# MediaWiki error while editing \[badtags\]: The tag "openrefine-3.8" is not allowed to be manually applied

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**Created:** [January 31, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/mediawiki-error-while-editing-badtags-the-tag-openrefine-3-8-is-not-allowed-to-be-manually-applied/358 "2023-01-31T10:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![WouterDeWitte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e47c2d/32.png) [@WouterDeWitte](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/WouterDeWitte)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/mediawiki-error-while-editing-badtags-the-tag-openrefine-3-8-is-not-allowed-to-be-manually-applied/358/1 "2023-01-31T10:48:00Z")

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Hello,

I’m doing some testing with the 3.8 Snapshot.

I’ve tried to add new items from OpenRefine to Wikimedia Commons, but it returned: “_MediaWiki error while editing [badtags]: The tag “openrefine-3.8” is not allowed to be manually applied._”

I’m logged in with my bot account and using the most recent Wikimedia Commons manifest (Oct 11, 2022).

I notice [this problem was reported back in June 2022](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/3359).

[The solution seems to be to](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/3359#issuecomment-1172006172):

- either create an `openrefine-3.8` tag on your Wikibase instance
- or when creating it you did not specify that it could be applied manually when making edits

[Regisrob solved it](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/3359#issuecomment-1192772002) by doing the following: “_[the] problem was solved after adding the “tag” in my Manifest (and create it in Mediawiki of course)._”

I get that you can add the line _“tag”: “openrefine-${version}”,_ to the manifest, but how to I add this on Mediawiki?

Kind regards,  
Wouter