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This page is an explainer on the new indexing method used for organizing "stories" into "series" via "tags". These are incorporated into Signpost stories to help readers understand continual and re-emergent threads in the history of the movement.

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Anyone can tag an article, and the process is made easy using the signpostTagger.js user-script tool. To install it, add the following to your Special:MyPage/skin.js:

importScript( 'User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/SignpostTagger.js' ); // Linkback: [[User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/SignpostTagger.js]]

With the tool installed, when viewing a Signpost article you will see a "Manage tags" tab among your top tabs. This tab only activates on Signpost articles, and only when viewing the page (not in "edit" or "history" mode):

In order for an article to appear in the lists, it must first be tagged. On clicking the tab, you should see a window like this one:

This interface allows you to easily add and remove article tags. To create a new tag, you can simply add it to an article using the tagger tool and save the page. Likewise, in the unlikely scenario that you mean instead to delete a tag, you may simply remove it from all of the pages on which it currently appears. The process for renaming a tag is similar.

Note that all tags follow a particular convention: they are all lowercase, without spaces or other punctuation marks (including – and —). Thus News and notes becomes newsandnotes and and log-in becomes login. Foreign characters are also not allowed: Erik Möller becomes erikmoller, not erikmöller.

We use {{Signpost series}} to link to Signpost tags. This template comes with a range of configuration options:

Input	Output	Use
{{Signpost series|type=link|tag=gendergap}}	gendergap	Within discussions.
{{Signpost series|type=inline|tag=gendergap}}	For Signpost coverage on the gendergap see the gendergap series.	Within discussions, in the Signpost.
{{Signpost series|type=see more|tag=gendergap}}	For more Signpost coverage on gendergap see our gendergap series.	On policy pages.
{{Signpost series|type=sidebar|tag=gendergap}}	Related articles gendergap Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias" 2 March 2024 Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias 31 October 2022 Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles 29 May 2022 Cherchez une femme 28 June 2020 Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy 30 April 2019 More articles The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps 30 April 2019 It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias 26 April 2018 Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..." 9 March 2016 Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share 9 March 2016 The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists 9 March 2016 Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"? 2 March 2016 Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month 17 February 2016 Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia? 6 January 2016 Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations 16 December 2015 "Wikipedia's hostility to women" 21 October 2015 Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching 21 October 2015 No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia 4 February 2015 Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap 31 December 2014 Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures 26 November 2014 Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education 24 September 2014 IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap 4 June 2014 Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters 12 March 2012 Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative 27 February 2012 Bell Pottinger investigation, Gardner on gender gap, and another plagiarist caught red-handed 12 December 2011 Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety 29 August 2011 Wikipedia a "sausage fest", Chicago Wikipedians ("the people you've probably plagiarized"), and other silly season stories 15 August 2011 Israeli news focuses on Wikimania; worldwide coverage of contributor decline and gender gap; brief news 8 August 2011 Gender gap and sexual images; India consultant; brief news 21 February 2011 Foundation report; gender statistics; DMCA takedowns; brief news 14 February 2011 Widespread discussions about the low participation of women in Wikipedia 7 February 2011 Facebook hack; gender gap; What is the Wikipedia "community"?; brief news 31 January 2011	Only in the Signpost.

For information on how these templates are used within the Signpost see our style guidelines. For information on how these templates are used elsewhere, see a forthcoming FTE (?).

There used to be a semi-autonomous process for defining and scoping tags. However, this proved to be too complex to be maintainable, and was ultimately scrapped. At the moment the list of tags maintained by the Signpost is confined to a relatively small number of reasonably popular and common topics, the contents of which are at the discretion of the editor-in-chief and the rest of the editorial board.

A way of browsing valid Signpost tags is a TODO, pending discussion.

The content that follows is deprecated, but nevertheless remains for the moment for purposes of demonstration.

Tag	Count	See also
Incubator  (invoke)	x8	LangComZZZ
Meta  (invoke)	x36	ZZZ
Wikinews  (invoke)	x20	ZZZ
English Wikipedia  (invoke)	x69	Simple English WikipediaZZZ
Wiktionary  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
Wikiquote  (invoke)	x4	ZZZ
Wikibooks  (invoke)	x7	ZZZ
Wikisource  (invoke)	x9	ZZZ
Wikispecies  (invoke)	x0	ZZZ
Wikiversity  (invoke)	x17	ZZZ
Wikivoyage  (invoke)	x8	ZZZ
Commons  (invoke)	x92	ZZZ
Wikidata  (invoke)	x35	ZZZ
Mediawiki  (invoke)	x76	ZZZ
Wikimedia Labs  (invoke)	x2	ToolserverZZZ
Foundation Wiki  (invoke)	x0	Wikimedia FoundationZZZ
Simple English Wikipedia  (invoke)	x5	ZZZ
German Wikipedia  (invoke)	x40	Wikimedia GermanyZZZ
Swedish Wikipedia  (invoke)	x8	Bots, Wikimedia SwedenZZZ
Dutch Wikipedia  (invoke)	x3	Bots, Wikimedia NetherlandsZZZ
French Wikipedia  (invoke)	x15	Wikimedia FranceZZZ
Waray-Waray Wikipedia  (invoke)	x1	Cebuano Wikipedia, Swedish WikipediaZZZ
Russian Wikipedia  (invoke)	x21	Wikimedia RussiaZZZ
Cebuano Wikipedia  (invoke)	x2	Waray-Waray Wikipedia, Swedish WikipediaZZZ
Italian Wikipedia  (invoke)	x7	Wikimedia ItalyZZZ
Spanish Wikipedia  (invoke)	x0	ZZZ
Polish Wikipedia  (invoke)	x7	Wikimedia PolandZZZ
Japanese Wikipedia  (invoke)	x6	ZZZ
Chinese Wikipedia  (invoke)	x22	ZZZ
Ukrainian Wikipedia  (invoke)	x8	Wikimedia UkraineZZZ
Catalan Wikipedia  (invoke)	x1	Amical WikimediaZZZ
Persian Wikipedia  (invoke)	x5	ZZZ
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
Finnish Wikipedia  (invoke)	x3	Wikimedia FinlandZZZ
Indonesian Wikipedia  (invoke)	x0	Wikimedia IndonesiaZZZ
Arabic Wikipedia  (invoke)	x8	Global SouthZZZ
Czech Wikipedia  (invoke)	x2	Wikimedia CzechoslovakiaZZZ
Korean Wikipedia  (invoke)	x0	ZZZ
Wikia  (invoke)	x5	Jimmy Wales, Angela Beesley, AdvertisingZZZ
Citizendium  (invoke)	x16	Larry Sanger, ReliabilityZZZ
Nupedia  (invoke)	x2	Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, BomisZZZ

Tag	Count	Details
Edit filter  (invoke)	x4	VandalismZZZ
Blocking  (invoke)	x2	Banning, AdministratorsZZZ
Categorization  (invoke)	x22	PortalsZZZ
Code review  (invoke)	x10	ZZZ
Mobile  (invoke)	x14	ZZZ
Deletion  (invoke)	x91	AdministratorsZZZ
Email  (invoke)	x7	ZZZ
Editcounters  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
Flow  (invoke)	x4	LiquidThreadsZZZ
Geodata  (invoke)	x2	ZZZ
HHVM  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
Huggle  (invoke)	x2	TwinkleZZZ
Twinkle  (invoke)	x0	HuggleZZZ
Image filter  (invoke)	x6	CensorshipZZZ
IPv6  (invoke)	x5	ZZZ
Liquid threads  (invoke)	x1	FlowZZZ
Log-in  (invoke)	x11	Single user login, Compromised accountsZZZ
Lua  (invoke)	x4	Scribunto, Parser functions, TemplatesZZZ
Scribunto  (invoke)	x0	LuaZZZ
Mailing lists  (invoke)	x31	ZZZ
Media Viewer  (invoke)	x7	VisualEditor, SuperprotectZZZ
MoodBar  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
New page patrol  (invoke)	x13	ZZZ
Nofollow  (invoke)	x2	ZZZ
OAuth  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
Page creation  (invoke)	x3	ZZZ
Parsoid  (invoke)	x0	VisualEditor, FlowZZZ
VisualEditor  (invoke)	x22	Media viewer, Flow, ParsoidZZZ
Pending changes  (invoke)	x14	ZZZ
Protection  (invoke)	x20	Pending changesZZZ
Search  (invoke)	x44	ZZZ
Servers  (invoke)	x54	ZZZ
Templates  (invoke)	x49	ZZZ
Toolserver  (invoke)	x26	Wikimedia LabsZZZ
Upload wizard  (invoke)	x4	ImagesZZZ
Images  (invoke)	x97	ZZZ
Video  (invoke)	x25	ZZZ
Webcite  (invoke)	x0	ZZZ
Wikilove  (invoke)	x3	ZZZ
Wikipedia offline  (invoke)	x1	ZZZ
WikiScanner  (invoke)	x5	ZZZ
Single user login  (invoke)	x10	ZZZ
Open access  (invoke)	x10	ZZZ

Tag	Count	Details
Compromised accounts  (invoke)	x4	ZZZ
Compromised accounts  (invoke)	x4	ZZZ
Paid editing  (invoke)	x66	coiZZZ
Paid advocacy editing  (invoke)	x66	coiZZZ
Conflict of interest  (invoke)	x66	paidadvocacyZZZ
Administrators  (invoke)	x346	BureaucratsZZZ
Oversight  (invoke)	x1	Checkuser, Arbitration Committee, Legal threats, OutingZZZ