Categories
From dKosopedia
Categories help in scaling a large collection of information into more manageable and navigable chunks. Small, slow, systems do not need categorization since the added overhead can inhibit presentation of the material.
The center panel of the Daily Kos main page is broken into categories as the central authors add articles. Selecting a section such as FAQ on the right panel will go to that section. You can get a subset of postings by going to the Search page and using a tag from the approved list. Use the form:
tag="tag"
Where you put the category you want in the quotes. (Example: "tag="framing" to search for diaries with the tag "framing" attached.)
As the membership in dKos has increased, the rapid development and posting of diaries has to some extent made the diary system unworkable. Diaries scroll past quicker than many users can read them. Categorizing the diaries could help organize the diaries so they can be filtered, read and used by those interested.
Interesting features of categorization may be:
- Multiple categories per post
- Categorization after the fact
- Categorization by authors or readers
- Recategorization and decategorization
- Display chronologically
- Display by recommendedness
One form of diary categorization is the method described and demonstrated in "Kos:AnCow8:Categorization works now". It works by placing special keywords in posts and using the search tool to find the keywords. It is capable of several of the features listed above. The following links demonstrate this method:
- dKosCommentSearch:Category50State
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryAbortion
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryAction
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryArgument
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryBreakingNews
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryBreakingNewsLink
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryBudget
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryBush
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryBushAdministration
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryCategory
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryClass
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryClimate
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryCommunity
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryConservatives
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryConstitution
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDeathPenalty
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDiarySuggestion
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDemocrats
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDNC
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDomesticPolicy
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDailyKosReengineering
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryEconomy
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryEducation
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryElection
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryElection2004
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryElection2004Fraud
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryElection2004Irregularities
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryElection2006
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryEnergy -- Lots of stories here, peak oil, ...
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryEnvironment
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryFAQ
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryFEMA
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryFlu
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryForeignPolicy
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryForcedBirth
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryFraming
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryFun
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryGayMarriage
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryHealthCare
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryHurricaneRita
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryIran
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryIraq
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryJeffersonianDemocracy
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryJudicial
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryKatrina
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryKerry
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryLGBT
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryLiberals
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryMedia
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryMilitary
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryNonviolence
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryOpinion
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPersonal
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPlame -- This has lots of the Gannon/Guckert Plame investigation work.
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPoliticalTypology
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPoll
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPoverty
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPrivatization
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryProfiteer
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryPropaganda
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryProtest
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryRacism
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryRecipes
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryRecommended
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryReligion
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryRepublicans
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryScience
- dKosCommentSearch:CategorySupremeCourt
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryTechnology
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryTerrorism
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryTorture
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryTroops
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryValues
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryVerbalSelfDefense -- A series on discussion
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryWeapons
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryWeather
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryWingnuts
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryWMD
- Regional/State Pages
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryDC
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryMaryland
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryVirginia
- See This Diary for a long list of States and StateMeetups
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryCanada
Special tags:
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryTestingTestingUseless -- for testing and experiments
- dKosCommentSearch:CategoryRecommendedArchiveOT -- for snapshots of the recommended diaries on the Open Thread
- etc...
- CategoryAlabama -- CategoryAlabamaMeetup
- CategoryAlaska -- CategoryAlaskaMeetup
- CategoryArizona -- CategoryArizonaMeetup
- CategoryArkansas -- CategoryArkansasMeetup
- CategoryCalifornia -- CategoryCaliforniaMeetup
- CategoryColorado -- CategoryColoradoMeetup
- CategoryConnecticut -- CategoryConnecticutMeetup
- CategoryDelaware -- CategoryDelawareMeetup
- CategoryFlorida -- CategoryFloridaMeetup
- CategoryGeorgia -- CategoryGeorgiaMeetup
- CategoryHawaii -- CategoryHawaiiMeetup
- CategoryIdaho -- CategoryIdahoMeetup
- CategoryIllinois -- CategoryIllinoisMeetup
- CategoryIndiana -- CategoryIndianaMeetup
- CategoryIowa -- CategoryIowaMeetup
- CategoryKansas -- CategoryKansasMeetup
- CategoryKentucky -- CategoryKentuckyMeetup
- CategoryLouisiana -- CategoryLouisianaMeetup
- CategoryMaine -- CategoryMaineMeetup
- CategoryMaryland -- CategoryMarylandMeetup
- CategoryMassachusetts -- CategoryMassachusettsMeetup
- CategoryMichigan -- CategoryMichiganMeetup
- CategoryMinnesota -- CategoryMinnesotaMeetup
- CategoryMississippi -- CategoryMississippiMeetup
- CategoryMissouri -- CategoryMissouriMeetup
- CategoryMontana -- CategoryMontanaMeetup
- CategoryNebraska -- CategoryNebraskaMeetup
- CategoryNevada -- CategoryNevadaMeetup
- CategoryNewHampshire -- CategoryNewHampshireMeetup
- CategoryNewJersey -- CategoryNewJerseyMeetup
- CategoryNewMexico -- CategoryNewMexicoMeetup
- CategoryNewYork -- CategoryNewYorkMeetup
- CategoryNorthCarolina -- CategoryNorthCarolinaMeetup
- CategoryNorthDakota -- CategoryNorthDakotaMeetup
- CategoryOhio -- CategoryOhioMeetup
- CategoryOklahoma -- CategoryOklahomaMeetup
- CategoryOregon -- CategoryOregonMeetup
- CategoryPennsylvania -- CategoryPennsylvaniaMeetup
- CategoryRhodeIsland -- CategoryRhodeIslandMeetup
- CategorySouthCarolina -- CategorySouthCarolinaMeetup
- CategorySouthDakota -- CategorySouthDakotaMeetup
- CategoryTennessee -- CategoryTennesseeMeetup
- CategoryTexas -- CategoryTexasMeetup
- CategoryUtah -- CategoryUtahMeetup
- CategoryVermont -- CategoryVermontMeetup
- CategoryVirginia -- CategoryVirginiaMeetup
- CategoryWashington -- CategoryWashingtonMeetup
- CategoryWestVirginia -- CategoryWestVirginiaMeetup
- CategoryWisconsin -- CategoryWisconsinMeetup
- CategoryWyoming -- CategoryWyomingMeetup
If you'd like to add categories please prefix the new category with the word Category so there is a consistent and recognizable way of generating new categories.
A demonstration of multiple categorization and integration with the dKosopedia is in this diary
Kos just did away with categories the other day. :-D The bulk of the external links now just comment search. This shouldn't stop us from setting up categories in the wiki for navigation and content management. --DRolfe 23:02, 25 Jul 2005 (PDT)
They always were just comment searches, which is not something that Kos can do away with. The method described above will work as long as comments are searchable. -- AnCow8 2005-08-22