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We currently have two custom close reasons for the main site: one about translations and proofreading and one telling question askers to first consult a dictionary. Since these close reasons were ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...

Inspired by the tradition I saw on The Workplace Hello and happy New Year everyone! For the first time in French SE's history, a user has reached a total of 100k reputation. It's really something ...

Some Stack Exchange sites, such as Literature Stack Exchange, Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, Puzzling Stack Exchange and Spanish Language SE, have (or had, as the case may be) a tradition ...

Je viens de découvrir l'existence de l'étiquette phrase. Je pense qu'on fait mieux de supprimer l'étiquette de ces questions et la remplacer par locutions ; c'est évident que les PO ont voulu référer ...

Some Stack Exchange sites, such as Literature Stack Exchange, Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, Puzzling Stack Exchange and Spanish Language SE, have (or had, as the case may be) a tradition ...

I joined FSE two years ago. I am very happy for having found it. My French (and in particular spoken one) has much improved. I highly suggest FSE to my colleagues (in particular teachers of French as ...

Some Stack Exchange sites, such as Literature Stack Exchange, Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, Puzzling Stack Exchange and Spanish Language SE, have (or had, as the case may be) a tradition ...

Related to the question: Une Personne Morale... Is it a practical and logical appellation? and the comments therein. Should a native speaker of French post his or her questions in French? The OP said ...

Récemment, j'ai cherché la signification d'expressions anglaises pour lesquelles on demandait une traduction en français. En utilisant un moteur de recherche en ligne, ce que j'ai découvert m'a un peu ...

Tags are very useful, especially if they have a tag wiki excerpt, i.e. a short description of the tag's scope. However, at the time of writing, our site appears to have dozens of tags with empty tag ...

French Language's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the three new moderators are: They'll be your first elected moderators since you lost your "beta" ...

Lately I've been checking tags on French SE to see if everything was being used and if we needed to do a cleanup. I saw the [écriture-inclusive] tag, which is relevant and might be used more and more ...

Since our chat room Chez Cosette is relatively quiet, I thought we should try something else to get to know each other. I'm posting this meta question to give everyone the opportunity to introduce ...

One of the problems on StackExchange sites is that questions don't always receive good answers. While unanswered questions are easy to find, this is not the case with questions that have one or more ...

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. French Language is scheduled for an election next week, May 25, ...

UPDATE 2020-04-29 Comme nous avons reçus les intentions de se présenter de quatre personnes (en me comptant pour arriver à ce nombre plancher), les élections pourront bien se tenir. La première phase ...

You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

Pratiquement toutes les réponses à cette question ont apporté un éclairage différent sur la question posée, et surtout elles ont participé avec leurs commentaires, peut-être même sans que leur auteur ...

Pourquoi clore How did 're' + 'joindre' semantically shift to mean 'answer to a legal charge'? comme hors sujet? does not appear to be about French language within the ...

I do not really understand how to use ngrams in representative ways. How do you perceive their usefulness? Is it acceptable to base the answers essentially on ngrams statistics? Does it help ...

J'ai beaucoup appris lors de l'élan de création initial du site et je tiens à remercier tout ceux qui ont participé à le construire en combinant leur expertise sur la langue française. Ces derniers ...

Recently I started to learn French. To reinforce what I have learned so far and to improve my skills I have tried to write small texts, dialogs, and things like that, and I would like to get some ...

Quelques remarques de modérateurs lues au fil de Cosette (1) me poussent à suggérer quelques améliorations techniquement simples à mettre en œuvre et qui pourraient permettre une meilleure perception ...

Je démissionne de mon poste de modérateur volontaire et vous êtes en droit de savoir pourquoi. Je ne peux pas accepter ce que la société Stack Exchange vient de faire (en privé, mais je pense que cela ...

This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...

Il y a plusieurs site concernant la langue anglaise, par exemple : English language qui ressemble à ce site. English learners qui aussi ressemble à ce site. Science fiction & fantasy. Literature. ...

Demandes de traduction. Les demandes de traduction en tant que telles ne sont pas admises. Les questions telles que « comment exprimer idiomatiquement [telle idée] en français » ou les demandes d'...

La salle de clavardage peut-elle être réinstaurée, ou est-elle figée pour le restant de l'éternité?

Récemment, l'utilisateur Jardin de Frosted Flakes a malheureusement supprimé son compte. Depuis, je vois régulièrement des questions qui n'avaient pas de réponse acceptée et qui sont bumpées en Top ...

On all other stackexchange sites, in the main navigation links, 'questions' are the current questions, and 'unanswered' denotes the ones that haven't garnered any response in a while. Why did this ...

I am reading an article written in French. I have many questions that I cannot answer for myself using tools available to me (eg, my grammar understanding, plus dictionaries, plus google). Many of ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...

Et recel d'idéalisme + incitation au jugement de valeur... ;-) Horresco referens! Yo! Malgré l'accroche provo pour le plaisir et la galerie... ceci n'est que broutilles mais comme j'ai bien noté qu'...

Dans le cadre d'une réponse à une question, est-il autorisé d'insérer un lien vers une ressource que l'on soupçonne fortement de ne pas respecter les copyrights ?

Je ne trouve pas de réponse à cette question dans le « help center », ni à partir des « tags »; quelle rubrique comporte ce code et possiblement tous les codes couleur de cette sorte et autres codes?

Cette question « meta » concerne seulement les corrections sur le fond et pas du tout sur la forme. La possibilité matérielle qu'a un auteur de corriger ses propres réponses n'implique apparemment pas ...

I have this question I would like to ask on the main site, but I don't think it is ideally fit for a question per-se, it is more like something I'd be curious about. I was thinking of making it a ...

L'apparence et l'interface de notre site viennent de changer. Il s'agit d'une vague de changements qui concerne tous les sites du réseau Stack Exchange. Quelques sites avaient déjà la nouvelle ...

Les questions ici sont-elles juste des questions en lien avec la langue française, ou peut-on aussi poser des questions à propos de programmation en français? Je pose cette question, car j'ai vu qu'...

According to the Help Center: What about translations? We are not a translation service, nor do we purport to be experts in languages other than French. Asking about the meaning of a difficult ...

I want to translate the word "boilerplate" but no as in the general meaning but in the programming context, as in "boiletplate code". There is already a question with the general way : Comment ...

Bonjour, En me baladant sur l'Area 51, j'ai vu que la beta avait commencé il y a plus de six ans, sans jamais en sortir. Les critères ont plutôt l'air en forme, bien que le nombre de questions par ...

I ask this question because, in my opinion, it is painfully telling (of what, I’m not sure, hence the question) about many of this site’s visitors and at least one of its registered voters when an ...

Les questions portant sur l'usage et la grammaire des articles sont identifiées par l'étiquette articles. Je me demande si nous devrions créer des étiquettes plus précises, comme article-défini, ...

I am wondering if very localized questions that would not be use to other people are okay to ask on French Language Stack Exchange. I have read many grammar websites, but often I come across ...

Si on décidait de citer un extrait du contenu d'un site web, ou d'utiliser les données ou informations qui s'y trouvent, quel genre de notice ou d'attribution devrait-on inclure et comment la présente-...