Hyperactive

People aren't really using tags very much, though both location and category tags could greatly improve nvaigation on the site.

I've just gone through the London site and created a Democracy Village "wire" by simply location tagging all posts:
https://london.indymedia.org/search/by_place_tag/democracy_village

This is working really well, though it was a pain to have to go to the edit page and insert the tag and then scroll all the way down to save it.

Then I went and did the same thing, creating a Frontex "wire", this time using the category tag:
https://london.indymedia.org/search/by_tag/frontex

Even though there are less posts, it was more work as the category tags on the edit page currently are between the text body and the media upload, meaning a lot more scrolling back and forth.

From this I have two questions:

a) is it possible for admins or logged in users, to have a button next to the tags (both location and category) that says something like "add category" or "add location" and opens just a little field to add more tags? For a user who is not log in it could just say "you have to be logged in to do this"

if that's not possible, can we move the category tags to the top of the edit form, so they are more easily accessible?

b) To make this more user friendly, it would be great to get nicer urls. Something like foo.indymedia.org/place/democracy_village or foo.indymedia.org/topic/frontex. Is that possible?

Also it would be great to be able to see more tags then the view displayed on the Frontpage. Maybe we could have a large tag cloud somewhere like foo.indymedia.org/tags showing both location and place tags. foo.indymedia.org/place could show place tags only and foo.indymedia.org/topic category tags only.

What do people think? Does this make sense?