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==How unrooted categories are actually being used== | |||
At the top of this page we have a graphical vision of how categories should maybe work but if we're looking to transition in that direction it would help to know where we are. Personally [[User:JenniferForUnity]] thinks that [[Special:Uncategorizedcategories|uncategorized catagories]] in a well tended wiki should either have a '''single''' ''official root category'' or else a handful of ''categories for radically different concepts and ways of approaching a wiki''. Anything not in that scheme is probably some newbie's attempt to categorize their page and a cry for editing. It means someone with "category wisdom" should fix it and drop a note on the newbie's talk page explaining what they did and why. | |||
So in October of 2006 uncategorized categories had the following content (lumped by "how they were being used")... | |||
===Vanity Categories (probably too specific and need more general cats)=== | |||
''These categories should probably be deleted and the pages they contain probably need to be edited into better categories.'' | |||
*Category:Backpacking (contains [http://wikiindex.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD0%E5%85%AC%E9%87%8C something chinese]) | |||
*Category:Cheat Codes (contains [[Cheat Code Wiki]]) | |||
*Category:Cluster Headache - Clusterkopfschmerz (contains [[Clusterkopfschmerz: CK-Wissen]]) | |||
*Category:Karl May World (contains [[Karl May Indonesia Wiki]]) | |||
*Category:NotAWiki (contains [[BiggestWiki]] and [[PurposelessWiki]] and comments questioning it's very exitence) | |||
*Category:WikiManuals (this is empty) | |||
=== Proper categories (that are improperly unrooted or unexplained)=== | |||
''These categories need some kind of attention by people who know what's going on with them.'' | |||
* Possibly instances of people using categories when they should be using a watchlist? They should at least be edited so that Cristi and Sorin's use of them is explained and there should probabluy also be a link in that explanation to their talk pages for questions about it. | |||
** Category:CristiWork (42 articles with no obvious theme) | |||
** Category:SorinWork (50 articles with no obvious theme (and a question asking "Sorin" what this is for)) | |||
*Category:Justice (two related categories ("Peace" and "International development") and 3 articles... this should probably be a subcat of politics along with it's related categories) | |||
*Category:Literature (has 8 articles and no subcats) | |||
*Category:YourWikiSize (this has something to do with a template project)) | |||
=== Something fundamental in active use or development === | |||
''Needs some attention and a description of what's even going on here before changes are made.'' | |||
*Category:Browse (Browse is it's own little disaster of untended and unplanned categorization. Someone should sit down and give [http://wikiindex.com/Category:Browse Category:Browse] a similar treatment as uncategorized categories just recieved in this section. | |||
==How the "Browse" category and it's branches are actually being used== | |||
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