Template:Category discussions

Template:CategoryDiscussions

This is the text of the Template:CategoryDiscussions. It is intended to connect the various discussions about categories (also called 'tags') that are taking place (or have previously taken place) on various pages here on WikiIndex. If you find a discussion on categories that does not have this template, please add this template by copying the following {{CategoryDiscussions}}, and pasting at the bottom of the edit box on the required page, and then go edit this template to include it and summarise 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 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 have been working on – please feel free to help. Category talk:Browse — the talk page of the de facto 'root' category. A logical place for general category discussions to occur. Mentions language stuff. Also questions whether 'Browse' should even be a category. 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' own names for themselves. WikiIndex:FrequentlyAskedQuestions — a question asked and discussed regarding the appropriateness of having several translations of a wiki's description – the ubiquitous 'FAQ'. Category:Wiki Language and its talk page — alternate proposals have been suggested and implemented here general structure debates: Proposal:CategoryTree — offers a picture showing how categories should maybe work in general. Also summarises how various categories are actually being used currently. Category talk:Wiki Topic — what should the 'root' of the topics or subject matter of all wikis indexed here on WikiIndex. Category talk:Wiki Size — brief comment on how to determine page count of wikis, especially from the various wiki engines. More detail can be found at template:Size. dealing with geography: Category talk:Places — the former fundamental 'location cat'. Now depreciated, and 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'... See also: Regiowikis. 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 'Category:Wiki Size' sub-categories. Category talk:Wikia — discussion about the behemoth that is Category:Wikia. Category talk:Wiki Engine — discussion about Category:Wiki Engine structure. Category talk:Wiki Status — inconsistency, some editors consider it overlapping with Category:Wiki Edit Mode. You can also check all pages that link to this template.