No, tagging is different. GerardM blogged about this with the example of
"horse". You can "tag" a photo as being of a horse by putting it in
the
horse category, but in no time it will be filed under some subcategory of
horse. There are relatively few images in the top "horse" category.
Moreover, most pictures of horses are not even in the horse category tree,
but are categorized under some GLAM donation category and have never been
sorted into any other category. The concept of categorizing is also based
on existing categories, and the process of creating categories, though not
difficult, is not easily available to newbies. Tagging allows the user
complete freedom in associating concepts with images. Ideas around tagging
on Commons have been rejected as putting an extra burden on anti-vandal
fighters, in addition to being possibly useless in the goal of "making
search on Commons suck less"
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au>
wrote:
MZMcBride wrote:
As much as the term is an awful buzzword, Commons
could also do with
additional gamification, from what I've seen. If we can set up an easy
keyword/tagging system, having users help us sort and tag media would be
amazing.
We already have such system. It's called categories. If we would like to
build
a prettier interface for it, I'm all ears (although I wouldn't call
it a game).
Gamification here relates to one type of interface, where a user gets
supplied a random example of an issue, and then tries to resolve that,
with a single resolution being just a small task. For an example of
what that looks like in a Wikimedia- context, see the Wikidata game at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/. A game could for example be
used to re-categorize files in categories that are too general (like
[[Category:People]]), to categorize uncategorized images or to add a
certain type of category to files where for some reason it seems
likely to apply (for example, images that in some way are described as
paintings which have no author-category).
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
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