Anything wrong with combining projects and surname tags in G2G?

Question

Active G2G'ers:

I'm thinking of closing the individual categories for special projects. There would just be one top-level category called Special Projects (like there is now) and then instead of sub-categories for Mayflower, European Aristocrats, US Presidents, etc., those would be tags on http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/tags

We've been using the tag feature just for surnames. This would mean mixing surnames with other tags.

Functionally there would be an advantage. We're working on a feature that will enable you to watch a list of surnames/tags, e.g. you could get a feed of G2G Q&A tagged Smith, Jones, etc.  By broadening the tags, you could watch Mayflower, US Presidents, etc. in the same feed.

Are there any functional disadvantages that I'm overlooking?

Thanks!

Chris

 

Comments

I think it is a good move.

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Ok, this is done. You'll now want to use one of the following tags for a project (or if you create a new project, create a new tag!):

• presidents
• mayflower
• euroaristo
• acadia
• improvement
• categorization

The ability to get activity feeds and e-mail updates for tags will take a little while, but those of you who use a newsreader can already do an RSS. For example, add http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/feed/tag/categorization.rss to your reader.

Answer 1

Seems worth the try to me.