Alpha1
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Often members will post misspelled tags. For medium to large sites its not possible to go through the tag database and manage one by one. I used to try sanitize a tag database, but its a monks task which literally takes up full workweeks without even seeing much difference.
What would be really useful is a way to find similar tags and to merge these into the correct tag.
Luckily there is an algorithm to identify similar words: the Levenshtein distance. Elastic Search supports this.
What would be needed is:
What would be really useful is a way to find similar tags and to merge these into the correct tag.
Luckily there is an algorithm to identify similar words: the Levenshtein distance. Elastic Search supports this.
What would be needed is:
- search for similar tags with the Levenshtein distance.
- allow us to select thread tags we want to manage.
- merge them into the target tag.
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