No, tagging is different. GerardM blogged about this with the example of "horse". You can "tag" a photo as being of a horse by putting it in the horse category, but in no time it will be filed under some subcategory of horse. There are relatively few images in the top "horse" category. Moreover, most pictures of horses are not even in the horse category tree, but are categorized under some GLAM donation category and have never been sorted into any other category. The concept of categorizing is also based on existing categories, and the process of creating categories, though not difficult, is not easily available to newbies. Tagging allows the user complete freedom in associating concepts with images. Ideas around tagging on Commons have been rejected as putting an extra burden on anti-vandal fighters, in addition to being possibly useless in the goal of "making search on Commons suck less"
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, svetlana <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> > wrote: > > > MZMcBride wrote: > >> As much as the term is an awful buzzword, Commons could also do with > >> additional gamification, from what I've seen. If we can set up an easy > >> keyword/tagging system, having users help us sort and tag media would be > >> amazing. > > > > We already have such system. It's called categories. If we would like to > build a prettier interface for it, I'm all ears (although I wouldn't call > it a game). > > Gamification here relates to one type of interface, where a user gets > supplied a random example of an issue, and then tries to resolve that, > with a single resolution being just a small task. For an example of > what that looks like in a Wikimedia- context, see the Wikidata game at > https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/. A game could for example be > used to re-categorize files in categories that are too general (like > [[Category:People]]), to categorize uncategorized images or to add a > certain type of category to files where for some reason it seems > likely to apply (for example, images that in some way are described as > paintings which have no author-category). > > > -- > André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
