Help:Categories
Categories are used to group pages with similar content, thereby making it easier to connect the information gathered in the wiki. The Categories links shown at the bottom of the page.
For example at the bottom of this page you'll see a link that says Category:Help. If you click on that, you'll get a list of all Help pages available on our wiki.
- Each page and each image should be labelled with at least one subcategory or one overall category.
- See Categories Overview for an Overview ans structure of the Categories used on this wiki.
- You can find a list of special pages that will help us achieve that goal on the Helping out section of the Community Portal.
- Note, That many of the Templates used in the wiki automatically tag a page with the appropriate category.
Adding to Categories
To add an article to a category simply put the following at the end of the page you are editing...
[[Category:{Name}]]
where {Name} is the name of the category you want to add it to.(see Categories Overview for a list of existing categories). Any number of category tags may be added to the page - the page will be listed in all of them.
Advanced Options
Additional You can specify a {Sort} parameter that dictates where the page will appear, alphabetically, within the category. This is achieved by using the following markup:
[[Category:{Name}|{Sort}]]
So for example, to add this page to the 'Help' category, you would use:
[[Category:Help|Categories]]
Note that we used 'Categories' as the sort parameter. Without this the page would be listed under 'H' for 'Help:Categories', instead of under 'C', which is more useful. Other situations where you might want to use the sort parameter is when you have articles about people that are titled as FirstName LastName but within the category you want them listed as LastName, FirstName.
Another way to sort the article in the correct letter without the namespace is
[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]
This is extremly helpful when using templates which include a category tag.
Note: the {sort} parameter does not affect how the page title is displayed within the category listing, just how it is ordered. In the above example, the link to this page will still be 'Help:Categories', and not 'Categories' as you might expect!