[mb-users] using folksonomy tags for personal collections/wishlists

[Alex Dupuy]

Something that just occurred to me while replying to a random request for
help, is that we could use the folksonomy tagging support to implement the
often-requested "I have this album" / "I want this album" feature.

There's no need to have voting and whatever on the contents of my personal
collection and wishlist - while the current (still-in-beta) interface for
the folksonomy tags isn't ideal for this, I think the back-end database
support is.  And we can use the forthcoming support right away, with some
simple conventions.

If you have a release, tag it with "owned-<modname>" (e.g. I would use
"owned-dupuy"); if you want it, use "wanted-<modname>" instead.

Once there's some search capability for tags, you should be able to search
your collection and wishlist.  You can (sort-of) do this already with the
current (still-in-beta) interface by using the
http://test.musicbrainz.org/show/tag/?tag=owned-dupuy URL interface (is
there a way to add this to the search things on the left sidebar?).

If this seems to be popular, the next next server release could treat these
"collection tags" specially:

* adding buttons ("I have this", "I want this") to release page that add the
corresponding tag

* filtering these tags from the standard tags view and displaying them
separately

* preventing moderator "luser" from adding "owned-otheruser" and mapping
user-entered "owned" and "wanted" to "wanted-luser" automatically

* maybe using a namespace-reserved character  (like ':') for collection
tags, e.g. "owned:dupuy" to simplify this special treatment (we'd want to
mass-convert the database if this is done)

[I've also added this to the http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/FolksonomyTagging
page - feel free to respond and/or comment there]

@alex
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