Workgroup to develop and organise categories
A workgroup convened to determine the best methods with which WikiEducator may categorise its content
The following is a listing of communications occurring outside of the categories workgoup pages related to the categories project, with info about follow-up and issues.
Encouraging categorisation
Helping wikieducators understand categories is a primary goal of the categories workgroup. In addition to general promotion of categorisation, we are encouraging categorisation at the project level, that is, creating a category for a project to which all project-related pages are added and categorising the project category rather than the main pages. The following communications are relevant:
In progress
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Create a category to collect all pages related to Trisha's Antarctica journey
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Alison Snieckus, 12 Dec 2009 |
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- Reason: Promote use of subcategories to collect all pages; subcategories are categorised/rather than main pages
- Suggestion made on talk page
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Create categories to organize growing Shakespeare resources...categorise by title?
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Alison Snieckus, 11 Dec 2009 |
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in progress
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- Reason: Promote use of subcategories to collect all pages; subcategories are categorised/rather than main pages
- Suggestion made on talk page
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Create category for Math_Tables_and_Formulas to collect all relevant pages; categorise subcategory into relevant categories rather than main page
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Alison Snieckus, 21 Nov 2009 |
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in progress
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- Reason: Promote use of subcategories to collect all pages; subcategories are categorised/rather than main pages
- Suggestion made on talk page
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Complete
Style-related efforts
The following communications relate to wording of category name, capitalisation, use of plurals and other style related topics.
In progress
Complete
- 28 Jan 2010: Suggestion to rename the Country category, if the desire is to create a listing of non-English speaking countries. Category:Countries is preferred as listing of all active countries on WikiEducator. Phil (who created Category:Country) agreed by personal email that only one broad category for listing countries is needed. As of 8 Mar 2010, all of the pages from Category:Country have been moved to Category:Countries and Category:Country has been deleted. We can see going forward what kinds of subset listings are useful.
Collecting thoughts on category structure
In progress
Complete
Discussing categorisation
The following are discussions on other category-related topics
