categories

Michael Shiloh michael at openmoko.org
Sat Aug 30 19:11:07 CEST 2008



Ferenc Veres wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I made several category changes. I want to make a plan and propose 
> solution, but it was so confusing, that I was unable (tried several 
> times) to map the current structure. :-/
> 
> I am continuously reading Minh's notes on
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wiki_Issues#General_issues_with_categories
> 
> too. So far resist creating another taxonomy. Maybe a bit later! I wanna 
> move Information, Openmoko and similar category's content to better 
> names. I've just killed "Help" category and created "Wiki Editing" 
> instead because 90% of Help was Wiki Editing help, but some OTHER help 
> too (e.g. FAQ). Help is another too general name what editors would keep 
> on picking.


First of all, thanks for taking on this beast. It is one of the sorryest 
parts of our sorry wiki.

I completely agree - the help category is pointless.
> 
> My big question:
> 
> Is there any way to replace
> 
> "Category" link in the category box?

I like the idea but I don't know how to do it.

> 
> Instead this - now useless - language flooded - unorganized - list:
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Categories

Speaking of languages, is it possible to separate out the other 
languages? Is this wise?
> 
> I would really love to point it to:
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Categories
> 
> This was existing, it had almost the same "top level categories", I am 
> just adjusting it a bit, and I feel it really EASY to navigate based on 
> this. (Unless you click the huge list sometime. :-) )
> 
> Also easy to peek into other language's category or peek back to English 
> category to see if there are more in that language in the current 
> category! That's a big thanks to Dolfje for the category languages. I 
> expanded it a bit more, because some "/xx" were still in English categories.
> 
> I hope I didn't change anything I should not! :-p
> 
> I also read parts of the Wikipedia categories guide, and I found that 
> "Linux Expo 2008" in Community and Community/Event should not be in 
> Community, just in the subcategory. So I moved a lot of events this way!
> 
> Ferenc
> 
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