Questions tagged [migration]
"Migration" is the process of migrating off-topic questions from a Stack Exchange site to another.
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"Last seen 29 days ago" - off by 28 days. Inconsistency on migration
A user posted a question on Worldbuilding: How can one make a conlang family tree?. The question was migrated to another site for appropriateness of topic.
The accounts page of their profile showed ...
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Warn or block users and moderators from migrating a question to a site where the question has already been migrated
If a question is migrated to another site, then rejected there (or manually unlocked), reopened on the original site, and migrated again to the same site, the question (migration stub) on the origin ...
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Questions can't be migrated but author isn't restricted on destination site
I tried to migrate an off-topic question to the appropriate site, and was surprised that it was instead closed and locked. The question's author is not suspended, question banned, or rate limited on ...
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Hidden answers by Answer Bot suddenly become visible after the question is migrated
I saw this answer which was written by Answer Bot which (as far as I know) shouldn't (yet) post anything to a public site and especially not to any public site that doesn't even have Answer Bot.
The ...
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Server error when attempting to clear a question's migration history
Noticed earlier on Stack Overflow and confirmed to be network-wide by Spevacus.
When selecting the Mod -> Clear Migration history button on a post that's been migrated elsewhere, you get an ...
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Are questions migrated to other sites included when calculating a question ban?
If a user gets question banned after asking a new question but that question then gets migrated to another site, is the question still taken into account when calculating whether the user has a ...
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If a post seeks general advice on dealing with a perceived problem in a community, should we always migrate it into that community's meta?
I asked a general question here a few days ago about strategies for curtailing overly zealous deleting. I think it received about 8 upvotes here. A resourceful user deduced which site I was ...
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"This answer was migrated to another site 19 mins ago along with its parent question" but the answer timeline doesn't show that. What's going on?
I read on this deleted answer (screenshot):
This answer is hidden. This answer was migrated to another site 19 mins ago along with its parent question.
However, the answer timeline (screenshot) ...
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Dealing with old MSE questions specific to Stack Overflow
It seems that many years ago, MSE and MSO didn't have a separate identity. As a result, MSE has been left with probably thousands of questions - a significant percentage of them - which logically ...
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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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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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