Category:Wiki lists: Difference between revisions

'''Category:Wiki Lists''' — the 'root category' of this {{tag|WikiIndex}} wiki is [[:category: Browse]].  This '''Wiki Lists''' [[Special:Categories|category]] is a direct child, or sub-[[category]] of {{tag|Browse}}, and it contains <u>different ways of {{tag|Lists|listing}} wikis</u>.  If and when this category is cleaned up, it will only contain [[categories]] that explain a system for [[:Category:All|listing wikis]] (these should probably in turn contain categories that are actually applied to [[WhatIsWiki|wikis]].

Here are first tier, primary sub-categories that are correctly placed here:

*'''[[:Category: All]]''' — the least picky category of all; every single wiki site [[article]] that is listed here on [[WikiIndex]];

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Age]]''' — this contains categories for the founding date of individual wiki, like '[[:category: FoundedIn1995]]', and so on;

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Edit Mode]]''' — this contains categories describing who is allowed to edit the wiki, and under what circumstances and /or limitations;

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Engine]]''' — wikis run on wiki software, known as a 'wiki engine'; and there are many different types of wiki software, this is for categorizing them that way;

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Language]]''' — this contains categories describing the primary language in which the wiki content is <u>written</u> in (and not its subject matter);

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Status]]''' — this contains labels for "how the wiki's community is fairing";

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Topic]]''' — wikis have ''content'', remember? – what topic(s) or subject matter does the content fall under? – (this category has hundreds of sub-categories that probably need to be turned into their own tree.);

*'''[[:Category: Wiki License]]''' — lists the specific license or licenses under which the content of the wiki is released for re-use (if any);

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Location]]''' — categories for describing a wiki's connection to geographic places;

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Size]]''' — how many article pages does the wiki site have? – categories right up to those wikis with a million pages or more;

*'''[[:Category: wikiFactor]]''' — describes the impact or importance of a wiki, based on an established scientific formula;

*'''[[:Category: Wiki Backups]]''' — lists those wiki sites which have been 'backed up', with the URL of said backup file;

*'''[[:Category: Wiki People]]''' — wikis are nothing without the people who [[edit]] them; it is real people who create new articles, edit existing articles, verify and fact-check citations, and generally keep wikis alive; view articles of important people in the [[Wikisphere|wiki world]].

;''For editing, and further action by the WikiIndex community:''

*'''[[:Category: Unknown]]''' — wikis are included in this (or its sub-categories) when their article page needs to be added to particular kinds of Unknown categories (or sub-categories) in the above Browsing categories;

*'''[[:Category: Wikis to add]]''' — for wiki sites that have a 'skeleton' article page here at WikiIndex, but need the [[Template:Wiki|Wiki infobox template]] added, or have the infobox template, but all of the required information has not been filled in yet.  Create pages with nothing but the URL for a wiki... and add <code>{{Template|add}}</code>, or use the [[Form:Wiki|new wiki form]] (also found on our [[WikiIndex:Community portal|community portal]]) so that the wiki's page will show up here.

[[WikiProject:Wikis to Add]] lists a large collection of raw URLs for known wiki sites.  Please help us move each one to its own article page here using [[WikiIndex:Add a Wiki|Add it to WikiIndex!]].  That should automatically put the wiki in the [[:Category:All|'All' category]].  Thank you.