After some dithering it is time for The Librarian to put the banana down, mutter, "oook," and get to work in the stacks.
I've been making progress. Most of the changes so far involve fixing capitalization. I've tried several approaches and have learned a lot about how kogs use tags from the perspectives of adding them to diaries and as followers.
One method is to go through the list in order of uses. I've run through the list twice to less than four hundred. The first time I mostly fixed capitalization and typos. The second time it was with a focus on finding two tags with identical meanings and linking them. There are many fewer active tags, now. If you use two that I've linked only one will appear in your diary but both can be searched for and followers of the less popular tag will still find your diary in their stream.
When in doubt I used the wikipedia for best style.
CamelCase in tags is getting rare but will not disappear entirely.
Hyphens are also getting rare. An exception will be election related diaries.
Next trip through I'll be focusing my attention on linking abbreviations and acronyms to their more substantive relatives.
Another method is to go through the list in order of number of followers. I've gotten as far as eight. This has generated quite a bit of bang for the buck. I bet that most kogs who follow twenty tags will find that their list has already been improved in subtle ways. If I changed one of the tags you follow in a way that you do not agree with, please, don't be bashful, let me know. This method shares a drawback with other search results. The list isn't fixed and if there are four pages of tags with eight followers hitting the next button brings up a random list of them and may duplicate some of the previous page's results. This is why I'm focusing my efforts on the all time list.
Another method is to sort the user list by mojo and start at the top. Several of you have gotten kmail regarding odd tags.
There are some defective tags in the database and finding them is not easy. If you are aware of any defective tags you are following keep following them, and, again, don't be bashful about letting me aware of the problem.
Tags that can be parsed as URLs are all defective and cannot be edited.
I'm asking for comma separated lists of problem tags. Two examples:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,
If in doubt Upper case initial letters are desired. CamelCase is disparaged. Line breaks are OK. My list of nations has as many lines as nations.
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