Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/Current subprojects
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Note: This page is not very active. See below for links to the active pages in this WikiProject. For current information about categorization, see: Wikipedia:Categorization.
Current projects
The main project is Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories. Its sub-projects are listed below. Volunteers to these projects are very welcome.
Categorization policy
- Wikipedia talk:Categorization is where categorization policy is discussed
- Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion is for discussions related to policy about deleting, splitting or merging categories.
Finding uncategorized articles
- Category:Uncategorized pages
- Wikipedia talk:Special:Uncategorizedpages.
- Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/No other categories
- Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized
Cleaning the category system
- Wikipedia:Category deletion policylists the rules, in particular the case of a category corresponding to a template.
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletioncovers important related deletion templates.
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion list categories that need renaming, merging or deleting.
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
- Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention lists specific categories that need organizing.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories is a coordination point for systematic cleanup and standards.
Table of Contents schemes
There are various attempts to create a "Table of Contents" for Wikipedia. "Top-level" categories of this type are themselves added to
Wikipedia:Category schemes
. The pages and categories listed generally require updating, organizing, and consolidation.
Cross-referencing projects
- Category:Years - A chronological cross-referencing project
- Category:Sources - Aims to organize information about reference sources. Spawned from Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards#Source_category
Content-specific guidelines
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life - Organisms by species
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Categories
- Category talk:Academic institutions for guidelines on colleges and universities
Useful Tools
Organizing it all
- WP:CBTF
Please report new category-related bugs on bugzilla and list them below.
(Bugs higher than 1775 have not been checked)
Redirects
- Categories need piping feature to list by alternative name (to show redirects next to the articles they redirect to in categories, when appropriate)
- Problem categorizing redirects
Special:Categories
- Link to Special:Categories should be customisable
- Special:Categories should be paged by letter, like Special:Allpages
Large categories
- Dealing with large categories
- On paged categories, article totals and subcat totals are incorrect
- Subcategory paging is not separate from article paging
- Table of contents for Categories
Updating problems
General
- Add anchor tags to the headers used on category pages
- Characters in category names
- uncategorized pages report speedup hack
- Categories need to be structured by namespace
- Ability to filter user contributions by time (e.g. "January 2003") or category
- syntax to transclude a page without the containing page inheriting categories, interlanguage links
- Category page listings have unbalanced columns
- automatic edit summary for categorizing pages
- RSS feed for category updates
- Whitelist doesn't work correctly for categories
- Feature request: boolean search in categories
- Page move updates categories with sorting tweak
- Feature request: Category reverse sort by date
- Korean wikipedia's categories need new sectioning scheme
- Ability to watch all articles in a category
- can't edit the history versions of the categories!
- Request: parameters in categories
See also
- Browsing categories
- Portal:Contents- A large navigation page that includes links to high-level categories
- Special:CategoryTree - CategoryTree browser
- Wikipedia:CatScan
- Special:Categories - Lists all existing categories alphabetically.
- Category:Wikipedia categories - List of top-level categories. Requires this category be defined on the top of a tree.
- Category:Main topic classifications
- Maintenance
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
- Special:Uncategorizedpages
- Special:Uncategorizedimages
- Special:Uncategorizedcategories
- Special:Unusedcategories
- Special:Wantedcategories
- Special:Mostlinkedcategories
- Other
- Help:Category
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
- m:Categorization requirements (original guidelines for category proposals and implementations)
- Category:Knowledge representation - Material related to concept categorization.
- Wikipedia:Category intersection, proposal
- s:EB1911:Classified table of contents — Introduction (Wikisource) Technique of categorization for the 1911 Britannica
- Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
- Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects