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. They're intended to be a short, easily understood description of what that tag covers; the complementary tag wiki is the place to go into more detail and elaboration.
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What should we write for the tag wiki excerpt for the tag [convert-to-answer]?
Yesterday, I suggested edits for both the tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt for the tag convert-to-answer, and my tag wiki edit was approved, but my tag wiki excerpt was rejected.
You can see here: https:/...
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Tag Info vs. Tag Wiki: be clear they are NOT the same
Here the user has just edited a "Tag Info" item.
They then read about a seemingly additional "Tag Wiki" that they might want to edit.
As Tag Info and Tag Wiki are probably NOT in ...
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How can I get information of a tag with the Stack Exchange API?
The API documentation of usage of /tags/{tags}/info GET does not give us this information:
How can I get this text description?
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Tag excerpt is missing when searching tags? [duplicate]
The tag excerpt seems to be missing when searching for tags from the Tags page.
I believe it was working previously, while only tag synonyms that don't show the excerpt.
Tried on Chrome 113 in ...
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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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Reading the remainder of this tag explanation
When adding a tag to a question (e.g. on Web Apps SE), how can I read the remainder of the tag explanation?
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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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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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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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Make tag excerpts show the synonym's excerpt when a tag is a synonym of another one
When I add tags to a question, the excerpt shown is the tag's excerpt. However, when a tag is a synonym of another one, this can be frustrating.
Can it show the excerpt of the synonym instead of its ...
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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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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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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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Where is the edit tag button? [duplicate]
I'd like to change a tag description, but there's not button or link to edit the tag.
A page without a description says "The [tag] has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?". But I ...
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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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