What does that mean?
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On the previous boards, you could label a thread as beign for a particular edition - click on the label, and if filters to just posts about that edition. That was a form of tagging.
Unfortunately, what users would probably want is freeform tagging, in which a user can type in whatever words they want to tag a post or topic for later filtering. In a large population freeform tagging quickly becomes a morass in which you can find nothing, as there's no consistency in the tags.
You can do that now!
Ah yeah. We’ve done that in the past. It doesn’t work very well, as you say.
Not sure how any of that replaces wiki threads though!
It is a user-experience thing.
In theory, you can find everything with just plain search. In practice, there's a whole lot of noise. If you are looking for discussion, that's probably just fine - any thread on a given topic may be close enough for chatting in.
But, if you are looking to store and recall particular information, the general search is clumsy. In theory, tags could make that easier. In practice... tags would be a mess just like the rest of the content.
The point about wiki threads isn't discoverability, it's the fact that everybody can edit them. They're used for collaborative projects. It's an entirely different thing to tags.
Sure. Whatever.
In particular, I'm kind of sad that we can't add to the "Best of the 5E forum" wiki thread anymore, except by posting. That was probably the one that got the most use from multiple people.
The initial posts for the "Enhancing" threads were nice too.
I activated the wiki. It's empty right now, but here it is.
www.enworld.org
Welcome to the EN World Wiki
www.enworld.org
robus
Lowcountry Low Roller
I activated the wiki. It's empty right now, but here it is.
Welcome to the EN World Wiki
Looks like Wiki threads are back also? But perhaps it's not possible to convert a thread to a wiki thread? We have a bunch of enhancing threads that would love to be wiki-fied (but not by losing all the replies which is where the good stuff is...)
A wiki page and a wiki thread are the same thing in this software. I’m not ware of any function to convert a thread to a wiki page, but I’m as new to this as you are, so it might be there!
