Today's Tag Run

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 2:51 PM PDT

2006/09/28 · 14:51

I'm about to take off and ride my bike down to kos's book signing, but before I do here are the results of today's tag run.

Note that ct blew away near 2700 orphaned tags. Still, though, we have 535 new tags. I'm not going to go into depth with these as I have before. Note, though, that two of the new tags are "obsessive" and "compulsive", which were added by some unknown assailant to yesterday's tag cleanup diary. Perhaps we should rethink the term "Trusted User."

I Want To Delete 30000 Tags

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 5:21 PM PDT

2006/09/27 · 17:21

Today's processing of tag data shows 49610 tags, of which almost 200 are new. We'll hit 50000 tags very soon now. Over 30000 tags are only attached to one diary, and there are an unknown number of orphaned tags. At the end of this diary I'll look at a few of the new tags and the pointer to today's files in case anyone wants to look at the current tagset more closely. First, though... Discussion on my previous diary and on dKosopedia's dk{{DailyKos Tag Cleanup Project}} and dk{{Tag Editors Workspace}} pages leads to a pretty obvious conclusion. The unfettered ability to create tags just plain doesn't work. I want to suggest a new approach. Read More

First Call for the Tag Cleanup Project

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 11:36 PM PDT

2006/09/25 · 23:36

Last week I brought up the mess that is tags. At that point we had 48613 tags. This morning at 8:00am Ann Arbor time we had 49512. I presented a number of degenrate cases, and I know work was done on some of those, though there's been no activity on the dKosopedia page set up to coordinate the DailyKos_Tag_Cleanup_Project. Halcyon has offered to manage this thing, but he needs help. Please jump over to the project page and start filling it in with observed problems and possible solutions. For example, right away I'd suggest to whomever is in charge of the tagging code that chopping off leading whitespace would be a good idea.

In any case, I've got a process now that goes through the alltags page every day and creates a bunch of files. Those files are available here. Below the jump is a list.
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The Tag Cloud Billows and Obscures

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Tuesday September 19, 2006 · 1:09 PM PDT

2006/09/19 · 13:09

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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