-Long Time Ago In a StackExchange A Mouse-Click Away... Lady Stackicorn vs Evil Twinicorn! So I'm sure a lot of you are aware of Aarthi's Roaming Unicorn project. (If not: we have a super-cool SE unicorn plushie named Lady Stackicorn, and she's been roaming the globe and having super cool ... discussion unicorns roaming-unicorn   asked by WendiKidd 23 votes Message for upvotes is misleading I realized the other day on SciFi & Fantasy SE that the upvote message is misleading. I had joined and asked a question, this one if you were wondering, and tried to upvote an answer. It gave ... feature-request voting privileges up-votes wording   asked by RikerW 22 votes answered by Patrick Hofman 11 votes Can we add a badge having similar criteria as Weed Eater hat? I suggest that we turn the Weed Eater hat of Winter Bash 2015 into a permanent badge. I'm not sure what name it should be given, or what color the badge should be. Perhaps we can introduce several ... feature-request badge-request winterbash-2015   asked by Eran 17 votes answered by PythonMaster 3 votes Previously introduced badges due to the positive effect during winterbash Yesterday I read about the positive effects of the winter bash firstly during its runtime and secondly because new badges can be tested or introduced which worked well during the bash. I am ... discussion support badges winterbash   asked by luk2302 17 votes answered by wythagoras 11 votes Unable to use existing tag because system thinks I'm trying to create it? A user on our site is trying to use the r2-d2 and is getting an error message telling him he can't create the tag because already exists: There is currently a tag synonym from r2d2 to r2-d2, but ... bug tags tag-synonyms   asked by Mike Edenfield 16 votes answered by animuson 11 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Let's move some negatively scored answers from the top spot Internally, we've been discussing how we can deal with obsolete or out-of-date answers. A few weeks ago, I requested some feedback on how to encourage edits to these types of answers, while I'm still ... discussion feature-request accepted-answer sorting feedback   asked by bluefeet 67 votes answered by user259867 30 votes Opt in "mentor" privilege at 7.5k I am suggesting a Mentor privilege at 7.5k. It would be on a per-user per-site opt in basis. At some reputation level (perhaps 7.5k) there could be an opt in "mentor" privilege. If someone opts in ... discussion feature-request reputation chat privileges   asked by Tim 33 votes answered by Father Christmas 52 votes Can you answer these? Starting bounty by the answerer himself with reason "Reward existing answer" I am just wondering after seeing this question : Php Json special character , which has a bounty worthy of 100 reputation, with a reason showing as "One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy ... discussion reputation bounty accepted-answer   asked by Tareq Mahmood 7 votes How do I make my post community-wiki using android app? I am using SE android app and want to make my post as community-wiki but can't see any option/feature for that. feature-request support android-app   asked by Pandya 9 votes Can we make markdown headers semantically correct? HTML has a six level header system for document organization. The idea being that the <h1> level should have the page name, with <h2> subsections underneath. If further subsections are ... feature-request design markdown markdown-rendering   asked by Brythan 7 votes

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