V'dibarta Bam

Adam Mosheh

2:07 AM

I have a new idea for this: meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/1103/1059

HodofHod

2:34 AM

@MonicaCellio Happy Birthday!!

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@all (Gut Voch, Shavua Tov!)

Adam Mosheh

@Menachem What is his name?

HodofHod

@MonicaCellio On this auspicious occasion, I'd like to wish you all of G-d's brachos, in physical matters and in spiritual matters!

Stack Exchange

3:03 AM

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Q: Why is it spelled mi yodeya?

Shouldn't it be instead mi yode'a? It is with an 'ayin, not a yud. Hebrew transliteration is serious business and we should seriously care about these things.

Menachem

@AdamMosheh Chaim Rosenberg - ondemandbooks.com/docs/SPHB-Hebrewbooks-Press-Release.pdf

HodofHod

@Menachem @AdamMosheh He's on now! I don't know if I'll be able to talk with him, my internet connection is doing weird things.

Monica Cellio

@HodofHod Thank you very much! May we all receive such blessings!

HodofHod

3:46 AM

@MonicaCellio Amen

msh210

@MonicaCellio That's part of why I mentioned the Borda count: it finds the least contentious one better thana one-vote-per-person vote does.

@MonicaCellio Happy birthday! Many more healthy years with much b'racha.

Monica Cellio

@msh210 What's Borda? Is it a preference ballot (aka Australian ballot)? That system seems to drive toward consensus.

@msh210 Thank you!

HodofHod

Just had a nice long convo with the HebrewBooks guy

as you all probably saw my answer already, this chat post may have been redundant

ه ه

4:01 AM

@HodofHod so did i apparently nobody told him about MI Yodeya though, he said i was first

HodofHod

@هه I did not mention.

I had so many other questions

yesterday, by Menachem

@HodofHod I don't know him. I was on hebrewbooks.org/shas yesterday and noticed a chat option that popped up. So we started chatting. I told him about judaism.stackexchage.com, it didn't seem he was aware of it.

He probably doesn't know that M.Y and J.SE are the same thing

ه ه

@HodofHod perhaps i spoke to a different chaim then. or perhaps it was before the mi.yodeya change

@HodofHod jinx

HodofHod

@هه You spoke to him a while ago, or just now?

ه ه

@HodofHod 5 min ago

HodofHod

@هه So probably he doesn't know its the same thing

Monica Cellio

4:05 AM

@HodofHod that would be my guess.

HodofHod

Chevra! We need to do more advertising!!

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stat!

Menachem

@HodofHod anything interesting?

Monica Cellio

@HodofHod Does Stack Exchange have any wisdom to offer on which methods are more and less effective? I've been linking individual questions on my blog and G+ when it makes sense to do so, but I'm not famous or anything so that's of limited reach. If we all did that would it make a difference, or is that all dwarfed by the effect of getting one famous person to tweet us?

And do cards work? (I've seen those for other SE sites -- a specific question + link.) We could sprinkle those around our shuls, batei midrash, kosher grocers, or whatever, if we had them and that works. (Obviously staying within the bounds of good manners to not impose.)

HodofHod

@MonicaCellio I think one or two well know blogs doing a feature on us would be much more valuable then you or I doing it by word of mouth. Ars Technica does a weekly(?) post featuring a Q & A from SO.

Something like that, on a Jewish blog/website, would help immeasurably.

@Menachem He said they're working on adding the ability to browse by author/date/city

@Menachem And discussing different ways to add bio's of the authors, like they have by the meforshim on the rambam

@MonicaCellio Maybe, but I don't think advertising a website in such a a limited, analog way will help much

If you're going to do analog advertising of a website, it has to be higher profile, IMO. Billboards, posters, etc.

AskMoses used to have billboards in LA.

Monica Cellio

4:23 AM

@HodofHod that certainly would help. Whom should we approach?

HodofHod

@MonicaCellio Honestly, I don't read many Jewish blogs, so I don't know. :(

I can look around, though

@IsaacMoses might know better.

Monica Cellio

@HodofHod yeah, that's my problem too. I tend to read people, not topic-specific blogs.

HodofHod

@Menachem Also, he asked me if I wanted to translate a daf of mesechtes berachos. They're apparently doing a user-generated translation in time for the siyum of Daf Yomi

ه ه

@HodofHod thats why he asked me if i ever learned berachot

HodofHod

@هه yep

Menachem

4:47 AM

@HodofHod I'm doing Daf Ches

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HodofHod

@Menachem Did he email you?

Menachem

5:08 AM

@HodofHod we spoke on the phone

HodofHod

@Menachem Oh really? Interesting. I played Jewish Geography with him for a bit, came up with some good ones.

Shmuel Brin

@HodofHod Did you ask him if he wants to speak by our graduation?

HodofHod

@ShmuelBrin I didn't.

:(

Btw @ShmuelBrin I just noticed this for the first time

judaism.stackexchange.com/review/#comment28917_15032

:D

Shmuel Brin

@HodofHod what's there?

BUSTED

I'm not a mod

HodofHod

Gosh, every time I give out a bad link I'm going to be accused of mod-ness??

ACDN.................. — Shmuel Brin Mar 7 at 20:11

Adam Mosheh

5:20 AM

Didn't realize it was a duplicate... Maybe the other question from the main site should be migrated to here? — Adam Mosheh 3 mins ago

If that is the same chayyim... Then I chatted with him on Erev Shabbat.

@Menachem I'm doing Yud Chet.

HodofHod

5:32 AM

any guinea pigs available?

@Dave, @ShmuelBrin @AdamMosheh ^^^ ping

Menachem

@HodofHod for what?

HodofHod

@Menachem test a bug

could you go to the review page for me?

Menachem

@HodofHod sure

Adam Mosheh

@HodofHod What's up

HodofHod

ok, as many people as can test this, the better

Adam Mosheh

5:34 AM

?

Menachem

@HodofHod which page is the review page

HodofHod

1: go to judaism.stackexchange.com/review/…

Adam Mosheh

what does that do

HodofHod

2: Find an answer, any answer, and click "review answer"

@AdamMosheh it's the page where you review low quality posts

Menachem

it opened up with about an inch of space

HodofHod

5:36 AM

3: if the answer doesn't have any comments on it, find another answer that does.

Menachem

I was able to drag it down

Adam Mosheh

k

HodofHod

@Menachem thats fine

Menachem

I picked the first one, had 7 comments

clicked on the comments link and it expanded

HodofHod

4: Once you've found an answer that has a comment on it, put your mouse over one of the timestamps (that's the date next to the comment)

Dave

5:37 AM

@HodofHod I only saw "review question", no "review answer"

HodofHod

@Dave There should be a list of questions and answer that you can review

Adam Mosheh

what does review mean

HodofHod

5: Does the timestamp contain a link?

Menachem

yes

ه ه

@HodofHod no

HodofHod

5:38 AM

@Menachem Where is the link to?

Menachem

judaism.stackexchange.com/review/…

link doesn't open correctly

HodofHod

@Menachem Are you sure that was an answer and not a question?

@هه Good, it's not just me

@هه Try again, but this time review a question instead of an answer.

Dave

@HodofHod Ah, I had the wrong tab clicked

Menachem

that was a question

ه ه

@HodofHod yup theres a link

HodofHod

5:40 AM

@هه which takes you to nowhere, right?

@Menachem ok, now try an answer

ه ه

judaism.stackexchange.com/review/…

Dave

@HodofHod link worked as advertised

Menachem

this is from an answer: judaism.stackexchange.com/review/…

HodofHod

@هه cool! same behavior I'm getting weird. I'm writing a bug report on meta.so as we speak

ه ه

@HodofHod well when the comment is in sight, it brings it up to the top of the page

HodofHod

5:42 AM

@هه True, thanks!

Menachem

no joy, if it matters I'm using firefox 12.0 on lubuntu 11.10

Dave

This worked: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/897/…

HodofHod

@Dave How'd you get that link?

@Menachem The link didn't work?

Dave

@HodofHod By following your directions - scrolled down to an answer w/ comments, and clicked on the timestamp.

Menachem

my links didn't work

they opened up to the main page but didn't open the question

HodofHod

5:46 AM

@Dave What browser and operating system are you using?

Dave

@HodofHod FF 12.0, XP Pro

HodofHod

@Dave strange.

@Dave Did you try reviewing a question?

@Dave, so it worked? Strange

@هه What browser/OS?

Dave

@HodofHod Yes, the links in the comments to the answers did work. I tried posting the link but it got converted to the actual comment.

HodofHod

@Menachem What browser/OS?

@Dave Right. Thanks for your help!

ه ه

@HodofHod Chrome Windows 7

HodofHod

5:51 AM

@هه same as me

Menachem

9 mins ago, by Menachem

no joy, if it matters I'm using firefox 12.0 on lubuntu 11.10

HodofHod

@Menachem whoops! A linux guy, huh? Kudos! I've been trying to get a dual-boot to work on my laptop, but no dice yet.

Menachem

@HodofHod I've been using linux for years, these days a dual boot should be pretty easy

what distribution are you trying?

HodofHod

@Menachem So they say, so they say....

@Menachem ummmm...... would you think badly of me if I said backtrack?

Menachem

@HodofHod no, but if you want to run a pen-test distro, odds are you won't be using it for regular use. run it off a usb key: backtrack-linux.org/tutorials/usb-live-install

Shmuel Brin

5:57 AM

@HodofHod Debian here

HodofHod

@Menachem I've been doing that for years! I have 10+ different os's booting off my usb already. I wanted to dual boot with my laptop for speed and simplicity

@ShmuelBrin Can you try out that bug?

Shmuel Brin

@HodofHod no link on date of comment

HodofHod

I was not aware we had so many (2!) users on linux here.

Incidentally, I was worried that "2!" would be misunderstood as 2 factorial, but I guess 2! == 2 anyway so wtvr....

@ShmuelBrin Thanks

Menachem

@HodofHod it's ubuntu based, so you should be able to find good ubuntu instructions - askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/dual-boot

HodofHod

@ShmuelBrin what browser?

@Menachem Maybe. The only solution I could find would be me changing my Volume from Dynamic to basic, and I was unable to determine if my data would survive that.

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Q: Comment links on review page lead to nowhere, when they exist

If you go to /review and click "review question" it expands nicely into the larger post giving you the option to vote/comment/link etc.. Clicking on a comment's timestamp will take you to that comment, but only while you're on that page. Using that link in a different tab, or giving it to som...

bug comments hyperlinks review comment-links

@Menachem Usually not, but I'm a tinkerer at heart. :D

Menachem

6:15 AM

@HodofHod askubuntu.com/questions/615/… OR superuser.com/questions/335872/…

@HodofHod: I even used the linux command line in an answer once: http://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/13040/603

(although I wasn't the first to use the code markup for its proper use

)

HodofHod

Neither of those are ideal. I'll keep running it off my USB for now, but persistence is also giving me problems. Nu nu, zol zain the worst of my tzoris

WAF

2:21 PM

Good morning!

The cautious editing on this question has done both too much (WRT changing the original meaning of the question) and not enough (WRT making it a useful and meaningful question).

But mainly I am concerned that "is there an idea" is a strictly y'shivish formulation. Can anyone confirm or deny?

msh210

2:55 PM

@HodofHod Different people translating different dapim without coordination? That's very... odd. After all, how is the reader supposed to know that, e.g., "chalding-offering" and "daily high-priestly meal offering" are translations of the same Hebrew phrase?

@WAF I don't think the OP meant "Is there an idea" by his "Is there an inyan". I think he meant "Is it proper".

WAF

@msh210 In that case the question has definitely been obscured through edition.

msh210

@WAF Yes. Do you agree/disagree with my assessment? Anyone?

WAF

@msh210 It's a very non-specific question no matter how you slice it.

Currently taking liberties.

msh210

@WAF I'm not surewhat "fixed, formal meal" means, but, again, those are not the OP's words. The OP said "kovea s'uda" (in some transliteration scheme, not checking now). Halachically that generally means, as you know, to eat a meal with bread. That question ("is it proper to eat a meal with bread Saturday night?") is not so vague.

@WAF Thanks.

WAF

@msh210 Actually the original was "wash".

msh210

3:04 PM

@WAF Sorry: you're quite right. Same difference, though: again, it's shorthand for "eat a meal with bread".

@WAF, if you're editing already, I'd get rid of the "fixed, formal meal" thing, too. But up to you.

WAF

@msh210 It's as meaningful (unless you assume some undisclosed knowledge on the part of the asker) as "is it proper to eat bread on Tuesday?".

msh210

@WAF Hmm... true. Good point, There must be some undiscosed knowledge lurking. Perhaps edit to "I see many people insist on eatingbread on motzae Shabas, and have heard they have a source for this in Judaism. What is the source or purpose of this?" or some such. (Quoted text in this post is in the public domain if by some chance you wanna use it.)

WAF

@msh210 I was assuming the question was more about k'aros s'duros than having it at all.

That's what happens when you don't explicate your premises.

. . . or as they said in college "check your priors".

msh210

@WAF Sorry: was about what?

@WAF Right.

@WAF Close as N.A.R.Q., then?

WAF

@msh210 Having a "real meal" with dishes and such.

msh210

3:14 PM

@WAF Ah. I'm unfamiliar with the term k'aros s'duros (though I correctly guessed at its meaning, actually). What area of law does it come from, please?

WAF

@msh210 I have only seen it brought down in the context of m'lave malka. . .

msh210

@WAF Ah. Thanks.

@WAF, on another note, what do you think of a run-off among the three highest vote-receivers for naming this chat room? It can be a one-vote-per-person vote, or a Borda-count vote (and I recommend the latter). Note that the three highest have 5 or 6 net votes apiece; the rest have 3 or fewer.

@WAF Actually, no, the original wording "wash" argues against that.

WAF

@msh210 True.

@msh210 /Googles "Borda-count".

@msh210 Do you want to use three highest because of the current vote distribution or because 3 is a good number?

I don't know what the STDev is on these votes but 3 (the number of votes for each of those in the 4-way-tie for 3rd) seems pretty close to 6 (top votes). What do you think about ranking the top 7?

Too much?

msh210

@WAF The former, but I don't know why @isaacmoses suggested it.

@WAF FWIW 27 answers; mean net vote .778; stdev 2.63.

WAF

3:31 PM

@msh210 I stand corrected. I like the ranking technique though. Would this happen in meta as a separate question?

msh210

@WAF I think it'd have to.

HodofHod

@msh210 There's going to be editing/corrections.

msh210

@HodofHod All right. What do you think of the run-off? (Or did you say already?)

@MonicaCellio Borda count is a means of electing that works as follows: Say there are three candidate on the ballot. Everyone assigned three points to his favorite candidate, two to his second-favorite, and one to his least favorite. Whoever has the most total points wins. This is better than a case where each person simply chooses one favorite, because the latter system obscures preferences among the remaining candidates.

@MonicaCellio E.g., suppose there are 3 candidates (A, B, and C) and 30 voters. 11 voters rank them ABC (A is favorite), 10 BAC, and 9 CBA. If they were voting only by choosing their favorite, we'd have 11 votes for A, and A would win; in fact, though, 19 people prefer B to A. Under the Borda count, we'd have 62 points for A, 70 for B, and 48 for C, and B would win.

HodofHod

3:54 PM

@msh210 Interesting. I thing opening a new question with the top 3 suggestions as answers could work, no?

Personally, I think we should just grab the noun and go with it.

msh210

@HodofHod So people could upvote/downvote all of them? We already have that. A new discussion will tell us nothing (unless more/fewer/different people vote).

yesterday, by Gilles

@msh210 When we picked our chatroom name on Science Fiction and Fantasy, the top two proposals had an exact tie. The other mods didn't care, so I picked the one of the two that I hadn't proposed. This renewed interest in the thread, and a few days later my proposal had a clear lead. Later I asked again if we should change the name to the preferred proposal, and people said they'd grown fond of the name.

HodofHod

@msh210 hmmm, I think if we asked nicely we'd get only one vote per person

I'm a big fan of asking nicely

msh210

@HodofHod Maybe. See comments on the question.

HodofHod

:D

msh210

@HodofHod :-)

HodofHod

4:00 PM

@msh210 Idk, I'm really not so worried about people cheating to get "their" favorite chat room name up. It's a chat room, for somebody's sake!

msh210

@HodofHod Sir Alec Douglas-Home's?

HodofHod

...googling

msh210

@HodofHod Don't bother. He was a prime minster of the UK, but his relevance here is nil. I just chose a semirandom person.

HodofHod

@msh210 Ah. I daresay that was a bit more than semi-random!

msh210

@HodofHod I rolled no dice. :-)

HodofHod

4:09 PM

@msh210 Dice, pah! I'll bet it's only a matter of time (if it hasn't happened yet) that someone creates a robotic hand capable of throwing any roll they like!

msh210

@HodofHod That's fine with me, too (even though I downvoted it).

@HodofHod I'm not sure how much of an effect air currents and barometric pressure would have. Undoubtedly the material the dice land upon would matter.

HodofHod

@msh210 I may be being too picky (I'm like that sometimes) but it irks me (just a bit) to have a title that's not a noun. Can you imagine an SO room titled "come and debug"?

I'll get over it.

@msh210 Of course, all variables would be taken into account

The calculations are no longer outside of our grasp (I think)

msh210

@HodofHod I see what you mean. And glancing at a list of existing rooms, most titles (not all) are in line with your opinion.

HodofHod

@msh210 The only ones I'm seeing are travel's "you are here" and "SE game on!"

msh210

@HodofHod There are others: "Aww!" (IIRC) and "Ten fold" e.g.

HodofHod

4:20 PM

ahh, missed those

jake

4:34 PM

@HodofHod I'm pretty sure that a robot has already been invented that will toss a coin such that it always lands the same way.

HodofHod

That would make football games... interesting...

Monica Cellio

4:55 PM

@msh210 thanks. Both Borda count and preference voting are better than one vote per person, plurality wins. Between Borda and preference I don't care -- whichever is easier to administer. I expect they'll produce the same results in a vote like ours, and the stakes aren't high anyway.

msh210

@MonicaCellio Not sure what you mean by preference voting. Could you clarify how it works? (Wikipedia's article on "Preference voting" says "Preferential voting (preference voting or ranked voting) describes certain voting systems in which voters rank candidates in order of preference" -- including the Borda count.)

@MonicaCellio Stakes are low, yes. I'm tempted to do what HodofHod suggested and just grab the noun ("The Beit Midrash"), especially since I personally don't like it (and downvoted it).

Monica Cellio

@msh210 just grabbing the noun is fine with me too.

@msh210 Preference voting, which I've also heard called Australian ballot, is like instant-runoff. Each voter ranks all of the choices; you then tally based on first-choice votes, and if there's no majority you eliminate the lowest vote-getter, redistribute those ballots based on the next choice, and check again. Iterate until majority.

msh210

@MonicaCellio Ah, thanks.

Monica Cellio

The UK recently had a referendum on switching to this scheme for parliamentary elections I think), but it failed to pass. The advantage in a political spectrum is that people don't feel they're "wasting" their votes by voting for a minor party; if that candidate doesn't win they still had a vote. This system is used for the Hugo ballot (annual SF&F big-deal award) too; that's where I first learned it.

Monica Cellio

5:16 PM

Ah, it appears that "preference voting" is a broad category (including Borda) and not specifically instant-runoff. Sorry for the confusion. (In the UK referendum they called the two options "first past the post" (plurality wins, like in US elections) and "alternative vote" (which is semantically weak).)

Isaac Moses

@WAF @msh210 I just suggested top three because, intuitively, they're within 1 net vote of each other, with the next closest more than 1 away, and you get a small, manageable group that way.

Personally, I don't like the current top vote-getter. It seems unwieldy, especially in an English-speaking context and doesn't sound like the name of a place.

judaism.stackexchange.com/a/16275/2 shortened, deleted, and made into a comment on the question. All people welcome here, but not answers from the POV of all creeds.

HodofHod

@IsaacMoses Do questions that have negative votes not get bumped when edited?

Isaac Moses

@HodofHod There's nothing wrong with the question. It deserves attention and good answers.

HodofHod

@IsaacMoses I wasn't asking about that specific question. In general?

Isaac Moses

@HodofHod Editing does cause a bump. Deletion of an answer in total doesn't.

HodofHod

5:31 PM

Testing

Isaac Moses

Gotta go. ttys/l

HodofHod

yup. Apparently low votes prevent bumping

Btw, public appeal for better answers:

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A: Meya - mi yodeya?

Ok, 100, here we go! The Heichal of the second Beish Hamikdash was 100 amos tall. -msh210 ..and 100 amos long. ..and 100 amos wide. Brochos to say each day -JeremyR 100 times ש״ם is written in Tehillim. -Yahu 100 amos2 where the Kohanim walked on top of the exterior altar. -msh210 100 childre...

If you can find better references to 100, feel free to pop one of the gematrias off and replace it.

@MonicaCellio Are you having a party IRL today?

Happy Birthday to youuu, Happy Birthday toooo youuu, Happy Birthday @MonicaCellio, Happy Birthday to youuuuuuu!

Double AA

5:54 PM

@HodofHod judaism.stackexchange.com/revisions/10326/4

HodofHod

@DoubleAA Cool! Learned something new.

Double AA

6:18 PM

@HodofHod Also, see how it was bumped here judaism.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active

HodofHod

@DoubleAA right, that I saw

Double AA

@HodofHod @IsaacMoses meta.stackoverflow.com/a/96181/166155

Monica Cellio

7:08 PM

@HodofHod mmm, cake! No IRL party, but a virtual one is just as good, and has fewer calories. :-)

msh210

7:25 PM

lights the candles

@MonicaCellio Better make a wish and blow 'em out before the top of the cake gets all waxy.

@TimSiteisaForum welcome!

Anonymous

@msh210 Hello! I was actually just wondering what the correct, "full name" of this site would be.

Anonymous

Because as far as I know it didn't lose either name

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum "either" meaning which or which?

Anonymous

(This is for a meta post I'm updating.) I'm considering just using "Mi Yodeya / Jewish Life and Learning".

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum I don't see "Jewish Life and Learning" anywhere any longer (except as the title of this chat room, but we're changing that). Do you?

Monica Cellio

7:30 PM

@msh210 done, and with a minimum of wax spatter. Who wants cake? Step right up!

Anonymous

@msh210 No, but I thought I read somewhere that it was still considered one of the names of the site. One minute, I'll see if I can find where I read that.

msh210

@MonicaCellio If you please. presents his plate

Monica Cellio

@TimSiteisaForum possibly you're thinking of the URL?

@msh210 Here you go! A nice corner piece with extra icing!

msh210

@MonicaCellio Thanks! :-) And a very happy birthday to you, with many more happy, healthy years to come!

Monica Cellio

@msh210 thank you!

Anonymous

7:33 PM

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Q: LAUNCH IS COMING! How shall we promote it?

Dear Fellow Yodeyans1, I have exciting news for those of you who haven't been following chat for the past few days. It seems that Judaism.SE is slated to launch out of beta within the next few weeks! That means that we'll become a full-fledged member of the Stack Exchange network with, among oth...

discussion featured site-promotion launch

Anonymous

> Yes, that would be "mi yodeya," which will once again be the site's name(2)! … (2) Along with "The Jewish Life & Learning Stack Exchange," of course.

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum Incidentally, your "about me" says "...all original source snippets I post on Stack Overflow are dedicated to the public domain" -- you might want to change that to "all original source snippets I post on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange sites are dedicated to the public domain". (Or maybe you don't want to.)

Anonymous

@msh210 Yeah, my profiles (and name) across the network are currently a mess. I'm going to go through and fix them all up in a few days. :)

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum Yes -- I'm not sure that's correct. It seems not to be. Lemme rope in the guy who wrote those words and see why he wrote them. @IsaacMoses?

@TimSiteisaForum Yeah, I was wondering about your name, too. What does that mean, if I may ask?

Anonymous

@msh210 It's silly. I originally changed my name on Meta Stack Overflow to "This Site is a Forum", as a way to poke fun at the way users instantly correct anyone who refers to the site as a forum. I then changed it again to replace "This" with "Tim", because changing your name to start with "Tim" was becoming a meme in the MSO chat room, but I had to change it across-the-network to do that. (I'd previously set my profile specifically on each site.)

msh210

7:37 PM

@TimSiteisaForum Ah.

Anonymous

When the fun's over, I'll just be "Jeremy Banks". :P

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum :-)

@TimSiteisaForum What post?

Anonymous

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Q: What shortened URLs are available through s.tk?

It was announced on the Stack Exchange Podcast episode #23 (at 1:05:26) that Stack Exchange now has its own URL shortener, http://s.tk/. At the moment, users can't create their own, they can only use the ones that are built-in. What shortened URLs are available through it?

support s.tk

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum Ah. Yeah: afaict "Mi Yodeya" is the only official name (the meta.judaism.se post notwithstanding. Watch this space for an answer from Isaac Moses though, I suppose).

@TimSiteisaForum Edited.

Anonymous

@msh210 Okay. ~~I'll go with~~ I see you went with that, then. It'll be right next to the word "judaism", so there shouldn't be any confusion.

msh210

7:43 PM

@TimSiteisaForum Right. Hm, math.se is listed as "Math" but I thought its official name was Mathematics...

testing Mathematics

(used [math.se])

and [judaism.se] comes out as Mi Yodeya

Anonymous

@msh210 Oops, yeah, that should probably be fixed.

Anonymous

I also notice that we're using "Seasoned Advice" for Cooking.SE, even though that's not it's "real" name.

msh210

Cooking

@TimSiteisaForum Ah. I thought "seasoned Advice" was its real name.

Anonymous

@msh210 It's the name in the logo, but Mi Yodeya is the first site other than SOFU to get a "real" name.

Anonymous

(I don't know if "real" is the right term, but that's how I refer to it.)

msh210

7:46 PM

Statistical Analysis

Hm, I thought that was Cross Validated, too.

@TimSiteisaForum That's presumably because Mi Yodeya was its name before it was a beta site.

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Q: Where did all these posts come from?

As part of the process for creating the Jewish Life & Learning Stack Exchange, mi.yodeya (an early Stack Exchange 1.0 site) has agreed to provide a jump start to this community by migrating their content to this new platform. All the users and content have been migrated to this site — t...

discussion migration

Anonymous

@msh210 Mmhm, I'm aware. :) Nonetheless I'm hoping this will set something of a precedent, and we'll get to see other sites "really" get their names, before too long (related meta post).

msh210

@TimSiteisaForum Yeah, that'd be nice!

Isaac Moses

@msh210 @TimSiteisaForum I didn't realize just how far SE was going to go with making Mi Yodeya the official name. I assumed that it would be like CrossValidated or Seasoned Advice.

... I'm quite pleased that we get to keep MY as an integral identity, and I wish SE would let other communities do the same.

msh210

Oh, hi, @Fred. Didn't see you come in.

(And hi to you, too, @IsaacMoses :-) )