[dokuwiki] Re: Improve the repository plugin
- From: Michiel Kamermans <pomax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:55:06 -0700
Anika Henke wrote:
<<There shouldn't be many tags which are related to one plugin only,
i.e. replace too specific tags with more common tags (or just remove the
too specific tags): E.g. don't have 'youtube, sevenload, dailymotion',
when only 'video' is the most important bit. Another example is my ABC
plugin, which shouldn't use 'abc' while just 'music' is enough. Or
'star' and 'stars' should just have 'rating' and so on.>>
Don't forget that a unique tag for a unique plugin is more likely to
lead users to find it if they've heard people talking about it. Keeping
in one or maybe two reasonably unique keywords can expedite retrieval.
<<Only use the most basic words, e.g. use 'collapse' instead of
'collapsible' and 'fold' instead of 'folding'. >>
While that seems a good idea, users will typically search for things
based on what they effect, such as "collapsible" ares or "folding"
areas, not on what they do, i.e. 'collapse' or 'fold'; I'd highly
recommend using attributive keywords in cases like these.
<<While we're at it, we should also check if the tags make sense at all.
E.g. the skill plugin shouldn't have a tag 'skill' and the stars plugin
neither 'skill' nor 'star' nor 'difficulty'. Or the 'faq' plugin
shouldn't be tagged with 'faq' but with 'headline' and 'style' instead.
(Let's ignore for now that the names of these plugins are misnomers.) >>
Be careful with overzealous pruning: as a user I would fully expect an
FAQ plugin to have the keyword 'faq', because that quite aptly describes
what it does. Unless you can rigidely define what we should mean with
'tag' in the dokuwiki plugin context, most people will consider a tag to
be a keyword descriptor for the plugin and its functionality. As such,
since the skill plugin deals with skills, it should have 'skills' as
tag, and the FAQ plugin deals with faq functionality, and so should have
'faq' as tag, too. Picking different tags because they entail the tag
you would otherwise use means you're going to confuse lots of people who
will wonder why you're using such broad tags when a more specific tag is
far more appropriate.
Which kind of leads me to the real question: can we describe what a
"tag" is supposed to be in the context of dokuwiki plugins? If so, then
that should serve as pruning basis. If not, then perhaps we should do
that first, because otherwise people will have no guiding principle or
clear definition of what their tags should be after the pruning, when
new people add new plugins to the list.
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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