Hi everyone, just to update you that we have updated our guidance for tagging articles for the new site. Please take a quick look at it here:
https://libcom.org/article/tags-tagging-your-articles-guide
We are also undertaking some major work simplifying our tagging system, and have already tidied up, merged and deleted hundreds of redundant tags.
With the new site, the main thing which we need to do is tag authors of texts in the Authors field. This is so that users will be able to browse articles by Author, which is very important for any online library.
So if you post anything new, please make sure to tag the Author. And if you see any article on the site which doesn't have an Author tag, please Edit the article and tag the author yourself. Then over time we will eventually hopefully get everything with an author tagged, and we can set up an index for people to browse content by Author.
Many thanks for any assistance
Where is the Authors Field…
Where is the Authors Field in Tags or ...? How do I bring that up. Cant seem to find particular books already in the libcom library somewhere.
Hi MIke "Author" is a field…
Hi MIke
"Author" is a field in each individual article now.
My understanding is that there isn't currently a page that collects all the author tags together. So they should all appear in the general tags page: https://libcom.org/collections/all-tags. That would be what Steven means in his post about moving towards an Author index, but there wouldn't be much to see there yet.
Spikymike wrote: Cant seem…
If you give some examples of things you can't find then I am sure people can help?
Spikymike wrote: Where is…
Hi Mike, this was a note for people who post articles to the site, or edit articles on the site, so you don't need to worry about this.
But to explain where you can view Author: this is now below the intro text for each article, above the username of the person who posted it and the date it was posted. E.g. the author here is Workers Solidarity Movement: https://libcom.org/article/irish-anarchist-review
But as Fozzie says, if you are having difficulty finding something, please let us know a couple of examples so we can help.
Steven/Fozzie, I really…
Steven/Fozzie, I really think (for example) that Neil Fernandez book on the USSR should still be available along with others in the Tags etc for Marxist analysis of the USSR alongside the Aufheben, left communist and anarchist stuff especially as it has an autonomist flavour. Its in the library somewhere. Some stuff does still come up under author search if prominant like Dauve but a lot under the subject search doesn't.
Spikymike wrote: Steven…
Mike, Neil contacted us some time ago demanding that that book be removed from the site, so it is no longer available on libcom.org.
If you have any other examples of things you're having trouble finding let us know.
But please note that if you are talking about what is available in particular tags, then this is not necessarily something we can control, because we have tens of thousands of articles, and thousands of tags. Users tag articles when they post them. We do we can to tidy up tags and try to ensure they are consistent, but we just don't have the capacity to ensure they are consistent. And tags can never be comprehensive, because there are literally too many possibilities for what could be tagged with what, if you see what I mean.
Perhaps there is scope for a…
Perhaps there is scope for a Libcom “introductory guide” to the USSR that collects together some of the key articles here though?
In terms of that, there is a…
In terms of that, there is a USSR section in this reading guide: https://libcom.org/article/soviet-union-china-and-other-stalinisms-reading-guide
Ah ok cool, that looks good!
Ah ok cool, that looks good!