Wikiversity:Categories
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Categories on Wikiversity help group related content together. Wikiversity editors can create new categories to unite departments and projects as needed. The string Category: precedes all category pages on Wikiversity. These itemize all the pages which belong to the category on one page. The page is editable and allows editors to write descriptions about the category, and even categorize the category, which allows for efficient navigation between categories.
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[edit] How to put pages into specific categories
A page can be put into a category by adding the category markup to the page (by convention, at the end of the page), e.g.:
[[Category:Category name]]
This will add the page into a list of all other pages with the same category applied to them, as well as provide a link at the bottom of the page to the appropriate category page. Pages can be included in more than one category by adding multiple category tags. To see a list of all the currently available categories in any MediaWiki see the page, Special:Categories.
[edit] Wikiversity maintenance
Categories at Wikiversity are nearly always in need of cleanup and maintenance. To get an idea of how many categories we had when this Category:Wikiversity maintenance project began, take a look at Wikiversity:Categories/2007/Week20, which is basically an alphabetical flat list of all the categories followed by the number of members in each one.
We hope to use this page and its subpages to improve categorization at Wikiversity in a continuous way.
2007: last week | this week | next week
[edit] Category cleanup
The Wikiversity category cleanup taskforce is expecting some pretty slow progress. The dynamic navbar above uses a
{{#expr:({{CURRENTWEEK}}-1)}} | {{CURRENTWEEK}} | {{#expr:({{CURRENTWEEK}}+1)}}
scheme to make sure we stay active with at least some weekly activity. You can join in or follow along with our progress.
Steps:
- Wikiversity:Categories/2007/Week20 - Looking at the flat list made from Special:Categories (64 kilobytes long - ugh!)
- Wikiversity:Categories/2007/Week21 - Evaluating the Category:Categories top-level category and looking at MediaWiki's built-in category maintenance pages.
- Wikiversity:Categories/2007/Week22 - Maybe this week, we'll look at Wikiversity:Naming conventions or something
