Tags in Userscripts

[anotherjesse]

I've started the proposal doc for tags at:

http://userscripts.devjavu.com/projects/userscripts/wiki/Tags

I've not done the research that I know others have done on tags, so
others input will surely increase the quality of our tags
implementation :)

Jesse

[Gareth Andrew]

Hi,

If you haven't already you should read:
The Delicious Lesson - http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/
and
When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing -
http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-when-they-dont.php

Or in summary: Tagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it
fails when they're asked to do it to "someone else's" stuff.

So the first part of the tagging system is to add the ability for users
to create their own collections of scripts (I would call it "my scripts"
but we already use that terminology for scripts I have authored). The
tagging system will then allow users to categorize their own scripts
with free-form tags.

The site can then aggregate each individuals tags to form tag cloud for
each script, or a tag cloud covering the whole site.

With this in mind I think we should be quite liberal in what we allow as
a tag - I would probably disallow spaces (cause they tend to encourage
taggging with sentences), but I would allow punctuation.

Also tagging isn't necessarily appropriate for all our metadata
requirements e.g.
1. If we decide to have some kind of review process where scripts could
get marked as safe, dangerous, broken, tested etc. we should probably
consider this a separate feature as it has different features with
regards to abuse.
2. Tags that the script author adds to a script are different from those
users might add to a script - this could be a separate feature but I'm
not convinced that this adds enough value.
3. Include/Exclude urls should also be treated as separate metadata. If
this is handled well it will discourage users from putting urls in their
tags (though i don't think we should forbid urls).

Gareth.

[anotherjesse]

Another post perhaps to reaad is:

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?463 - The Utility of Tagging

Jesse

On Feb 23, 8:01 am, Gareth Andrew <gingerhend...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you haven't already you should read:

> The Delicious Lesson -http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/
> and
> When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing -http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-wh...