Help:Using Categories: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 00:21, 10 February 2017

What are Categories?

Categories form the topic or subject tagging system in use on the P2P Foundation Wiki. At the bottom of most pages on this wiki you will see a shaded box that looks like this:

Category: Peer Production | Peer Governance

Peer Production and Peer Governance are two of the categories applied to articles on the site. The category name at the bottom of the page links to the category page, where you can see a list of all articles in that category.

How to Use Categories

You can place your article in a category the same way by adding one or more Category tags to your article. Below are two category tags. Put category tags (anywhere) on a page, and the page will show the category at the bottom, and is listed on the relevant Category page.

For more than one category, simply repeat the same pattern.

[[Category:Peer Production]]
[[Category:Peer Governance]]

Which Category to Choose

Each page should have at least one category, and as many as are useful.
Do not create new categories unless there is a very good reason for this. Consult other contributors first!
For in depth information visit the P2P Foundation Wiki Taxonomy page
All pages should be placed into one of the listed subcategories below. You can use more than one!

If you find other categories later, you can add those, too.

Category P2P Infrastructures not found

P2P Paradigms

Commons

Open

Are you adding media?

You can also choose a "Multimedia" Category from the list below:

P2P Multimedia Directory

Films

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-==Facts About Categories and Subcategories==
+==What are Categories?==
+Categories form the topic or subject tagging system in use on the P2P Foundation Wiki.
+At the bottom of most pages on this wiki you will see a shaded box that looks like this:
+{| cellspacing=3 width="100%"
+|-
+|style="border: 1px solid #666;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em; background: #eeeeee;"| Category: Peer Production <nowiki>|</nowiki> Peer Governance
+|}
+Peer Production and Peer Governance are two of the categories applied to articles on the site.
+The category name at the bottom of the page links to the category page, where you can see a list of all articles in that category.
-* Fact: Subcategories show up on on [[Special:Categories]] page in the flat list of all categories.
+==How to Use Categories==
-* Fact: Subcategories get their own special spot on other category pages.
+You can place your article in a category the same way by adding one or more Category tags to your article.
-* Fact: Subcategories are not 'double listed' on category pages.  There are just pages named the same thing.  And they should probably be merged into the category page.
+Below are two category tags.
+Put category tags (anywhere) on a page, and the page will show the category at the bottom,
+and is listed on the relevant Category page.
-===Categories - Usability===
+For more than one category, simply repeat the same pattern.
-* When editing a page the usr is presented with no instructions for using categories.
+<pre>[[Category:Peer Production]]
-*It is unlikely that users will figure out how to use Categories on their own.
+[[Category:Peer Governance]]</pre>
-*One on the one hand users won't add a lot of new, potentially dead-end categories.  On the other hand, their information may fit well into a category and have to wait until a knowledgeable editor places it into one.
-===How do we know what visitors want, and what they need?===
+==Which Category to Choose==
+* Each page should have at least one category, and as many as are useful.
+* Do not create new categories unless there is a very good reason for this. Consult other contributors first!
+* For in depth information visit the [[P2P Foundation Wiki Taxonomy]] page
+* All pages should be placed into one of the listed subcategories below.  You can use more than one!
-* Look at the analytics
+If you find other categories later, you can add those, too.
-** Improve the analytics
+<categorytree mode=categories>P2P Domains</categorytree>
-* Listen to feedback
+<categorytree mode=categories>P2P Infrastructures</categorytree>
-* Empower users to fix it themselves
+<categorytree mode=categories>P2P Paradigms</categorytree>
-* Offer encouragement and dialogue wherever possible
+====Are you adding media?====
+You can also choose a "Multimedia" Category from the list below:
+<categorytree mode=categories>P2P Multimedia Directory</categorytree>
-[[Category:P2P Foundation Wiki Administration]]
+[[Category:P2P Foundation Wiki How-To]]