What Wiki Categories Are

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What Wiki Categories Are (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the lesson part of Wiki Editing Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to wiki edit concepts. This lesson belongs to the CNMCT Entrance section of the CNM Cyber Placement.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Management of Wikipages.

Script

At CNM Wiki, a wiki category is the metadata that can group various wikipages; links to all the pages that belong to one category can be found at the category page. Category pages belong to special pages. Both category tags and category pages are user features of CNM Wikiware; these features allow end-users to index wikipages and access them via those indeces.

Wiki categories can also be defined as groupings of those wikipages that are indexed similarly.

For instance, the What Wiki Categories Are wikipage belongs to the Lectio Contents category. This metadata can be found at the bottom of the wikipage. If you click on that category, you would see all the pages that belong to that category.

To index any page, you can simply add the [[Category:Category name]] script to the page's wikitext. To be consistent, the end of this text is conventionally the most convenient place for that script.

One category may serve as a subcategory of another category. For instance, Category:Welcome Session, Category:Career Orientation, Category:CNMC Core Orientation, and Category:CNMC Team Entrance are subcategories of Category:CNMCT Onboarding.

A new category can be created before assigning any page to it, in the same way as any other regular page.

Individual wikis may have their own top-level categories, such as Category:Contents in Wikipedia.

For a complete list of all categories which have at least one page, see Special:Categories.

For a complete list of all created/edited categories, including the ones that don't have any pages, see Special:Allpages/Category: (note the colon at the end). Adding a page to a category

To add a page or uploaded file to a category, simply edit the page and add the following text (where Name is the name of the category you want to add it to).

Any number of Category tags may be added to the page and the page will be listed in all of them. Category tags, along with interwiki language links placed in the sidebar, are usually added at the very bottom of the page for the convenience of other editors.

On a categorized page, categories are displayed in the Categories: box strictly in the order they appear in the wikitext.

If $wgUseCategoryBrowser is set to true, under the first list each category is listed again, breadcrumb-style, with all its parent categories, sorted alphabetically. (At least in MediaWiki 1.18.2) if a category is a subcategory of more than one parent, both hierarchies will be listed, but the tagged category will be stripped off all but one of these. This creates the potential for what appear to be duplicate entries if a category with multiple parents and one of its parents are both tagged on a page. For example suppose Maryanne is a subcategory of both Mary and Anne. If a page tags categories Maryanne and Anne then the Category breadcrumbs will show

Anne Anne Mary -> Maryanne

"Anne" appears to be duplicated, but what is meant is

Anne Anne -> Maryanne Mary -> Maryanne

This is a bug, and has been reported in phab:T35614.

Category:Product Epics, Category:Lectio Contents, Category:Lesson Plans, Category:Course Syllabi, Category:Program Curricula, , Category:Management, Category:Project Management, Category:Reference Publications, Category:References (to work on)

Key terms

Wiki category, Category:Product Epics, Category:Lectio Contents, Category:Lesson Plans, Category:Course Syllabi, Category:Program Curricula, Category:Welcome Session, Category:Career Orientation, Category:CNMC Core Orientation, Category:CNMC Team Entrance, Category:Management, Category:Project Management, Category:Reference Publications, Category:References (to work on)

Closing

The successor lectio is Discussions at Wiki.