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Q&A Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages

I was on the Software Dev CD tag page, clicking through the pages of the "Hierarchy" sort. I wanted to see if there were git-* tags that are not nested under the git tag.[1] Surprisingly, I discov...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org

I use Noscript, so Javascript is blocked by default for new domains for me. As it happens, prior to today I had codidact.com (and jsdelivr.org) whitelisted, but not codidact.org. When I was writin...

1 answer  ·  posted 22d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 19d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What should we do about tagging in Site Proposals?

We need to figure out tags in the "Site Proposals" category. I noticed that some proposals were tagged "suggestion" and some "new-communities" and started to replace the former with the latter, an...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Library of Congress classification: class AND subject tags (including sub-tags)

The library of Congress classification system gives items both a single class, and multiple subject tags. This system has some significant benefits. Also, their subject tag system has sub-tags - f...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A Inconsistent tagged question counts

I am looking for existing questions in Power User with the virtual-reality tag. The tag-search page says there are 4 questions, but clicking through to the tag page itself shows none.

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A The posts list for a tag suggests each post has only that tag

Clicking on a tag takes you to a page showing the details of the tag, followed by a list of posts bearing that tag. However, each of these posts is shown with only that tag. All other tags on each ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can we have the ability to create tags without being linked to a question?

As the title says. Rationale: I'm in the process of giving tags on EE.CD some structure and I feel that sometimes a group of tags could be usefully grouped under a parent which doesn't exist yet. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tag search breaks if a space is added

In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) sh...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I suggest edits to the tag wiki?

On the page for the Edit Tags ability, it lists a part of the requirement as To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag w...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How do I suggest edits to tags? [duplicate]

The Edit Tags ability says How do I earn this ability? To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag wiki or the usage guid...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Disambiguate [vote] and [voting]

Meta has vote x 4 and voting x 11. None of them have tag usage guidance. I'm not familiar yet with how tag naming is handled here but it looks clear to me that both tags are too similar and only o...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tags don't match between display mode and edit mode

I noticed an anomaly when I went to edit a question. The tags in the display mode don't match the tags in the edit mode. I didn't change the tags, that's how they initialized when I opened the ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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Q&A Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should we be able to tag answers?

On some of our communities, it would be helpful to be able to label answers systematically: On Code Golf, by language. On Software Development, Power Users, or Linux Systems, by specific ...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Who should be able to create new tags?

It's been pointed out in a few places that, so long as creating tags is much easier than managing them, we're going to have problems handling typos, duplicates, and tags that otherwise ought not ex...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A [tag:Notifications] should not be a synonym of [tag:email-notifications] [closed]

I just created a bug report post about notifications in the inbox. When applying tags for my post, I typed in "notifications". That resulted in two tags [tag:notification] and [tag:notifications]. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  closed 7mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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Q&A Consider child tags in required tags

Currently, it is possible to set required tags for a category. For example, here on meta it lists as required tags one of: bug, feature-request, discussion or support. For meta, this works pretty ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A Assessing the 5 tag limit

We currently have a limit of 5 tags per question. Should we keep this the same or would any changes be of benefit? For example: Should the limit be higher or lower? Should there be different ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Proposal to ease tag maintenance

We should make it easier for trusted users to manage tags. Can we please have some feedback on the following ideas? Creating tags directly (independently of a post): move from mod-only to anyo...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

On EE.CO we have some tags that are utterly useless, but people keep on using them, for example voltage. For non-experts: voltage is one of the main physical quantity used to describe the behavior...

4 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance.

There is a problem with HTML entities in the tag guidance text. As you can see here I used an HTML entity (greek lowercase phi φ) to denote a technical quantity, and it shows nicely: However in...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A When editing tags usage guidance character limit counter doesn't work.

When I edit tags on EE.Codidact I've noticed that the character limit counter for the usage guidance remains at zero. Is it a known issue? Unless there is something wrong with my browser (Firefox)...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Users can suggest tags with spaces (but the suggestion can't be approved)

See this suggested edit, where the user suggested adding the tag "American English". Due to it having a space, I am unable to approve the edit, getting the message Tags may not include spaces or...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A You can suggest more than five tags (but it can't be approved)

See suggested edit https://languages.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/221 Though it doesn't appear on it, my suggested edit apparently included more than five tags, which isn't allowed. However, ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A HTML entities not showing correctly when editing tag WIKIs.

I just edited a tag wiki in EE.CD here. I inserted a table in whose cells appears an HTML entity, namely the "div" symbol "÷". Inside the table that symbol is not rendered, but it is displayed as ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Adding a dummy tag to improve the process of nuking tags with the "merge trick".

Would it be acceptable to create a dummy tag like merge-into-this-for-nuking-another-tag just to ease the usage of the "merge trick" described here to nuke a tag? Of course the usage would spell i...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Confusing behavior of tags shared between categories

Over on Software, Q&A and Code Review share the same tags. While this is really helpful since it makes tag parity easy, it also produces some weird behavior. For instance, at the moment the sit...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Wrong category is pulled in when searching by tag on a different category that shares the tag family

On Outdoors there is blue icon that says what category a question is in when searching by tag. However when categories share the same tag set it will say that Q&A posts are in the Gear Recommen...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A The tag description in the tags list does not link to the specific tag page

On the Tags tab, clicking on a tag in the list follows a link to the specific tag page. However, this only works if you click on the tag itself. The tags in the list each have a snippet of their de...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Update tag descriptions to reflect new home of proposals

Here on Meta the tags "community-proposal" and "new-communities" both have descriptions referring to the Site Proposals category. Can these be updated to refer to (and possibly link to) the new Cod...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Prevent creation of tag which is singular form of an existing tag in the plural

I noticed informally when exploring the site that many tags appear to exist in both singular and plural forms. For example, here on Meta, there is both comment and comments as well as notification ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A Are the [post] and [posts] tags synonyms?

I noticed that here on Meta, there is both a post tag (2 questions[1], no usage guidelines) and a posts tag (43 questions, with usage guidelines). The questions tagged post look like the would well...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by AdminBee‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Creating tags is much easier than adding description

It is probably not controversial to say that if you're creating a tag, you should add a description for it. Otherwise, how will anyone else know what you intended the tag to be used for? Unfortuna...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can't edit a question just to add tags.

One can apparently not make an edit to a post just to change the tags. There is a message that nothing was changed because I didn't edit the post. Well, I didn't edit the body of the post, just the...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A No indication of zero results in tag search

When searching the Tags section, a search string that gives no results gives an empty results section, rather than a message saying there were no results. This makes it unclear whether there is a p...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Show tags in posts

I'm proposing to be able to show tags in posts like writing [tag:status-bydesign] should show status-bydesign [1]. This would make referencing tags in posts easier and nicer. This is a pure...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Lux‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Lux‭

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Q&A Searching for answers by tag

Searching for post_type:2 (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. Is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Adding a parent to a tag crashes on the server side (500)

This was already asked on Software, but it makes sense add Codidact level. If I try to provide a parent to a tag, it crashes with 500. Error Id = 6bd06f30-539d-4b88-8743-eca32a8465cd Tag to ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tags shown on a question can differ from tags shown when editing that question

I noticed that How can I shorten a piece of writing without losing its original essence? on Writing Codidact appeared to be tagged writing-instruments, but the question does not relate to writing i...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tag duplication in post edit mode

Accidentally clicking on the blue "bug" tag above the tags box in post edit mode adds the tag "bug" even if it is already present, resulting in it being present twice. Deleting it with the little...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Cannot add tags during tour

During the tour, the user is asked to add tags to their new question. The tags (either the suggested ones or other words) are not recognised, instead displaying "The results could not be loaded": ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should post tags go above the post content, rather than below it?

Consider, strictly as an example, the question updating a function within a struct on Software Development. There's a reasonable number of programming languages where something like that might be ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Typo in error - Tags can't have more than 5 tags

I'm guessing the first "Tags" is a typo and should instead say "Posts" or perhaps the name of the specific post type?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A No way to remove parent tag.

Over on Software, the [excel] tag was mistakenly put as a subtag of [openoffice-calc]. When I went to edit the tag to fix it, I realized there was no option to remove the parent tag. I ended up ask...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tag suggestions for Favorite tags

When adding a tag to a post, beginning to type leads to all matching tags being displayed, avoiding the need to type out tag names by hand. Would it be useful to include this feature in the Pref...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist?

I tried to add a tag to an existing post by editing it and it failed because there was no actual post edit: After further tests, I realized that this happens only if the added tag(s) do not alre...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Ethan‭

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Q&A bug after edit suggested [duplicate]

In this post, @FoggyFinder had proposed an edit. He removed flag then, added flag. But, I saw both was showing. So, I had gone to edit page. I saw there's only flags. I think I had read a ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Question has phantom tag [duplicate]

Yesterday I edited https://math.codidact.com/posts/282737 to correct the spelling of the tag probability and remove the tag statistics. Now it shows in the question list as having tags probability ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Where should we discuss about unhelpful tags?

I have recently seen some tags. a and Ask.. That should ask not Ask since all tags are in lower chars. And mod should delete the a tag. I know that we won't allow every people to create tags. But ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A If a tag search yields exactly one exact match for a tag, go directly to that tag's page

When using the search feature in the Tags part of each category, if one searches for something that is an exact match for just one single tag, the page returned lists just that one tag. To get to t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭