[ckan-discuss] Flagging packages to be merged

Mon May 9 12:24:07 BST 2011

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:59 AM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 9 May 2011 11:44, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Exactly right David - I saw this listed as an example on CKAN wiki and
>> guessed this might be the convention (or might once have been), but
>> wasn't sure.
>
> It seems pretty clear to me. What left you unsure? Here's the FAQ:

Probably just me not reading carefully enough. :-)

> What Are Meta Tags
> Meta tags have the prefix "meta" and are especially use for
> "house-keeping"-type activities around packages such as marking
> packages as spam. Current standard meta tags are:
> meta.duplicate - duplicate of another package. See entry in package
> section on handling duplicates for this tags use.
>
>>
>> I wonder how we can make these things easier to find for someone who
>> is using ckan.net for the first time, and may not know about the
>> existence of the CKAN wiki? The FAQ is linked to on the package edit
>> page, but wonder if we should link to this in CKAN interface
>> somewhere?
>>
>> Also think do we want to have more stuff listed under tag conventions
>> - e.g. todo, language-, country-, etc?
>
> Ok, I've added these now to flesh it out a bit, based on what users are using.

Fantastic.

> Dave
>
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:16 AM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Jonathan,
>>>
>>> Yes tag duplicates with "meta.duplicate".
>>>
>>> I'm guessing you found this tag in the FAQ but weren't quite sure
>>> about its use? If so, can the FAQ be made clearer?
>>> http://wiki.ckan.net/FAQ#Tag_Conventions
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 9 May 2011 10:27, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Do we have any convention for flagging duplicate packages to be merged? E.g.
>>>>
>>>> http://ckan.net/package/openei
>>>> http://ckan.net/package/open-energy-info-wiki
>>>>
>>>> I've found instructions on how to merge on CKAN wiki, but was
>>>> wondering what is the quickest/easiest thing to do in the first
>>>> instance. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> E.g. should I use tag "meta.duplicate"?
>>>>
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>>
>>
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