Questions tagged [documentation-examples]
For questions regarding the examples that are used in Documentation.
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How to handle duplicate example exist on other website (Which is not plagiarized) [closed]
I recently deleted an example from the documentation - It was in a form of an article, WITHOUT any attribution, well written, almost too good to be an original documentation example that was never ...
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I have a problem to add changes into Stack Overflow Documentation [closed]
When I'm trying to open some topic in Stack Overflow Documentation it shows me error
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
After some time, it works, but when I'm trying to add or edit some topic it just ...
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Documentation example reputation is not displaying in the summary tab [closed]
The Documentation Example reputation is showing in the reputation tab and not in the Reputation section under the summary tab
Screenshots for reference:
reputation tab:
summary tab:
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Documentation examples are not examples [closed]
It bugs me already a long time. There's inconsistency in what is called "examples". In the documentation section I was originally willing to find many examples for some topic, because this is how ...
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Documentation - how to suggest "eliminate an item"? [closed]
I don't know where the "suggest delete" button is on Documentation "examples"
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How to improve documentation (and copy pasting official docs) [closed]
My curiosity made me visit the link to the documentation pages for Doctrine 2 which was shown in the side bar when going through posts tagged with Doctrine2.
In the first installation and setup ...
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Is it acceptable to use documentation examples for pointing out/proving/confirming certain things? [closed]
I've been thinking of writing a documentation example which's purpose is to prove/confirm a certain statement, but I'm unsure if this is considered "acceptable" (even after reading the FAQ) or is what ...
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Alignment issue in the Documentation examples [closed]
In the documentation example section (Click on + Add Example icon on any documentation page), there are two minor alignment issues.
The Markdown Editing Help icon has extra back ground color.
The ...
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Better improvement requests options for Documentation [closed]
The current options for Improvement requests are only the following:
All of them come out as somewhat negative. I simply wanted to let the author know of some improvements that I felt that could ...
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Option to merge two examples (or delete one) in documentation [closed]
Why isn't there an option to merge two examples or delete one altogether?
Currently we have:
Why not give an option to mark duplicate or cast delete vote?
Example:
Initialize serial device example
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Shortened links to topics and examples in Documentation [closed]
So here's the link given to topics in Documentation:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/tag-name/topic-id/topic-name
And here for examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/tag-name/...
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How to recover a discarded documentation draft after it had been submitted for review? [closed]
I spent quite a while documenting something and submitted it for review.
I then wanted to make a change and it didn't work like I wanted, so I said to discard it thinking it meant the subsequent ...
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Discarded attempt to move an example now results in an error [closed]
Probably related to Documentation: moved an example - the topic is now bugged/unavailable.
I edited in a synopsis to Running repair on Cassandra, and then I realised there's already a similar topic ...
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How to deal with intersecting documentation topics? [closed]
The question is arising in the Rust tag at the moment, but I can imagine that others will encounter the issue.
We have a popular serialization framework (Serde) with its own topic
We have requests ...
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Documentation Example modified by other user and now deleted [closed]
I invested my time and contributed an example in Operators in C# tag and it is approved my other users. I also provided Demo for this example - Available Here
But This User totally removed my ...
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