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Allow moderators to manually ban >2k users from suggesting edits to tag wikis
There's no UI for this, but the functionality exists. Drop this into your console, fill in the userID, optionally adjust the days to be banned, and it's done.
$.post("/admin/ban-suggested-edits", {...
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Can we have tag wiki and wiki excerpt edit reviews in a separate queue to suggested edits?
Separating tag wiki edits into a separate review queue will also allow us to enforce the different level of scrutiny required when reviewing these edits.
Tag wikis are especially prone to plagiarism, ...
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Disinformation on moderator elections
It is copied from the same tag on Meta SO.
According to an online dictionary the meaning of periodically can be too:
from time to time, frequently
And that is the meaning of the word used here.
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How can a moderator clear a tag wiki or excerpt?
Tags whose first real revision was a suggested edit will have a blank first revision, attributed to Community, that you can roll back to without any fuss. For tags whose first revision was submitted ...
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How can I insert a link to tag from tag wikis (NOT excerpt)?
In the the wiki description you can use the same markup/markdown as in posts. So [tag:unicorns] results in unicorns.
Of course, you could always take a look at a tag wiki that has the sort of ...
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Please stop mangling tag wiki excerpts
The regex for clean tag excerpts has been simplified a bit, and now looks like this:
^.{0,40}?
(
(this\stag\s(is)?\s?) # this tag .. this tag is|about ...
|
(the\s[^\s]+\stag\s(is\s)?) # the {foo} ...
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Irritating message when editing several tag wikis
The message is there for a reason. You can't post multiple tag wiki edits at the same time to prevent misusing the system. Rate limits are there to prevent the damage that one user can perform within ...
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What reputation is needed to suggest language hints to be used for particular tags?
Currently only moderators can change it. It is read-only text to everyone else, present solely so users can figure out which highlighter is being used for a given tag.
There is no mechanism in place ...
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Single-use tags with no tag wiki, but with rejected proposals for the tag wiki, aren't auto-burninated after six months
Network wide there are today only 307 of such tags.
I don't think this bug needs immediate fixing but the query can be used to find tags that have no wiki but maybe deserve it.
Here is the multi-db ...
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Be proud of tag wikis!
I think in general that UI is a bit overcrowded, and while the features are helpful, they're probably not necessary all on the same bar like that.
For example, in the new UI, Votes is already ...
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I'm not that bad! Why can't I review?
Those are tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt suggestions, suggested by Jon Arndt. Those suggestions can only be reviewed by users with 5k reputation.
Since you don't have enough reputation to review ...
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Allow deleting a tag wiki or excerpt
Diamond moderators can rollback a Tag Wiki and Tag Wiki Excerpt back to emptiness from the respective history page.
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Taxonomist Badge - How can I earn this badge?
I think part of your confusion is that you're seeing two similar phrases but not considering their antecedents.
For the badge, you need to create the tag. The actual tag. If there's a tag already ...
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Tag Wikis: why not be unified?
The Tag Wiki pages are not intended to host generic content like the definitions or descriptions you might find on a Wikipedia page for that subject. The purpose of Tag Wikis is to create something ...
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Why is [meta-tag:status-planned] not rendered in this tag info?
I talked to Adam about this and it seems that I'm correct - as far as he can tell, for the default templates we don't actually process the Markdown. I've added a status-review tag to the question so ...
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Improve description of tag wikis in Help Center
We reviewed your suggestion and agreed. We have updated the help center articles as suggested to reflect it.
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How to give the creator of a package / framework some elevated rights?
Having created some package, tool, technique, or idea does not mean that you know how tagging on Stack Exchange works or even that you are sure that the thing you invented is even on-topic. For that, ...
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It is now impossible to make a suggested edit to a tag-info
Sorry again folks. For what it's worth, we did put in some additional monitoring for observability and feature flags in case we needed to easily rollback the latest round of changes. And checked ...
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I don't understand most tag wiki edits in review queue
First: thank you for being a good reviewer; far too many people just approve these without doing nearly the amount of research you describe here.
I generally have the same problem - I'm not an ...
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Edit a tag info if original author is not active anymore
Tag wiki edit suggestions go into the suggested edits queue just like any other suggested edit.
These get approved by the community (if the OP doesn't get to them first).
Whether the OP is around or ...
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The user who first created a tag wiki is treated as owner for suggested edits
From some snooping around, this bug only happens if the first editor of the tag wiki submitted a binding edit to make the wiki (or excerpt), not a suggested edit.
As suggested edits are based on diffs,...
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There should be a way to review recent tag wiki edits
Agreed, the community is currently unable to provide oversight and accountability for the contents of tag wikis.
What would be useful would be
A new “active” sorting option added to the existing ...
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What do the Posttype values in the schema of Stack Exchange data dump mean?
3. Orphaned tag wiki
This are the wiki texts for tags that are removed by the clean-up script. When the tag is removed (because no questions have the tag anymore) you can no longer reach the wiki.
4. ...
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Should tags include a news section?
No. News is not useful for the Q/A format. Information should be as timeless as possible.
Introducing a news section would require extensive editing work to keep it up-to-date. It would also mean ...
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What constitutes spam in a tag wiki?
As we recently settled a similar issue on Law, I think a modification of my answer there would be fair.
If a link is additional to or directly supports a good tag description, it's a good link. Leave ...
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If a tag is removed and later created again, is the original tag-info recreated, too?
If a tag with the same name as a previously removed tag is created again, does it automatically has the original tag-info?
No.
I have performed a full scale test to prove this, by following those ...
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Is there a bug in the implementation of the Research Assistant badge?
If you're tracking the badge, the profile page will say you earned it once you meet the criteria for it. However, the actual award process runs on a schedule and may not kick in right away. At the ...
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Is it appropriate to link in a tag wiki to tag-specific discussion forums?
Yes, it's okay to link to other resources in tag wikis.
While I could find some links in other tags (mainly directly pointing to the project), I couldn't find any example of linking to an external ...
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What is the correct way to reply to community wiki FAQ questions with an accepted answer?
The way the faq tag works is that questions first have to go through the stage of being tagged as faq-proposed. Once we have a consensus answer as evidenced by an answer receiving a significant number ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible