Questions tagged [tag-wiki-excerpt]
Tag wiki excerpts are the most visible portion of tag wikis. They're shown when hovering over a tag, on the Tags page, and in the autocomplete suggestions when adding tags.
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People don't read the tag excerpts because we don't swat them into their faces
You are a user asking a question, and the system is helpful, so it shows you this:
(the 5 of them were suggested when I finished writing this post, I used only one, tag-wiki-excerpt)
Seeing the ...
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Can we do anything against tag wikis copy-pasted from Wikipedia?
I've seen quite a few tag wikis, and even tag wiki excerpts, that were copy-pasted from the first paragraph or so of the Wikipedia article, or sometimes were a dictionary definition. These violate the ...
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Proposed methods for countering plagiarized text in tag wikis
A pet peeve of mine is people who copy and paste text from Wikipedia for tag wikis, don't source their text, and then get approved in the blink of an eye.
I'm aware that you can Improve a tag wiki ...
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New tags page mangles tag wiki excerpts
With the tag page changed, there are some.. let's call them "controversial" opinions whether it's an improvement or not; I'd rather not comment on that, but point out a certain "feature" in the tag ...
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Librarian (gold) and Research Assistant 2 (silver) - proposal
Citing waffle's post from when "Research Assistant" badge was created
Looking through the data, it seemed to me that excerpts are handled fairly well by the community. I wanted to add a push to ...
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Please stop mangling tag wiki excerpts
Currently, tag wiki excerpts are mangled when shown in the tags list. For example, from CodeGolf.SE meta:
Not even the prefilled status tags are exempt (status-review):
For reference, the excerpts ...
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Allow deleting a tag wiki or excerpt
Sometimes a tag wiki excerpt or body ends up with unacceptable or useless content: plagiarized text that must be removed, or a totally unhelpful dictionary definition. (For example: this latest ...
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There should be a way to review recent tag wiki edits
Recently, several topics advocate using tag wikis for more than a cursory explanation of the tag:
Tag wikis need a size and functionality increase
Kill the book lists and put them home in their ...
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The excerpts at the top of tag question lists have been replaced by (the first few lines of) the text of the full tag wiki
I notice that the excerpts at the top of tag question lists have been replaced by (the first few lines of) the text of the full tag wiki. For example, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/...
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Make tag popups display permanently while editing
I hope most of us can agree that there's a problem with tag misuse.
(And I'm sure we'll all disagree on how severe this problem is.)
In line with this, I suggest we make tag popups permanent while ...
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Have Stack Overflow's tag wiki excerpts veered away from their purpose? [closed]
Take this screen shot of the first page of tags on Stack Overflow:
Take, for example, the database tag there. The excerpt simply states:
[A database is] an organized collection of data.
Or even the ...
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The Tag Wiki dropdown should display the entire tag wiki excerpt
Tag Wiki Excerpts support ~ 450 characters, but Tag Wiki dropdowns only display ~ 300 characters. The remaining characters are truncated.
This would not be a problem if the tag excerpt was used ...
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User making tons of tag wiki edits with plagiarized content
A certain user is presently in the process of creating tons of new tags and creating tag wiki excerpts with plagiarized content. For example, this suggested edit review, which is an exact copy of this ...
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How can a moderator clear a tag wiki or excerpt?
From time to time, we come across plagiarized content in tag wikis or excerpts that we want to delete. Ideally, we'd rewrite it to something non-plagiarized, but we're not subject-matter experts on ...
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Show a live preview of tag wiki excerpt as well, when editing tag wiki
It seems that tag excerpts are not displayed verbatim/in full on the Tags pages. That's fine but it makes it very hard to fine tune tag excerpts to display optimally, especially for editors who must ...
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Should a tag wiki body be self-contained, duplicating what's already stated in the excerpt?
Update: the example in this question is somewhat outdated, as I've edited the Android tag :)
What is the specific goal for a tag wiki // the relation between a tag-wiki and its excerpt?
I would ...
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It is now impossible to make a suggested edit to a tag-info
When trying to suggest an edit to a tag-wiki (or to create a new tag-wiki), I get an error saying: "The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!"
In theory, it could ...
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View tag wiki excerpt on tag page on mobile site
One important thing I feel is missing from the mobile design is the ability to view a tag's excerpt directly on the tag page. I find the excerpts very useful on the main site when I see a tag on a ...
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Attempting to create a tag wiki when a user has hit the suggested edit limit should alert the user that no more edits can be suggested at this time
I ran into an issue on Gaming.SE where I attempted to create a tag wiki and wiki excerpt for a tag which did not have one already while I already have the maximum of five suggested edits in the queue.
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Change tag "wikis" and "excerpts" to a different name
In my opinion, the names "tag wiki" and "tag wiki excerpt" are misnomers. Why?
In most wikis (that allow the community to edit them), very little permission is needed to edit each of its pages. For ...
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Tag wiki excerpt history applies Markdown formatting to what should be plain text
For example, on the array-shift excerpt history, note that the edits are rendered with Markdown previews.
(E.g. the code-ified and linked array_unique() at the start of my post.)
Markdown is not ...
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Tag wiki excerpt edit review misleads about allowed formatting
I just rejected an edit for an incorrect reason because I thought it was removing perfectly correct links with a bogus reason (“formatting”), whereas it was actually removing Markdown syntax that ...
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Add tasks for Reviewing tags
Tag editing is neglected due to lack of visibility. Here are a few review tasks which may help:
Pending tag synonyms
Tags with no excerpts
Tags with no wikis
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Warn tag wiki excerpt creators/editors that markup/links don't work in excerpts
I ran across another tag wiki excerpt suggested edit that had put markdown for a hyperlink in the excerpt (actually it already had them, it just modified it). So I rejected the edit, then waited until ...
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The initial default version of the tag wiki excerpt is not shown on the tags page
When looking at the tags on Physics Meta, I've noticed that many tags do not have the tag-excerpt. To my surprise, after I clicked on some of them I found out that they have a tag-info. (In fact, it ...
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Why is my tag wiki excerpt edit rejected?
I suggested this tag wiki edit, but three people rejected it with the reason "This edit is incorrect or an attempt to reply to or comment on the existing post.". But I don't see anything wrong with my ...
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Why can't I submit this meta tag wiki edit?
I am reviewing some tag edit suggestions on Meta Joomla Stack Exchange from a user looking to fix a broad-reaching problem. The suggested edit by the user wasn't as full as what is on Stack Overflow, ...
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Please let us show a small icon/graphic in the tag excerpt
I know that the tag excerpts are prime real estate, but I think it would be nice if we had the option to add a small product icon/graphic to the excerpt.
Here's how it looks now:
And here's what I ...
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Block hyperlinks in tag wiki excerpts
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text, they allow no formatting whatsoever. In particular, there are no hyperlinks in tag wiki excerpts.
Including a hyperlink in a tag wiki excerpt is a common mistake. It ...
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Tag overview page cuts off beginning of some descriptions (not just common words)
This answer says that the descriptions on the tag overview page are meant to cut off common words such as "This tag" at the beginning of the tag description and although I find this weird, it seems to ...
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Miscalculated character count in tag wiki?
I was recently creating a tag wiki in Portuguese SE with the following text:
Para perguntas sobre variações do português quando se desconhece para qual variação se aplica. Se a variação for pedida ...
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Copy-pasting external (Wikipedia) entries into tag excerpts and SO wiki [duplicate]
A user has been making some Wiki edits while I was reviewing. I noticed that his edits were actually sentences copy-pasted from various sources like project homepages or Wikipedia.
In general, these ...
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Tag wiki excerpt for R repeatedly edited to add hyperlink
Following several discussion on meta regarding hyperlinks in tag wiki excerpts, I've suggested an edit to remove the hyperlink in r excerpt.
Unfortunately, the hyperlink returned, in an unanimously ...
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Is there a proofing tool for writing tag excerpts?
One peculiar thing about editing the excerpt for a tag wiki is that sometimes the leading words are omitted in certain contexts. Sometimes this is desirable, but sometimes it comes across as weird. ...
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If a tag is removed and later created again, is the original tag-info recreated, too?
When a tag is created, the tag-info is available at https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/[tagname]/info. (Or this url shows that it is currently empty.) After the tag is removed, then the above address ...
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Suggested Edit queue renders tag-wiki-excerpts with Markdown Preview
When you "Improve" a tag-wiki-excerpt on the new Suggested Edit queue, you get Markdown editing tools and a live Markdown-enabled-preview; which is wrong as Markdown isn't supported on tag-wiki-...
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Consolidate tag wiki excerpt and body contents with regards to suggested edits
At the moment, in major part because they are two separate post objects in the system, the excerpt and the body of a tag wiki count as two separate posts with regards to suggested edits in the queue. ...
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Empty tag wikis show as "answered" by Community [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tag wiki suggested edit show like answer suggested edit
The timestamp for the original (empty) version of a tag wiki, or tag wiki excerpt shows that it's an answer.
While ...
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Improving a suggested edit on a tag wiki excerpt lets me exceed the excerpt max length
When checking crypto's suggested edit queue this evening, I saw a suggested edit for a tag wiki that needed improving, so I went ahead and did it.
This presented me with good old Pagedown, however, ...
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Show license info for tag excerpts and wikis explicitly
All user contributions on Stack Exchange are licensed (currently under CC-BY-SA 4.0). Back in 2020, Creative Commons Licensing UI and Data Updates made a change in showing the license explicitly for Q&...
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Suggested edit review tasks are always trying to find the voting element
When I load a suggested edit task that is a tag wiki (including excerpts), I always get this error in the console:
Uncaught ReferenceError: votesCast is not defined
at Object.u [as success] (full....
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Long words in tag excerpts move outside the box
When there's an extremely long 'word', like a link, the tag excerpt popup does not hyphenate the word and break it to a new line. Instead, it extends outwards, like so:
(link to that particular ...
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“Reject and edit” on tag wiki excerpt does not show the current content
On a suggested edit review for a tag wiki excerpt, I clicked “Reject and Edit”. I expected to be brought to an edit box with the previous content of the excerpt, but instead I got an empty edit box.
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Edit tag wiki (and excerpt) tag on the edit screen missing the tag itself
So here I was minding my site's business, approving a few tag wiki excerpts and tag wikis, editing some of them along the way. Lo and behold, I opened one to edit it, but I forgot what the exact tag ...
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Is it possible to find tag-info (tag-wiki and tag-excerpt) for the tag which was deleted?
Is it possible to find tag-info (tag-wiki and tag-excerpt) for the tag which was deleted?
I ask because sometimes it might be useful to see the information in those tag-wikis. For example, some of ...
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Display the tag wiki excerpt when the tag wiki is empty
A change was made recently to the display of tag wikis when viewing questions in the tag. Instead of displaying the tag wiki excerpt at the top of the question list, the first section of the full tag ...
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Unusable "Delete" action in the Suggested Edits review queue for a tag wiki excerpt
A few days ago I reviewed a suggested edit to a tag wiki excerpt, and I noticed that there was a "Delete" option:
That seemed the best option to me since the tag was useless and needed to ...
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Should the first letter of tag wiki excerpts be capitalized or not?
I was browsing through the tags on Gaming.SE to see if I could add any tag wiki excerpts (y'know, with the new tagging system and all), and I noticed some of the excerpts began with capital letters, ...
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What conventions should apply to tag wiki excerpts?
On Law we have a bunch of tags to clarify the jurisdiction that applies to a question. Here are two proposed tag-excerpt changes I just saw in the queue. I think there is a convention on Stack ...
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Does the 'Research Assistant' badge now count tag excerpt edits?
From the announcement:
the badge counts distinct tag wikis you edit excluding excerpts
and the FAQ:
Edits to tag wiki excerpts do not count [emphasis mine; thanks @bobble]
Update: I've now updated ...
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