[Commons-l] Rudimentary tagging system for Commons, in place, right now

[Jon Davis]

Because I'm a whore for all things gadget... I made a gadget for this.  My
Preferences > Gadgets > Categories > Tag

Note: It Magnus's code doesn't check where you are, so you can tag any page
(not just images).

-Jon

PS - I think this is very cool.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 14:28, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Now that I have your attention :-)
>
> I've cooked up a simple tagging system for Commons. It uses the
> category system by prefixing tag "categories" with TAG, e.g.
> [[Category:TAG:Flower]]. TAG categories will be "flat", so
> intersections are easy. Merging of equivalent tags could later be
> possible through redirects, without having to bot-edit all affected
> pages. Also, redirects and/or language links could allow for
> multilingual tags, or at least multilingual tag search/intersection.
>
> For the frontend, I put the tag section into the sidebar, which will
> make it instantly familiar to many web users. On page load, the TAG
> categories are removed from the normal category section and shown as
> tags in the sidebar. This also means no additional web traffic will
> arise for normal page viewing.
>
> Tags can be removed with a single click. One or multiple tags can be
> added or removed in a single operation. All editing is done via API,
> so the page does not have to reload.
>
> When checking one or more tags, a section containing a link to
> "subset" will show. Currently, it links to my CatScan rewrite, showing
> all pages in the current namespace that also have all the checked
> tags. Linking to CatScan gives you the opportunity to add further
> conditions; you can do a combined subset of TAG and "normal"
> categories, templates, etc.
>
> Of course, there could also be a dialog window or fake special page
> showing e.g. images in the subset, using CatScan only as a backend. I'
> holding back on that one...
>
> The script is making extensive use of jQuery, so this script will only
> work when jQuery is loaded. This is currently only the case for the
> Vector skin, AFAIK. So, don't complain if it doesn't work for you in
> Monobook ;-)
>
> I have tagged the total of one example page so far (picture by me, so
> noone else unduly harmed:-) Here you go:
>
>
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vernomia_altissima_%28Compositae%29_flower.JPG?withJS=MediaWiki:Tag.js
>
>
> Before the traditional (f)lamewar begins, let me say that I want to
> "enforce" neither the TAG category system, the JavaScript sidebar
> thing, or CatScan. I just want to present a working tagging system
> within the current software framework, as is. I hope that, now that
> there is at least demo code, something more useful than the usual "but
> it also needs to make coffee!" discussion will arise.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
> P.S.: Yes, there are probably a million bugs in the code...
>
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