This is The Centerfielder here with an announcement about the dKosopedia. In addition to the wiki we all know and love -- or at the very least have heard of and tolerate -- the dKosopedia will soon contain some new features. I'll explain more about these at the end of this diary.
The thing I want to look at now, though, is tags. The idea of diary tags and tag clouds and all sounds great, but in practice has been a disaster. As of this afternoon (Mon, Sep 18, 2006) there are 48613 tags. That's a lot of tags. How can we cut that down? Well, a lot of them are certainly spelling errors (such as "Afghanistan" and "Afganistan"), but there are also many tags that were obviously intended to mean the same thing but are worded differently (such as "Cheap Labor", "Cheap Labor Conservatism", "Cheap Labor Conservatives", "cheap labor Republicans", and "Cheap-Labor Conservatives"), some where tags were not separated, some where tags were separated by a semicolon or period instead of a comma, etc. How can someone willing to fix tags easily find such degenerate cases?
Here's one way to look at the problem...
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