Should we create more tags - TeX

user 3.14159

I guess adding the `tcolorbox` tag would make a lot of sense.

user 3.14159 replying to samcarter

I think it should be "... to make *them* compatible ... " ;-)

samcarter

![document.png](/image?hash=197cedc18379424c9f36150d5533a8b398c57949de1e3ca86d6a92e3ce159335)

samcarter replying to user 3.14159

the "it" referse to the size :) Not my fault that English doesn't  assign random genders to all words :)

user 3.14159 replying to samcarter

Who is "it"? ;-)

user 3.14159 replying to samcarter

WOW! I am looking forward to see the back of the squirrel! ;-)

samcarter

(I had to change the size and some other details a bit to make it compatible with the other TikZlings and their hats)

samcarter

@marmot  https://github.com/samcarter/tikzlings/commit/1162caf19e66a3c4a08d548bb9806a41be04eb4b

Raaja

I think these are fair points, in that case, I agree with you guys that it need not be a restricted tag.

samcarter replying to user 3.14159

Yes, just for the fun of having a commit message that reads "adding bug into the code" (... and thanks for the remainder)

samcarter replying to Raaja

The `bug` tag is certainly a good idea. Personally I would prefer to have it available to all users. Even if some users will use it incorrectly, I think there are enough experienced users here that can edit the tags.

joulev replying to Raaja

In that case, it is like the `latex3` tag on TeX.SE, which is used by basically all new users, right? But notice that `latex3` is not reserved for moderators. Edits and comments are enough.

Raaja replying to joulev

no I emphasised it for mods because of the only  one reason: users can always use the tag bugs  whenever they make a question ;) but after the question, if we allow the mods to do it (of course having some discussions), it will be under a controlled usage. So that we know which are (real) bugs, and whether we should correct it or not ;)

Raaja replying to user 3.14159

yes kinda ;)

joulev replying to Raaja

Hmm, then I suppose that tag should be in the same group as others, i.e. they are to be used by everyone, not "mod-only"?

user 3.14159 replying to Raaja

You mean that, once we have bees, we should also have bugs? ;-)

Raaja replying to joulev

Alphabetical ordering sounds good

Raaja replying to samcarter

Bugs in LaTeX

samcarter

What is the idea behind the `bugs` tag? Does it refer to bugs of this site of bugs in latex packages?

joulev replying to user 3.14159

Hmm, it sounds sensible to me. Answer edited.

user 3.14159 replying to joulev

You can call it `pgf-core` if you want, but I'd like to really collect all those things that are relevant to e.g. produce new decorations and so on, which is not `tikz` but more core-level `pgf`.

Raaja replying to joulev

That was a just in case option;)

joulev

https://github.com/topanswers/topanswers/issues

joulev

@Raaja Should we even have moderators? And even if we have, I believe questions that would be tagged `bug` should be in the meta, or even in the GitHub issue tracker.

joulev

What do you think?

joulev replying to user 3.14159

`parser` is only an utility in PGF, so even a `pgf` tag is still too "wide". I am thinking of a `programming` tag which is reserved for such questions.

joulev replying to Raaja

Another format question: Should we sort the tags alphabetically or organize them into categories?

user 3.14159 replying to samcarter

Yes.

samcarter replying to user 3.14159

What happened to sunday? Is this day reserved for hibernation?

user 3.14159 replying to joulev

I would not want to rename `tikz` to `tikz-pgf`. Rather, I think that `tikz` and `pgf` should be two separate `tags`. For instance, for the parser module one only needs `pgf`.

user 3.14159

I have five more: `Montag`, `Dienstag`, `Donnerstag`, `Freitag` and `Samstag`.

joulev replying to samcarter

Done. I can't find a way to post the answer truly as a Community answer though.

samcarter replying to joulev

Will you do honor and start it with the fun tag?

Raaja

@samcarter my preference is, always, `Occam's razor`

Raaja

@samcarter I prefer the former as well

joulev replying to samcarter

I prefer the former: the latter takes much more space so keeping track of all of them will be probably hard.

samcarter

@Raaja Any opinions on the format? Should we make a wiki answer to collect all suggestions or one answer per tag so that people can vote?

joulev

One can say most Contest questions are `fun`, but not all `fun` questions are contest. @Jack It is necessary :)

samcarter replying to joulev

We definitly need `fun`!!!

joulev replying to samcarter

No `{tikzducks}` or `{duck}` yet? No `{fun}`? So sad...

joulev replying to samcarter

But even in those cases, we should at least display a message to askers saying that adding tags is _very_ recommended. When the site grows more, we can be overwhelmed.

samcarter

- beamer
- tikz
- luatex
- biblatex
- fonts
- koma
- latex3
- latexmk
- texlive
- arara
- classes
- context
- ctan
- fancyhdr
- figures
- graphicx
- math
- pandoc
- pdflatex
- tables
- xetex

samcarter

In case anybody is wondering: the current list of tags is

joulev replying to samcarter

That requires a good number of daily active users. Oh, as I can see TopTeX satisfies that :)

samcarter replying to joulev

Even if not mandatory, everybody here can apply suitable tags to questions if they don't have any. We'll just have to indentify which tags we need

Raaja

Ok then I was not aware of this fact that for TOPTEX tagging is oos

joulev replying to Raaja

But when users don't use tags, you won't be able to "look at the tags", right? I think before making more tags, it is necessary to make tagging mandatory. Now it is getting out of TopTeX's scope...

Raaja

@JouleV it helps in organising and attracting focus ;) for example, I know nothing about expl3, but I know a little bit about tikz/Pstricks. So before I read everything,I can still have a look at the tags to see whether it interests me :D

joulev

@Raaja Tags are currently optional (unlike in StackOverflow), so I don't think many users will use tags even if they are available.

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