Question, I was wondering if the Author Pseudonyms functionality could be expanded to work for text (tag-like) custom columns?
Reason I ask is because I'm trying to normalize/wrangle AO3 freeform tags for fanfics and the exercise has me almost tearing my hair out. That's just with relationship tags - haven't even attempted to do character and general/additional tags yet.
I can generate the CSV for
"bad tag","good tag" for import (and that'll be a very tiny subset of what AO3 has). It's just tiring having to repeat work I've previously done whenever I add a batch of new fics (either through Manage Categories or run 50+ Bulk S&R).
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Well, that's a post from 05-16-2015 for one thing. I don't find anything written in my notes, so anything I remember is suspect. 
But I believe that I decided it was a sisyphean task and I didn't care enough.
It would involve, at a minimum:
- Generating the list of all 'canonical' tags (685,301 Found)
- Fetching the page(s?) for each
- Determining what do to with all the 'Tags with the same meaning' vs all the 'sub tags'
- Are 'sub tags' also 'canonical'?
- Sub tags can have sub tags...
- Tags can be 'fandom', 'characters', etc
- Tags can have 'parent' tags that are not of the same type example
- Figuring out how and where to store all of the tag data (7,354,056 tags Found)
- ...and update it...
- ...and use it...
Now factor in that each user is still going to have their own opinion about which tags are important and which aren't and how they should be presented...
I know that in recent years I've taken to telling people that as long as AO3 allows anyone to write any tag they like, complete metadata consistency is going to be impossible. |