[Trac] Tags

[Alexey Shamrin]

Hello Muness!

Your project looks nice. But I thought it would be interesting for you
to read about my initial feelings about it.

1. Why do use the term "tag" instead of (much better in my
opinion) "label"? It will more comfortable for Gmail users, I think.
Also you may use the term "category" in some places (see #3).

2. Your examples are confusing. The reason for this is that your
wiki names contain "/" too often. It's tempting to think that
this your use of "/" _is_ the use of tags. I would suggest to
give tag examples without "/".

3. When I tag some page (TagIt) it becomes "Tag:tag_name".
The better way I think would be something like the following:

This page belongs to the following categies: tag_name

or (if you like the term "tag" more)

This page is tagged under the following categories: tag_name

or something similar.

4. I don't really understand how "%" in TagIt is interpreted. 

Alexey

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:30:06 -0500, Muness Alrubaie <muness at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've implemented tagging support for Trac.  I was able to do so
> without having to modify Trac itself and did the whole thing through
> macros.
> 
> The implementation is documented at
> http://dev.muness.textdriven.com/trac.cgi/wiki/tags .  Here's a
> snippet:
> 
> -----------
> Tags are like hierarchically organized wiki entries, however with them
> you can categorize a wiki entry under multiple tags and not just under
> one hierarchy. You can then search for wiki entries categorized under
> a tag or a collection of tags. In other words, tags provide a faceted
> classification system for the Trac wiki.
> 
> As an added bonus, tags are linked to the wiki entry of the same name,
> allowing you to describe them explicitly under the wiki entry of the
> same name. This allows for a flexible means for establishing the
> context of wiki entries. Besides this, tags also make it incredibly
> easy to create todo lists or indexes.
> 
> Tags don't have to be predefined. As long as there are wiki entries
> categorized under a tag, it'll be automatically created.
> 
> Tags are similar to labels in gmail, tags in the social bookmark
> manager, del.icio.us and the photo sharing site, Flickr and WikiMedia
> categories. They are substantially different than the latter because
> tags are intimately tied with wiki entries of the same name, whereas
> WikiMedia Categories are just indexes.
> -----------
> 
> In a wiki, tagging can be substantially more useful than tagging under
> other contexts (e.g. email, bookmarks or photos).  This is because
> each tag can be associated with its namesake wiki entry, hence
> providing a way to not only categorize wiki entries but to also define
> them.
> 
> I've also posted a blog entry on this over at
> http://muness.blogspot.com/2005/01/tags-for-trac.html .
> 
> I am hoping you agree that this is as powerful and low cost (in terms
> of user adoption) as I do.  If so, I am hoping we can roll this
> additional feature into the next release of Trac.  I don't believe any
> other wiki implementation has anything like this.
> 
> Please take the time to read the documentation and examples and let me
> know what you think.
> 
> Muness Alrubaie
> 
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