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MathOverflow 2.0 is a-comin'!
Not a question; more of a notification. For those who are unaware, MathOverflow is upgrading to the "new" StackExchange platform.
A recent update on meta.mathoverflow.net:
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What to do with questions that are exact duplicates from MathOverflow?
It sometimes happens that at question asked here already has an answer on MathOverflow. It has been suggested in the Meta.MSE here that a feature should be introduced to close such questions as ...
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An open bounty and crossposting
I posted a question in MSE and offered a bounty on it.
A few days have passed and I didn't get constructive answers. I know that it is not such a long period, but I also believe this question might ...
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Badges for sharing questions on MathOverflow
The announcer, booster and publicist badges are awarded for sharing questions (or answers, as has been discussed in this question). According to their descriptions, only clicks from outside the Stack ...
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Postgrad Mathematics
I've proposed an intermediate level site between Mathematics and Mathoverflow to see if there is any support for this at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/46802/postgrad-mathematics
I think ...
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What, when and will we migrate questions to MO 2.0?
It was announced on meta.MO that preparations are taking place for the migration of MO to the SE network. In particular this means that we will be able to migrate questions over there, and will ...
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Is it good to migrate my problem into MathOverflow?
This is an elementary problem which seems difficult, and I'm not sure whether it could be solved out. A higher mathematics overlook might be needed.
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Is there an automatic way to move questions to Mathoverflow?
I asked this question
Lifting isomorphisms between derived categories
a few days a go, and I now think that it might be more suitable for Mathoverflow.
Is it possible somehow to move this question ...
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What's the main difference of the feature between StackExchange and Mathoverflow? [duplicate]
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Difference between MSE and MO
Just as the title said, I want to know what kind of question will be more properly post on StackExchange rather than Mathoverflow, and what ...
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Reasking a MathOverflow question
I have basically the same question to ask as this MathOverflow question.
I have seen what Tyler says there - I've been playing with it for a few days and unable to work it all out. I thought about ...
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What to do with a bounty: community wiki answer pasted from mathoverflow
I'm not sure how or whether to award a bounty I started on Double sum - Miklos Schweitzer 2010 - it's been answered by a mathoverflow user, and pasted into a community wiki answer by another mse user.
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Please point mathematics.stackexchange.com to here, instead of to MathOverflow.
You could say I'm partially (or entirely?) to blame for this for not having done enough research beforehand. However...
A while back I wondered if there were a math-related site on the StackExchange ...
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Is this a scraper site, or what?
What is up with this site: http://mathoverflow.net/ ? Is it a clone or something? I wasn't paying attention and went to login, and it says that my name is unknown... What's up? I revoked access from ...
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Why does the latex-code for questions on MSE sometimes not work for questions on MO?
Perhaps there's something wrong with my computer or mathoverflow, but I just would like to point out that I can't just copy my question from MSE to MO. When I do that, the Latex sometimes does not ...
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Should Reputation from mathoverflow be carried over.
So I am a user at both MO and here. I visit MO maybe a few times a week, and this site a little less frequently.
The point is that most of the questions I come up with are more relevant for MO, as ...
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Vote to Close as Exact Duplicate should Accept MathOverflow Question URLs
It would be very helpful if we could vote to close questions as exact duplicates of questions on MO.
edit to consolidate some ideas fleshed out in the comments on Thomas Owens's answer:
Having the ...
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Cloning over questions from MO
It seems that we are getting a lot of questions that are simply copied over from MO. In at least a few cases, the answers we are ending up with here are also just copied over from MO. Do we want ...
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Should we adapt the FAQ from the Mathoverflow FAQ? If yes, how much of it is relevant?
Over at Mathoverflow, we put a lot of time and thought into the FAQ. While a lot of it is not applicable to math.SE, there are a number of ideas there that could be very useful to this site.
I ...
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Moderators and Great People
One of the reasons that MO (also SO) was able to grow so well in the early days is that it had a small dedicated group of people who guided the site through its early stages and kept things on topic. ...
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should MathOverflow tag prefixes be used?
It would probably be good to get some sort of consensus on tagging style (pr.probability-theory vs plain probability-theory.) ...
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Differences between mathoverflow and math.stackexchange.
What are the differences between MathOverflow.net and Math.stackexchange.com?
Why two communities for Mathematics? Wasn't one enough?
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Should we migrate by hand good-but-not-research level questions from MathOverflow?
MathOverflow has a large supply of reasonable to excellent mathematics questions, which have been closed for not being "research level".
Should we migrate some of these by hand?