Contributing to the PTR

Once monloader keeps a copy of the Hydrus Public Tag Repository (PTR) and you have a PTR account, monbooru lets you give back: add tags your images have that the PTR lacks, and ask for wrong ones to be removed. Volunteers there (janitors) review what needs a second look.

Everything goes through monloader. You need its PTR copy fully synced, and a contribution account created on monloader’s PTR page.

From an image#

An image’s page has a Public Tag Repository panel under the tag box. It says how many of the image’s tags the PTR doesn’t have yet, and how many tags the PTR has that your image doesn’t. Pull tags brings the second kind in; Contribute… sends the first kind out.

The contribute dialog has two lists:

• add: tags the PTR doesn’t have for this file yet. Some go up under the PTR’s own spelling (an artist: tag is a creator: tag there), and the row says so. A row marked “not a PTR tag” would create a brand new tag on the PTR, so check first that the PTR doesn’t already know it under another name.
• ask to remove: tags the PTR has for this file that your image doesn’t. Your image lacking a tag doesn’t make it wrong, so only tick one that is actually wrong for the picture, and give a reason.

Added tags apply right away. Petitions go to the janitors with your reason, and can’t be taken back once sent.

From a tag#

A tag’s own page has the same panel, for its aliases and implications instead of its images.

The PTR may know your tag under another name: you called a character samus_aran_(metroid), the PTR files her as character:samus aran. If one of your aliases matches, the panel uses that name automatically. If none does, [look up as…] lets you pick the PTR’s spelling from a list of names close to yours, and shows what a pull would bring. You can then keep your own spelling and add the PTR’s as aliases, or switch your images over to the PTR’s name and keep yours as the alias. Either way, the two are linked from then on.

Its Contribute… dialog works like the image one: suggest sends aliases and implications you declared that the PTR doesn’t have, and ask to remove asks for wrong ones to go. Both need a short reason for the janitors. The dialog only sends what your own tags declare, so set things up in monbooru first, then contribute.

Afterwards#

monloader keeps the history of everything you sent: what was applied, what a janitor approved or turned down, what’s still waiting. Open its PTR page to see it; each row links back to the image or tag. Tags you added can be taken back from there. Suggestions and petitions can’t, which is why the dialogs ask before sending.