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==Proposal 6.13.06 Category tree== | |||
This is already close to what we have, but I propose that we make it clearer and then adjust the navigation on the main page to work this way. The main issue is that our "Major [[Special:Categories|Categories]]" are really normal [[categories]] also, so we'll need to adjust the categories in quite a few articles to make this happen. | |||
[[File:WI Category Tree.jpg|alt=]] | |||
[[ | ==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. | |||
[[category:Proposals]] | 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 [[China 0km]] | |||
*[[:Category: Cheat Codes]] — contains [[Cheat Code Wiki]] -- contains five wikis now | |||
*<s>Category: Cluster Headache</s> — Clusterkopfschmerz; contains [[Clusterkopfschmerz: CK-Wissen]] | |||
*<s>Category: Karl May World</s> — contains [[Karl May Indonesia Wiki]] | |||
*[[:Category: Not a wiki]] — contains BiggestWiki and <s>PurposelessWiki</s> and comments questioning it's very exitence; over forty listings as of April 2013 | |||
*<s>Category: WikiManuals</s> — 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.'' | |||
*[[: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 | |||
*<s>Category: YourWikiSize</s> — 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 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== | |||
[[:Category: Browse]] is currently our root. We'd love to have help fixing it if there's a better way to do it! Thanks. :-) [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 17:48, 16 October 2006 (EDT) | |||
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[[Category:Proposals|Category Tree]] | |||
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