[wp-hackers] pulling the tags

[Charles Frees-Melvin]

Basically you are just looking to create a hierarchical taxonomy with an interface that is non-heirarchical. Or is it more a tax of a tax.

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On 2012-04-07, at 14:31, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com> wrote:

> Working with a tag system ( a non-hierarchical taxonomy that is ), I plan
> on tagging items like this
> 
> Basketball
> Michael Jordan
> Soccer
> Babe Ruth
> Muhammad Ali
> Jim Brown
> Jesse Owens
> Joe Louis
> Boxing
> Sonny Liston
> Ronaldinho
> Baseball
> 
> 
> The point here I'm trying to draw attention to is that some terms in this
> list sound like "groups or categories", and some sound like individuals,
> persons. Some terms you can find in word dictionaries ( soccer, basketball
> etc ) , and some you cannot ( jordan, owens and so on).
> 
> Sure, I can take the items that "sound like" groups /or categories from
> this tag group and implement them as another custom taxonomy or categories
> for that matter. But that's not the point.
> In many times in real life, we find that tag clouds contains many mixed
> items - exactly like the list above, that is some items sound like
> groups/or cats and some don't. and many site serve their visitors like that
> and it is certainly not the end of the world. The question is can we do
> better with a little trick.
> 
> Is the following possible?
> 
> Still use the same single taxonomy, but have your content developers tag
> the items the following way instead;
> 
> -Basketball
> Michael Jordan
> -Soccer
> Babe Ruth
> Muhammad Ali
> Jim Brown
> Jesse Owens
> Joe Louis
> -Boxing
> Sonny Liston
> Ronaldinho
> -Baseball
> 
> Notice that the cat sounding ones are prefixed with a - . Easy enough.
> Yeah?
> 
> The convenience here is that when tagging the item, my guys still type in
> the same box ( that is one place to go for tagging cause there is only one
> taxonomy involved )  and they just press the "-" key and boom, the tag
> interface displays them with a ajax'ed summary of all the cat sounding
> names, and they just pick one, or simply create a new one like such as
> "-tennis".
> 
> While they are at it, they can go ahead and type the
> individual athlete names too... it's like two bird with one stone.
> 
> The question is how far does this creative or ( not so creative idea )
> live?
> 
> My initial questions are...
> 
> What happens to the urls ( and slugs ) for those tags that are prefixed
> with a "-"?
> 
> And what happens to the tag searches? Will my users be able to find Soccer
> players by simply typing "soccer" into the search tags box that I provide
> for them or is it that they are going to have to type in "-soccer" instead?
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