Sometimes I'm writing on meta and would like to use the method [tag: + tagname + ] to link to a tag on the main site but that construct links to a tag on the meta site.
Is there a way to do what I want and link from the meta site to the main site for a particular tag?
By default [tag:] always links to main site tags.
keigo - http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/keigo
discussion - http://meta.japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion
[tag:keigo]
[meta-tag:discussion]
As an aside, on the first few days after the markup [tag:…] was introduced, it indeed linked to meta when used on meta. As YOU wrote, now this markup links to the main site even when used on meta. From this page:
- 2010-11-07: Behavior of
[tag:tags]on meta sites updated to refer to the parent site by default; new syntax introduced for a meta-site's own tags (source).- 2010-11-05: Posting tags inside questions and answers now works. Example: instead of writing
[`[tags]`](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tags)to display[tags], users can now write[tag:tags]to display tags.
