Timeline for Potential "technical" obstacle to migrations, and suggestion for a solution
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 22:40 | comment | added | user9072 | Your solution is somehow dual to what I suggest; personally, I consider it as desirable if this can be (also) done on the source site (and IMO there is no reason at all for not checking for those, basically this seems like an oversight/bug to me). In addition, for the specific case of MO and math.SE it would be especially helpful if the synonyms on the source site would also be taken into account as a lot of the problem in practice here is due to our top-level prefixes and we have anyway synonyms for the nonprefixed tags, whil to create the prefixed one on math.SE seems weird. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 20:52 | history | edited | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | Kaveh | @MadScientist, I see. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 19:54 | comment | added | user35354 | That is an intentional side effect, I asked Tim Post about it when this came up (see this chat message and a few after that (mod-only)) | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 14:23 | comment | added | Kaveh | @quid, I see. Still I am not sure if it was an intentional decision. I am pretty sure this is new and it wasn't this way before as I have migrated a number of questions to Computer Science from Theoretical Computer Science without any valid tags on Computer Science. One solution is to create tag synonyms on the target site corresponding to those on the original site, we did this for a few more popular tags so we don't need to manually fix the tags after the migration. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 12:47 | comment | added | user9072 | Yes I was aware of this issue (and the fix via using untagged also came to mind). And, I do not think this is an unintended sideeffect of something. As visible in the linked to post Tim Post explained this was like this and it is documented in the FAQ on migration on meta.SO | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 12:01 | history | answered | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |