# More stackoverflow julia tags

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562>\
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**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562 "2021-05-21T07:57:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ptoche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ptoche/32/23554_2.png) [@ptoche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ptoche)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/1 "2021-05-21T07:57:36Z")

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Is it me? I find there aren’t that many julia tags over at [https://stackoverflow.com/](https://stackoverflow.com/)

Would it not be useful to create a few more? For instance, `julia-de` (or `julia-differentialequations`). Maybe also `julia-struct` and/or `julia-methods` and/or `julia-types`? Maybe `julia-arrays`, `julia-vsc` (or `julia-visual-studio`)? Maybe `julia-python`, `julia-r`, `julia-matlab`.

We don’t want hundreds of them, but the problem is currently if you have a question about `structs` and tag with `struct`, you’re reaching out a little too far.

Any opinions? Any tags you wish you had?

Tags currently available, as far as I can tell: `julia`, `julia-jump`, `ijulia-notebook`, `julia-studio`, `julia-flux`, `julia-dataframe`, `juliaDB`, `julia-gpu`, `julia-gen`, `julia-plots`, `julia-pkg`

And maybe deprecate `julia-studio`?

I personally wouldn’t have the authority to add tags over at stackoverflow, but I’m pretty sure someone on discourse could do something about it if the community felt it was worthwhile.

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**Author:** ![DNF](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dnf/32/10191_2.png) [@DNF](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DNF)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/2 "2021-05-21T08:11:51Z")

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Isn’t this done by using multiple tags, instead of combining them?

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**Author:** ![ptoche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ptoche/32/23554_2.png) [@ptoche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ptoche)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/3 "2021-05-21T08:13:44Z")

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so if you tag `julia-dataframe`, you’re specifically tagging for the Julia `DataFrames` package, while if you tag `julia` and `dataframes`, you’re also tagging for `R` users, `Python-Pandas` users, and so on.

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/4 "2021-05-21T12:13:15Z")

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[Newest 'differentialequations.jl' Questions - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/differentialequations.jl) is a popular tag. It would be nice to document that and make some aliases to `julia-differentialequations` and `sciml`

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**Author:** ![DNF](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dnf/32/10191_2.png) [@DNF](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DNF)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/5 "2021-05-21T12:23:01Z")

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Sure, but that’s how it’s supposed to work, isn’t it? If you have to mash together tags, that sort defeats the purpose of tags in the first place.

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**Author:** ![ptoche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ptoche/32/23554_2.png) [@ptoche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ptoche)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/6 "2021-05-21T23:52:00Z")

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By that reasoning most of the `"julia-"` tags are redundant. IMHO it’s easier to track `julia-plots` than `julia`+`plots`. YMMV though.

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**Author:** ![ptoche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ptoche/32/23554_2.png) [@ptoche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ptoche)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/7 "2021-06-07T12:00:28Z")

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I just came across an example of general-purpose tagging. Someone had a question about “linear systems” in Julia and naturally enough tagged their question with `"julia"`, `"linear-algebra"`, and `"numerical-methods"`. Of the three answers received, only one is specifically about Julia (and none has been accepted). A `julia-linear-algebra` tag, would perhaps/hopefully (mere speculation, but not entirely unreasonable) have attracted more Julia- specific answers from users/maintainers of the `LinearAlgebra` package.

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38486697/solve-a-particular-linear-system-efficiently-in-julia](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38486697/solve-a-particular-linear-system-efficiently-in-julia)

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**Author:** ![Skoffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skoffer/32/378_2.png) [@Skoffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Skoffer)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/8 "2021-06-07T12:15:07Z")

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There is one problem with this approach, people who monitor questions can miss unexpected/unknown tags. As an example, there is a stackoverflow bot on Zulip which collects all julia-related stackoverflow questions and do it by querying all `#julia` tagged questions. Lots of tags would be a nightmare to maintain.

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**Author:** ![ptoche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ptoche/32/23554_2.png) [@ptoche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ptoche)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/more-stackoverflow-julia-tags/61562/9 "2021-06-07T12:20:58Z")

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I see… Maybe it was just a bad idea.