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Yes! I definitely want us to have some place to post "articles", including recipes, alongside Q&A! In addition to recipes, people might also want to write about techniques, specific cuisines, ...
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Monica Cellio
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2020-06-09T20:22:28Z (over 4 years ago)
we need to choose a tag set
- Yes! I definitely want us to have some place to post "articles", including recipes, alongside Q&A!
- In addition to recipes, people might also want to write about techniques, specific cuisines, experiments (including failures), and probably other stuff. On the proposal I suggested a "Cooks' Notes" category for all of that, with either recipes being part of that or Recipes being a separate category for the "just the facts" recipes without all the narrative. (C'mon, when you Google for a recipe and get to a site with a ton of text, don't you look for the "jump to recipe" link or go to the bottom of the page?)
Should we have one category for all such posts, using a "recipes" tag to distinguish those from other posts, or should we make recipes a first-class category so they're more visible? I see arguments both ways.- We are almost ready with an "article" post type, which is a top-level post type like "question" but, unlike questions, does not accept answers (but does accept comments). We could then use that post type for recipes. If people have *different* recipes for the same dish, they can post them separately, instead of ending up with a Q&A jumble. (Articles have tags too, same as questions.)
- Yes! I definitely want us to have some place to post "articles", including recipes, alongside Q&A!
- In addition to recipes, people might also want to write about techniques, specific cuisines, experiments (including failures), and probably other stuff. On the proposal I suggested a "Cooks' Notes" category for all of that, with either recipes being part of that or Recipes being a separate category for the "just the facts" recipes without all the narrative. (C'mon, when you Google for a recipe and get to a site with a ton of text, don't you look for the "jump to recipe" link or go to the bottom of the page?)
- Should we have one category for all such posts, using a "recipes" tag to distinguish those from other posts, or should we make recipes a first-class category so they're more visible? I see arguments both ways. A comment points out that we can get richer filtering and tagging if we make them separate, so I propose doing that.
- **About tags:** each category uses a **tag set**. Q&A and Meta, for example, are different tag sets; meta needs things like "announcements" and "bugs" while main needs things like "baking" and "meat". For Recipes, we can either share the Q&A tag set or make a third set. Opinions? A recipe collection might want some tags that don't make as much sense in Q&A, like "30-minute meal" or "breakfast" or "make-ahead". On the other hand, it's going to want a lot of the tags from Q&A, like "slow-cookers" and "French" and "tofu", so maybe we just let all the tags be available everywhere and assume Q&A about 30-minute meals will be rare or nonexistent. (Sorry, we don't have something like hierarchical tag sets.) Two tag sets can have tags with the same name; for example, on Writing both Q&A and Meta have "editing" tags, but they mean different things in those two contexts. When you click on a tag you see all the questions with that tag *in that tag set*, so if we make a separate tag set we can have the same names but they'll be different tags. I'm leaning toward a shared tag set, but I'd like feedback.
- We are almost ready with an "article" post type, which is a top-level post type like "question" but, unlike questions, does not accept answers (but does accept comments). We could then use that post type for recipes. If people have *different* recipes for the same dish, they can post them separately, instead of ending up with a Q&A jumble. (Articles have tags too, same as questions.)
#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2020-06-09T18:02:40Z (over 4 years ago)
Yes! I definitely want us to have some place to post "articles", including recipes, alongside Q&A! In addition to recipes, people might also want to write about techniques, specific cuisines, experiments (including failures), and probably other stuff. On the proposal I suggested a "Cooks' Notes" category for all of that, with either recipes being part of that or Recipes being a separate category for the "just the facts" recipes without all the narrative. (C'mon, when you Google for a recipe and get to a site with a ton of text, don't you look for the "jump to recipe" link or go to the bottom of the page?) Should we have one category for all such posts, using a "recipes" tag to distinguish those from other posts, or should we make recipes a first-class category so they're more visible? I see arguments both ways. We are almost ready with an "article" post type, which is a top-level post type like "question" but, unlike questions, does not accept answers (but does accept comments). We could then use that post type for recipes. If people have *different* recipes for the same dish, they can post them separately, instead of ending up with a Q&A jumble. (Articles have tags too, same as questions.)