FreeTagging and impossible site maintenance??
Hey all drupal users!
I am launching a new site where people can post some artist content they wrote...
I really want to use the freetagging system so that users can themselves add categories to their content etc...
But here are some questions about this way of handling categories and the supplemental work that it could bring to us...
what happens when people have typos or errors in the syntax of a word, it creates another tag? Generally speaking does the webmaster them as to do some tag cleanup to make sure tags are not duplicating other tags (like peace and paece) for example... I think I can put them in synonyms, but it still means I have to check out the tags and maintain some order on the site...
Seems to me that if I have to maintain de tags on my site, this would rapidly become an impossible task!!
How to you guys manage this, is it simply free for all on your sites?
Thanks

I don't use free tagging
I don't use free tagging myself, but the typos will probably be less of a problem than you imagine because of the autocomplete features available. That is, as your users type in tags, drupal will suggest existing tags and the user can choose those tags. May be your admins could enter an initial set of tags into the system to reduce the typos that users can make?
There is the
There is the taxonomy_similar module which might catch typos, see http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/taxonomy_simi...
Only really works with English, I am afraid.
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fast answers....
Hey there ramdak and killes, thanks for the super fast answers!!!
Humm... The autocomplete feature seems like a good idea, it should indeed reduce the number of typos...
Still I'm concerned that this could really become out of control...
Anyone can share their experiences about maintaining a site based on tagging??
Thanks..
Killes: is the taxonomy_similar module based on a dictionnary file or on terms entered by the user?
taxonomy_similar uses
taxonomy_similar uses soundex functions to check for similar sounding words.
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