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

[Greg Needel]

I made this a sticky. Maybe everyone should be forced to read this before they can upload a photo?

[Brandon Martus]

Excellent guide, Billfred.

I'll link to this from the upload page, so people get to see some more examples before uploading.

[acdcfan259]

There are A LOT of photos to tag and vote on. If you've got nothing to do, just go and vote. Right now there's around 9300 pictures to vote on. I think that's enough to keep everyone busy for quite a while.

[psyco_klown]

Are there premade tags and you just select which ones to add. If there isnt one a moderator has to aprove to add to the list.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by psyco_klown

Are there premade tags and you just select which ones to add. If there isnt one a moderator has to aprove to add to the list.

By "premade tags" there are not a huge pulldown list you can choose from or anything like that, but when you type one in, double check to see if it's a popular one for any images here by clicking on the tag word which now shows up along side the image, & see if any results come up.

If yours is the only image that shows in the search results, you may want to delete that, & try something else instead.




As a side note, how do you vote on and/or delete tags on images more specifically? I've seen some that I don't agree with but there is no trash barrell next to the tag to delete one that just doesn't go with the picture.
(ie: a misspelled tag word or something to that effect)

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

As a side note, how do you vote on and/or delete tags on images more specifically? I've seen some that I don't agree with but there is no trash barrell next to the tag to delete one that just doesn't go with the picture.
(ie: a misspelled tag word or something to that effect)

The trashcan should** show up if the tag is not already in the voting process. If it is in the voting process, and you haven't voted, then a 'No' vote is the same as clicking the trashcan.


** Some restrictions apply. The very few tag auto-moderators can always delete, without any vote, for instance. Also, if nobody has voted on a tag you suggested, you can delete it without any voting. And there are weird restrictions around the Who-Am-I tag, for some reason that I can't remember off the top of my head.

[acdcfan259]

Now that I've been on CD Media for a while, I realized there aren't page numbers. I think there should be page numbers like in the threads. Is there any reason we don't have this?

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by acdcfan259

Now that I've been on CD Media for a while, I realized there aren't page numbers. I think there should be page numbers like in the threads. Is there any reason we don't have this?

When your browse the photos in CD media...there are page numbers, unless I'm missing something...

Unless you mean when people reply to a picture there are no page numbers for the posts, you could always click "View Entire Thread".

In other news, I once wrote a tagging guide, it probably needs some updates, but for reference http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1839

[acdcfan259]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

When your browse the photos in CD media...there are page numbers, unless I'm missing something...

Unless you mean when people reply to a picture there are no page numbers for the posts, you could always click "View Entire Thread".

In other news, I once wrote a tagging guide, it probably needs some updates, but for reference http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1839

I mean a jump to page, like if I wanted to go from Page 1 to 10. How it is now, I would have to go through all ten pages.

[ManicMechanic]

Originally Posted by acdcfan259

I mean a jump to page, like if I wanted to go from Page 1 to 10. How it is now, I would have to go through all ten pages.

I agree -- a jump to a page is really necessary. I have to scroll page by page through more than 30 pages to find a photo from last year.

Another dilemma with the current system is that the page labeled "page 1" always shows the most current photos. If I want to see a photo again a week later, it may have moved to page 3 or who knows how far beyond. This makes it really hard to find photos at a later time. If the pages could be labeled in chronological order so that a photo stays on the same page (the same way that posts stay on the same page in a thread), this would be preferable. I have no problem with the pages being displayed in reverse order (so you always see the newest photos first), as long as they are labeled in a way that doesn't change with the addition of new stuff.

As it is, I have to bookmark every single photo I think I might want to reference later to avoid scrolling through endless pages.

[Billfred]

Someone (who is free to identify herself if she chooses) posed the question: Why tag?

Tagging isn't important in the near-term, to be honest. If you're looking for pictures from IRI this year, you can probably view all the images and click backward soon enough to get to most of them. However, you'll have a nightmare finding them in a few months (or years!) down the line when you're looking for them.

Case in point: Let's say you're looking for an image of one of the most dominant FRC robots in history, 71 in 2002. Searching (in the traditional sense) could require a whole range of terms, probably including permutations of beatty, team hammond, 71, 2002, and robot. Not every search is guaranteed to give you the photo you were looking for.

By having a set of standardized tags, one can use known tags to whittle things down quickly. Even the most photo-attracting teams don't have that many shots on CD, and 71 is no exception: only 73 photos at the moment, arranged chronologically by upload date. Odds are that most photos of that robot were uploaded around (wait for it!) 2002. So look up photos tagged frc71, either by finding it in the tag cloud on the tags page (which, admittedly, could have an easier interface for jumping to a specific tag), or just type it in directly: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/pho...agwithnospaces. Personally, I made a Firefox bookmark with keyword "phototags" and URL http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/tags/%s, which lets me type just "phototags frc71" in my address bar. However you get to the page of tagged images, just click over a few pages and there it is.

When you're looking for an image of historic robots, legendary plays, the old school, the new school, blue hair, no hair, or just a friendly game of catch, tagging can save the day.