Wanna be awesome? Help clean up CD-Media tags!

[Billfred]

It never fails, despite the best efforts of the voters and moderators: images on CD-Media wind up with no tags, the wrong tags, or not the full set of tags. Over the course of the season, the amount of photos needing tag help tends to grow, which means that the photos themselves are much harder to find in the future. Fortunately, this is easily fixed with a lot of cheap labor fine folks stepping up.

Getting started is easy, just start looking at images. There are lots of 2008 season images that need help, and there are most likely a lot of pre-CD-Media images that are also in need of tags. Click the little tag, and that'll open a box for you to enter tags. What are the appropriate tags?


You've got Mark Leon, Paul Copioli, and Michelle Celio at the 2008 IRI. Therefore, the proper tags are:

"Mark Leon" "Paul Copioli" "Michelle Celio" "Indiana Robotics Invitational" "Indiana Robotics Invitational 2008" 2008 "Off-Season Competition"

Since those names are two words, the quotes are required lest you get two incorrect tags. (Alternatively, you can enter them smashed together, e.g. offseasoncompetition. I prefer typing them this way, so that's how you'll see them for the rest of the examples.)


This is FRC 1618's robot from 2008. The appropriate tags here are:

frc1618 2008 robot

frc1618 is used to distinguish from, say, FTC 1618 should one exist. The tag of "robot" is only used in a reasonably tight shot of a robot; six of them on a field doesn't get that tag. (Matter of fact, most on-field shots don't get tagged that way either.)


This would be Dan Swando with some robots at the 2006 Florida Regional. Since we can make out a fair amount of 1902 and 1523 here, the tags are:

danswando frc1523 frc1902 floridaregional floridaregional2006 2006 regional

Note that "Florida Regional" is the official name of the event. There's a little bit of blue bumper showing behind 1523's robot, a sign of 108 that year, but there's just too little to justify the tag. (If this were the Championship instead, the relevant tags would be championship2006 championship.)


This is me on a Segway. The photo was uploaded to be my Who Am I image, so the tags are:

Billfred whoami Segway.

The Segway tag is there because there's a prominent Segway, though that should be obvious. The whoami tag will allow you to see a little name tag button, which lets you set the image as your WAI.


Here are Karthik and KathieK at the FVC World Championships in 2007, which was part of the 2007 Championship. Obviously, KathieK is not Kathie's real name (and Karthik has a last name as well). In cases where folks are known by both their CD user name and their real name, tag both*. As a bonus, it was once used in a caption contest. Therefore, the tags you want are:

2007 championship championship2007 fvcworldchampionship fvcworldchampionship2007 karthik karthikkanagasabapathy kathiek kathiekentfield captioncontest

*There are nuances to this, depending on the person; virtually nobody tags photos of Dave Lavery with dlavery, his username here, and nobody tags photos of me "Billfred Leverette" or "William Leverette" despite my full name being no real secret. If in doubt, search for the tag you think is appropriate.

There are some other specific tags (e.g. "Championship Winner" for a close-up of a robot that won the Championship, "Caption Contest" for the victims subjects of a caption contest, etc.), but don't worry about them unless you know they qualify. (For example, you'd definitely want to tag a shot of 217's robot from this year as "Championship Winner", even if it isn't presently tagged as such.)

In addition to tagging an image, you can vote on others' tag requests. Click the check mark on the lower-right corner of the tags, and you can vote either to add, delete, or abstain on a given tag along with your comments either way. Four unanimous votes settles the matter; after two weeks and at least one vote, the majority rules.

To that end, the easiest way to dive in is to start on this page, which shows every untagged CD-Media image. If you're more of a voter than a tagger, the photos with tags to vote on are here.

Hopefully, this guide helped navigate the basic tagging guidelines of CD-Media. Now go out there and help keep CD-Media beautiful!

Edit 1: Added Karthik/KathieK example for usernames that differ from actual names, and put code tags around the tags to eliminate any comma concerns.