[wp-testers] "Categories"

[Stuart]

I still think that categories and tags are fundamentally different:
Categories are used to organise and structure your site into seperate,
heirachal sections. Tags can be used to describe the properties of a
post and would be completely independant of the category of the post.

Wikipedia's definition of a tag: "Tags can be used to specify
properties of an object that are not obvious from the object itself.
They can then be used to find objects with some desired set of
properties, or to organize objects."

The examples I described in an earlier email show this (cateogry:
news, tags: politicis, germany, government) , as well as the example
of a movie review (category: reviews, tags: harry potter, fantasy,
wizards, magic, broomsticks) show how categories and tags can (and
should) exist side by side.

Having just 'tagories' (nice word btw!) would make a Wordpress site
difficult to navigate and difficult to structure in any meaningful
way. (in my opinion)

Cheers - Stuart.

On 11/23/05, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> Nickolas Means wrote:
> > What would justify adding a separate tagging function into the core code
> > of WP, though?  If Ultimate Tag Warrior does this very competently, and
> > by all reports it does, then what's the justification for adding it into
> > core code other than "Web 2.0ness"?  If you want tags and cats, fine,
> > install the plugin.  For novice users, the distinction between
> > categories and tags may be difficult to comprehend, and the default
> > system works pretty well for an either/or implementation.
>
> Bingo.
>
> It's my personal opinion that once people get over the concept of the
> scarcity of categories they'll be used identically to tags, and new
> users I've seen have used "categories" just like "tags" and really
> couldn't care about the semantic difference in the words.
>
> For people who want to link to Technorati and all that good stuff, there
> are plenty of plugins.
>
> The one change that's going to go in is a limit to how many get
> displayed at once, for example if you have 20,000 tagories just show the
> top 100.
>
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