Okay. I am not a coder at all. But it seems to me that the stopgap we need is to change the "Post New Works" page so that instead of everyone having to type in their own Work Type, we need standardized checkboxes (not radio button because, of course, some have art, fic, and podfic; etc.). The tags would still be recorded as Additional Tags, but because they would be generated by checkboxes, they would be consistent across all Works -- with minimal effort.
It would look like:
Work Type: [_] Fanfic, [_] Fanvid, [_] Graphic Novel, [_] Fandom Meta, [_] Podfic, [_] Visual Art (for other Work Types such as Textile Arts, please enter as freeform below)
It could be generated by a bit of code that would look sort of like this (based off current Post New page, and remember: not coder!) if adding work_type is feasible; if not, just toss in with Additional Tags:
{dt class="type"} {label for="work_type"}Type of Work {a href="/help/type-help.html" aria-controls="#modal" class="help symbol question modal" title="Work Type help"}{span class="symbol question"}{span}?{/span}{/span}{/a}{/label} {/dt} {dd class="type" title="type"}
This is where the code would diverge from Relationships, which I am cribbing off. I want it to ask people to choose *one of 6 freeform tags* -- they don't have to! But the checkbox will be a lot easier than remembering exactly what freeform tags exist ("Start typing for suggestions!" is not very helpful when at some point Work Types will be sorted out based on common tags.)
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busaikko Mon 01 Jul 2013 10:01AM UTC
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