Hoi, Typically I am happy with hacks but this is an exception. The terminology used in the categories are not optimal. The use of plural, the use of latin names for organisms.. It is better for people to add new tags because otherwise they think "it has to be like that". Thank, GerardM
On 29 October 2010 14:51, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
For one, tags would not be hierarchical and not stored under a name, rather a number (an id if you will).
I would store the tag-i18n definitions in a separate Tag: namespace. Then you don't need to create the history tracking etc. all by yourself. You will need a unique identifier though, but I don't see a problem making the unique identifier equal to the content language.
First, my using the category system is a "hack" that works right now, and could be converted into a more mature solution at a later date.
As to "tracking", IMHO it would suffice to just add [[Tag:XYZ]] to the pages; that's rather inelegant from a database POV, but as Bryan points out, it would take care of version tracking etc. All one would need to do is to remove them from the rendering and display them separately, like categories.
Multilanguage tags, as well as synonyms, could simply be implemented as #REDIRECTs, maybe. [[Tag:Blume]] would redirect to [[Tag:Flower]], so a search for "Blume" would know about "Flower" easily. However, the system would then have to search for both Blume and Flower internally. Also, that could be a problem with "false friends" (en:Gift=present vs. de:Gift=poison).
Another approach might be to duplicate the "hidden category" mechanism and impose a special meaning there, e.g. no tags are shown on such a category page (no tagging of tags), and these categories would then be shown as tags on e.g. image pages.
Magnus
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