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[John Britton]

Thats correct. You need a certain level of reputation before you can create
tags. Similar tags act as aliases which they call "synonyms."

Check out the tag synonyms page for OSX:
http://stackoverflow.com/tags/osx/synonyms
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:

> I think stack overflow is even more strict, you can't simply create a
> new tag, so you have to choose from tags that allready exist. Only
> once you reached a certain level of reputation are you allowed to
> create a tag.
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Vanessa Gennarelli <vanessa at p2pu.org>
> wrote:
> > An autofill feature here w/b awesome--it's good for error prevention.
> > Flickr's self-tagging feature led to a usability disaster--just check
> for a
> > misspelling of "Massachusetts" to see what I mean.
> >
> > I think Stack Overflow has an autofill feature that suggests & clusters
> > together overlapping concepts, so there aren't repeats--I think John
> Britton
> > told me about it?
> >
> > I like where the copy for the directions is going v. much :).
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> We might even want to be more blunt with that language. "Add tags to
> >> describe the subject matter of your course so it can be found easily.
> Use
> >> both broad and specific terms for maximum searchability."
> >>
> >> Also, it would help if admin review tags and add appropriate phrases if
> >> deemed necessary.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Flickr had a great guide to tags which they would point users to to
> help
> >>> them tag their photos more effectively.
> >>>
> >>> One idea might be to paraphrase some parts of that guide and add them
> to
> >>> the course creation process at the point where people tag their course.
> >>>
> >>> Off the top of my head, I'm thinking something like: "tagging your
> course
> >>> helps people to find it, and will mean you get more signups. Some good
> >>> examples of useful tags are ones that describe the type of learning
> >>> experience (course, challenge, study group) the subject (music, HTML,
> Web
> >>> making, psychology, physics) the learning style (self-study, group
> work,
> >>> portfolio building)...." blah blah blah.
> >>>
> >>> Building taxonomies is harder than people think, but we can definitely
> >>> help them curate their stuff better. I'm totally okay with admin
> retagging
> >>> stuff to make it more findable too.
> >>>
> >>> B
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 14 August 2012 16:41, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I think admin should be able to edit/improve course tags for the sake
> of
> >>>> curation and improving searchability. Admin already help organizers by
> >>>> fixing typos and links in course pages.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi everyone
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm looking at the learn page, so far I have a few comments:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Featured, Schools and Tags all seems to act like links - they act the
> >>>>> same regardless of where you come from. They also clear any language
> >>>>> selections you've made before - like unchecking "All Languages" and
> >>>>> resetting the selected language to the current locale. That basically
> >>>>> kills the whole language preference!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm thinking that we should divide the elements on the Learn page in
> 3
> >>>>> categories:
> >>>>> - Links/catalogues - links to lists of courses (community picks,
> >>>>> showcase, school of open, ... )
> >>>>> - Tags/filters - filtering using tags the way other sites like stack
> >>>>> overflow does it
> >>>>> - Search preferences - currently only language preferences carried
> >>>>> over to links and tags
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If we sort that out and implement a very basic search that searches
> >>>>> through keywords and the course names I think we are already well on
> >>>>> our way to improving course discovery!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One other concern is that currently a few courses takes over the tags
> >>>>> completely! I'm not saying it's not good courses, but other courses
> >>>>> needs some sunshine too :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers
> >>>>> Dirk
> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>
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> >>
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> > Vanessa Gennarelli
> > Learning Lead, Peer 2 Peer University
> > vanessa at p2pu.org
> > @mozzadrella
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