Tag synonyms

yvanzo · December 12, 2019, 8:04am

Since this forum has been updated to the latest beta of Discourse, can we use tag synonyms?

In particular, recent topics about localization have been using the tag “translation”, while older topics used “internationalization” or “i18n”. As a consequence, some old info has likely not been found by newer participants. That would be easier to find related topics if these were all marked as synonyms.

I would suggest to use “internationalization” for the main tag as it relates to both “localization” and “translation” and to attach the following tags as synonyms:

i18n
internationalisation
l10n
localisation
localization
translation

Even if some of these are not currently used, it makes easier for users to enter/find an useful tag.

Freso · December 13, 2019, 11:44pm

I’ve linked up #internationalization with #i18n and #internationalisation.

As i18n and l10n are not the same thing (though they’re related) and we currently don’t have any localisation tags, I omitted that one.

“#translation” is a subset of localisation but not directly part of internationalisation, so I didn’t put that one under that umbrella, since people who want to discuss translation things here may not want to discuss the i18n side of things.

I glanced over our current tags but didn’t immediately see any other tags that might be synonyms of each other, of ones that are actually being used. It looks like the community is generally being good about grooming the tags on topics.

Edit: If anyone else sees some good candidates for possible merging/synonymising, just post them here and I’ll consider it!

jesus2099 · December 14, 2019, 7:21pm

I didn’t know this synonym feature and something I have been regularly doing here was tidying tags:

when a new one off “duplicate” tag was created, I would retag the topic to the previously existing tag.
when I saw duplicate tags, I would find the most used one and retag all others

Which is maybe too much overzealous, but we didn’t have that synonym feature at the time.

chaban · December 29, 2019, 3:37pm

@jesus2099 is not the only one cleaning up

I’d like to suggest these:

#soundtrack, #soundtracks
#relationships, #ar, #advanced-relationships
#cover-art, #coverart, #cover
#featured-artists, #feat
#featurerequest, #feature-requests
#filenaming, #filename
#renaming, #rename
#genre, #genres
#isrc, #isrcs
#place, #places
#mbid, #musicbrainz-id
#title, #titles
#ui, #userinterface
#help, #need-help
#picard-plugins, #picardplugins
#licence, #license
#area, #areas

Maybe these too:

#beginner, #beginners, #new-user, #newbie
- Not sure which as primary tag. I’d go with beginner but new-user sounds fine too. FWIW newbie is used the most currently
#barcode, #ean, #upc
- Those are often used synonymously, especially when talking about the barcode field

Freso · December 30, 2019, 1:01am

A post was split to a new topic: Tag/genre synonyms

chaban · September 23, 2020, 3:05pm

More suggestions:

jesus2099 · March 7, 2023, 10:12am

Could we merge these too?

#bots
The oldest and preferred one, IMO
#musicbrainz-bots

Both were used officially by staff for the same thing.

#digital-media
Preferred because same term as in MB
#digital-releases
I found this term more clear but digital-media is also good

(tag merge, tag aliases, tag synonyms)

sound.and.vision · March 25, 2023, 10:08pm

Shouldnt these requests be put through on JIRA?

Just concerned they’ll be lost in the wash

UltimateRiff · November 6, 2023, 10:11pm

I’ll add some more~ I feel like using the multi-word tags might make things clearer, especially for newcomers

release-group releasegroup
#cover-art-archive coverartarchive
#feature-request featurerequest
#data-importing dataimport dataimporting
#official-style officialstyle
#mac-os macos macosx (not familiar with Macs, but maybe OS and OSX are different?)
#user-interface userinterface ui
#style-guide styleguide

(yes, I just went through a bunch of the more commonly used tags)