User:ForSecurityReasons/FindTags

I discovered the following idea on an old smartphone in a text file dated December 2015. It details an idea to make vaguely memorable web videos and other multimedia easier to find through collaborative semantic tagging.

In the initial revision of this page (permanent link), which stores the raw unedited text I am sharing for transparency, you will notice flawed grammar, mispunctuation, and unclear wording, since I was in my early teens back then, and my primary language is German, not English.

Anyone is welcome to improve the text. –ForSecurityReasons (discuss • contribs) 20:56, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Findtags are high-detail tags that anybody could contribute to an online resource such as a video, to facilitate people who have watched it but just have a vague memory of it to find it again.

For example, if there is a video, where a Panasonic TV is showing somebody, who is playing Mario Kart Double Dash, but this video is not famous at all, it can actually happen that the person who viewed this video loses track of it. Let's assume he can actually remember that there is a Panasonic TV and there is fast (or quick/alternative words) music playing, or another video with a scene with a pop-up like this when attempting to check his email after returning from work on a CRT monitor, where the computer exploded after the progress bar filled, which was visible from outside the house.

But the watcher is unable to find that video, because he does not remember the title or the description of that video. That happened to me frequently.

The findtags could contain information such as that there was a Panasonic TV with high quality at the beginning of the video, and the approximate number of people visible on the video. They could contain any little detail that can help finding a lost video without actually knowing much about its machine-readable information such as title. Anyone should be able to add findtags. It can also be some text inside of the video. This can be very useful, to find lonely and unknown videos again. Sometimes, the video title and the description of the video does provide insufficient information to find videos again. Then those tags can really help.

Such an advanced search feature can help finding videos much easier.