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::: Okay, I see what you're saying. I didn't discover it and don't understand it, but I do see it. Hmm. I'm going to do an experiment. Back soon. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 16:37, 16 Feb 2006 (EST) | ::: Okay, I see what you're saying. I didn't discover it and don't understand it, but I do see it. Hmm. I'm going to do an experiment. Back soon. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 16:37, 16 Feb 2006 (EST) | ||
:: I figured out what happened. Normally categories look like this: | |||
<pre>[[Category:CATEGORYNAME]]</pre> | |||
:: and they put the page into that category, without having CATEGORYNAME show up in the page text (only in the footer). Here at WikiIndex, we decided that it was a good idea to have the category name show up on the page itself, so we started using this: | |||
<pre>[[Category:CATEGORYNAME]][[:Category:CATEGORYNAME|CATEGORYNAME]]</pre> | |||
:: which does two things. One, it puts the page in the category without showing the category on the page and Two, it shows the category name on the page without putting the page in the category. | |||
:: To simplify coding, we created [[Template:Tag]] and [[Template:Category]] which allow a simpiler syntax: | |||
<pre>{{Category:CATEGORYNAME}}</pre> | |||
:: or<pre>{{Tag:CATEGORYNAME}}</pre> | |||
:: which both do the same thing as each other and as the example immediately above. | |||
:: What you've done, Mark, is to '''link''' to the category without including the page in the category, using this: | |||
<pre>[[:Category:CATEGORYNAME|CATEGORYNAME]]</pre> | |||
:: which seems like a fine convention to use on wiki engine category pages. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 16:46, 16 Feb 2006 (EST) | |||