@msh210 For what purpose? A new user will just try typing in the name of the book directly and likely find it, or just put Tanach instead. We already have those pretty well synonymized.
@DoubleAA or leave it out and see if anyone adds it. Either's fine while the tag is in flux.
@DoubleAA it was my only hope of discovering our tagging scheme(s), but I agree it's not working very well. Part of that is probably that different sorts help different people; something organized according to mishneh torah doesn't do squat for me, for example, but thematic groupings (e.g. "all the shabbat tags") help. For others it's the reverse.
It still feels like we have too many tags, so my question isn't usually "what's the tag for X?" but "wait, what, we have a tag for that??" when someone adds it.
@DoubleAA I'm more interested in the stats than in the individual ratings, but the former is a product of the latter. I was curious about how the questions did, how they compare with my ratings, and how the collection as a whole did. I assume others may also be curious
@IsaacMoses Ok, you can publish the data without names on meta after the time is up. SE has no immediate plans for the data. The thought is the history page should still exist at least if you have the direct URL even after the time is up, but no guarantees.
@DoubleAA sounds good to me. The aggregate data (total votes of each type for each question) seems safe (and interesting), but I think a lot of people would be surprised to find their individual votes in public view. Since they can get their own, they can still compare how they voted to everyone else.
Trying to come up with a wiki for zionism. Can I safely just use Wikipedia's definition, which limits it to the modern nationalist movement, rather than the ancient religious one? The 4 questions with the tag all use it in that sense.
@IsaacMoses oh, if you mean anonymized individual records (to show correlations among questions), that's fine. I just don't want to surprise anyone by publishing identified votes.
@HodofHod I wouldn't exclude modern religious Zionism, which bridges the two. But yeah; I think that "Zionism" generally refers specifically to the modern movement[s]
@MonicaCellio I think we're on the same page then.
@IsaacMoses I think so too. I just plain hadn't considered that use case. But SE releases that level of data for elections and I would expect that to be more sensittive than a site evaluation, so I see no issues here.
All: What do you think of a question like this? "I've noticed a phenomenon in the Jewish community / custom religious Jews do / custom Jews do. I haven't hung out in the more general (non-Jewish/irreligious) community enough to know whether it's a broader phenomenon/custom. It may be; I just don't know. Is it Jewish-specific? If so, why do Jews do it?"
And if that's okay, then what about this? "[Same lead-up.] Is it Jewish-specific? If so, why do Jews do it? If not, why do people do it?"
@msh210 I'm fine with this if it's more like "Is it related to Judaism? If so, how and why?" Whether it's Jewish-specific, but not related to Judaism (e.g., let's say, moneylending in Europe in the Middle Ages) is off-topic for us. Once we answer whether it's related to Judaism and how, we're done.
@msh210 "If not, why do people do it?" is 100% off-topic
When I started on Mi Yodeya, I would ask a question and type in tag names and the machine would prompt me with similar choices that have already been made into tags. That feature is not working anymore, on this site, or any other Stack Exchange site. Even if I type in "Kosher" or "Halacha" noth...