[Clipart] Search functions

[Leonardo Cunha]

I guess you are right about the search. There are all kinds of scenarios.

Best regards,
Leonardo Cunha


2010/6/8 chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com>

>  On the other hand I've searched for "Andy" because I know Andy has done
> some nice work, but couldn't remember what his clipart was called.
>
> -------
>
> There's a whole bunch of coding that needs doing on the site, and only (As
> far as I'm aware) Bassel & Ronaldo is/can at the moment.
> I want to change that, but unfortunatly, I've not had a reply on the
> mailing list from them for ages, and don't know how to contact them.
> If you guys are reading this, please! contact me! I have a plan. Lol.
>
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
>
> On 8/06/2010 5:10 p.m., Leonardo Cunha wrote:
>
> A) I like the search too. What I mean is that some people tag/describe
> innacurately. I don't remember the exact search results I identified, but
> found some little mistakes:
>
>  A.1) Some people adds "silhouette" tag although clipart is not a
> silhouette (for instance, http://www.openclipart.org/detail/21604).
> A.2) http://www.openclipart.org/detail/28358 don't look like a tux,
> although it was tagged "tux"
> A.3) User aungkarns is using an uncommon style of names and tags for
> his/her clipart.
>
>  B) Unfortunately, some problems are not so simple and can't be solved by
> simply fixing tags and descriptions:
>
>  B.1) As J. Alves said, searching "linux" returns, for instance all
> clipart from user Linuxien (because of his/her username).
> B.2) If I search "sex", I get user themanwithoutsex clipart.
> B.3) Same problem with "tux" search; it even returns
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/23388, only because there is "tux"
> string in an url in the description.
> B.4) When I search for "ubuntu", I get
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/371, because the description contains
> "nicubuntu".
>
>  Best regards,
> Leonardo Cunha
>
>
> 2010/6/8 chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com>
>
>> On 8/06/2010 4:31 p.m., Leonardo Cunha wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed the same problem with search: some people are using some
>>> 'bizarre' tags and descriptions that make search results don't work very
>>> well sometimes. If people tagged/described better, probably there would be
>>> no need for better search. I have seen this kind of problem in other
>>> projects.
>>>
>>  Got a specific example of clipart on the library? (I like the awesome
>> search in this new one, now we just need the limiter options)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
>>
>
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