Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like the wiki isn’t labelled as such—as in, there isn’t a part of the site called the ‘wiki’. There’s also the ‘tags portal’ which refers to the ‘EA Forum Wiki’, but as I understand it that page essentially is the wiki. The language is confusing.
Should there be a section of the site called the ‘wiki’ that lists all these pages? Or maybe even consider renaming tags to wiki—where posts on the forum can be ‘tagged’ with a wiki article.
(The URLs for tags should probably more conventionally be in the format /tags/<tagname>, not /tag/<tagname>. Going to /tag gives a 404.)
We’ve gone with a different naming convention than LessWrong (they say “Concepts” while using the same “tags” URL), but given the amount of code our sites share, it will take some time to disentangle our terminology from theirs.
I’d like our “Tags Portal” page to eventually have the name “Wiki”, and people should think of that page as the “homepage” of the Wiki.
Or maybe even consider renaming tags to wiki—where posts on the forum can be ‘tagged’ with a wiki article.
The “Tags Portal” contained a section I’d titled “Articles” but have just retitled “Wiki Articles”. The first words of that page remain the same:
This page displays a list of articles in the EA Forum Wiki.
Some of these articles are also tags that can be added to posts, so that people can find posts on certain topics. You can upvote or downvote a tag for a given post to move it higher or lower in the list of posts on that tag’s page.
Note also the second sentence of this post:
Some of these articles can be applied to posts: we call those “tags”.
So we have similar intuitions, but I use the word “tag” to represent an article that can be used as a tag, because saying “I tagged this post with article X” also seems confusing.
We’re still trying to figure out the extent to which having “wiki only” articles make sense (and what fraction of articles don’t work as tags). If we end up making all articles usable as tags, the distinction between “article” and “tag” disappears, which will lead to more terminology change.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like the wiki isn’t labelled as such—as in, there isn’t a part of the site called the ‘wiki’. There’s also the ‘tags portal’ which refers to the ‘EA Forum Wiki’, but as I understand it that page essentially is the wiki. The language is confusing.
Should there be a section of the site called the ‘wiki’ that lists all these pages? Or maybe even consider renaming tags to wiki—where posts on the forum can be ‘tagged’ with a wiki article.
(The URLs for tags should probably more conventionally be in the format
/tags/<tagname>
, not/tag/<tagname>
. Going to/tag
gives a 404.)We’ve gone with a different naming convention than LessWrong (they say “Concepts” while using the same “tags” URL), but given the amount of code our sites share, it will take some time to disentangle our terminology from theirs.
I’d like our “Tags Portal” page to eventually have the name “Wiki”, and people should think of that page as the “homepage” of the Wiki.
The “Tags Portal” contained a section I’d titled “Articles” but have just retitled “Wiki Articles”. The first words of that page remain the same:
Note also the second sentence of this post:
So we have similar intuitions, but I use the word “tag” to represent an article that can be used as a tag, because saying “I tagged this post with article X” also seems confusing.
We’re still trying to figure out the extent to which having “wiki only” articles make sense (and what fraction of articles don’t work as tags). If we end up making all articles usable as tags, the distinction between “article” and “tag” disappears, which will lead to more terminology change.