Experiments with comments and searches on dKos show that we can easily categorize diary comments with a primitive categorization scheme derived from Wikis.
By using a tag like CategoryDiarySuggestion in this diary, it should be searchable through the dKos diary search tool. This certainly works for comments, and diaries are just as easy.
To use this scheme to see categorized diaries, take a look at the list of canned category searches at:
If people chose to categorize their diaries this way, we can easily search and find related diaries. Imagine if all election fraud diaries could be easily found and with
this link.
Update [2004-11-22 20:11:32 by anonymous coward 8]: Or that you could find diaries with about
the 2006 elections here.
I discovered this through the comments on my previous diary Diary Linkage Experiment: 20041122links and some comments on wickerman26's dKos: the game diary.
If you'd like to add categories to your diaries, add a scrunched together word and prefix it with Category. To be nice, make it the anchor text for the search on the same term. For example see the CategoryTestingTestingUseless link below.
I've noticed is that re-edited comments do not seem to add the category tag to the search database, so I'm trying this in a new diary. -- Note that the search tool does not find my previous diary
Also, it takes a few minutes for diaries to show up in the search tool.
I'm trying CategoryTestingTestingUseless as another experiment to see if it can be done all in one tag. -- experiment successful.
Update [2004-11-22 19:21:31 by anonymous coward 8]: woot! a nod on the main page from DemFromCT -- unfortunately, edits of pre-existing diaries don't seem to be in the search database. I think its a bug
Update [2004-11-22 20:11:32 by anonymous coward 8]: Working around the bug, you can use comments to identify diaries with categorized content:
- post a comment in the appropriate story with a categorization tag
- Use the comment search tool to find the comments
- the third line of each search result identifies the diary.
See
here for an example.
In addition to these examples:
I polluted a corner of the dkosopedia with this list. If you'd care to add categories of your own, look at
User:AnCow8
This list is in no way exhaustive. Use your own categories. Since I am a grass-roots believer, I like the method above because it is something anyone can do. It doesn't doesn't prevent anybody from making their own categories, and we don't need to depend on the top-level organizers to make it work.
Update [2004-11-23 23:39:26 by anonymous coward 8]: In response to
feedback from katydid, I think a reworked explanation of the comment method of diary categorization is useful:
- Choose a useful category for the diary. A working list is on dKospopedia:User:AnCow8
- Write a comment including the search link, like: CategoryTestingTesting Useless
- Post your comment.
- After a minute or so, the new post will link the comment and diary to other comments and diaries containing the category-string.
Because of the dKos bug of not being able to search for edited diaries, for now, this method might be better than including the category tag in the diary itself.
Update [2004-11-30 18:31:19 by anonymous coward 8]: What I think is new today is that
this comment demonstrates multiple categorization, and its followup demonstrates integration with the dKosopedia.
As mentioned on dKosopedia:Categories this method of categorization is capable of a great deal of the functionality people want in dKos diaries. Even the un-categorization of an entry: the searches initiated by the links on this post will no longer find it if that post gets rated as sub-one.