2008/9/19 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
If I were trying to produce a media repository that did all this stuff, I doubt I'd start with MediaWiki ...
What would you use? It is worth remembering that most tagging applications handle the problems we face very poorly. e.g. aggregating all synonymous tags - we basically do this by social coercion :) LibraryThing is the only application I know that allows this with tags. Flickr and delicious don't do anything. e.g. hierarchical organisation/tag linking - AFAIK no tag-based thing does anything like this.
Which is definitely not to say that MediaWiki is great -- it's not, it's pretty poor, but almost everything else is even poorer. The only difference is, with everything else it's *easier*, and often that seems to be enough.
cheers Brianna