[WikiEN-l] CATEGORIES!!!!!!

[Ben Yates]

Tags are user-generated categories, sort of.  You can tag the "Oak"
artlcle with "tree" and "wood" in a little text box somewhere on the
page, and if the "wood" tag doesn't already exist, it'll be created on
the fly.  Tags aren't as strict as categories (you can make spelling
errors, for example, or taxonomic ones), which makes them good for
wikipedia.

On 4/9/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 4/9/07 7:05 PM, Matthew Brown at morven at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 4/9/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What is more likely to happen - and has momentum - is that categories
> >> will become more like tags. At this point, expect this vast hierarchy
> >> of category trees to get switched sideways.
> >
> > I think that's largely a good idea and I hope it gets done.  Tags are
> > understood by most of the user population, I suspect, since they have
> > already been exposed to them via places such as flickr, del.icio.us
> > and others.  They are less structured, of course, but structure
> > requires agreement beyond that which is easy to obtain on enwiki.
> >
> > If the software got smart (and the technology isn't patented,
> > naturally) something like flickr's 'tag clusters' might be a neat idea
> > as well.
> >
> Ok, humor this computer-language challenged person: what the hell is a
> "tag"?
>
> Marc
>
>
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