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Une étiquette pour le français parlé - Une bonne ou mauvaise idée? [closed]

Does the French forum need a tag like the one below for French? spoken-English Edit The way in which English is spoken, either formally or informally. As opposed to written usage. That tag is in ELL. ...
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Is it time to revise our community-specific close reasons ?

It is sometimes difficult to choose a close reason adapted to the site's specificities. Could we try and see if we could modify the community-specific close reasons or add to them? I know this topic ...
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Suggestions pour une amélioration de la qualité des votes

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 ...
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Community should cause correc! Ou : Community pris en flagrant délit d'idéalisme... ;-)

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'...
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Community wiki question

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 ...
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Une citation chaque jour

Bonjour, J'ai découvert ce Stack il y a quelques temps et je me demandais pourquoi ne metterions-nous pas une citation en Français sur la page d'accueil chaque jour. Les utilisateurs pourraient y ...
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Faire venir un peu plus de gens sur le site, pour sortir de la phase bêta: une suggestion possible

En parcourant les vieux sujets, j'ai vu que le fait que le site soit toujours en bêta tient au fait qu'il n'y a pas forcément suffisamment de trafic en regard des exigences de l'hébergeur Stack ...
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Tag au sujet des questions qu'on peut ou non poser

Je m'amusais un peu avec les tags du site méta, et je m'aperçois qu'il manque le tag accepted-question, qui existe sur d'autres métas, pour classer les questions relatives à quel genre de question ...
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Will this site eventually be accessible in French as well? + would a certain site request be viable

I realize that this is only a beta version of the website, but if it gets finished, will they publish a French interface of this Stackexchange website as well? It only makes sense, as maybe native ...
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Display which area of Francophonie a post comes from

As a French native speaker (from France) I'm sometimes surprised to read answers that go against what seems right to me spontaneously. Obviously the most frequent reason is that the answer comes from ...
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Allow us to edit help center pages

For the most part, the text of the help center is the same on every Stack Exchange site. This is unfortunate because some sites, including French Language, have specific requirements. In particular, ...
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Searching for accented words (parlé) returns non-accented forms (parle); is that intended?

I noticed that searching for a word containing an accented character also yields unaccented results of the same length (searching for parlé yields both parlé and parle). Using quotes doesn't seem to ...
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French Language & Francophonie ou French Language & Usages

Suite au codicille de la réponse (honorée d'un bounty de Divulgâchâmes), j'en suis venu à proposer d'appeler ce site French Language & Francophonie. De nombreux arguments sont en filigrane dans ...
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Motive for question closure: "belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network"

When we think a question would be more appropriate "on another site in the Stack Exchange network" the only possibility we are offered in the closure form is that it belongs on meta.french....
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Pourquoi ne pas créer un podcast french SE ? - Why not create a podcast for french SE ?

Pourquoi ne pas créer un podcast pour french SE ?! où on parle chaque semaine des questions posées sur le site ? et des réponses ... un podcast collaboratif, c'est une idée géniale ! Why not create a ...
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Can we have a French user interface? — Peut-on avoir une interface en français ?

Back when this site started, the official status of localization on Stack Exchange was localization is slowly creeping up in priority. But there are no dates to report or even an estimate. There ...
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Updating our old “translation or proofreading” close reason

Thinking about updating our “translation or proofreading” (because it contains the old “French Language and Usage” name), we thought of adding some more details about what is necessary to make the ...
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Devons nous proposer un message de bienvenue ? / Should we offer a welcome post?

J’ai débarqué sur StackExchange via TeX.SX. Une habitude qui règne là-bas est d’accueillir les premières interventions avec le message « Welcome to TeX.SX! », lien compris, accompagné d’éventuelles ...
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Better support for bilingual tag excerpts

Tag wiki excerpts don't allow any formatting, they're just plain text. I can see the argument against markup: it would introduce needless distractions. The purpose of the excerpt is to convey ...
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags

There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
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Make spaces unbreakable when it's obvious that a line-break should not occur (French specificity)

Keyboards, most software and basic input forms found on the web are usually too simple to cope with standard French typography conventions. However, I'd like to suggest a simple improvement that (I ...
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Feature request: polish the French Language site?

I'm not sure if this is to be suggested here. But I'd say French site GUI is now somewhat ordinary. Look at sibling Stack Exchange sites, say, English, it feels more classic. Look at mathematics site, ...
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Please allow editing tag wikis on child metas

On child metas, a few tag wikis are copied from the main meta. It's a good idea, because it helps to have tags that mostly mean the same thing on all meta sites. However… The set of copied tags is ...
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Is there a French language character map?

I'm noticing that my browser isn't always showing all the characters from questions and responses. Is there any chance that the site creates a "character map" page for users to verify if their web ...
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Pouvons-nous être prévenus quand un de nos messages est édité ? Could we be alerted when our posts are edited?

I am somewhat of a perfectionist, and I sometimes go over my old posts to see if they have been edited (and try and learn from that). It would be much easier if it were possible to be alerted (via ...
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Not possible to have accents in tags?

I think that if we want to have our tags in French by default, it would be preferable to be able to have accented characters. It's apparently not the case at the moment. Also - I'm not sure how ...
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Should the "at least 6 characters" edit rule be relaxed?

I am glad that many non-natives post try their best to write their questions in French, and I am sure that many natives like me are very willing to correct them, and help them improve. PROBLEM: After ...
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Facitility to type accented characters

A lot of English-speaking visitors don't have accents on their keyboards. As they are learning French, they may already know alternative ways to type accented characters; but shouldn't the site ...
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