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Because the tag project is dragging on (in the fantasy world in my head, we would have been done by now!), and because I can't tell how long it's ultimately going to take, I've updated the FAQ to reflect the current situation.

( Where are...? Who does...? How do I...? )
I do apologize for not having updated it earlier. If you catch something else that needs updating, let me know.

As far as where we are in the tag project...

The bulk of the author tags have been moved. We haven't yet decided how to make sure that all new posts get indexed over there. One possibility we threw out was to ask for monthly volunteers: people willing to take all the new posts made in a month and add them to the delicious account. (Or we could do less than a month, if a month seems unreasonable or if we get a traffic surge like we did during RaceFail09. Basically, we do not wish to break our volunteers!) What do y'all think? Other suggestions?
oyceter is doing behind-the-scenes work right now on Phase Two, where we take on the nationality, ethnicity, geography, and related tags. (Some of the previous discussions about that: here, here, and here. And yes, we've been plodding away at this for a long while now. Even with y'all pitching in and doing the bulk of the labor, we've been having trouble getting the planning and administrative side of it done.) I'll leave oyceter to explain more about that once she's a little farther along with it.

...and that's what I've got. If you've got suggestions for doing maintenance on Delicious (or want to volunteer for a month's shift!), or otherwise have comments, suggestions, corrections, or questions, let us know. :-)

sanguinity

Heya, it's your friendly neighborhood mod here. Two notes:

As many of you have noticed, we've been battling the tag limit for a while, but we haven't gotten the new tagging scheme up and running yet. Right now, I'm working on easing things up a bit by porting author tags over to delicious. Eventually all author tags will be over there, but for some intermediate period we'll have a situation where some author tags are here and some are there. If you can't find an author tag that you're sure ought to exist (or if some of the posts for that tag seem to be missing from the tag), pop over to delicious and look under the "authors" tag bundle. It should be over there. (Also, the (delicious) tag that some of you may have noticed? The intent is for it to be used during the transition, to help us keep track of what we're doing -- when we finish, we'll get rid of it. Please don't add or remove that tag to posts, unless you are working on the tag-portage project.)

And yes, as soon as we get the details sorted out, we will be asking for help in porting things over. Believe me, I am already very much looking forward to the extra hands.
I'm going to modify the spoiler-code listed in the FAQ so that it has better accessibility for people who use screenreaders. The idea and execution is described here, but the basic idea is to bridge the spoiler with a "skip this spoiler" hyperlink. Like so:
(skip spoiler)
This should be skippable even when one is using a screenreader. If it's a long spoiler you'll get one border around the entire block of text, instead of overlapping borders around each individual line of text. Dunno about you, but that had been bugging me.

If this doesn't render properly on your browser, let me know, and I'll see what I can do to fix it.

If you want to try it out in the comments, here's the spoiler code:
```
(<a title="Skip this Spoiler" href="#skip.firstspoiler">skip spoiler</a>)
<div title="This is a spoiler. Highlight to read." style="color:#666; 
background-color:#666; border:2px red solid"> SPOILER TEXT GOES HERE
</div> <a name="skip.firstspoiler"></a>
```
If you have more than one spoiler, just change "skip.firstspoiler" to "skip.secondspoiler" (change both instances!) as appropriate.

Also, because I know that big block of code can be unpleasant for some, I'll add instructions to the FAQ for rot-13. (Unless anyone has a good reason to not use rot-13?) V zlfrys unir n sbaqarff sbe byq-fxbby zrgubqf; ohg gura, V'z yvxr gung. (Gung gbgnyyl jnfa'g jbegu hapvcurevat, jnf vg? Fbeel.)

ETA: It appears that using rot-13 well with screen-readers should have similar "jump past this spoiler" HTML around it, which doesn't make it much/any simpler to implement.

sanguinity

Hello, this is your friendly community mod, bringing you an update to the FAQ:

I think the comm would be interested in [book by white author]. Can I write a post about it?

No. This is a comm for books written by authors of color.

Is that too blunt? ;-)

In the past, if the mod-team discovered a post that was about a book by a white author, we would give the original poster twenty-four hours to rewrite or delete the post. As of now, we are changing our custom: we will delete posts about^[1] white authors as we find them. We are also instituting a two-strikes rule about such posts. (However, we are not wholly draconian: if you thought that an author was of color when you made the post, talk to us. The two-strikes rule is intended to be about people who cannot or will not take "books written by authors of color" at face value.)

Some members have been very helpful about making the sure the mods know if there's a post about a white author that needs to be deleted. To those of you who have been doing so: thank you. The mod team isn't always watching the comm, or sometimes we're skimming and thus miss stuff. If there's a problem brewing somewhere, please, don't assume we'll see it. Let us know. There is contact info for us in the community profile.

Happy reading!

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[1] The key word there is "about." If you're writing a post about a book by an author of color, you can mention a related white-authored book within your discussion. Just make sure that the post's reason for existence is a book by an author of color.

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