Tag Warnings on Ask Ubuntu

Question

Some time ago, we introduced "just in time" tag warnings on Stack Overflow.

These warnings are meant to provide users with just-in-time information to help them avoid common mistakes in the tag they're using (e.g. SQL questions should mention the engine they use).

Here's what they look like:

Why Am I Telling You This?

It looks like Ask Ubuntu could benefit from using those as well, perhaps for wifi questions, as suggested in this answer by Oli.

If the Ask Ubuntu community feels this might be useful, then we could experiment with tag warnings here. This is pretty easy to configure on our end (Stack Exchange) if you can provide us with tags and associated warnings (those can include links and basic HTML formatting).

However, note that this feature is still experimental, so we don't know how well it performs, if at all (and we might eventually remove it).

What's next?

If you think Ask Ubuntu should experiment with this feature, please provide a tag and corresponding warning as an answer (consider including an explanation, too!). Upvote suggestions you agree with, downvote suggestions you disagree with.

Of course, more general comments are welcome too!

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Relevant links:

• http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/11508/would-a-off-topic-tag-warning-be-a-good-idea
• http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14228/methods-for-combating-eol-questions

Answer 1

EOL releases 12.10, 13.10, 10.04 etc. (whatever is listed as EOL on the Ubuntu Wiki):

The Ubuntu release 12.10 is end-of-life — questions here on that version are now off-topic.

If you need help installing software on or upgrading from a unsupported release, please read How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release.

Main meta thing: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14228/methods-for-combating-eol-questions.

Another could be done for Ubuntu+1 releases (currently 15.10).

Answer 2

wireless

Adapted from: My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?

Please provide details about your wireless card obtained from your system as outlined in this answer or, if you have a wired connection, consider this all-in-one script.

If you know the manufacturer of your wireless card (Broadcom, Qualcomm Atheros, etc.) using the associated tags would be helpful.

Answer 3

Off-topic things:

You have tagged your question with mint

Please note that if this question is not about Ubuntu, or not within the scope defined by the help center it will likely be closed

You can ask your question over at Unix & Linux, but please make sure you include details.

^{The last bit heavily depends on what tag is applied - see list below:}

Unix & Linux Qs:

mint elementary fedora debian bsd

currently nonexistent tags - could be created if needed:
redhat, archlinux, mageia, centos

not sure about Mac here either.

Superuser

windows

windows-7, windows-8 etc for XP, vista, 10

windows-phone

Ask Different

mac macosx macbook

Android

android

And so on for different things , perhaps even programming questions (with tag:LANGUAGE) (though those are half the fun :)

Main meta thing: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/11508/would-a-off-topic-tag-warning-be-a-good-idea

Answer 4

graphics questions (possibly) amd-graphics, graphics, intel-graphics, hybrid-graphics, switchable-graphics, nvidia etc

Please make sure you provide information on the hardware you are using - for example include the output of:

lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D|Display'

The manufacturer and model of the computer, as well as Ubuntu version may help also.

A script similar to the Wifi one be better though, to include other info like glxinfo: I have a hardware detection problem, what logs do I need to look into? . I can make one if needed.

Answer 5

All questions potentially involving programming: python, java and php just to mention the top three "potentially involving programming" tags;

I compiled a list of candidates based on this Stack Exchange Data Explorer query:

python java php eclipse gcc c++ qml ruby openjdk c latex matlab mono netbeans python-2.7 python3 perl awk regex glade html awesome zsh html5 r javascript monodevelop xml octave css sql fortran haskell intellij c# clang syntax vala lua dotnet tcsh matplotlib postscript tcl kdevelop markdown uml groovy gettext espeak gradle golang objective-c pascal wxpython komodo-edit xps-file googledart phpbb doxygen julia-lang rust gnu-r ada

Tags already removed from the list for obvious reasons:

language locale language-support accessibility internationalization spell-checking japanese chinese localization arabic hebrew korean

Other tags already removed:

atom ispell wayland rtl

Please suggest criteria to determine which tags are deserveful of a warning or just remove the tags you don't feel like deserveful (I guess we don't want all of them, or do we?)

Please make sure that your question is on-topic and about the development environment rather than about programming in general, your own under-development code or debugging; questions about the development environment intended in the general sense (such as questions about software which is run for the purpose of developing, like editors, compilers, interpreters and questions about the compilation of a source code) are generally on-topic, unless they relate to a specific under-development code or snippet; questions about programming in general, questions about code under development and questions about debugging are not on-topic.