Morbus said what I think. +1 for calling taxonomy taxonomy and -1 for renaming free tagging. -Robert Morbus Iff wrote:
So, the original question was: should 'free tagging' rather be called 'folksonomy' because more people will be attracted to that term, or should we choose the more appropriate, yet less known term 'free tagging'.
And I state, unequivocally: no. The feature called "free tagging" in core is very unlike the "folksonomy" that people who *know* what the term means will expect (and going far back, is equivalent to renaming "book" to "outliner"). Naming it "folksonomy", however, has about as much mind- numbing usability brilliance as re-naming "taxonomy" to "categories" does, so I suspect the term folksonomy will hit core any day now.