Site:Categorization
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For detailed technical information on how to use categories, see Wikipedia's Help:Category.
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Approaches to Category Navigation
Categories are utilized in two ways by users of the WingetWiki site in order to find articles of interest and relavence. These approaches have to be considered when formulating and expanding the hierarchy of categories.
Top-Down Approach
A user can browse the top-level of the categories hierarchy via the Category:Contents page. The user then drills-down towards categories of increasing specificity by clicking the links within the subcategory section of the category page. This way the user can navigate towards articles of relavence.
Bottom-Up Approach
A user may have already found an article of relavence and wishes to find similar or a broader range of articles. The user can click on a category link at the bottom of the page to find articles within the same category. Following a similar link at the bottom of a category page will allow you to view the parent category in order to located more broadly categorized articles.
How to categorise an article
- See also: Site:Page names
Categorizing an article is simply performed by editing it, and including one or more category declarations. For instance, to add the Caleb Wingate (1744-1817) article to the "Wingate Surname" category, you would edit the article and enter [[Category:Wingate Surname]] at the bottom. The appeal of categories is that they update themselves automatically, and you don't have to edit the category to add an article to it.
When adding an article to a category, or creating categories, one should be careful to use the correct categories and subcategories. Horizontal categorization (below), refers to placing an article in the correct category while vertical categorisation refers to placing an article in the correct subcategory.
When assigning an article into categories, try to be thorough in a "horizontal" sense. You might need to poke around the category hierarchy a bit to find the right place. Try searching for articles similar to the article you are categorizing to get ideas or to find the most appropriate place.
In the "vertical" dimension, placing articles only in the most specific categories they reasonably fit in. Thus, if an article relates to a person who died in 1817 then it could be categorized under Category:1817 deaths but not Category:Dead people since Category:1817 deaths is a subcategory of Category:Dead people. It is expected that the user should be able navigate the categories hierarchy to find related articles using one of the above approaches.
