Taginfo/Taglists/Wiki project

Currently we are converting the map features templates in this wiki to Taglists. This page serves to coordinate this project.

Guidelines

It seems best to separate (any discussion about) the technical process of switching to Taglists from (discussion about) the tags that should be displayed. Therefore, at this stage we will set up the Taglists for each page in such a way that it displays exactly the same tags as before.

Progress

• Template:Map_Features:addr To do
  • individual keys are redirected (e.g. Key:addr:housenumber) this will need to be addressed first -- JesseFW (talk) 21:27, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
• Template:Map_Features:advertising Done by User:PanierAvide
• Template:Map_Features:aerialway Done by Jeisenbe
• Template:Map_Features:aeroway Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:amenity To do
• Template:Map_Features:annotation Done by Tordanik
• Template:Map_Features:barrier Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:boundary To do
• Template:Building typology To do
• Template:Map_Features:craft Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:emergency Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:geological Done by Math1985
• Template:Map Features:healthcare Done by Dega180. This was reversed.
• Template:Map_Features:highway To do
• Template:Map_Features:historic partly Done by Javiersanp, no done, only EN & HR language pages
• Template:Map_Features:landuse To do
• Template:Map_Features:leisure Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:man_made Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:military Done (hopefully correctly) by JesseFW (talk) 22:38, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
• Template:Map_Features:name To do
• Template:Map_Features:natural Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:office Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:place Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:power Done by Jeisenbe
• Template:Map_Features:properties To do
• Template:Map_Features:public_transport Done by Tordanik
• Template:Map_Features:railway To do
• Template:Map_Features:references Done by Tordanik
• Template:Map_Features:restrictions To do
• Template:Map_Features:route To do
• Template:Map_Features:shop To do
• Template:Map_Features:sport Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:tourism Done by Math1985
• Template:Map_Features:waterway Done by Math1985

How-to

Suppose you would like to convert the aeroway map features page to Taglists. To do so, you could follow the following steps:

1. Create a generic page Template:Generic:Map_Features:aeroway with the content of Template:Map_Features:aeroway. We need to do this for now so the non-English pages don't break. When all non-English pages have been migrated to Taglists, we can remove this page again. Change summary: "Create generic page that non-taglinks language versions can use to link to."
2. In all non-English versions of Template:Map_Features:aeroway that include the template Template:Map_Features:aeroway, include the template Template:Generic:Map_Features:aeroway instead. Change summary: "Refer to generic instead of English page, English page will switch to Taglists". (like this edit).
3. In Template:Map_Features:aeroway, drop the table and add a Taglists command (use an already converted page as example). Change summary: "Switch to Taglists".
4. Compare the old page Template:Generic:Map_Features:aeroway and the Taglists page Template:Map_Features:aeroway, in particular the Comment/description and photo. In case the photo or definition on the old page is better than the Taglists photo/definition, modify the photo and/or definition on the page describing the feature. Definitions should not repeat the term they are describing, be singular when the key is also singular (i.e. start wit 'a' or 'an'), and end in a full stop. Example of a good definition for natural=shingle: "An accumulation of rounded rock fragments on a beach or riverbed".
5. Move Template:Map_Features:aeroway/doc to Template:Generic:Map_Features:aeroway/doc. Change summary: "Doc refers to old Generic page, not to TagLists page."

Users involved in this project

• Math1985
• Tordanik
• Javiersanp (talk)
• Angoca changed all Map Features pages in Spanish to use TagList.
• Feel free to add your own name here!

taglists vs templates

taglists advantages

• automatic language page handling
• reduced risk of tag definitions on different pages contradicting each other
• fewer pages need editing when updating definitions or changing images
• much shorter source code for tables, less MediaWiki knowledge needed to add tags to the table
• Feel free to add more known advantages here. :-)

taglists disadvantages

• no support of space characters in file names of pictures
• no support modifing picture sizes
• icon render size is reduced by factor 2
• no support template end line (key/value "user defined" / Proposed_features / "All commonly used values according to Taginfo")
• while converting period (still not finish after some years) more confusion because of having additional generic pages
• parts of structured key documentation lists (e.g. page Key:emergency) are not nice formatted, each table part has different width
• formating of key and value text font (arial to courier, used generally for tag strings) not possible
• handling of taglists: wiki page preview while editing wiki articles not possible
• Feel free to add more known disadvantages here. :-)