On 02/03/2008, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:19 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah. How to put into place something Commons users could start filling out *now*. I'm envisioning something running on the toolserver
- the question I'm wondering is what interface to present on pages to
add tags, sensible auto-tagging, etc.
Ah, I wasn't thinking about that. Really, that's sort of independent. You could have categories addable without the edit interface now, and you can have category intersections while still requiring page edits to change categories. As long as we store category links in the text, it will be somewhat difficult to add or remove them automatically, especially since they can be inherited from templates and funky stuff like that. Doable, but not something I'd be interested in trying to get to work, at least.
Yeah. If tag intersection works well enough to replace querulously specific sub-sub-sub-categories with a defined intersection of tags, that'll be a major win in itself. Then the question is how to mark an image (or indeed page) as having a particular set of tags. Then the question is how to fill out the database (which shouldn't actually be too hard - tag all people with "people" or whatever). Don't forget tag equivalence, e.g. "cat" = "chat" = "felis" or whatever. I think that covers the key points needed on Commons. There, now it's just a Simple Matter Of Coding!
- d.