I noticed one of the best ways of boosting Confluence search results for Tuscany wiki pages is to tag the pages. Even the simplest, nearly-empty page with a single tag will show up higher in wiki search results than the most detailed, lengthy, important treatise without tags. Since Confluence searches span multiple Apache projects, it will be to Tuscany's benefit to show up higher in search results. (Hopefully these labels are added as meta tags for external search engines too.)

Another benefit is that when a user clicks on a label, the user is presented with a list of similar articles. Much better than navigating a big hierarchy.

Adding labels is easy. When you are viewing or editing a page on the Tuscany wiki, you should see a small "Labels" text below the page view and info tabs. There will be either a list of labels or "(None)" if there are no labels. If you are logged into Confluence, you will get a small yellow edit text label as well. Click on this edit label to add existing tags or to make up new ones.

I just went through a bunch of Tuscany pages and added a large set of tags. Ideas include: osgi, testing, presentations, data-bindings, web-services, architecture, videos, etc. Please help tag our articles.
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Thanks, Dan Becker

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