I can strongly relate to the problem Skip describes and his proposed solution seems to be both useful and practical.
I can imagine it might be possible to add a "Add keyword" link to Wiki pages and have them written to the page somehow, but the forum archive (which I find particularly useful) might be a bit harder. However instead of adding the keyword to the actual page, perhaps it could be added to an index of urls. Adding a keyword would add an entry to an index (on the wiki?) that linked the keyword to the URL of the forum post. It may even be better to use the same mechanism for adding keywords to wiki pages. Ideally a forum archive search would be unified with a search of the index as well, but even if it wasn't, a search on the wiki should find the keywords and link. --Skip Cave wrote: <snip> > There may be a way to at least help with this problem, > however. What if > there was a mechanism where users could add keyword tags to any post, > article, forum page, or other document in the J panorama of > information. It would be a a simple process where a user who > say, found > Roger's wiki odometer page, could click on a "add keyword" on > the page, > and add the keyword "electric meter" and perhaps just "meter" > as well as > "increment" to the page. So when a user searched for one of > those terms, > they could find Rogers' article immediately. If a user found > a specific > page or section in Henry Rich's reference book "J for C Programmers" > that described a particular algorithm, the user could add several > keywords that helped broaden the access to that section, for > those that > might use the new keywords for the search. > > Anyone should be able to add keywords to the posts, wiki > pages, or even > to pages in the various reference books provided. Whenever a > question-asking newbie is pointed to a post, the newbies' > unsuccessful > search terms should be obtained, and added to the specific post's > keywords. In this way, the next time a newbie searched for that issue > using that keyword, it would be found. The J community could > help this > along by adding their own keywords whenever they ran across a post or > article that was hard for them to find, because of a keyword > that they > felt was missing. It wouldn't take long before finding solutions in J > would become much more effective and efficient for everyone. <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
