Questions tagged [migration]
"Migration" is the process of migrating off-topic questions from a Stack Exchange site to another.
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Brand new user not shown as new contributor [duplicate]
A brand new user posted a question on Server Fault today.
The question was migrated to Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
The user is brand new on Server Fault and Unix & Linux:
... but was not ...
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Mechanism to Determine Appropriate Stack Exchange Site
I see a lot of moderators migrating questions from one site to another pretty often, but tonight I had a question which doesn't neatly fit into any in the list.
Is there a mechanism, or even a ...
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Questions tagged with a synonym of a tag and closed by a user with a gold badge for the master tag incorrectly show the synonym in the close notice
The situation is very likely related to Questions migrated to localized meta sites get the [discussion] tag in English even if it's synonymized to the localized tag equivalent
But in this case ...
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No profile link from the main page if the profile was created after migration
We have a question migrated to our stack from another one.
At the time of migration, the original poster didn't have a profile on our site, but later, they created a profile (linked to the original ...
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Downvoted migrated question still affecting reputation [duplicate]
I asked this question on Ask Different. It was admittedly off-topic and appropriately migrated to Stack Overflow. However, the downvote I received before it was migrated remains as does the hit to ...
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Should migrations continue to be allowed if the author is question-banned but their 6-month rate has opened up, or should they be blocked?
This is a follow-up to my prior question Are migrations allowed if the user is banned on the destination site, but their 6-month limit has opened up?.
For context, users who are banned from asking ...
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Votes on rejected migration on destination site should not contribute positively or negatively to post ban calculation on the destination site
A moderator on one site requests migration and the post comes to the destination site. The destination site rejects the migration, but in the process, the migrated question received plenty of votes in ...
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Community wiki status lost on migration [duplicate]
It seems like CW answers revert to non-CW once they are migrated.
This answer of mine was given on [mo], and when I wrote it I ticked the "community wiki" checkbox. However, when the ...
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Most appropriate SE site for a question regarding printing data from a web portal
The question relates to printing out user submitted data on a governmental portal (Canada, not US).
While so far I found a couple workarounds using browser dev tools, I am still looking for a better ...
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How can I get the purpose of a specific Stack Exchange site so as ensure that I am posting to the appropriate site?
I posted a question to an SE site that I thought was perfectly appropriate. It got a few answers and comments and then was migrated to another site. Reason:"Off topic".
At the migrated site, ...
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Questions migrated to sites with numbers in their names display bare URL in revision history
Question migrated to a site with a number in its name:
A bare URL is displayed in the image.
Normal migration:
The destination site is displayed as a link with no bare URL.
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As a user, can I request that a question I asked in SE philosophy before to be moved to SE physics? [duplicate]
In the help section it says that the site moderators have the option to migrate a post to any site. As a user, can I request that a question I asked before to be moved to a new SE site?
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Missing space in migration banner
This question was migrated from Super User because it can be answered on Meta Stack Exchange.Migrated 4 days ago.
I've noticed this in a couple of migrated questions recently - someone adjusted the ...
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Question title lost on non-relevant edit
I found the old question (which happens to be mine) with the link to the migrated post. That's how it looked 30 minutes ago:
After that I fixed a typo in a word and now it look like that:
As you can ...
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Post deleted after migration didn't result in migration rejection
I have an example on ruSO.meta, but logic seems would be same on any SE site.
The question was posted on ruSO.meta and migrated later to the main site. After that, the question was deleted by author ...
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