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To me a better idea is just using a well-structured taxonomy (not freetagging, but perhaps voting/rating on ideas for new terms) and allowing modules to be tagged with as many terms as applicable.

Then have a specific “looking for modules” forum where visitors can come, describe their use case and get advice as to what *terms* apply as well as specific module tips.

This could of course supplement the “this belongs in only one place” idea for more structured navigation, I jus think that’s less useful for a domain where the edges aren’t clear.

Now I think it can be done. It is *very* challenging. You should have some neat top-level vocabulary names when you’re done.

Some items are missing though – f.e. generic ones like “Theming”, “Administration”, “Help”, “Community”, “Blog”, as well as some of the other terms that were mentioned in the other blog post comments.

I’d much rather sort some modules, but I wasn’t able to come up with a way to do that given that there are *so* many modules (how would you choose a sub-set? I couldn’t come up with a logical approach, although I guess we could sort the first few dozen most used modules?).

The other problem is that evaluating *what* a module actually does is tricky – you certainly can’t do it from the title only in many cases (even some of the most important modules, like, say CCK), and even with all of the information supplied with a module it can still be difficult.

So, yes, it’s not a perfect approach and theoretically sorting modules would make much more sense. I don’t know how useful this exercise will prove to be – we’re just looking for patterns and seeing if anything interesting emerges.

thanks for your feedback :)