Thread:Great resource (1)

Hi Hamish,

What a wonderful new resource. I'm part of the team that works on MathGloss, so I recognised the purpose and structure of this resource right away. I'm so glad that you have taken the initiative to get this going.

One of the areas of WikiEducator that I've been working on is categorisation (see our project pages at Workgroup:Categories. (Some basics about categories is available at Help:Category.) Although the content infobox template has suggested a few categories (in red at the bottom of the page) I don't think these are very useful.

Rather, I think the best approach is to categorise all of the litgloss pages into their own category, maybe something like Category:English language techniques glossary (although a shorter name, but one that adequately describes the purpose of the glossary, would be better). The result will be a category page that lists all of the existing litgloss pages.

Then we can categorise the new litgloss category to be a subcategory of Category:Glossary and Category:English. (Or maybe a better parent category would be Category:English literature, which could then be made a subcategory in Category:English.) I'd also suggest categorising into Category:OERNZ Secondary school and maybe Albany high school should have have its own category to which you could add this resource.

I recategorised mathgloss recently -- see Category: Math glossary. I added the following code to Template:MathGloss (the project's navigator):

The section after the pipe is a sort key that specifies the order of the category listing. The first listing is transcluded into the math gloss pages (causing each page to be sorted according to its subpage name). The second listing categorises the template page into the category under the Greek letter tau.

So, I'm suggesting that something similar be implemented for litgloss. What do you think? I'm happy to do the categorisation, but wanted to discuss the approach first before jumping in and doing it. Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Regards, Alison