Timeline for The [desktop] tag is ambiguous
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 19, 2012 at 0:00 | comment | added | Indrek | @slhck I was away for a while, but it should be done finally. I also updated the tag wikis, so this can be marked as [status-completed]. | |
| Sep 6, 2012 at 6:05 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, especially the point about tags that are too broad. Absolutely fine with me! | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 22:09 | comment | added | Indrek | Wanted to quickly get your opinion before doing any actual edits, though. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 22:08 | comment | added | Indrek | @slhck I've been going through the questions, and it seems like in most cases the [desktop-environment] tag would actually be redundant - all except a small handful of questions are about a specific desktop environment, each of which already have individual tags, and adding the generic tag seems unnecessary; after all, we don't tag Windows questions as [operating-system]. So I think for most questions about desktop environments I'll just remove the [desktop] tag, add the specific DE tag where it's missing, and add [desktop-environment] only to those that truly are broad or ambiguous enough. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 19:12 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Thank you for taking the time to do this! If you ask on chat, maybe someone wants to help out? | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 19:10 | comment | added | Indrek | @slhck Alright, I'll go through them once more and retag as [desktop-environment] where necessary. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 18:49 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I would probably just use "desktop", yeah :) | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 12:46 | comment | added | Indrek | @slhck Good point. So if we use [desktop-environment] for software like Gnome and KDE, what tag to use for questions about the actual desktop? [desktop-interface]? [graphical-desktop]? [desktop-metaphor] (per the Wikipedia article)? None of them seem very intuitive. How about just leaving [desktop] for those questions (rather than making it a synonym), and have the tag wiki excerpt point to [desktop-computer] and [desktop-environment]? | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 5:38 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Alright; now thinking of it, "desktop" now either means the actual desktop of a computer, or its desktop environment (in the sense of GNOME, KDE, etc.), so we might need to go through them one more time to differentiate that. What do you think? | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 2:58 | comment | added | Indrek | @slhck Done. I retagged 167 questions as [desktop-computer] (which, as I suspected, was the less popular one), and removed the [desktop] tag from a few questions that had nothing to do with either meaning of the word. | |
| Sep 2, 2012 at 6:07 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Sounds good to me. Ping me when done and we'll take care of the mass retagging. | |
| Sep 1, 2012 at 23:16 | vote | accept | Indrek | ||
| Sep 1, 2012 at 23:16 | comment | added | Indrek | No objections, downvotes or alternative suggestions for over 5 days, so I'm going to go ahead with this. | |
| Aug 27, 2012 at 17:13 | comment | added | Indrek | @slhck Of course, I had no intention of proceeding with this before getting some feedback :) | |
| Aug 27, 2012 at 17:10 | comment | added | slhck Mod |
You would only need to retag the questions that apply to the less common tag (let's hypothetically assume desktop-environment), then the creation of the synonym would retag the remaining desktop-computer questions automatically. Before you start retagging, wait a little for community consensus or feedback though.
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| Aug 27, 2012 at 14:02 | history | answered | Indrek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |