Article keywords

A number of times I've found myself searching for an SOPW node I vaguely remember but can't put a finger on exactly. In some of these the obvious search terms return so many results to be overwhelming, especially when the node is badly titled so that it doesn't correspond with my recollection of the title.

So to get around this, perhaps it would be nice to have a short keywords field attached with articles, and be able to search on that. I'd think it would be better to make that field writable only by high-level monks (i.e. not the poster); this would make the keywords relevant to the real answer more than to the quite-likely misguided impressions of the poster.

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RE: Article keywords by neshura (Chaplain) on May 19, 2000 at 01:37 UTC
I think this is an excellent idea -- I thought of it as well because I was trying to run down a post on constructing a sort with hash values (turned out the bit of code I was looking for wasn't even on perl monks)... Anyway...I made a more extensive proposal here. e-mail neshura	[reply]
RE: Article keywords by ChuckularOne (Prior) on May 19, 2000 at 15:44 UTC
There have been a couple of times when I have had to preface a question with, "I know this has been covered before, but I can't find the node" or something like that. I would gladly fill out a couple of keyword fields if it would mean others were doing the same. It would save a lot of repitition. Your Humble Servant, -Chuck	[reply]
RE: Article keywords by royalanjr (Chaplain) on May 19, 2000 at 23:55 UTC
I like the idea overall. The only thing that might be a problem is getting the higher level monks to fill out these additional fields. Not that they are bad folks or would not want to help, but time may not permit such extensive work. Roy Alan "I quit; I concede. Tanj on your silly game!" -- Louis Wu	[reply]