MediaWiki talk:Category
2004, soon after MediaWiki introduced categories[takatā pūtake]
Now (11 August 2004) moving into here most of what was on the "Message" page:
(I'll be perfectly happy if anyone really wants to organise categories; but adding significant Maori language content can be done without using the new category software.)
Here, as a starter for ideas on categories, which can be created as simple lists or articles, is the Table of Contents from the Simple English page:
1 Biography
1.1 Musicians
1.2 Explorers
1.3 Inventors and scientists
1.4 Writers and thinkers
1.5 Political persons
1.6 Modern international politicans & leaders
1.7 Others
2 Literature
3 Countries:
4 Domestics
4.1 Beverage
5 Geography
5.1 Other regions
5.2 Other
5.3 Cities
6 History
7 Politics
8 Human issues
9 International
10 Religion
11 Popular Culture
12 Science
13 Language
14 Architecture
15 Mathematics
16 Anatomy
17 Sport
18 Technology
19 Disasters
20 Colors
Progress? This looks as if it will become an important page! - Robin
I wonder whether 20 is too many top-level categories. Here are a couple of lists from web directories (and I will add some at User:Robin Patterson/cats):
- Entertainment
- Work & Money
- Shopping
- Computing
- Connecting
- Sport
- Lifestyle & Auto
- Travel
- Library
- Personal
- Entertainment
- Work & Money
- Computing
- Shopping
- People & Chat
- Sports
- Lifestyle
- Travel
- Library
- Personal
- Arts:
- Movies, Television, Music...
- Business:
- Jobs, Real Estate, Investing...
- Computers:
- Internet, Software, Hardware...
- Games:
- Video Games, RPGs, Gambling...
- Health:
- Fitness, Medicine, Alternative...
- Home:
- Family, Consumers, Cooking...
- Kids and Teens:
- Arts, School Time, Teen Life...
- News:
- Media, Newspapers, Weather...
- Recreation:
- Travel, Food, Outdoors, Humor...
- Reference:
- Maps, Education, Libraries...
- Regional:
- US, Canada, UK, Europe...
- Science:
- Biology, Psychology, Physics...
- Shopping:
- Autos, Clothing, Gifts...
- Society:
- People, Religion, Issues...
- Sports:
- Baseball, Soccer, Basketball...
Robin Patterson 20:12, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC) and added some colons later Robin Patterson 22:38, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Progress by June 2006[takatā pūtake]
Now that we have a really active qualified speaker of Te Reo, who has taken an interest in categories (along with other major projects), there has been useful discussion about high-level categories and principles. I think it's time to start a devoted page: project:Wāhanga.
Tirohia hoki[takatā pūtake]
- http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization
- LookSmart's directory - a lot of time was put into constructing the Zeal list (which was copied to LookSmart every couple of weeks), by unpaid volunteers and trained ontologists, so we may as well learn all we can from it.