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Topic tagging

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Summary by SPage (WMF)

You can put a category in a topic summary, but nothing happens, bug 60510#c4.

Gryllida (talkcontribs)

I would like to see topic tags. I.e. "physics", "chemistry", "article creation request", for instance.

DannyH (WMF) (talkcontribs)

We're definitely thinking about tags. How would you want to use them? What would they help you to do?

Gryllida (talkcontribs)

Tags would help physics wikiproject people to follow any physics topics on-wiki, for instance.

Quiddity (talkcontribs)
Gryllida (talkcontribs)
Quiddity (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Gryllida: I was collecting topic compilations at Flow/Prior discussion-thread-roundup; I haven't been adding links as prolifically lately, but have been wanting to get back to it. If you'd like to help add major discussions there, anytime, that'd be wonderful. (But not everything. It's easy to go overboard, which creates more confusion in the end.) Each section is in reverse-chronological order, with main links at the top.

Discussions about Tags are collected there already (currently section 19).

Currently, categories aren't supported at all. That's bugzilla:58197 and bugzilla:57512

Gryllida (talkcontribs)
Quiddity (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Yup, for category support. Template+Categories+bots are how all our existing workflows function, so it'll be needed for transitional support at a minimum.

Also, see Erik's discussing of tags in part #3 of this mailing list post.

Those are interesting search results pages, and are good hints of the things that might be possible with structured-discussions that have built-in automated metadata. :)

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