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Activity for Lorenzo Donati
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| Edit | Post #289456 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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How can we poll a community? In my effort of giving structure to EE.CD tags pages, I find myself in the need of asking the community for consensus about some debatable choices. Of course the place for this is EE Meta, but I'd like to know in general if there is a standard practice to poll the community. In other words, sup... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 But anyway, I'm not here to defend or object against SE network. I'm not in that ship any more and I'm not interested too much in that company shenanigans any longer.
In a way I pity those that still linger there, since I'm sure they will be sorely disappointed by the next trick SE compan... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 Sorry, I don't agree. Please, don't mix level of abstractions. If an application is made by hundreds of modules and libraries and you tag the version of each library (as it seems SO does, if I'm not mistaken), then the parallel in electronics is: you have a circuit and you tag every part numb... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 I didn't say SO, I said SE network. I mainly worked on EE.SE, and there tags sucks. It seems on SO there is more discipline. Anyway, I see there are a lot of very specific tags, like the specific version of dot-net framework. That is like using a tag for each part number we have in electronic... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 Oh, well. I didn't notice them. Maybe it is a relatively new feature? When I did janitorial work on SE network many years ago they didn't exist. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289438 |
I definitely support this approach. Especially since we on EE.CD almost reached a consensus that tags should not be treated as mere keywords, but they should be used to build a semantic structure (synonyms and parent tags are instrumental to that). To have a consistent development of our tag structur... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289428 |
@#64277 On SE network tags are more a list of keyword that a way to convey semantic information correctly. On EE.CD we almost reached consensus that our tag systems should not be used as a keyword system, but more as a "semantic field" infrastructure. This is also supported by the existance of synony... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289410 |
I think that was only an example. Note that the feature is for adding flexibility to categories. I could imagine SW.CD community to want to add a required "programming language" tag _just for code reviews category_. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289418 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 the hierarchy. This is useful for a curator to see if some concept you have in mind already has a ta... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53398 Please, see my edit. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289367 |
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| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53196 BTW, Dictionaries may seem just a bunch of words listed together, but there is much research behind them (even old paper-based ones). You just don't improvise one.
Loooong time ago I worked for a research project whose purpose was to build an online learner's dictionary for learners of Ge... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53196 I'm not completely unaware of it (although it didn't occur to me while I was writing my question), but I never really used it (probably because when I got to know it existed some times ago it wasn't great).
I just checked now, and it seems sorely lacking, probably because it tries to be a ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#53196 Thanks for the tip :-). I would definitely love to, if the opportunity arises. Now I'm busy working on revamping the tags structure on EE.CD (so little spare time -sigh- !). (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#8046 Oh, yes, it was definitely a useful pointer. I didn't notice it at all when visiting that community (selective blindness, I guess :-).
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289367 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289367 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289367 |
@#8046 Thanks for the pointer! I "loitered" a bit on LL.CD but didn't notice that category.
And, yes, there is some similarity. However the important point in my larval-proposal is that "the information stays with us". No depending on rotting links and on formerly free external services that put u... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289367 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Implementing a technical "dictionary/glossary" for non-English languages. I think this has come up before, maybe tangentially on some specific site (EE.CD ?), but I lost track of the posts/comments. Anyway, I think it would be useful, at least for EE.CD, but I post here on Meta because it could be useful for other communities, especially those focused on science and tec... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
@#53890 Oh, well, then we are essentially saying the same thing. That's why I suggested creating a new privilege for highly trusted users. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
@#53890 Sorry if I didn't make myself clear, I'm not against your undo proposal, I'm against the combination of undo with relaxed trust requirements. In other words, for me undo is OK just as a tool for privileged users to rollback editing mistake. The issue for me is the possible relaxation of requi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I agree with some of your points, but I think what you propose is "icing on the cake". IMHO we can't afford it now because CD has few developer resources and the traffic is low. We can effectively cope with tags using other methods.
The only point I disagree with is "trust more+undo". Even if we h... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289352 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289351 |
@#8046 No probs. Anyway the "small army of socks" is an amusing image :-) Now I have this mental movie of a bunch of minions (the film) with a sock on their heads, and wrenches and hammers in their hands busily doing things and running into each other in an overcrowded server room! :-D (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289352 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Proposal to ease tag maintenance Maybe to address some safety/security concerns wihtout burdening admins/mods too much it could be useful to add a "tier 2" tag privilege. Leave the current edit tag privilege as is (just adding the ability to create new tags) and create a more "powerful" privilege, e.g. "manage tags", that would ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289351 |
Since you are scarce on dev resources, maybe it could be useful to see how my workaround plays out on EE.CD. Following what I suggested in my question, I created three "do-not-use" tags (`do-not-use--too-generic`, `do-not-use--too-specific`, `do-not-use--ambiguous`) and I began populating them with s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289351 |
`like the "new" button that is available to those with Edit Tags` I have that privilege but I still don't see that `new` button. Is that a intended (maybe because the privilege was granted by a mod and not earned in the standard way)? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense and I missed it wasn't a "legit" tag.
As for the rationale behind it, I don't see why `<small>` is forbidden. The workaround are clunky and what you propose really don't fit my bill, neither details nor footnotes give the effect I was looking for.
Th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289330 |
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| Edit | Post #289330 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview? Sometimes I use the `` HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from this post on EE.CD (red emphasis mine): >text as it appears in post preview However I noticed that in the actual post presentation t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
@#53890 That's a good point. Although I see Codidact more as a "spare time" tool (especially with this low traffic), I can see scenarios where it could be used in a workplace environment. So your concerns are definitely warranted.
Maybe the solution could be a sort of "privacy mode login", where y... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289313 |
A key problem with the current system is how to delete a tag. As I get it, for now that's an action that not even mods can do, but that needs "developer privilege". That's for DB safety and security.
If that was possible for mods or other privileged users, many problems would go away, since it wou... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#64656 For example, say a user finds a questions about a buck converter. He gets curious and about the topic and clicks on the tag. This shows them other questions about buck converters, but the tag also refer to a parent `DC-DC-converter` tag. The user could follow it and learn about other types of... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#64656 In reply to your comment where you begin with "I don't see anything in the EE meta post's specific guidelines ...". I wrote that post and I stated somewhere in it that I created and proposed those guidelines on the basis that tags shouldn't be a simple keyword list. It seems that a mod and Mo... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#64656 I agree with you about newbie questions. I wouldn't want to label them so. I think newbie should be educated to use the systems to their advantage and to the advantage of the community. A newbie could create a perfectly good question even on basic topics: for me the only hard requirement is t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289296 |
I'll add that I blocked cloudflareinsights.com because I read it can be used for tracking and although I feel safe here on codidact, I can't vouch for its use on other websites. I can't say if that could be the source of the problem. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289296 |
I have the same identical problem, also with Firefox and a lot of security add-ons. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Electrical Engineering. There are a bunch of other tags I'd like to delete. I suppose the only way is through staff, because Olin said he can't delete tags.
Moreover there are A LOT of tags that would need some change in capitalization or a change in spelling (maybe a word added), according to th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
@#61308 The problem is the purpose of tags. As I wrote in a [post on EE.CO](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289204), tags should convey structure, i.e. they should allow a user to discover questions about the same (or at least similar) topic. Tags should not be some sort of keyword list. When y... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289282 |
Just eyballing the ~5 pages of tags, it seems that there could be no more than 50. I don't count tags that are obvious typos or jokes or trolling (OK, I could get that `cock` could have been a misspelled `clock`, but `shit` has no excuse).
BTW, to avoid problems with the system limitations, we cou... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289282 |
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| Edit | Post #289282 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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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 of any circuit or electrical system. Such tags become kitchen sinks used to tag questions of all... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289271 |
Post edited: Using blockquote around the image makes the post less confusing. As it stands, it's difficult to tell the image content from UI elements. |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #289271 |
Suggested edit: Using blockquote around the image makes the post less confusing. As it stands, it's difficult to tell the image content from UI elements. (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |