[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 47, Issue 16

[Jon Phillips]

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:46 -0700, Alan wrote:
> OpenOffice is using a bot to clean up entries in their wiki?
> 
> Would this be a way to clean up tags as well?

I think we have it convered with ccHost...bots for a wiki is something
entirely diff...good idea though :)

Jon

> 
> John Olsen wrote:
> >
> > I like the idea of shortening that tags list.  Maybe we can add a  
> > quick line of instruction over the right hand sidebar with the subset  
> > names (+) for those who don't get it.  I try to tag things into  
> > classes and subclasses like animal,mammal,feline,tiger but a lot of  
> > people are very bad about their tagging.  So it is an area we  
> > librarians can help in.
> >
> > I wondered about an automated way to clean up tags.  I've done some of  
> > it where a tag has been generated by a typo, but it would be good to  
> > merge larger groups - how does it work Jon?
> >
> > Seems an obvious place to start is merging single and plural version  
> > of a tag together like bird and birds.  I think the singular is better  
> > and all encompassing.  Do we agree?
> >
> >
> > John Olsen
> >
> >   
> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:49:08 +0800
> >> From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Minimum number of tags
> >> To: momo at lumenstudio.net
> >> Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> >> Message-ID: <1202816948.6436.105.camel at localhost>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain
> >>
> >> Actually, Joanna, I think great to set the threshold now...the search
> >> function is fixed in upcoming release and that tags page is a massive
> >> overload on our webserver at present...could you try to set the min
> >> visible at like 100 and then we can test that out...
> >>
> >> Also, there is a way to automatically clean up tags as an admin as  
> >> well,
> >> which might be a nice thing to do...it takes a while, but there are
> >> several tags which are similar and should be corrected....
> >>
> >> Would you like to look into this more?
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Jon
> >>     
> >
> >
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