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Moving questions from Webmasters to Wordpress should be used sparingly

The Webmasters stackexchange is where webmasters hang out. The audience includes people knowledgeable in PHP, SEO, server issues, HTML (helpful with WordPress widgets), and lots of other areas that ...
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Are migrations done automatically?

I posted a question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44456892/is-it-ok-to-set-a-background-image-in-the-html-element that was migrated to SO within 5 seconds of being posted. Is there are bot that ...
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Would this SEO question be a good fit to migrate here?

I ran across this question on Stack Overflow: Stop Search Engine crawling of “tel:” links? It needs editing, but it appears to me that it would be on topic here, because it has to do with SEO. It is ...
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Too old to migrate question for Server Fault?

"Email password fails with & in it" is specifically about configuring Exim. As Exim is server-side software and not web-specific I'd think it would fit better on Server Fault. When trying to flag ...
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Please move questions for software recommendations to Software Recommendations.SE

There are many questions where the OP is seeking for a software recommendation. I notice that these are often flagged as off-topic (almost always by John Conde ♦). However, I think it'd be ...
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Migrated questions linking to the revisions page at the other site?

I migrated this post to ux.stackexchange.com: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/57101/are-there-studies-about-the-use-of-categories-and-tags?noredirect=1 The text on this site that says ...
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Migrating an off topic question doesn't have all other stack exchange sites [duplicate]

When I tried to flag an off topic question which belongs to http://webapps.stackexchange.com I didn't find that site in Flagging > Closing > Off-Topic > Migration and I found only 4 sites ...
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How to vote for migration a question to Super User?

I would like to vote for migration a question to Super User StackExchange site but I can't. When I try to flag the question, I choose It doesn't belong here, or it's duplicate.... After I choose Off ...
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Moving questions TO webmasters [closed]

My primary interest is search engine optimization. As such, Pro Webmasters is the stack site at which I can be most helpful. However, I follow the SEO tag on StackOverflow as well. Just that tag ...
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How do I migrate a question here to StackOverflow?

I recently asked a question here, but in retrospect I'd rather have asked it at StackOverflow. Should I just ask the same question there, or request in my question to have a mod migrate it, or is ...
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Why was my figcaption question migrated?

I had a question here on Webmasters about tables, figures, and figcaptions. Today it was migrated to StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12783679/a-table-in-a-figure-use-caption-or-...
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Why is one question closed whilst another migrated when both are similarly off-topic?

Two recent questions, both off-topic, both programming related and both are of the style, "it doesn't work; what's wrong". Yet one was closed and the other migrated to SO. specific div css properties ...
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How should mods be notified of bad migrations?

This question was recently migrated to ServerFault. It's clearly a shopping/product recommendation which is off-topic per the SF faq, and has also generally considered off-topic throughout the network ...
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By what logic did a font search question get migrated to Webmasters?

See this question. Can someone get whatever mod approved that in here to explain? I've ocassionaly had the unprovable thought that some at SO treat this site as a dump for things they don't want to ...
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Problem with user reputation and/or missing questions

I was just looking at the users list (specifically rep in the last month) and then looked at a couple of user profiles. These users have 500+ rep even though it says they have 0 questions and 0 ...
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Annoyed my question was migrated from SO

I’m not sure why my question needed to be migrated from Stack Overflow. Lots of web-related topics are still considered programming. The question had 5K+ views and no one commented that it seemed the ...
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Is this a suitable question for migration?

We've got this question on Programmers: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/103919/what-do-you-think-about-tecnical-support-from-ms-windows-azure which has been flagged as off ...
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How do we prevent obviously low quality questions from being migrated here?

Example Is Google lying about Google+' exceeded capacity? Google announced, that they had to close the invite process due to 'insane demand'. Is it really possible that they initially released ...
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Web development question migrated to StackOverflow

So I had asked this question, not a particularly great question but certainly about web design/development. Now that it has been migritad to SO, I am left wondering why? What is it that I'm not ...
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Is there a way to hide closed or migrated questions?

Currently on the front page (when ordered by newest and have 50 to a page marked) there are 13 [closed] or migrated questions. That's approximately a quarter. Is there any way to hide these questions ...
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can I gain ownership of my migrated question?

can I gain somehow ownership of my question that was migrated from Web ApplicationW? here is the migrated question
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The mod_rewrite problem

ServerFault has been a very popular place to ask mod_rewrite questions. We get a lot of them. I'm not an apache guru so I can't speak to how we'll they've been answered, but it has struck a couple of ...
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What is going to happen to internal references when moving to the new domain?

I'm guessing that there will be some kind of massive global search/replace in the question and answer content to replace webmasters.stackexchange.com with ournewdomain.com, ensuring that inter-...
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