Wiki Life: Tags 2 - the article HAS WHAT????
Yes, it's been over a month since my last Wiki Life!
This article continues where I left off, here:
Wiki Life: Tags 1 - What are the common tags on TechNet Wiki?
So that just breaks the ice with the fact that we have a list of common tags, and we should put some effort into building that list, maintaining it, and putting our foot down on some best practices. And then helping make sure we (as a community) can drive all that forward.
Has Tags
First of all, in the comments we tackled the debate as to whether or not we should have "has" tags...
Those tags are for Microsoft internal purposes to understand the trends as to which articles are getting comments so we can more fully understand Why.
Is it of value? Yes.
Should we add them? Yes. So even if some folks disagree with that, we're going to encourage other folks to add them. We won't twist anyone's arms.
Should you add them to your own articles so that other people don't make small edits on your articles to add them?
Yes. =^)
But, I would argue that edits that fix grammar, consistency, accuracy, and remove/replace broken links... that's more valuable.
So the general recommendation from Microsoft is to add those tags as edits, but to also try to make more substantial edits with those other benefits.
So, what are the Has Tags?
See Wiki: Common Tags...
Tag |
Description |
The article has back to top or return to top links. |
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The article contains a code / script snippet. |
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The article has at least one comment in the Article tab. |
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The article contains at least one image. |
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The article contains a link to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on the Microsoft Support site. |
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The English article includes an Other Languages section, which means it's been translated into at least one language. |
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The English article includes a See Also section, which consists of links to other TechNet Wiki articles. |
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The article contains at least one table. |
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The article contains a TOC, created by the TOC tag. |
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The article contains embedded video content. |
These are the tags we're using for "has". As a stake in the ground, we've been keeping them singular, meaning one or more. Thus, we don't need to have a "has video" and "has videos" if the article has two videos.
This is a minor thing (as I mentioned above), and the bigger goal is to make edits for grammar, accuracy, fixing links, and so on. So we recommend that if you're going in and adding tags, please also look for these other edits as well.
Ideally, everyone should just add these to our own articles. Then no one else will! And I also mentioned that the language tags are the most important, because those bubble the articles up into our language leaderboards. So this includes the en-US tag on English articles.
And here's your question:
Are any "'has" tags missing?
Let's discuss them first here, in the comments, and then we'll add them to the article: Wiki: Common Tags
Personally, I'd like to have a "has Additional Resources" tag to this list, as we seek to add that section to more articles (it features non-Wiki links). 12/4 UPDATE: Added it.
12/4 UPDATE:
Which "has" tags should be combined:
| Don't Use | Change it to |
| has images | has image |
| has screenshot | has image |
| has photo | has image |
| has picture | has image |
| has Return to Top links | has back to top link |
| has Back to Top links | has back to top link |
| has comments | has comment |
| has Knowledge Base link | has kb |
| has translations | has Other Languages |
| has videos | has video |
| has external links | has Additional Resources* |
*Additional Resources is the name of a section that points to non-Wiki links (the Wiki links go in the See Also section, which goes above this one). So if the article has any external links, the Additional Resources section should be added, and it should include the link(s).
Anything else we should add to this list?
Thank you for helping make TechNet Wiki awesome!
- Ninja Ed