WikiIndex:Categories

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• WikiIndex:How do categories work - tries to explain to new editors how our category system works. (Or at least, how we hope it will someday work, once we finish the tasks in the below WikiProjects).
• WikiProject:Categories and Tags - lists some category-related projects we've been working on (feel free to help).
• Category talk:Browse - The talk page of the de facto root category. A logical place for category discussions to occur. Mentions language stuff. Also questions whether "Browse" should even be a category.
• WikiIndex:Categories - According to the wiki's de facto root category (Browse), this is where category discussion takes place. It is currently empty.
• Language Issues:
  • Discussion of language categories at Community talk - De Facto Policy?: A suggestion that the English name for a language should have the language's own name for itself as a subcategory.
  • Proposal:Authentic language categories - How to deal with non-English languages's own names for themselves.
  • WikiIndex:FrequentlyAskedQuestions - A question asked and discussed regarding the appropriateness of having several translations of a wiki's description
  • Category:Wiki Language & its talk page - Alternate proposals have been suggested and implemented here
• General Structure Debates:
  • Proposal:CategoryTree - Offers a pic showing how categories should maybe work in general. Also summarizes how various categories are actually being used currently.
  • Proposal:New categories production - A theory of "how to organize categories organically".
  • Category talk:Blog - Should variants of the same word be "collapsed" or not? Brought up by existence of cats for Weblog, Weblogs, Blog, Blogs, and Blogging.
  • Category talk:Wiki Topic - What should the "root of the topics of wikis" cat be named?
• Dealing With Geography:
  • Category talk:Places - The former fundamental "location cat". Now being edited out of existence.
  • Category talk:Wiki Location - The new location root category. Discussion general geography schemes here.
  • Category talk:Cities - One scheme: A category "just for city wikis"...
  • Category talk:Earth - How to structure a "tree of locations" (discussion at the root of the tree).
• Specific Categories:
  • User talk:TedErnst - Discussion about the resolution to use for "Wiki Size" subcats.

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