Proposed list of tags:fanarchive

[norah.livejournal.com]

A few days late - sorry, new job, hectic week. I tried to keep this concise and yet cover everything I could think of that might crop up. I've set it up to follow the two- or three-tier system that thefourthvine and I use in our sidebars, created by murklins. If a one-tier system is more desirable I can re-think this. The main categories are archives, fanarchive, features, and planning.

In the meantime, comments? Additions? Questions? Deletions? Have at!

archives:audience & community (suggested change: archives:users and community)
archives:history
archives:legal issues
archives:meta
archives:other archives
fanarchive:admin
fanarchive:weekly summaries
features:discussion
features:suggestions
(alternatively, the prior two could be subsets of "planning")
planning:coding
planning:design
planning:funding
planning:issues
planning:moderation
planning:people & volunteering
planning:resources & maintenance
planning:tools and software
planning:universal access

Questions thus far: do we need a "content" tag? If so, where might it go (under archives, planning, etc.)? Should universal access be under "planning"? Should "archives" be plural?

Comments

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Do you mind a question about the "audience" tag? I keep coming back to the issue, for myself, of writers as users of archives, and the hope that the design for this one will keep writers' interests front and center, as well as readers'.

Would "users and community" be more inclusive, maybe?

Also wondered, maybe in a related question, about where "content" would fall in this schema?

Thank you so much for doing this!

[norah.livejournal.com]

Good points; I'd love to get other folks' opinions, should I edit the post to request opinions?
And do you have a suggestion about where "content" might fall? archives:content?

I'm hearing that we may not be able to use 2-tier tags because of the basic account, so that's a concern too, though really, there's nothing that says you can't use 2-tier tags anyway, you just can't display them as prettily as with a paid account.

[(Anonymous)]

Well it's paid now.

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Beautiful Nony Mouse!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_workinprogress/]

yes. thank you!

(and the tag system is working :)

[amireal.livejournal.com]

ooo pretty! *G*

As someone said early, take lots of suggestions here, be thinky. I'm sure people would be happy to talk through some things. And then, my suggestion as mod, is to make a second post with the finalized list (or v 2.0 if you're still not sure) and explaining/giving an example of when you would apply each tag. Just so we're all clear. And *looks shifty* it's possible that it's something I want to integrate into the FAQ. *koff*

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, an example of how to use each tag would be most excellent.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

argh! Shiny was to you! The second posting was to the OP who is dealing with the tags thing.

Thank YOU for making the sidebar tags thing work. I know I needed help getting it done in my own LJ.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_workinprogress/]

he. I figured that much out.

layout help comms rock. tutorials rock even harder.

(and this all would have been so much easier if I hadn't somehow managed to screw up an unrelated bit of code. *headdesk*)

[norah.livejournal.com]

AWESOME! Thanks, mouse!

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Maybe, once everyone seems to have commented who wants to, publish the list again with the suggested changes listed next to the originals?

Gah. Information architecture gives me vertigo. I would think that "content" could fall under either "archives," as you suggest, if user-centered things like restrictions and interfaces and so on are the bigger concerns; or under "planning" if the issues have more to do with stuff like scalability, taxonomies, formats, and so on.

I'm pretty sure almost everybody knows more about this than me. *g*

Thank you again; this stuff is hard! Hope the new job's going well!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_workinprogress/]

maybe update the post with proposed changes once you have a few?
Just so it's easier to keep track.