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Re: ET (1): On language in ET: (none / 0)

I was thinking of tagging for language only, not tagging for content.

Otherwise you have to create a multilingual tag database, which would be mad.

I'm not sure how useful content tagging is anyway. If you can search for keywords directly from a Google search, and there's a Wiki and/or a best-of articles list, what would content tagging add?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 05:51:09 PM EST
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Re: ET (1): On language in ET: (4.00 / 4)

Tags are much, much more useful than google search, and much easier to maintain than a wiki.

Plus, tagging would allow those that are interested in a narrower range of subjects, especially if ET gets bigger, to quickly access what interests them.

My idea about tagging is having only a few dozens of them, and adding them when the needs arise. i.e. adding new tags would be an editorial job. Multiligualising that wouldn't be hard, really.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 06:45:24 PM EST
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Re: ET (1): On language in ET: (none / 0)

linca: Tags are much, much more useful than google search, and much easier to maintain than a wiki.

Tags, if managed well (e.g. making it an editorial job, as you propose) and applied well, are extremely helpful.

But they will not replace Google searching, and new technologies (such as Powerset) will continue to come out to improve fast and smart querying.

Tags' and wikis' main value add's are in quite different areas: tags are for organizing and locating information, wikis are for collaborative content generation.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

by marco on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 09:17:19 PM EST
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