I have been adding the (very few) terms that were requested (at the very beginning), and nobody had requested "accessibility" before. I've just added the term and assigned to the 2 talks that are obviously related to accessibility: http://guadec.org/taxonomy/term/129 . If you now more please send URL. With only 2 mentions a tag doesn't reach the cloud, this is why i.e. Solaris isn't there either. Again, the decision here is whether we want to retouch this cloud or not. My opinion last week when we discussed this was to leave it untouched. Murray mentioned the (real) risk of people doing a bad usage of this feature to promote terms but afaik we haven't found a single misbehavior. It is true that some people tag a lot and some tag just a couple of terms or none. But hey, this happens in Flickr as well, it's a 'problem' intrinsically related to tag clouds. Like in real pictures, you can retouch the cloud to "improve" what was a non-predetermined result or you can leave the result as it was, and then think about why this picture is not meeting your expectations. Retouch or not retouch, both are valid alternatives. This is only a tag cloud, not the GNOME Bible. These tags don't even refer to the talks schedules, but all the sessions submitted. The tag reflects the terms selected by people from a collection of tags available, nothing else. The Maemo or the Mono tags are big just because this year many people decided that the content they had submitted had a relation with such terms. Instead, only 2 people seem to have published content related to accessibility or Solaris, and not even they claimed that. Tag clouds promote the majorities and also the big minorities, but wipes out the small minorities. Now we see the effects. I have nothing else to say about this cloud and I'm nobody to add or take out tags. :) If you think new terms should be added just decide that and we'll add them. On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:38 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Also, a11y or accessibility aren't in the list of tags at the moment (Quim, I > guess they weren't requested?) > > People who have submitted a11y related content could tune up the keyword by > tagging their articles with the tag, once it's added. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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