Tagging Vocabulary

Wanted to tag some Chengyus with "Chengyu" but I couldn't find them.I have 2,290 mostly useless V2 entries in my vocab list and not found a way to "flush" or to sort it. Needle in a haystack.

Now commas work again :-)

Hi Henning, We've got a couple features planned that will help you with your housekeeping. First, we'll be adding a 'delete all' button if you want to clear things out. Secondly, we are going to make the tagging process easier, with a sprinkle of Ajax. Hopefully we'll get these done in a few weeks time. Doesn't help you much in the short term I guess, but look on the positive side - you'll be rediscovering all kinds of words you'd forgotten as you wade through your archive.

steve, OK, I will try that... Actually I should get back to work (it got brutally hot in this office today. Mid-summer temperature). ;)

Bazza, Yep - the Big Brain will create a whole layer of context and relationships between the thousands of words in the glossary, making discovery and categorization of Chinese vocab much easier and more convenient. Great for karma too - the more you tag, the more you do for the community.

Does it really make sense to share all tags publicly? I would also need some that make exclusively sense to me, e.g. if I know a word orally / in pinyin, but not yet the Hanzi. How would you suggest to administrate your individual progress tags then?

People can use public tags if they think they are useful. If you add the tag 'to study' to some words, you'll know that other words tagged that way by the community won't be of much use to you, and so won't use them. However, if you tag a word 'hotel', there's a good chance that other words tagged that way by the community will be of interest to you, so you'll check them out. Seeing as the community can tag words anonymously, we are figuring it is OK to let people make their own choices about whether to use them or not.

How do vocabulary sets work?

Oh tags are shared between everyone. That's cool.

> When you (or anyone else) tags a word, at the bottom right of the sidebar menu, you will see other words tagged the same way. I don't see other words. Though I guess that there are some, for example tagged Food or Time.

Sorry Anne. Bottom left!

I can attach only one "tag" to one piece of vocab, right? Tried to tag 举办 with "organizing" and "news vocab". Besides: I only see tags that I applied myself at least once before, not those from other users (?).

My bad - I've just checked and I think this is one of the systems we need to debug tomorrow! I'll keep you posted.

henning, you can add one than one tags by separately them with commas. And I can only see the ones I've tagged myself. I did seem to recognise tags already in use because I use "Time" and it changed to "TIME" so someone must have already use it but typed it in CAPITALS.

Now it's not possible anymore to add more than one tag - because commas aren't allowed. Please fix that back.

They are like lesson sets. Groups of words we've picked that are related to a certain topic, such as hotels, or sports, or describing people. Just click on a set to add it straight into your Vocab list. They should be up and running tomorrow.