History: Tags

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**Overview**
: Freetags are the way to solicit content authors and/or users to create a taxonomy structure for your site. Unlike categories, which are pre-defined, Freetags give the authors freedom to define their own structure (or lack of structure - with Freetags you can have "Cars","Autos","Automobiles" as tags)


In addition to Tiki's Freetag system, Tiki also integrates with Cypht, which uses a tag/label system for organizing emails and other content. You can explore more about Cypht’s features, including its tagging system, on the official Cypht Features page: [https://www.cypht.org/features.html].

**To access**
: Click the **Tags** icon {icon name="admin_freetags" size="2" title="Image may vary depending on icon set in use."} on the ((Admin Panels|Admin Panel)) <br /> or Access **http://example.org/tiki-admin.php?page=freetags**

**Tabs**
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**Note**
: *Categories can be used to create a defined taxonomy structure and to provide access control. Freetags can not be used to provide access control.*

**Note**
: *The following information should be migrated to the Freetags section of the Tiki User and/or Admin Guides*

# Tags

This page is about Freetags, which is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy|folksonomy] implementation of TikiWiki. The name is based on the name of the underlying library from Gordon Luk: [http://www.getluky.net/freetag/].

Though similar in function to ((categories)), freetags work somewhat differently. Also, freetags should not be confused with backlinks-to-index style tags discussed further at ((Documentation Status)).


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Basically folksonomy tagging means/is based on:

- everybody can assign keywords to anything
- bottom-up instead of top-down categorization
- from chaos comes order
- emergent patterns are more powerful than imposition of categories


See: ((Multilingual tags))

## What can I tag within Tiki?

You can currently tag:

- ((Wiki)) pages
- ((Blog)) posts
- ((Image gallery)) &amp; individual images
- ((File Gallery))
- ((Trackers)) &amp; individual tracker items 
    - ((Tags Tracker Field))
- ((Quiz))
- ((Polls))
- ((Surveys))
- ((Directory))
- ((Faqs))
- ((Spreadsheet))
- ((Articles))

## Modules

- ((Module Freetag|freetag)) : that allows to add and remove tag from a current object
- ((Module freetags_current|freetags_current)) : that displays the current tags of an object. Only for a wiki page.
- ((Module freetags_prefered|freetags_prefered)) : Shows the favorite tags of a user. The number of tags is the value of the parameter rows defined at the module assigment.
- ((Module freetags_most_popular|freetags_most_popular)): Shows the most popular tags. The number of tags is the value of the parameter rows defined at the module assigment.
- ((Module freetags_morelikethis|freetags_morelikethis)): Shows the objects that have the same tags than an object. Only for a wiki page. The number of objects is the value of the parameter rows defined at the module assignment.

## User

When offered to do so (for instance, editing wiki pages), just enter your tags into the textfield separated by spaces.

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You can browse the available tags by clicking on one, when seeing it somewhere.

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It will take you to **tiki-browse_freetags.php** with the tag centered in the morcego browser, if that feature is enabled.

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The syntax of a tag is defined by the admin setting. Tags are separated by space(s). If you want to enter a tag with a space - if the admin setting allows it, you must enclose it into double quotes. Example: in the module freetag, if you enter: "computer science" ibm pc, you will add 3 tags "computer science", "ibm" and "pc"

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If you wish to remove a tag attributed to a forum thread, you will need to open the 1st post of the thread. (Tiki 12.2){BOX}

## Improving search results for tags

See: 
https://doc.tiki.org/Search+General+Settings#Tips


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- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy]
- Some ideas about freetags display: [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/tag-clouds-gallery-examples-and-good-practices-2/]

## Alias

(alias(tagging)) 
(alias(freetag)) 
(alias(freetags)) 
(alias(free tag)) 
(alias(free tags)) 
(alias(Folksonomy)) 
(alias(label)) 
(alias(labels))