Template:Category discussions: Difference between revisions

This is the text of the '''Template:CategoryDiscussions'''.  It is intended to connect the various discussions about [[Special:Categories|categories]] (also called "[[WikiIndex:How do categories work|tags]]") that are taking place on various pages here on [[WikiIndex]].  If you find a discussion on categories that doesn't have this template, please add the template by typing in '''<code>{{template|CategoryDiscussions}}</code>''', at the bottom of the page, and then go edit the [[Template:CategoryDiscussions|template]] to include it and summarize the discussion you found.  The following discussions have taken, or are taking place:

 

*[[WikiIndex:How do categories work]] – tries to explain to new editors how our [[Special:Categories|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 "[[:Category:Browse|Browse]]" should even be a category.

**[[WikiIndex talk:Community talk#Category:Wiki Language?|Discussion of language categories at Community talk]] – De Facto Policy?:  A suggestion that the [[:Category:Wiki English|English]] name for a [[:Category:Wiki Language|language]] should have the language's own name for itself as a subcategory.

**[[Proposal:Authentic language categories]] – how to deal with non-[[:Category:English|English]] [[:Category:Language|languages']] 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]] and its [[Category talk:Wiki Language|talk page]] – alternate proposals have been suggested and implemented here

**[[Proposal:CategoryTree]] – offers a picture showing how categories should maybe work in general.  Also summarizes how various categories are actually being used currently.

**[[Category talk:Wiki Topic]] – what should the "root of the topics of wikis" cat be named?

**[[Category talk:Wiki Size]] – brief comment on how to determine page count of wikis.  More detail can be found at [[template:Size]].

**[[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).

**[[User talk:TedErnst]] – discussion about the resolution to use for "[[:Category:Wiki Size]]" subcats.

**[[Category talk:Wikia]] – discussion about [[:Category:Wikia]].

**[[Category talk:Wiki Engine]] – discussion about [[:Category:Wiki Engine]] structure.

**[[Category talk:Wiki Status]] - Inconsistency, overlapping with [[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode]]