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You can review and approve edits at 5K rep and make them at 20K, I recall. For details, click on your current rep (shown at the top), choose the "privileges" link from the pop-up, then hyperlink to a …

Of general interest to the community might be Visualizing Data with Maps, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso (The Washington Post) Th 3:30pm. He claims to show "the best ways to map and visualize data." I gue …

One solution, working within SE technology, is to create tags signaling that a thread includes effective code. When an upvoted or accepted reply contains code, we can (retroactively if necessary) app …

The problem with "ux" is that very few people would think to type it when trying to tag a relevant question. To help with that, I created a "userexperience" synonym. Although it's long, it will caus …

Other sites have tolerated meta threads for Area 51 promotion. I don't think promotion here would undermine this site. In general I do think promotion of other sites, whether nascent or mature, shou …

I should have posted my comment as a reply. I'll belatedly copy it here so we can have a formal conclusion to this thread (and give people the opportunity for further comment and up/down voting): …

We currently have grid and grids. Did you have something else in mind? Tags generally develop organically and naturally when a new question or reply suggest a need. What we might do at this point i …

Thank you for your interest and concern! Moderators have access to this information, in the form of customizable graphs of the expected daily data (visitors, questions asked, answers supplied, etc.), …

The new use of optimisation appears to focus on questions asking for better ways to do things rather than "optimization" in the sense of finding the best value of an objective function subject to cons …

The standard practice, which is warmly encouraged, is to make answers stand alone. At the minimum, a good answer provides a synopsis or summary of what it links to. As with everything, there are exc …

On the main sites, the update is practically instantaneous. On derived sites, including these meta pages and the API pages, there is a lag. It varies from an hour or two on the meta pages to about a …

Yes, voting has dipped about 20% since mid-January. It did that in 2011 and 2012, too. :-) I, too, have an impression that we are receiving a spate of poor and uninteresting questions. Such trends …

The processes of recognizing addresses in text and (especially) cleaning and standardizing those addresses are a frequent part of GIS workflows. When a geo-extraction question is formulated to appeal …

I strongly agree: changes to code in questions should be limited to formatting it as code (adding a few spaces of indentation using the Preformatted text tool), nothing more. Readers who think such c …

No, not really: the question asks specifically for opinions, which is explicitly off-topic. That's not something this community can even argue about as long as we remain part of SE. However, often su …