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Ohloh tags: some ideas to keep better organized

Hi!

The tags list is very interesting!
https://www.ohloh.net/tags

This is AFAIK the best map of FOSS ever. It will be interesting to see the relations between tags. Ex.: games are mostly made in language X while content management is mostly done in language Y.

Some issues:

1- Since + is not supported everywhere, if I click c++ (2094), I get: No projects were found with tag ‘c ’

Yet, there is:
https://www.ohloh.net/tags/cplusplus

2- The is c#:
https://www.ohloh.net/tags/c%23
and:
https://www.ohloh.net/tags/csharp

3- About .NET
There is a tag dotnet (1635) but also net (3123)

I suspect most of the net are intended to be .net

4- Feature suggestions

4a) a wiki page per tag
Here we could explain what is meant by the tag and we could link to sources such as Wikipedia or domain-specific sites. Here is how WikiMatrix does it: http://www.wikimatrix.org/wiki/feature:Namespaces

4b) tags aliases: as a community, we should maintain a list of equivalents. Ex.:
https://www.ohloh.net/tags/crossplatform
https://www.ohloh.net/tags/cross-platform

If combined with the idea of the wiki pages, we could suggest tag aliases in the wiki pages.

This would avoid duplication and improve out taxonomy of FOSS.

Best regards,

M ;-)

Marc Laporte almost 13 years ago