I’ve been searching for EA articles on some issues lately and discovered so many old posts that were made even before I knew about the EA forum, but are just as relevant today. If volunteers would add tags for old posts, they could be rediscovered by newer EAs and I think there is a lot of value in that. And I think you could easily find volunteers for this task because they would learn a lot about EA when browsing and tagging old posts.
Another option is to use topic modeling software to automatically infer & assign tags. I might be interested in working on this. An advantage of using software is that it doesn’t require continuous volunteer commitment.
A recommendation system which displays related posts could also be helpful for discovery.
it wouldn’t need to be a continuous volunteers commitment, they would only be needed for old posts, authors would be encouraged to add tags for new posts themselves.
I’ve been searching for EA articles on some issues lately and discovered so many old posts that were made even before I knew about the EA forum, but are just as relevant today. If volunteers would add tags for old posts, they could be rediscovered by newer EAs and I think there is a lot of value in that. And I think you could easily find volunteers for this task because they would learn a lot about EA when browsing and tagging old posts.
Another option is to use topic modeling software to automatically infer & assign tags. I might be interested in working on this. An advantage of using software is that it doesn’t require continuous volunteer commitment.
A recommendation system which displays related posts could also be helpful for discovery.
it wouldn’t need to be a continuous volunteers commitment, they would only be needed for old posts, authors would be encouraged to add tags for new posts themselves.
As a data point, I would commit to tagging old posts for at least 1 hour if other people were also doing it or expressed interest in it happening.