[General] Tagging functionality on OSAF wiki

[Mimi Yin]

Ah, good point. I guess the left hand sidebar would the other  
candidate. But I agree, the tagging workflow is such that tagging is  
sort of onerous and perhaps not very helpful. Perhaps we can ix-nay  
the tag feature until someone asks for it again?

Mimi

On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> Recently, Mimi asked about putting the "tag" functionality in the  
> right-hand navigation available on some pages in the new site design.
>
> Some thoughts and complications:
>
> * The right-hand navigation isn't designed to be on all pages.  
> Currently, the implementation requires embedding code/tags into  
> each page one wants to have a right-hand nav.  I assume that we  
> want to be able to tag any page at all.  So right now, the right- 
> hand-nav doesn't seem a great candidate to me.
>
> * Are we sure we want to keep the tagging functionality?  There  
> have finally been some use in the last day or two, but we went  
> months without anyone tagging any pages.  Even so, no one's asked  
> how to say, search through tags yet.
>
> The existing location, now that breadcrumbs are back, is clearly  
> ugly. So we're tracking the open issue in bugzilla #8600.  For now,  
> I've broken the tag onto a new line under the breadcrumb just to  
> see how that looks.
>
> If the conversation goes towards "but I thought we were putting the  
> right-hand-nav everywhere", sadly there are technical problems with  
> that and that's not what's been built for Preview so far.  If that  
> was the intent, let's call that out now and have a conversation  
> about where we're at and what we can get consensus on for next steps.
>
> -- Jared
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