How to use categories
This wiki is using a very flexible but simple categorizing system to keep everything properly organized.1. Adding a page to an existing category
To add a page to an existing category simply add a link to the relevant category page. For example, to mark page MyPage as a child of category MyCategory, just add a link to MyCategory from MyPage. This will automatically add MyPage to the list of pages belonging to that category. Category links are put by convention at the end of the page, but the position of these links does not affect their behavior.2. Adding a subcategory to an existing category
To create a hierarchy of categories, you can follow the same instructions to add pages to categories. For example, to mark category Category2 as a child (or subcategory) of another category Category1, just add a link to Category1 in Category2. This will automatically add Category2 to the list of Category1's children.3. Creating new categories
To start a new category just create a page containing {{category}}. This will mark the page as a special category page and will output a list of pages belonging to the category. Category page names start by convention with the word Category but you can also create categories without following this convention. To add a new category to the master list of categories just add a link from it to CategoryCategory.4. Browsing categories
To browse the categories available on your wiki you can start from CategoryCategory. If all pages and subcategories are properly linked as described above, you will be able to browse the whole hierarchy of categories starting from this page.CategoryWiki
Thanks!
I edited this page somewhat to make teh difference between using and creating categories clearer - does this help?
Perhaps we should remove that sentence (at least from the page automatically created in a new wiki).
Impressive, 8 times the word "category"... :-)
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This _is_ a wiki though - feel free to come up with a better formulation and edit the page!
And yes, every user can edit this page ... :)
Do you know how the default install says: "The master list of the categories is Category Category...............and should never be edited. This list is easily accessed from the Wiki's top navigation bar. (Categories)."
Well it's been edited and now it's not showing categories...any ideas?
Every page (while editing) should have a text input to type in tags, the way you post a url to delicio.us.
flat tags and categories are really two different approaches (or different cognitive styles, if you prefer) to organize content in a wiki. I personally like very much the idea of tagging and would like to implement something along these lines in the future. For a preliminary discussion on tags and beta implementation take a look at these pages:
http://wikkawiki.org/WikkaFolksonomy
http://www.zylstra.org/extra/wikka.php?wakka=WikiTags
This can be quite tiresome, when you are using plain page names as categories. Anyhow, parsing the whole page, without exceptions like text between e.g. ""[["" and ""]]"", cannot be the whole story.
I think this is a wonderfully flexible and powerful system for page categorisation and would hate to see it change too much.