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FAQ
General
The UnNews Facebook Application is a tool that allows you to enjoy the perculiar and often completely outrageous news stories that are published at UnNews.
UnNews forms part of Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia, and assists its parent website in creating a humerous and unsolicited companion to Wikipedia.
The UnNews Application allows you to display your favourite UnNews article directly on your profile page. Coupled with every article is a tag cloud
which provides a visual representation of how the article has been interpreted by those who have added and tagged it.
My Articles and Preferences
The My Articles list is a utility that allows you to manage the articles that you wish to tag and display in your
profile page. You are only able to tag the articles that you have added to this list, and are only able to apply preferences to the articles that
appear in it. If you remove an article from your My Articles list, your tagging information will be stored should you want to re-add the
article at a later date.
The Preferences Page allows you to select which article you would like to display on your profile page.
You can choose to display the most recent article in your My Articles list, or a random article from it. Additionally, you can
choose to display a specific article that appears in your articles list.
Tagging
A tag is generally a keyword that is associated with or assigned to a resource. This annotation of
information allows for items to be categorized and labeled, thereby facilitating operations such as
navigation, filtering, and searching.
A simple example is the practise of tagging friends in photographs that are posted on Facebook. When you tag
a picture on Facebook, you are able to indicate that a person appears in that particular photograph by associating
their name with that image. Similarly, other resources, such as text and video, can be tagged with words that
aide in describing their function or content.
When you tag a digital resource with a word, you facilitate information creation, and extend your role as a user to that
of a contributor and creator of information. Computers find it difficult to tag by themselves because of their simple nature. For example, it would be
impossible for a machine to automatically tag pictures in Facebook with the names of the people that appear in them. Therefore, humans use tagging
to assist machines as they organize and search through data.
Theres more to tagging that just helping silly machines. Tagging provides a means to determine a collective interpretation of
something that is not easily defined. While tagging people in photographs is relatively unambiguous (because each individual in the
image can easily be classified under a single name), tagging more open-ended resources leave room for individual interpretation.
Tagging texts, as is the case in the UnNews application, is a more challenging task because it is unlikely that everyone will choose
the exact same word to tag a particular article. A far more likely scenario is that several distinct terms will be used my most people,
while the remaining taggers will choose words that appear less obvious, but nevertheless, just as relevant.
A tag cloud is just a shared space where all tags relating to a specific resource live. For example, the tag cloud relating to
a tagged photograph on Facebook could be the list of names of the people who have been tagged in the image.
All the tags that have been used to describe a particular article in the UnNews Application live in their own little square, and all
relate to that specific article. This cloud is displayed on the profile page.
No.
You can only tag articles that appear in your My Articles list, and that you havent tagged before.
Only once.
This is a precaution against abusive behaviour, and ensures that a single user doesnt overwhelm the tag cloud with their tags.
No.
The word you choose to tag with must appear in the article itself.
A predictive text list appears as you type, and aids you in finding the words that you are looking for.
Yes.
As long as the word appears in the article, you can use it.
The more that a tag has been chosen to describe an article, the bigger it appears in the tag cloud. Also, as the
tag increases in size, its colour becomes darker. Therefore, the size and colour of the tag are directly related to its popularity.
Inviting Friends
This is a restriction that Facebook imposes.
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