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Where should tags be proposed?

LucasWerkmeisterWMDE

It looks like Proposing new categories is the topic for proposing new categories, but where would I propose new tags? For instance, we already have two ResourceLoader-related questions.

Or can tags be created by anyone and I just don’t see where? :slight_smile:

addshore

I guess we also need a topic for Proposing new tags?

I don’t appear to be able to create any tags that are not already defined in the system.

After a bit of searching I found https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-can-i-create-tags/31094/ (which refers to the tagging plugin, but it appears the tagging functionality has been merged into the core of discourse).

By default, TL3+ can create tags.

TL3+ refers to “Trust Level” 3+

After another bit of searching I found out what exactly that means on a vanilla install, although it can be customized. https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/6

qgil

Good point! See you at Proposing new tags :slight_smile:

(And the #resourceloader tag has been created, thanks!)

Tgr

That’s pretty high, especially early on when the site is mostly empty. (You need to spend two months on the site to even have a chance at TL3.) Is it hard to rename / delete tags? If not, should we lower that now (to TL1, maybe)?

qgil

No strong opinion. Although I tend to think that defaults are there for a reason, this is a community where anyone can do whatever they want with categories in Wiki pages.

Then again tags can get messy when anybody can create them (Tl1 = basically anybody), and we can expect that new questions (and the tags they will require) will arrive slowly in the next weeks…

@aklapper @srishakatux @samwilson any thoughts?

aklapper

No, as I don’t know how much participation is needed to reach TL2 or TL3…

qgil

@aklapper check the first post (and I will add this to the Help page).

Tgr

See also the banner on top (visible for admins only, I think?) saying

To make launching your new site easier, you are in bootstrap mode. All new users will be granted trust level 1 and have daily email digest updates enabled. This will be automatically turned off when total user count exceeds 50 users.

Didn’t notice that when I was suggesting TL1.

qgil

User trust levels added to the Help.

Almost any genuine user will jump from TL0 to TL1 on the same day they register or the next day they log in.

samwilson

I think it’s reasonably easy to clean up tags, so let’s start with it being pretty open. Although, the fewer people and posts there are, the less one needs tags, and the more there are the more they’re useful and the messier they might be… But yeah, for now, let’s make them available to as many people as possible?

qgil

Settings changed:

min trust to create tag: 1