Wiki Categorization Survey and Ideas
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:00 am
There's a little bit of discussion going on about adding or removing some categories. I'm interested in hearing from both normal/casual readers as well as more involved community members.
Main Questions:
Which categories are (or would be) most useful? Which ones do you use now?
More specific topics:
Genre tags* (I'm most interested in the answers to this one)
Genres are difficult to maintain and somewhat arbitrary (they also tend to work poorly with Alt languages, in that English project and Alt languages end up mixed together), so there's discussion of removing them. Are there many people that use these on BT as they are now?
I know they are useful in general, but I don't think they're too useful as they are now since you can't do a search based on multiple genres, only look at a single genre at a time (actually, you can look at combinations of genres, but it's a pain to do, so I don't think it can really count as a feature). I thought there are some external sites (not entirely sure) that have better genre systems in place, so I'm not as sure they should be on BT given their problems.
Status tags
Some ideas brought up for discussion were removing status tags (Active, Idle, Stalled) since the person who used to keep them updated no longer has the time. So in particular, how many people think those are useful?
There was an idea to make it automatically switch to inactive if no one updates it, but it wouldn't have the "Active" banner at the top, just be in the Active category, so it'd just help by making a list of active projects on the category page. So is that still useful, or would it not be as useful without the banner on top?
Origin tags
Is it useful to be able to search for the original language of the work (Japanese, Korean, Chinese)? Most projects are Japanese light novels, but I think there's a few Korean and Chinese at least. On one hand there's nothing wrong with more features, I'm just curious if enough people would want this to justify the extra category.
Linked projects separated from BT projects
The current "Light novel" (more than 1 volume done) and "Teaser" (less than 1 volume done) categories mix together project that are hosted on BT and "projects" that are just links to external sites. Should those two things be separated instead? Are you ever looking for only BT projects (or only linked)? I personally think it's fine as is, but there are at least a few people, maybe more, who feel they should be separated, so maybe I'm the minority here.
Also, feel free to comment on other category related topics that I didn't list.
Main Questions:
Which categories are (or would be) most useful? Which ones do you use now?
More specific topics:
Genre tags* (I'm most interested in the answers to this one)
Genres are difficult to maintain and somewhat arbitrary (they also tend to work poorly with Alt languages, in that English project and Alt languages end up mixed together), so there's discussion of removing them. Are there many people that use these on BT as they are now?
I know they are useful in general, but I don't think they're too useful as they are now since you can't do a search based on multiple genres, only look at a single genre at a time (actually, you can look at combinations of genres, but it's a pain to do, so I don't think it can really count as a feature). I thought there are some external sites (not entirely sure) that have better genre systems in place, so I'm not as sure they should be on BT given their problems.
Status tags
Some ideas brought up for discussion were removing status tags (Active, Idle, Stalled) since the person who used to keep them updated no longer has the time. So in particular, how many people think those are useful?
There was an idea to make it automatically switch to inactive if no one updates it, but it wouldn't have the "Active" banner at the top, just be in the Active category, so it'd just help by making a list of active projects on the category page. So is that still useful, or would it not be as useful without the banner on top?
Origin tags
Is it useful to be able to search for the original language of the work (Japanese, Korean, Chinese)? Most projects are Japanese light novels, but I think there's a few Korean and Chinese at least. On one hand there's nothing wrong with more features, I'm just curious if enough people would want this to justify the extra category.
Linked projects separated from BT projects
The current "Light novel" (more than 1 volume done) and "Teaser" (less than 1 volume done) categories mix together project that are hosted on BT and "projects" that are just links to external sites. Should those two things be separated instead? Are you ever looking for only BT projects (or only linked)? I personally think it's fine as is, but there are at least a few people, maybe more, who feel they should be separated, so maybe I'm the minority here.
Also, feel free to comment on other category related topics that I didn't list.