Workgroup:Categories/Communications

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:

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 * 1 Feb 2010: Suggestion to create an OLPC Tuvalu category that would be subcategorised into OLPC and Tuvalu. See Category:OLPC Tuvalu.
 * 8 Dec 2009: Suggestion to categorise the new language techniques glossary. Hamish liked the idea and the category was created: Category:Language_techniques_glossary. The conversation continued as the Alliteration page didn't display in the category listing. A call for help was made to the WE google group. The page now displays (23 Jan 2010), not sure what prompted it to show.
 * 30 Oct 2009: Suggestion to recategorise MathGloss. See Category:Math glossary.
 * 27 Oct 2009: Suggestion to categorise DEHub. See Category:Distance Education Hub.

Style-related efforts
The following communications relate to wording of category name, capitalisation, use of plurals and other style related topics.

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 * 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.

Discussing categorisation
The following are discussions on other category-related topics
 * Thread:Some_comments_(1) Sort orders for user names, e.g., last name first, initiated by User:לערי_ריינהארט
 * Discussion with User:לערי_ריינהארט about new User category -- some good ideas included.