Thread:Categorisation for DEHub (3)

Hi Alan,

Glad you are interested.

To add a page to a category, you enter the category tag, e.g., to the bottom of the wikitext on the page. If you look at the bottom of the edit version of your userpage, you'll see the code that adds your userpage to Category:Australia. I looked at the history of your userpage and noticed that Wikirandy added the tag.

What I'm proposing is for you to create a new category that would list all of the pages that you've created in DEHub. My inclination would be to spell out the name (see the example code above), so when other people see it in a listing, they'll know what the DE stands for. One way to put all of the DEHub pages into this new category is to put the category tag on the Template:Dehub_nav page. Just add the category tag code at the bottom of the template page -- this will transclude the category tag onto all of the pages that include the template. If there are any pages that don't include the navigator, you can add those pages to the category by adding the category tag, directly.

After the category is added to the page it will display as red, because the page doesn't really exist yet. Click the red category link and it will take you to the edit page for this category. You'll notice that all of your DEHub pages are listed--a rather handy listing of everything. It's a good idea to add some explanation to the category in the edit window (it displays at the top) about what kinds of things would be listed here. It is here that you should add the category tag,, to make the new 'DEHub' category a sub-category of the distance education category. Your 'DEHub' category will now list as a sub-category on the Category:Distance Education page.

And you can add the 'DEHub' category as a sub-category of anything else that seems relevant, e.g., Category:Australia. Just add that category tag to your 'DEHub' category.

For more details on adding pages to categories see:
 * Help:Category
 * the Using categories in the WE tutorial

Thanks so much for your interest in trying this out. The categories workgroup is at the beginning stages of organizing categories and one of the efforts we are working on is how to help authors make sensible category connections. Hope this helps.