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And how about tag "wiki" support?

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David

It has been great to see development in support for and use of tags on TA.

Even so, at the moment, features supporting "tags" remain relatively sparse. The tooltip hover, for example, allows for some minimal induction and guidance for users, but this is quite limited in scope.

Ideally (IMO) it would be good to have "tag wiki" support to supplement the basic tag features already implemented. This would allow for more extensives statements about the particular tag item, including links to further information. The latter in particular is not possible given "tooltip" glosses alone.

Curation of "tag wikis" can take a bit of effort, but I believe this is well invested if it means adding clarity in the functioning of the sub-sites, and adding quality to the Q&As that are our *raison d'être*.

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Jack Douglas

My thinking is currently balanced between two ways of implementing something along these lines (but not the full-blown feature):

1. Allow a simple list of links attached to each tag, that you would see in a final column on [the tag list page](https://topanswers.xyz/tags?community=meta), after "description" (which is the hover text)
2. Allow a one-line 'further info' field which allows limited markdown like the answer summaries on the main question list.

(2) would be a bit more free-format than (1), but still fairly limited compared to the 'full fat' solutions that make use of a dedicated post type.

For me two use cases come to mind which would benefit from a bit more room for text: 1. narrowing down how far a tag is on topic. For example toptex has the `pandoc` tag, but I'm pretty sure we can't help with all questions about it, but only if converting to/from tex is involved. So having a place to give users links to other places where to ask about markdown/html/etc. would be nice 2. as a place to collect often referenced questions etc. Especially for the users trying to help the OPs this is helpful to quickly find duplicates.

> Curation of “tag wikis” can take a bit of effort, but I believe this is well invested if it means adding clarity in the functioning of the sub-sites, and adding quality to the Q&As that are our raison d’être.

Not sure if technically possible, but how about a post type to collect the tags? Each tag is then posted as an answer, the first paragraph is a short description for the tooltip and the rest of the answer can be used for further information to which the tag can link back. All users could propose new tags by posting them and if they gain a certain number of stars the tag cew can add them.

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