Calling all those interested in helping the site and potentially gaining a tag editor or research assistant badge!
We have a tag with an old, copy-pasted excerpt & wiki that could use some attention:
If you follow this tag or know enough about its use on this site, please consider taking some time to improve its excerpt and/or wiki!
Two resources that I've relied on are:
The guidelines that I use for myself
A good excerpt will:
- define the shared quality of questions containing this tag -- boiled down to a few short sentences
- Avoid generically defining the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized
- Concentrate on what a tag means to your community
- Provide basic guidance on when to use the tag. In other words, what kinds of questions should have this tag + common alternatives (“don’t use this tag”)
An awesome wiki will expand on the excerpt, plus have a clear structure, such as:
About [tag]:
- fuller description (wikipedia?), with key features
- logo & link to any official website
- list of alternative implementations and related (client/server access) programs
Using [tag] in Unix.SE:
- other release/version-specific versions of the tag, if any
- tags that get confused with this one (“what this tag is not about”) -- see the History tag for an example; also “mac” vs “mac address”
Additional resources:
- in-line text of common troubleshooting tips (top 1 or 2 Q’s?)
- links to Q’s for common tasks, FAQ’s, canonical / popular Q’s
- guide to any In-program help
- links to any online communities / forums
- links to good/popular books, guides, articles
PS. These are the top 3 tags (question-wise) from this SEDE query.
