[Tagging] sneaking in tags in the wiki

[John Smith]

On 17 September 2010 10:21, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/16 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
>> Regardless of descriptions, do you agree that there is disputes over
>> the key/value pairs?
>
> yes, and this would be the same with numbers, shifted to the

The question wasn't about numbers, one of the current problems is
disputes and endless discussions purely based on what to call a tag.

> I'd say that the mailing list is somehow more important, but the forum
> people might think the same. For me that's not a problem, and who
> wants can read the ml online in forum style ;-)

And this is a serious problem, and to a lesser extent there is
discussion on country or language based lists that doesn't turn up on
the tagging list either. At present the various groups aren't
effectively communicating with each other and that just leads to other
disputes.

> I think we are still in a stadium where too much bureaucracy hurts
> more then it might be useful to prevent chaos changes.

That is an option, however at present the discussion is being split
amongst various venues and not being shared.

> But a minimum of coordination would not be wrong. I'd suggest that
> every new tag that is introduced to the wiki is announced on the
> tagging-maillinglist and that a new mailing list tagging-talk is
> created for the discussions (what now is tagging).

This is a chicken and egg problem, should people document first and
then discuss, or discuss first then document based on the out come of
the discussion.

> There are more than 300,000 registered users, but only 12,000
> contribute in a month, and of those just a part is following the
> mailing list or forum, but for tagging in the end you'll find just a
> handful of people interested in discussion.

There seems to be more than a handful, but it's a handful on multiple
locations, rather than consolidating the discussion in one venue.