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EditSocial Tagging
Problem: Maintaining an overview of the status of the documents inside a Wiki is difficult. In particular, it is unclear which documents need to be reworked.
Solution: Tag pages that need rework (e.g., with a understandable link to a certain page or a category). For example, when using backlinks, refer to the page "ToDo". Have a backlink on this page to list pages that are tagged with this concept.
Cause: By using a general Wiki feature for addressing workflow issues (e.g., ToDo), the usage of this feature is fortified and there is no need to learn further system features. This lowers the effort to get familiar with the Wiki.
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- This contribution was initially taken from Using Wikis to Manage Use Cases: Experience and Outlook, page 113 of Proceedings of Workshop on Learning Software Organizations and Requirements Engineering\
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Am I right that only Wetpaint and Socialtext support tagging? Is there a list somewhere? I've looked at wikimatrix but it doesn't seem to consider tagging as core to the wiki space.
Hi,
Social Tagging does not necessarily uses tags - If your Wiki has a backlink function, you could use the regular linking mechanism for this purpose.
TWiki has tags and Confluence has tags they call labels
MediaWiki calls them Categories...
My concern is not so much for content organization but rather accessibility. Therefor my interest is in multiple tags for each category thus allowing multiple doors to the same content. I don't know where to find that. Perhaps someone has created a plugin much like those available for Wordpress so that contributors could self tag their contributions.