[drupal-docs] Using taxonomies to tag the Drupal documentation

[Mark Leicester]

Hi Kieran,

I agree: in my case taxonomy was indeed a key reason to choose Drupal; 
that, the underlying architecture, and the uncanny knack the Drupal 
community has of meeting my module needs.

As you can guess from my post, I am very interested in the issues 
associated with knowledge management in online communities - 
particularly where the application of folksonomy and taxonomy is 
concerned. I'd like to offer my time in the ways that you suggest 
below; it's quite compatible with my efforts at 
http://www.planetcocoon.com.

Regards,
Mark

On 31 May 2005, at 17:34, Kieran Lal wrote:

> On May 31, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Mark Leicester wrote:
>
>>  I find the mailing list archives[4] difficult to mine
>> for information. It struck me that applying folksonomy to the mailing
>> list was a low cost, low energy, collaborative way of filing
>> information stored there. At the same time it made sense to let people
>> tag the rest of the content in the site too. To get the job done
>> quickly I used autowitch's awTags[5] modules. I'm watching the free
>> tagging implementation develop with interest; coupled with a 
>> sprinkling
>> of Ajax I'm sure it'll be a killer.
>>
>> Ah yes, while I'm at it, a realisation I've had re. folksonomy is that
>> the keywords people choose to tag content with are likely the same
>> keywords they will type into Google. I've been monitoring Google
>> referrals, and then tagging content according to what people have
>> entered. For example, if I notice someone has arrived at our site via
>> the search term "cocoon databases", I will run off and tag all content
>> related to databases (found via internal search perhaps) with the word
>> "databases". The awTags module gives me a page titled "databases |
>> Planet Cocoon", filled with content that mentions databases. A nice 
>> way
>> to indirectly give people what they want, and it seems to be good for
>> Google ranking...
>>
>
> I found this very interesting.   We have been waiting to do this for 
> while we gets some other projects off the ground.  But it would make 
> sense to me to have someone in charge of research for the 
> documentation team.  We need someone to do audience research, link 
> research, search terms research, referral research.  If it all ends up 
> allowing us to better tag our content so be it.  Taxonomy appears to 
> be one of the deciding factors why people choose Drupal and yet we 
> don't take advantage of it enough internally. 
>
> Let's not divert existing resources, but if there is someone lurking 
> who would be will to commit to do research or taxonomies/folksonomies 
> please say 'Aye!'.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>
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